FreeNAS DVDs at Open Source Days

This year's Open Source Days will take place at Copenhagen Business School (in Denmark) on March 10 and 11. Sven Esbjerg will be bringing a supply of FreeNAS 8.0.3 DVDs to give away--you can find him in the "hallway track".

New Video: FreeNAS 8.0.3: FTP Configuration

A new instructional video on configuring FTP is now available on the FreeNAS YouTube channel.

PLUG Advanced Topics: FreeNAS 64-bit

Michael Dexter will present "Hands-on FreeNAS" at next week's PLUG meeting in Portland, OR. The presentation will look at the issues relating to building your own 64-bit new hardware system and explore ZFS resource usage. Details regarding the event are here.

8.0.4-BETA2 Available for Testing

8.0.4-BETA2 is now available for testing. The change notes and downloads are available from Sourceforge.

Vote for FreeNAS!

FreeNAS is in the running for the Sourceforge March Project of the Month. Take a minute to vote for FreeNAS.

FreeNAS on FLOSS Weekly

In episode 198 of FLOSS Weekly, Simon Phipps interviews James Nixon from the FreeNAS Project.

FreeNAS 8.0.3 Users Guide Available

The FreeNAS 8.0.3 Users Guide is now available in the following formats:

• EPUB
• HTML
• PDF

This version addresses the changes between FreeNAS versions 8.0.2 and 8.0.3 and adds two new chapters to cover the new Loaders and Sysctls functionality.

This will be the last documentation in the 8.0.x series and the next published version will be for the much anticipated 8.2 version of FreeNAS.

Contact me if you are interested in translating the 8.0.3 Users Guide.

If you wish to assist in polishing the documentation for 8.2, see the documentation wiki.