QNAP NAS - IPKG and Optware IPKG App

QNAP NAS is a good platform for understanding the practices of developing embedded systems, since QNAP OS (QTS) is a minimized Linux OS for optimizing the performance of NAS. That is you can not install any software with only one click on setup.exe, the pre-required libraries and packages must manually installed before you can run a powerful App written with Qt for example. In Ubuntu, you are familiar with using apt-get to install packages. In QTS, you must learn how to use ipkg.