FreeBSD – the unknown Giant

Volker Theile has announced the third beta release of FreeNAS 0.69, a minimalist, FreeBSD-based operating system providing easy-to-setup Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services:

Today a new beta version of FreeNAS 0.69 has been released. As soon as FreeBSD 6.4 is released, expect the next and hopefully stable FreeNAS version.

Major changes:

• add nullfs.ko and unionfs.ko kernel modules;
• display warning message when user is going to delete software RAID or encrypted volume;
• add ‘Recursive’, ‘Times’, ‘Compress’ and ‘Archive’ checkboxes to RSYNC client in local WebGUI;
• add ‘Delete algorithm’ option in RSYNC client in local WebGUI;
• add ‘Execute now’ button in RSYNC client in local WebGUI;
• add NVIDIA nForce MCP on-board Ethernet support;
• add audio and video transcoding support to fuppes;
• increase mfs_root size to 74MB (32-bit) and 80MB (64-bit);
• CTorrent BitTorrent client has been replaced by Transmission which includes a WebGUI….”

Release announcement 

Related posts:

1. Beta release: FreeNAS 0.69 b4
2. beta release: FreeNAS 0.69b2 (Stone Burner)
3. FreeNAS 0686c (BETA3) released
4. FreeNAS 0.69 RC1 release (Salusa Secundus)
5. FreeNAS 0.69 RC2 release (Kralizec)