Rumours of FreeNAS’ Death Greatly Exaggerated
Recently I wrote about the plans to move FreeNAS from FreeBSD to Linux. The reception was mixed, some saying it didn’t matter, some mentioned that the lack of ZFS support was a real problem. Today...
View ArticleFreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap
Some more details are starting to emerge about what will appear in FreeNAS 0.8: Planned major features: Development on FreeBSD RELENG_8. Release, depending on timeframe may be based on a RELENG_8...
View ArticleLearning FreeNAS Gets Another Rave Review
‘yoyojazz’ has posted a review of the Learning FreeNAS book on Amazon.com. In it he says: I picked up Learning FreeNAS book about 6 days ago and I could not put it down! The book wastes no time and...
View ArticleiXsystems’ FreeBSD 8.1-based FreeNAS snapshot
iXsystems has uploaded a snapshot of their new FreeBSD 8.1-based FreeNAS. This snapshot is for developers only. It is not functionally complete yet, and there are likely many rough edges. If you are...
View ArticleFirst Impressions of FreeNAS 0.8 Developer Preview
Warner Losh from iXsystems has kindly send me a disk image of the first FreeNAS 0.8 developer build. The guys at iXsystems have done a great job so far and the core of FreeNAS has been successfully...
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First FreeNAS 0.8 Screenshot
Yesterday iXsystems released another internal/experimental snapshot of FreeNAS 0.8. I was able to download the source and build this latest developer preview version and now I am able to post the first...
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FreeNAS at the Best Open Source Software Awards 2010
FreeNAS has been listed in the top ten at Best Open Source Software Awards (BOSSIE) 2010 in the networking tools category. Other winners are the Hyperic HQ and OpenNMS monitoring solutions, the Vyatta...
View ArticleFreeNAS Security Alert: Upgrade now or restrict web GUI access by IP address
Brian Adeloye of Tenable Network Security has found a vulnerability in all versions of FreeNAS before 0.7.2.5543. With this vulnerability root acccess can be gained via the web GUI without...
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FreeNAS 0.8 Beta Coming Soon – See Preview Screenshots
Warner Losh of iXsystems has been kind enough to let me know that the first Beta of FreeNAS 0.8 is imminent, he was also kind enough to give me a sneak peak of what is coming… So I have installed this...
View Article8.0.1 RC2 Released – 64 Bit Only at the Moment
The second release candiate for FreeNAS 8.0.1 has been released that includes an updated version of Django which addresses several security vulnerabilities recently found. Highlights include: iSCSI...
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