TrueNAS isn’t abandoning BSD—but it is adopting Linux
'To the surprise—and likely consternation—of BSD fans everywhere, FreeNAS vendor iXsystems is building a new version of its core product, TrueNAS, on top of Debian Linux. This week's TrueNAS Scale announcement builds on the company's March announcement that its commercial project TrueNAS and its community project FreeNAS would be merging into a common base. Effectively, all the NAS projects from iXsystems will be TrueNAS variants moving forward, with the free-to-use version being TrueNAS Core, the new Debian-based project becoming TrueNAS Scale, and the commercial project remaining simply TrueNAS.' -- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/truenas-isnt-abandoning-bsd-but-it-i... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 10:58:34 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
-- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/truenas-isnt-abandoning-bsd-but-it-i...
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... we also believe many community users may be enticed by the idea of a simple, attractive Web interface to ZFS atop a Linux base rather than BSD. Just raising the same old issue of how to reconcile the CDDL-licensed ZFS with the GPL that the Linux kernel uses. One can imagine Oracle biding their time, watching the target get gradually bigger, until it becomes worth their while for their lawyers to swoop down and claim a scalp.
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