[Discuss] Home server

[Richard Pieri]

On 1/26/2015 12:59 AM, Joe Polcari wrote:
> FreeNAS is all of that and built for storage and file sharing with a web
> interface.

FreeNAS runs as an embedded OS. You don't install it; you dump the image 
to a USB flash drive and boot from that. Very simple to deploy, much 
pain to install security updates. PC-BSD and TrueOS are full 
installations like vanilla FreeBSD. More work to install, less hassle to 
update.

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Rich P.