Readme updated today:
This repository is no longer actively maintained.
The TrueNAS build system previously hosted here has been moved to an internal infrastructure. This transition was necessary to meet new security requirements, including support for Secure Boot and related platform integrity features that require tighter control over the build and signing pipeline.
No further updates, pull requests, or issues will be accepted. Existing content is preserved here for historical reference only.
https://github.com/truenas/scale-build
Wondering if this is just the first step towards doing a minio in the future.
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Always blaming security bullshit. I anxiously await a community fork.
Next step is requiring a subscription.
Volker Theile (lead dev of FreeNAS 2006-2009) maintaines OpenMediaVault, based on debian, version 8 was released recently. Not a drop in replacement, and it has its own quirks, but no evil company in the background
I love it so much that I donaged twice to the project. There are also some easter-eggs hidden in the software, like quotes from Dune.
Looks like no zfs support?
It’s not in there by default, you have to install the omv extras plugin, from there you can install zfs: https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv8%3Aomv8_plugins%3Azfs
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”.
According to their own documentation: https://github.com/truenas/scale-build
The TrueNAS build system previously hosted here has been moved to an internal infrastructure.This doesn’t sound like they are no longer using the build tool, they are simply not open-sourcing it anymore.
In a years time will the public be able to build trueNAS for themselves without developing their own build tools?
If not then the TrueNAS is no longer Open Source as people can’t practically build it for themselves
(or verify that during the build some code wasn’t injected)
XigmaNAS is still being developed and is a fork of the original FreeNAS code before iX acquired the name.
There are alternatives
Truenas went to shit when they killed BSD support, the OS it was founded on
Security through obscurity isn’t security.
There goes my excuse for not giving up and just paying for Unraid.
Unraid pay system switch made me never want to use them
And Unraid is OSS?
So my option are (potentially both) closed source storage software bjt one needs to be paid?Well…I know what I’ll not choose.
Damn man. Technology kinda fucking sucks now. Everything I use is imploding in on itself. Yay!
Not Proxmox! Use it for free at home, but buy it for your business if you can! (But they never force you to)
/hoping it doesn’t bite the dust too
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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)
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?
@tabular @Ek-Hou-Van-Braai They are lying. Debian supports Secure Boot and remains open.
Although “related platform integrity” stuff might be something they’re being forced to include by a government agency or paid to include by another company.
It can be a bit of both.
I don’t think secureboot is an attack on freedom exactly (and it’s certainly not an instance of EEE), but I definitely think it shouldn’t be Microsoft holding the keys.
Literally today Chris Titus released a video where he emphasized that no one should be using secure boot because the default backend is Microsoft and no one changes their secure boot config.
If that’s true there’s an argument that the name “secure boot” is hardly detachable from the defaults and thus that name is kid of burnt and shouldn’t be recommended out of an abundance of caution for new users.
Do you know the name of this video? I keep trying to search for a secure boot video by Chris Titus released today/yesterday but I’m not finding anything.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters Git Popular version control system, primarily for code LTT Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel NAS Network-Attached Storage PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN VPN Virtual Private Network ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
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Good bot
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?
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Link to article?
There’s a link to the github page that has the depreciation notice right there…?
