FreeNAS 8.0.1-BETA4 Available

The fourth beta of FreeNAS 8.0.1 is now available for testing. If you test this beta and find any bugs, please report them on the freenas-testing mailing list. From the Release Notes: This is the last BETA planned for the 8.0.1 release cycle. This line was present in the BETA3 release notes as well.  BETA3 […]

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More Videos in the FreeNAS 8.0 HowTo Series

Quite a few videos have been uploaded in the FreeNAS 8 HowTo Series. So far, the available videos are: How to Install FreeNAS 8 FreeNAS System Configuration Overview FreeNAS 8: Volumes Overview FreeNAS 8: Shares Overview FreeNAS: Network Configuration Overview FreeNAS: Active Directory

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FreeNAS 8.0.1-BETA3 Available

The third beta of FreeNAS 8.0.1 is now available for testing. If you test this beta and find any bugs, please report them on the freenas-testing mailing list. From the README: This is the last BETA planned for the 8.0.1 release cycle. *** IMPORTANT*** The image size has been increased from 1GB to 2GB. As […]

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How to Install FreeNAS 8 Video

A video on how to install FreeNAS 8 in a virtual emulator is now available on the FreeNASTeam Youtube Channel as well as Vimeo. This will be the first in a series of instructional videos.

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FreeNAS 0.7.2.6694 Sabanda Released!

The FreeNAS Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 0.7.2 Sabanda. This is the Final release of FreeNAS 0.7.2 it improves its functions and the translations of the WebGUI. many things are updated and stability is improved. We hope you like it just as much as we do! Download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-7-Stable/ Upgrade […]

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FreeNAS 8.0.1-BETA1 Available

The first preview of the upcoming 8.0.1-Release for FreeNAS is available for testing. If you test this beta and find any bugs, please report them on the freenas-testing mailing list. From the announcement: Since the release of FreeNAS 8.0 it has seen widespread use and testing. We’ve been hard at work fixing the issues users […]

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Introduction to FreeNAS 8.0 Article in June BSD Mag

The June 2011 issue of BSD Mag has an article “Introducing FreeNAS 8.0” on pages 14-18. You can download this issue for free here. The publisher has also made this article available as a separate PDF which is available here. The article describes: * the reasons behind the redesign * differences between .7 and 8.0 […]

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Requesting Software for 8.1 Plugin System

Beginning with 8.1, FreeNAS will support the installation of software packages through the use of a plugin system. These packages will be in the form of PBIs (Push Button Installers) which is the packaging system used by PC-BSD. There is a PBI forum where you can request the creation of PBIs. If there is an […]

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New FreeNAS 8 Forums

Until now, FreeNAS 8 forum discussions took place in a sub-forum of the Sourceforge FreeNAS forums. This was confusing to users as it wasn’t always clear if the information in the rest of the forums was applicable to 8 or only worked on earlier versions of FreeNAS. FreeNAS 8 now has its own dedicated Forums […]

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