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The BSD license is my least favorite part of the BSD ecosystem. It allows for exploitation and companies with more power to use it over the average user. The GPL forces bad actors to do the bare minimum. I like to point to companies exploiting code like the TCP/IP stack when people say we need fewer regulations on corporations. Hardly, we need stronger, and much more firm regulations on them. There should never be proprietary software.
Do you guys know if there is a raspberry pi5 project out there that has 2 sata drives feeding in through the Pi's PCIe interface that you can use TrueNAS with?
Have yet to see a solution like that, there are enclosures suited to the Pi but not a great means of expansion since that can be unreliable via a M.2 or similar expander module. I would spend a bit more and get into the M-ITX form factor since there are a lot more options for not too much more money especially if you don't need ECC.
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I must say that switching from Core to Scale hasn't lived up to my expectations. I was enticed by the promises of the catalogs, the ease of using containers instead of iocage for apps, and the seamless installation of numerous apps. However, it has been nothing short of disappointing. Updates have already caused issues between iXsystem and TrueCharts, the process of installing apps has proven to be more complicated than initially advertised. I can't even get Piwigo, despite the fact that there is an official Docker image available. In Scale, it's not in the official catalog, and even when using TrueCharts, the only available version is 11.5 in the incubator. The time I've wasted on this migration is truly incalculable. I may end up reverting back to using VMs. To make matters worse, the latest update of Nextcloud from the TrueCharts catalog has once again caused everything to break, rendering Nextcloud inaccessible. I've not only lost precious time and days but also important data. I sincerely hope that they can resolve the issues with TrueCharts or clarify whether we can install the existing official Docker images that are widely adopted in the world of GNU/Linux. I regretfully cannot recommend migrating to TrueNAS Scale.
I had the same experience with Nextcloud on iocage, but since it also broke with every update, I decided to run the jails myself. The biggest problem with the iocage plugins for me was that there were packages in the catalog that were outdated and no longer available. Now I can update all my jails when I want and do it via pkg(8) instead of waiting for the plugin maintainers to brick it again. IMO the FreeNAS / TrueNAS CORE plugins are only good to install a jail, but keeping it up to date is better done manually.
Core is for Non-critical Storage? Oh, and by the way, I don't think it's polite to refer to "community supported only" as a negative, or as an inferior circumstance; After all, your claim is that you foster FOSS projects.
We don't see it as a negative. It's only a distinguishing factor because many people and businesses want to know if they have community support or professional support options. I hope that helps clarify. :)
As a FOSS fan and someone that tried half-a-dozen linux distributions, I am feeling attracted to {Free,Open}BSD because I've heard of the culture around it values a cohesive system, and takes care of providing a central source for (at least) the foundational knowledge (perhaps more, I haven't delved into it). If I manage to switch to a BSD system, I'd gladly pay regularly an organization for keeping the operating system and documentation coherent, cohesive, complete. It saves me a lot of time.
@@seekilm_ hello, I didn’t make the switch mainly because I had to prioritise work, where I’m using macOS. The organisation I’m talking about is the FreeBSD Foundation: freebsdfoundation.org
Unfortunately, linux is being developped very in every aspect. It is getting many bleeding edge features while being unix/linux with very large application base. Kernel has many wonderful capabilities which led to many tools that caused distription in the industry like cgroups, dockers etc. Bsd just can not keep up. It look out og date out of box. Even though some people complaining about it, systemd is a great asset for system admins.
Yes, systemd is actually a good thing, its inspiration Apple's launchd. It integrates with cgroups, dbus, allows user-level (non-root) units, is able to launch services on a wide range of triggers and so on. Its haters seem to forget we are no longer in the 1980s and 1990s.
2010, no remote console, no virtualization? Did he miss speak? AIX had lpar in 1990s, x86 server class systems like ProLiant had RIB then iLO cards, Integrity also had those for hp-ux for remote console, I think hp-ux also had some virtualization as well. Virtualization came around in 1999 in x86, became mainstream by 2004. Xen was there for Linux then KVM came into being by 2008. Unless you deployed your servers on desktop class systems, 2010 was pretty good for remote control/console and very much for virtualization, regardless of the OS you ran.
"The BSD folks are writing code fornthe betterment of mankind" Never heard more true words in my life. switched from windows to linux and at the end of june this year switched from linux to OpenBSD and it is just marvelous!
"Have you ever tried to install pkgs on a 10yr old Solaris system???" Umm you just gave me flashbacks of one of my fav workstations that I had, the mighty and very long toothed Sparc 5 (^_^!!!
"We had a very nice Solaris box with around 30 amatuer sysasmims"...LMFAO. yep hold on tight...As a SUN person myself I would say with that many people in the box, the inherently rock-solid becomes the Tar baby surrounded by quicksand. Fun times.
Hello, I have bought a freenas E +, but I don't know how much is the 220v or 110v power input? I live in Argentina and that detail is important. You do not specify it anywhere. Neither in the equipment, nor in the manual, nor in the purchase pages. Thank you.
OpenBSD sets my fan to 100% and there's no way to turn it down. I tried every suggestion. Very noisy and thus unpleasant to work with. FreeBSD used to work well on my laptop but 12.1 gives me no sound. Weird. Also tried every solution. So, for the moment I'm back on arch where everything just works.
