Always blaming security bullshit. I anxiously await a community fork.

Next step is requiring a subscription.

XigmaNAS is still being developed and is a fork of the original FreeNAS code before iX acquired the name.

There are alternatives

I found a post on the forum:

https://forums.truenas.com/t/scale-build-git-repo-going-closed-source/64313

This is only their old build system which they weren't using themselves, the rest of the OS will remain open source. However they also said some worrying stuff about including "proprietary pieces of the OS".

Truenas went to shit when they killed BSD support, the OS it was founded on

Odd choice of timing… I wonder if they are sitting on a cache of hard drives.

Oh so they are going to use the Puppet excuse to move away from open source?

we must move to have our code internal only for now. Totally just for security reasons nothing to do with us also changing licensing to make it harder for those building things for us

no don't bring up the security incident we're referring to that shows us as the issue not having code visible! (ie they cheaped out on people/set up and vendor had keys visible)

Damn man. Technology kinda fucking sucks now. Everything I use is imploding in on itself. Yay!

Why are they always coming up with some kind of bullshit excuse? :D

Security through obscurity isn't security.

There goes my excuse for not giving up and just paying for Unraid.

Are they lying about secure boot being a reason or can I go back to thinking SB is part of Microsoft's EEE attack on software freedom?

Been running my own storage boxes off of rocky w/ zfs, samba and nfs for years simply for the ease of integration of samba + freeipa.

Especially being able to use ipasam.so to allow password authentication for shares on machines that aren't easy/reasonable to use kerberos keytabs from (think android clients, and off domain boxes)

Plus last time I tried truenas you couldn't use a keyfile to encrypt drives unless it was stored on the root dataset which for some reason couldn't be encrypted. Meaning each array had to have its own password instead.

I won't lie I had to write several wiki articles to document this lol.

So glad I went with OpenMediaVault so many years ago

Uggh, I just got to the point where I'm as familiar with TrueNAS as my old Synology, but I want to move towards more freedom. TrueNAS beats Synology, but where is this going?

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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