Michael DexterA continuation of CORE
FreeBSD-based SCALE
A fresh new user experience
A series of FreeBSD helper tools
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arcepi@dexter I voted for a continuation of CORE. But I know that the future will be running plain FreeBSD. Probably what I will miss most is something to configure network shares (samba and NFS)
Ross Williams@dexter The greatest value CORE has given me is rolling up all the “local” configuration in one place. Easy to pop back into an infrequently maintained server and see the state of everything that I expect to change or have previously changed.
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@dexter One thing I’d love is a mobile file client that’s as nice as Synology Drive. But really, we need something even better. Nextcloud wants to be involved in every piece of groupware, and that’s never going to happen.
Businesses need an alternative to Dropbox, Box, OneDrive & gDrive.
(And yes, it needs Active Directory integration)
Businesses need an alternative to Dropbox, Box, OneDrive & gDrive.
(And yes, it needs Active Directory integration)
@dexter (Frankly, I’d love to know how much SCALE usage is just because people think nextcloud should be in docker)
Viktor Nagornyy@josephholsten @dexter Businesses that need an alternative to Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. do switch to Nextcloud and pay for Nextcloud Enterprise. Some use the core Files app only for file sync and share, and they're happy. No need to install more apps if you don't need to 😁
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@dexter I would vote for the 1st 2 options
@mnour
What are your top reasons?
What are your top reasons?
@dexter call me silly/idiot ... my top reason is not loosing (business) ground to Linux :)
@mnour
Every poll option is non-Linux.
Every poll option is non-Linux.
Hey @dexter ! my point exactly ... not (continue to) having FreeBSD based TrueNAS products is, to me at least, is loosing (business) ground to Linux, this is why I would choose for the 1st 2 options more than the other 2 though indeed all of them are non-Linux options
@dexter on another side, before I saw the poll, I've already read about the news here: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/truenas_abandons_freebsd/
I don't see a clear reason behind the decision ... is it they can't support (anymore) both set of products ? or is it something that has to do with FreeBSD itself ?
Kyle Taylor@dexter From the register article floating around, SCALE is all about NAS and Kubernetes. iXsystems is probably going to push for tighter ZFS and Kubernetes integration for on-prem customers. That's a saturated market, IMO. But there's probably money there.
It would be interesting if some upstart #BSD devs started a company that tightly integrated bhyve and #ZFS on #FreeBSD. Made a slick web-based GUI around managing #bhyve / ZFS storage. Maybe one that honors gitops; ArgoCD (without k8s).
@dexter -- I voted to maintain CORE, FWIW.
@josephholsten @dexter @oxidecomputer Yes. Though I wouldn't call this a direct competitor to Oxide as much as filling a void left by iXsystems.
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Graham PerrinTrueNAS CORE 13.3 plans – official announcement
<https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/112138177051061457>
Graham Perrin (@[email protected])
TrueNAS CORE 13.3 plans – official announcement <https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/truenas-core-13-3-plans.117332/> #FreeBSD #Linux #NAS
Patrick M. HausenFor me CORE is more or less feature complete. A few things I would wish for, nonetheless:
* continuation, i.e. up-to-date FreeBSD base and packages
* building and installing as a port on top of stock FreeBSD
* more options in the VM feature, i.e. NVMe disk emulation for guests
* refactoring of jail feature, replacing iocage with bastille
* refactoring of network setup, eliminating the broken bridging by default
* auxiliary parameters/adavanced options hidden behind a toggle everywhere
@Sweordbora
I will add to that: consider replacing the replication with Zelta from @bellhyve
Let's not forget that FreeNAS had to fix or create a LOT of things we now take for granted. Some are still "perfect" while others are becoming obsolete.
Toasterson (Till Wegmüller)@Toasterson
*Cough* from the Agenda/Minutes doc(s)...
@Sweordbora @dexter >For me CORE is more or less feature complete.
Packages were entirely broken for like a year; features that are completely broken don't count, much less tentpole features heavily referred to in the marketing material.