The former name of TrueNAS CORE, FreeNAS was the original iXsystems solution for cost-effective ZFS storage.
The 8.3.0 Users Guide is available for download in the following formats: Â Â Â EPUB Â Â Â HTML Â Â Â PDF For those who would like to assist the project financially, a Kindle version is also available for purchase from Amazon. The ASIN is B009Z245ZU and this version is text-to-speech enabled. If you are outside of North America, […]
MeetBSD California takes place this upcoming weekend, November 3-4 at Yahoo! in Santa Clara, CA. Josh Paetzel will be presenting “FreeNASâ„¢: Storage for Open Source” on November 3 and several members of the FreeNAS team will also be attending the conference. This event requires registration ($75USD).
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RC1. Images and plugins can be downloaded from the following site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/ This is the first and only release candidate planned for the final version of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem. […]
There will be a presentation “Introduction to FreeNAS 8.3” at FSOSS to be held in Toronto, Canada on Friday, October 26. The link to the presentation will be made available at bsdevents.org. In addition, each attendee will receive a FreeNAS CD in their registration pack. Registration is required for this event. The presentation slides are […]
Several members of the FreeNAS team will be at EuroBSDCon to be held in Warsaw, Poland on October 18-21. There will be a booth in the expo area which will hand out FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 CDs as well as cool swag. Dru Lavigne will give a half-day workshop “Introduction to FreeNAS 8.3” on Thursday, October 18 […]
Another instructional video has been uploaded to Youtube. This video demonstrates how to configure the Transmission, Firefly, and MiniDLNA plugins on FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 to work together as a streaming media platform.
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3. This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.0 as it moves towards the final. FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3 can be downloaded from the following location: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/BETA3/ This BETA includes a refactoring of the Active Directory and LDAP integration. It has a rework of […]
8.3.0-BETA2 is now available for download and testing. Some of the changes for this upcoming release include: ZFSv28 adds deduplication, RAIDZ3, improved snapshot support, and a removable log device. Based on FreeBSD 8.3 which updated and added some new drivers as described in the FreeBSD 8.3 Release Notes. Reporting graphs now provide buttons for navigating […]