I'm looking to put together a SAN box - 6 2TB Raid Edition SATA drives, 24GB RAM, i7 quad processor. I've done this with simple rsync-and-samba servers on FreeBSD and ZFS quite a bit, but I've never ...

Is there anyone here using ZFS on top of a GELI-encrypted provider on hardware which could be considered "slow" by today's standards? What are the performance implications of doing this? The reason I ...

Coming soon to April's TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed 'Fangtooth' The latest version of OpenZFS offers RAID expansion, plus faster data deduplication donated by ...

MidnightBSD 4.0 has been released. The desktop system brings new features but lags significantly behind development.

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux ...

FreeNAS Mini provides administrators the ultimate in control over their NAS, thanks to the extensibility of its open-source software, despite some exasperation with the Unix/Free BSD software in ...

For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have ...

And dropping almost all 32-bit support FreeBSD just released version 15, and while it didn’t arrive with the marketing ...