Yes, fine, but for those of us with an outsider's view, it'd still be nice to know what TrueOS is all about. Going back to the idea of just running a diff, I can maybe tell some certain stuff through the process of reading tea leaves. One would assume, for example, that I would find TrueNAS was based off TrueOS. And TrueOS is some sort of FreeBSD spinoff. We've seen that the featureset present in some of FreeNAS 8 differed (ZFS v28, etc) from FreeBSD's stable version. I might be able to infer that TrueOS is (or is not) exclusively used for TrueNAS. I know iX does other server-y things. Is TrueOS used elsewhere? What's the code import policy? Is it just a locked-down version of FreeBSD designed to avoid inadvertent issues from being introduced? (this is my best guess, incidentally). There was some evidence through the 8 release cycle that some bits - particularly userland - did not seem to be keeping up to date with FreeBSD 8 stable, while device drivers were kept up to date, ZFS was actively migrated to v28 ahead of FreeBSD, and other "critical bits" were tweaked and twiddled. This leads to slow code divergence but of course that /could/ be manageable and even desirable in some cases. Being slow to adopt new code allows others to discover brokenness, after all. Basically it'd be interesting and useful (but not mandatory) to understand a little more about the relationship between FreeNAS and FreeBSD.
It isn't actually necessary for me to know the answers, but it would be helpful. I occasionally base answers to questions here using information sourced from FreeBSD resources. Unlike most of the forum users here, who merely have a NAS box, I come from that heavy FreeBSD based service provider background. I'm kind of used to digging through the innards to find what I need. But FreeNAS can surprise me at times because of the differences, and because there's this sort of opaque blob sitting between FreeBSD and FreeNAS which I guess I have to label "iX development process".
Just wishing for some X-ray vision I guess.