FreeNAS 7 (0.7.x) officially stops development today?
IX systems, which recently closed donations through SourceForge to the team that originally developed FreeNAS, said it was not going to continue developing FreeNAS 7, which they call Legacy.
Indeed, it doesn’t really fit with their business model, because it will be FreeNAS 8 free and FreeNAS 8 PRO for money.
However, the developers of the old version do not really want to participate in this, so they care your opinion whether they should separate and continue to develop a successful product for free, hoping for donations or ...
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Tell them what you think on the forum.
Despite this, the guys managed to release FreeNAS based on FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS 28 sw 5 ... I think they should continue working :)
Upd: If anyone is interested - the latest build will be today, 0.7.5.9898.
Indeed, it doesn’t really fit with their business model, because it will be FreeNAS 8 free and FreeNAS 8 PRO for money.
However, the developers of the old version do not really want to participate in this, so they care your opinion whether they should separate and continue to develop a successful product for free, hoping for donations or ...
')
Tell them what you think on the forum.
Despite this, the guys managed to release FreeNAS based on FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS 28 sw 5 ... I think they should continue working :)
Upd: If anyone is interested - the latest build will be today, 0.7.5.9898.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/137214/
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