Michael Dexter will present “Hands-on FreeNAS” at next week’s PLUG meeting in Portland, OR. The presentation will look at the issues relating to building your own 64-bit new hardware system and explore ZFS resource usage. Details regarding the event are here.

8.0.4-BETA2 is now available for testing. The change notes and downloads are available from Sourceforge.

FreeNAS is in the running for the Sourceforge March Project of the Month. Take a minute to vote for FreeNAS.

In episode 198 of FLOSS Weekly, Simon Phipps interviews James Nixon from the FreeNAS Project.

The FreeNAS 8.0.3 Users Guide is now available in the following formats: EPUB HTML PDF This version addresses the changes between FreeNAS versions 8.0.2 and 8.0.3 and adds two new chapters to cover the new Loaders and Sysctls functionality. This will be the last documentation in the 8.0.x series and the next published version will […]

We’ll be handing out DVDS of FreeNAS 8.0.3 at the FreeBSD booth during SCALE, to be held next weekend at the Hilton LAX in Los Angeles, CA. If you’re in the area, drop by to pick up some cool swag and to chat about FreeNAS. Registration for the expo area is $10.

For those of you on Google+, there is now a FreeNAS page.

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 […]