Category Archives: FreeNAS

FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA3 available for testing

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Gerard

Josh Paetzel, who leads the FreeNAS team at iXsystems, announced that he’s uploaded FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA3. If you download from BETA2 work there shouldn’t be any problems, however, plugins that worked in BETA2 will stop working. You’ll want to use the plugins in the BETA3 directory with … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 announced to fix a Samba bug

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Gerard

FreeNAS 8.0.4-p1 released with fix for critical Samba bug. All CIFS users urged to download and update. FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 contains Samba 3.6.4, which addresses the critical security flaw in CVE-2012-1182. A small handful of other fixes since 8.0.4-RELEASE have been included in this … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD Events Update (ILF, BSDCan, EuroBSDCon)

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Gerard

FreeBSD events come and go month after month. Time for an update on some past and upcoming FreeBSD events. Indiana LinuxFest (ILF) FreeNAS and PC-BSD will be represented at Indiana LinuxFest on Saturday, April 14 in Indianapolis, Indiana. CDs and other swag will be handed out … Continue reading →

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iXsystems, and its developers

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Gerard

We all know that iXsystems does a great job promoting FreeBSD, building FreeBSD based products and supporting FreeBSD based projects (incl. PC-BSD, FreeNAS). But, who are the developers that are part of this company? Who are the guys doing the coding … Continue reading →

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Development release: FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA2

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Gerard

It’s been a long road, and it’s not anywhere close to being done, but FreeNAS is a step closer to a release with (PBI) plugins and streaming multimedia support. On behalf of the FreeNAS development team at iXsystems Josh Paetzel announced FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA2. … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 8.0.3: FTP Configuration (video) and FreeNAS 8.0.4 BETA2

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Gerard

The following video, created by the FreeNAS team, shows you how to configure FreeNAS for FTP. FreeNAS 8.0.4-BETA2 is out for testing. Changes since 8.0.4-BETA1: Enhancements Update transmission to 2.42 (SF r10093). Add MegaCLI tool (SF r10072, r10073). Disable periodic tasks … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS Vote – Project of the month

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Gerard

FreeNAS is in the running for the Sourceforge March Project of the Month. If you like and use FreeNAS, why not take a minute and cast your vote?

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FreeNAS 8.0.4-BETA1 Release

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Paul

Some brief highlights from the Release Notes: The image size increased in 8.0.1-BETA3. The new size requires a 2 GB storage device. The GUI upgrade can be used to upgrade a system from BETA3, BETA4, or RC1 but upgrades from … Continue reading →

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