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

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.