I decided to tinker with the Raspi again, thinking of using it as a very low-powered FTP machine for transferring small files since the Raspi's ethernet is 10/100 and not gigabit.
Once it booted up, I got to some sort of weird display manager and had to grab the mouse to move the cursor so I could type in the login and password fields, but was unable to successfully log in for whatever reason. I was about to download Raspian, but then decided to look at the size of the ARM version of openSUSE. Since it was much smaller than Raspian, I tried openSUSE 13.2 first, but ended up with errors, so I went with 13.1 instead and got to the login without any problems.
I finished up setting up the FTP daemon before looking around on the internet a bit to learn how to SSH into the Raspi - to which I was successful. I then cleared out the SSH "known hosts" file and set up a static IP for the Raspi before playing with SSH a bit more.
What's nice is that I can just set up the Raspi with the bare minimum (power, ethernet, and usb drive) and then leave it alone - no need to login to it locally.
The only thing is that the Raspi is still a bit slow, even through SSH, but it's nowhere as bad as trying to run Chromium in Raspian.
I haven't set it up yet, since I'd have to rearrange the layout of the switch for the NAS and Melty, but I'll probably do it fairly soon.
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