Bad news from BSD-land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and towards Linux.
TrueNAS Core 13 U4 Update & The future of TrueNAS
NAS vendor iXsystems has been busy this year, but aside from a few statements in online user communities, there hasn't been much talk of the big news. Back in 2022, we covered TrueNAS CORE 13, the new release of its FreeBSD-based turnkey OS for NAS servers, and in that article we mentioned its new product, the Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE, which aims to provide storage for Kubernetes users.
Now it seems the company is betting its future on the Linux-based product, meaning the end is in sight for the FreeBSD offering.
TrueNAS SCALE is apparently booming. Gartner recently awarded iXsystems a Customers' Choice in storage gong. With some VMware users feeling uncomfortable with Broadcom's takeover and evaluating alternatives, many TrueNAS customers told the company they were considering KVM.
