http://www.hitechsquad.com/2009/11/21/freenas-08-to-use-linux-not-freebsd/ Hats off to cool technology Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:23:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.hitechsquad.com/2009/11/21/freenas-08-to-use-linux-not-freebsd/comment-page-1/#comment-1897 FreeNAS to Continue with FreeBSD; New Linux NAS Called OpenMediaVault Created - Cool Technology, Gadgets and Computers Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:39:06 +0000 http://www.hitechsquad.com/?p=1189#comment-1897 [...] Hi-Tech Squad recently wrote about the plans to move FreeNAS from FreeBSD to Linux. But it looks like this isn’t the end of the story… Today Olivier Cochard-Labbé made a [...] [...] Hi-Tech Squad recently wrote about the plans to move FreeNAS from FreeBSD to Linux. But it looks like this isn’t the end of the story… Today Olivier Cochard-Labbé made a [...]

]]> http://www.hitechsquad.com/2009/11/21/freenas-08-to-use-linux-not-freebsd/comment-page-1/#comment-1850 mato Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:42:27 +0000 http://www.hitechsquad.com/?p=1189#comment-1850 hi, i see there are some issues but they might not be that big, at least not big enough to justify the switch. there are already a couple of installers in bsd world that could be customised. there is a working sensor framework in openbsd and it was already ported to freebsd, though not officially. samba's getting better, though it's still not optimal. i'm not sure what is meant by HA here. updates are easy in all bsds, even in distros like pc-bsd. sure, there are always less drivers than in linux but usually in multimedia domain which shouldn't be an issue here. zfs is stable, performant and production quality. the same goes for nfs4 which is shiny new (rewritten) in freebsd 8.0. m. hi,
i see there are some issues but they might not be that big, at least not big enough to justify the switch. there are already a couple of installers in bsd world that could be customised. there is a working sensor framework in openbsd and it was already ported to freebsd, though not officially. samba’s getting better, though it’s still not optimal. i’m not sure what is meant by HA here. updates are easy in all bsds, even in distros like pc-bsd. sure, there are always less drivers than in linux but usually in multimedia domain which shouldn’t be an issue here. zfs is stable, performant and production quality. the same goes for nfs4 which is shiny new (rewritten) in freebsd 8.0.
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