Dimitri Larmuseau, host of the Sourcetrunk podcast, recently took FreeNAS 8-RC5 for a test drive. The result is a 40 minute review (not counting the first 4 minutes where he discusses beer) that is available in MP3 and OGG formats at the Sourcetrunk website.

FreeNAS 8 documentation is a work in progress and is steadily moving along. The documentation has been moved from the old wiki to a new wiki which can be accessed from the Documentation page of the website. Please update your bookmarks accordingly and point people to the new location as the old one is now […]

Are you interested in seeing the menus in the FreeNAS 8 graphical administrative interface localized to your native language? If so, we are looking for translators! A Pootle server has been setup for FreeNAS 8 localization and all of the text strings have been imported into the server. Pootle is an easy way to find […]

The FreeNAS Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 0.7.2 Sabanda. This is a maintenance release of FreeNAS 0.7. it improves it’s functions and the translations of the WEBGUI. Also we did add 2 new translations and give it some new features. New Features ========== – Samba 3.5.5. – AIO settings from […]

Since FreeNAS 8 binaries snapshots are available, here is a little HOW-TO with one disk shared by CIFS. Simplified steps log on the webgui with login “admin” and password “freenas” Declare the disk Create a “group” (single) using previously declared disk Create a volume (mount point) using previously created group Enable a share service Add […]

Yesterday, iXsystems upload a snapshot of their new FreeNAS release on the SVN. The new FreeNAS is based on nanoBSD, then here are all the steps for generate the disk image of this release (from a FreeBSD 8.1 amd64). Refer to the README file for more information. cd /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd svn co https://freenas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freenas/experimental/ix freenas cd freenas […]

Hi, there is a BSDay at Nantes (France) the 1st june 2010. We will present pfSense, FreeNAS and FreeBSD ZFS. Free entry (no registration required) !

I will be on the FreeBSD stand during the 3 days of Solutions Linux / Open Source 2010 in Paris (16-17 and 18th march). Meet me here !

Hi all, FreeNAS needs some big modification for removing its present limitation (one of the biggest is the non support of easly users add-ons). We think that a full-rewriting of the FreeNAS base is needed. From this idea, we will take 2 differents paths: Volker will create a new project called “‘OpenMediaVault” based on a […]