Back in December 2009 iXsystems ’resued‘ the FreeNAS project. After a few months of porting over FreeNAS from a m0n0wall base to a nanobsd base, iXsystems released a development snapshot yesterday. Yesterday, iXsystems upload a snapshot of their new FreeNAS release on the SVN. The new FreeNAS is based on nanoBSD, then here are all the steps for generate the disk image of [...]
Continue reading...24. April 2010
Welcome to the (Free)BSD leftovers for week 6. In this post we have a mix of news snippets, quick links, howto’s, links ’n software/package updates. Just a round up of those little things I saved up this week. Previous weeks’ roundups can be found here. FreeBSD News FreeBSD & Google Summer of Code 2010 FreeBSD Project is participating [...]
Continue reading...12. April 2010
FreeNAS 0.7.1 (Shere) was released today. This version is a maintenance release of FreeNAS 0.7 and it improves the functions and the translations of WebGUI. It also introduces a few new features such as AIO (asynchronous I/O) support in CIFS/SMB – Samba ATAPI CAM with iSCSI target (device pass-through) Custom script in Email Report Serial console support for headless servers/devices A raw device, [...]
Continue reading...29. March 2010
Pox and Ragble give an in depth guide for making your own Network Attached Storage device with FreeNAS.
Continue reading...3. March 2010
The FreeNAS developers have released a small update/bugfix vresion, version 0.7.1: Majors changes: Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.9 Upgrade istgt to version 20100125 Upgrade msmtp to 1.4.19 Upgrade transmission to 1.76 Upgrade PHP to 5.2.12 Upgrade fuppes to 0.660 Upgrade rsync to 3.0.7 Upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.18.08 Upgrade netatalk to 2.0.5 Upgrade bash to 4.0.35 Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.25 Upgrade proftpd to 1.3.2c Minors changes: Modify Samba default buffer size Modify Tuning [...]
Continue reading...3. March 2010
Olivier Cochard-Labbé has added a roadmap page to the FreeNAS website: FreeNAS 0.8 roadmap. We can already see a positive impact from iXsystem’s takeover of the FreeNAS project: “Refactor the build system” and the “one click binary installs”. Two features that PC-BSD (another iXsystems project) already has. PC-BSD has the Push Button GUI installer and iXsystems also [...]
Continue reading...16. December 2009
BSDTalk has a 12 minute interview with Josh Paetzel, IT director at iXsystems. Will and Josh talk about the recent takeover of the FreeNAS project by iXsystems. FreeNAS will stay FreeBSD-based, with the ZFS file system and the project will stay open source. The roadmap and some other things are still being thought about and worked [...]
Continue reading...5. December 2009
Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the original founder of the FreeNAS Project, has indicated that FreeNAS is in need of some big modification to remove some of its current limitations (one of the biggest is the non support of easly users add-ons). This will probably require a full-rewrite of the FreeNAS base. He also mentions that plans with regards to the future [...]
Continue reading...10. November 2009
FreeNAS 0.7 (Khasadar) has been released. Volker announced: Today i’m proud to announce the release of FreeNAS 0.7. I want to say thanks to all contributors for their help. Please see below the changes done in this version. You can download the ISO and image files here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/stable/0.7 Majors changes: ability to configure the login shell for a user. Upgrade Samba to [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2009
The Learn FreeNAS blog reported about two recently found security flaws in FreeNAS, which will only affect those connected to the internet. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in FreeNAS before 0.69.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WebGUI in FreeNAS before 0.7RC1 allows remote [...]
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13. August 2010
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