FreeNAS on Linux? 2020/2021 update ;-)

[lei3E]

Hi

I have the same question as this guy had in 2016.

Is it still the same answer in 2020/2021?

 

[ornias]

TrueNAS SCALE Announcement and Nightly Image Downloads

Hello TrueNAS and FreeNAS Community, With TrueNAS 12.0 BETA now released, the iX engineering team is making some great progress with TrueNAS SCALE. In anticipation of the long July 4th holiday weekend here in the US, we are pleased to make available for the first time the official nightly...

www.truenas.com

 

[lei3E]

Really difficult to read the linked thread.
But found external the answer

To the surprise—and likely consternation—of BSD fans everywhere, FreeNAS vendor iXsystems is building a new version of its core product, TrueNAS, on top of Debian Linux.

that's great news. Can I test it with vagrant?

 

[ornias]

With two clicks to the same project you would've hit a big fat "PROJECT START" thread, which clearly lists it as being linux based.

TrueNAS SCALE Project Start

Extracted from Announcement SCALE is an exciting new addition to the TrueNAS software family. It uses much of the same TrueNAS 12.0 source code, but adds a few different twists. For those eager to know more about the the goals of the SCALE project, they are defined by this acronym: Scale-out...

www.truenas.com

Same with google, which you already found.

To be frank: If you have trouble finding information that is this accessable, I have some doubts if using all sorts of (not-very-standard) virtualisation software is a great plan to begin with.
You can test it with whatever you like ofcoarse, but there are no official or semi-official guides or images for vagrant installs afaik.

 

[lei3E]

Same with google, which you already found.

I don't use Google. I recommend https://searx.space/, which provides worse results, but without the surveillance.