iX have been intent on killing off CORE for at least the last few major releases of SCALE, their weasel words (up-topic and elsewhere) notwithstanding. Unless you have some philosophical precommitment to FreeBSD over Linux (in which case you should have already been seriously looking for a different NAS OS), I think it’s already high time to move to SCALE.
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I have no philosophical preference. There’s a slight bias that was instilled in me from my initial research when choosing Scale or Core, I remember Core being on FreeBSD being in the positive column and that’s sort of stuck with me.
I will almost certainly be upgrading to Fangtooth when a stable release becomes available, and I’m not against the unification, I guess I’m just a little sad to see Core finally go
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Pretty sure your only options there is to do it yourself or buy the only expensive license based enterprise solution I can think of. Maybe that guy from years ago on the old forum was right about being a TRUE sysadmin… I’m just curious if there really is anything out there FreeBSD based.
You guys confused a lot of technical people with this one haha. ‘Unifies’ like how Data General was ‘unified’ by EMC right hah- oh man I’m old…
For the record I’m all for whatever gets us to an even better product every iteration. I am sure trying to maintain two different versions of TrueNAS is/was taxing. It’ll be nice to see efforts focused. Things have certainly been chaotic for Scale over time with containers and VMs. Hopefully this is one more iteration towards perfection.
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Or use XigmaNAS. Or possibly even Napp-IT[1]. And rumors continue to swirl about a fork of CORE.
TrueNAS isn’t the only game in town for a FreeBSD-based ZFS NAS with a GUI. It’s currently the best by a long shot, but whether that will still be the case next year is unknown.
I know it runs on Solarish OSs and Debian; I don’t recall whether it also does FreeBSD. ↩︎
Oh neat thanks. I truly didn’t know what was out there.
Best options are xigmanas or vanilla bsd with webmin.
Unrelated to Fangtooth: Year of Linux on the desktop is already here. Windows is Linux on the Desktop. It comes with a Linux kernel in the form of WSL2 and can run graphical Linux apps that way.
The same way that every single last macOS user is a UNIX greybeard (yes even the women) who gets a chuckle out of the BSD / Mach kernel in macOS and its UNIX certificate,
That same way every single last Windows user is a Linux freak who loves WSL2 but has some apps that just run better in Windows than Wine.
By extension iPhone users are UNIX geeks and Android users are Linux nerds.
Now that that’s been cleared up 
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Some would say TrueNAS Scale, ahem, Community Edition, is the best option.
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I had to phrase it differently since we are talking about server installations replacing TN Core which are definitely no desktops. 
But as @yorick mentioned, we already live in a Linux world. So the year of the Linux desktop was a few years ago and no one noticed. 
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Lol, that reads more like satire to me. I mean iPhone users. Especially the last bit about iPhone users being Unix nerds and Android users being Linux geeks. I mean, I don’t think anyone serious really thinks your average tiktokers who do silly (deadly) things like subway surfing or Kia challenge are Unix/Linux nerds by any stretch of the imagination.
Thats a rather steep assumption and a bold statement. Granted, As a nerd who’s drank from all of these koolaid fountains over the years, I do understand what you mean, I just think you are off target.
But lets be serious for a moment.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/03/08/iphone-ipad-mac-use-by-age/
Over 50% of Apple users are either Millennials or Gen Z. Hardly grey beards.
And I’m fairly confident in saying, of that same group, the vast majority probably don’t even realize there’s a difference between Linux and Unix derived OSes.
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Over 50% of Apple users are either Millennials or Gen Z. Hardly grey beards.
Doesn’t matter. There’s a BSD kernel underneath so they, by definition, are UNIX greybeards.
Did I need a joke / irony signifier somewhere in my post? Just a bit of fun mate. I know users don’t care much about the kernel, or may even (clutch my pearls) be unaware of what a kernel even is.
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that’s thanks to new Apple JustWerx™ technologies (just don’t hold it wrong)
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MACH kernel, not BSD. Hardly anything there would be considered BSD at this point. That makes them MACH UNIX greybeards 
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I get the joke, but doesn’t the proper definition require that the “greybeard” user vaguely understand what (s)he’s doing with the system?
(Restricting to the minority who knows their way with, shudder, Terminal… 
)
I prefer iTerm2, myself. But the Unix base is a big part of why I favor Macs,[1] though I suspect I’m a minority of Mac users in that regard.
I also think it’s kind of cool that they’ve now been through four completely different CPU architectures. ↩︎
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I only use windows for gaming and moved to Mac for the Unix underneath.