[JonChesterfield]

TrueNAS is the FreeBSD NAS appliance thing. ZFS with easy setup, a GUI etc.

This announcement is that they're abandoning that project, replacing it with a version called "Scale", which if you go looking turns out to be Debian.

Bad news for FreeBSD really. I'm sad to hear it but then I also dropped FreeBSD with ZFS for Debian a couple of years ago so I can't really judge the company for the decision.

[Pet_Ant]

More appropriately slowly sunsetting it because the alternate flavour is seeing growth and the FreeBSD flavour is becoming non-viable.

> The data is showing us that CORE will become non-viable at some point in the future. Without divulging too much, I can say that SCALE is seeing roughly a 5x growth rate compared to CORE and we don't see any reason for that trend to reverse.

CORE (aka FreeBSD) will still get maintenance releases for the foreseeable future. If you are really bothered about it, crowd fund a few developers to continue the project, I'm sure they won't mind. Otherwise, it seems like SCALE or death for them.