There will be a FreeBSD booth during LISA in Boston, next Wednesday and Thursday (December 7–8). We’ll be giving out FreeNAS 8.0.2 DVDs, cool swag, and answering BSD and FreeNAS related questions. Entrance to the exhibition area is free, but you do need to register first. If you’re in Boston, stop by booth #408 and […]

The annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium provides a venue to share the latest trends in open source. It is an event aimed at bringing together industry, developers, educators and the community and any other interested parties to discuss open source, open web, and academic/industry partnerships. It will be held in Toronto, Canada from […]

The FreeNAS team is pleased to announce FreeNAS 8.0.2-RELEASE. This can be considered a minor release that fixes a few of the more glaring issues in 8.0.1-RELEASE. Major changes since 8.0.1-RELEASE: The email subsystem was not working correctly in 8.0.1-RELEASE, which resulted in the system not being able to send mail, as well as disfunction […]

The latest FreeNAS video, Backups in Depth, is now available on Youtube and Vimeo.

FreeNAS 8.0.1 was released yesterday. The forum announcement containing the changes since RC2 is here. The press release highlights some of the new features of 8.0.1. The 8.0.1 User Guide has also been released. The links to the HTML, PDF, and ODT versions are available at doc.freenas.org. The front page of the documentation wiki has […]

The Too Smart Guys show has created a series of FreeNAS videos: Building a FreeNAS 8 Box – Part 1 Hardware  FreeNAS 8 – Build and Install  FreeNAS 8 EP3 Configuration

FreeNAS 8.0.1-RC2 has been released. From the Release Notes: This is Release Candidate 2 for FreeNAS 8.0.1….hopefully the last stepping stone to FreeNAS 8.0.1-RELEASE. *** IMPORTANT *** The image size increased in 8.0.1-BETA3.  The new size requires a 2 GB storage device.  The GUI upgrade can be used to upgrade a system from BETA3,  BETA4, […]

The September issue of BSD Magazine has an article describing how to backup the home directories on a PC-BSD system to FreeNAS 8.0.1 using Life Preserver. The article is on page 10-14 of the magazine, which is available as a PDF for free download. A PDF of just this article is also available on Slideshare.

Josh announced the availability of FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC1 last night. From the announcement: I’m pleased to announce that FreeNAS-8.0.1 Release Candidate 1 is available for download. Release Notes for FreeNAS 8.0.1-RC1 This is the first release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0.1. At this point, we are no longer including new features or functionality into 8.0.1. From here on […]

Though it doesn’t deal directly with FreeNAS administration, this course may be of interest to some of you as it describes the differences one experiences when going from a Linux system administration environment to a FreeBSD one. The course “FreeBSD for Linux Administrators” is one of the courses being offered at the OLF Institute as […]