FreeCORE: TrueNAS Fork Maintaining Deeply Integrated Virtualization, Jails, and OpenZFS on FreeBSD
FreeCORE has launched as a fork of TrueNAS, aiming to restore FreeBSD-based virtualization and Jails support that were removed in the transition to Linux. The project has sparked debate within the storage community regarding open-source governance and the technical merits of FreeBSD versus Linux containers.
Why it matters
It highlights the ongoing tension between enterprise-driven software transitions and the preferences of long-term technical user bases.
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FreeCORE 15.0-U1 is currently stable and offers a seamless in-place upgrade train moving from the 13.3 base to 15.0, with version 15.1 slated next. Technically, this fork is significant because it restores the deeply integrated virtualization ecosystem, specifically FreeBSD Jails , native plugins, and bhyve virtual machines, that was marked obsolete during the upstream Linux transition. By maintaining these features, FreeCORE caters directly to administrators who built extensive infrastructure around the FreeBSD ecosystem.
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