FreeNAS and TrueNAS are merging (open source operating systems for network-attached-storage)

guest · Mar 7, 2020

FreeNAS and TrueNAS are merging (open source operating systems for network-attached-storage)
March 6, 2020
https://liliputing.com/2020/03/free...ing-systems-for-network-attached-storage.html

FreeNAS is a free and open source operating system designed for network-attached storage (NAS) devices. For much of the past decade, the project has been led by the folks at iXsystems, which has also produced an enterprise version of the software called TrueNAS.

Now iXsystems has announced that FreeNAS and TrueNAS are merging. Moving forward there will be a single operating system called TrueNAS rather than two different, but closely related operating systems.

But the company will offer two editions:
• TrueNAS CORE: open source edition
• TrueNAS Enterprise: commercial version with enterprise management and support
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iXsystems: FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying

What to Expect
In the 11.3 release, FreeNAS and TrueNAS share over 95% of the same source code but are built into separate images, each with their own name. The Version 12.0 release will change this process by moving to one unified image with two different editions: a free, Open Source edition (this will never change!) and an enterprise edition.

Both editions will have common Open Source code, unified documentation, and a shared product name. The web interface and REST APIs will be relatively unchanged from version 11.3 with only additions for new features. Our VP Engineering, Kris Moore, describes the change in process in this video blog.
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Mrkvonic · Mar 7, 2020

This is good. Now, only 500 distros need to do the same, and we're golden.
Mrk

guest · Jul 19, 2020

TrueNAS Core will soon replace FreeNAS—and we test the beta
July 19, 2020
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/an-easy-mode-for-zfs-we-test-the-truenas-core-12-0-beta/

Earlier this week, network-storage vendor iXsystems announced the release of TrueNAS 12.0-BETA1, which will replace FreeNAS later in 2020. The major offering of the new TrueNAS Core—like FreeNAS before it—is a simplified, graphically managed way to expose the features and benefits of the ZFS filesystem to end users.
In the most basic environments, this might amount to little more than a Web front-end to ZFS itself, along with the Samba open-source implementation of Microsoft's SMB network file-sharing protocol.

TrueNAS Core will be what FreeNAS is now—the free, community version of iXsystems' NAS (Network Attached Storage) distribution. End users—and system administrators who aren't looking for paid support—can download FreeNAS or TrueNAS Core ISOs directly from iX, burn them to a bootable optical disc or thumbdrive, and install them on generic x86 hardware like any other operating system.
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We've been kicking the tires on early versions of TrueNAS Core since its announcement in March, and we see no evidence of any FreeNAS functionality slipping away behind "premium only" paywalls.
The modern TrueNAS interface has been entirely rebuilt from scratch, along much more coherent lines. If you've tried and given up on old versions of FreeNAS, it's worth taking a second look at how far it has come.
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