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I've been using nas4free for a while now (which used to be called freenas before a fork). Can somebody who has tried both compare the state of the two projects
by carlob 11y ago
I've been using nas4free for a while now (which used to be called freenas before a fork).
Can somebody who has tried both compare the state of the two projects?
- tachion 11y agoFreeNAS has a commercial company behind it, with a real product and money to back the project with (just as RedHat with their projects) while nas4free is a open source project. I've chosen FreeNAS and its doing its job well to this day (backups, few seervices like SMB/CIFS, plex server and what's most important, software containers).
- anexprogrammer 11y agoNAS4Free is the original freenas code, which went into a bit of a neglect phase. There was also talk of rewriting on Linux before the fork, which triggered the FreeNAS fork I believe. On Nas4free jails are still unsupported. You can have them, but you'll be doing so via terminal. FreeNAS has them in the GUI, and it's standard for plugins to run in a jail. I stopped following nas4free too closely when I went with the freenas side, so there may be other differences. I haven't used nas4free since it was still freenas, so it's not fair to give detail differences.