Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15

REG AD STORAGE Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas Good news if you want to keep your NAS boxes on FreeBSD – two new contenders just stepped up, with updated forks of the cancelled TrueNAS Core.FreeBSD has a strong reputation as a stable server OS, and integrates highly reliable ZFS filesystem right into its kernel. The snag is that Linux is rather more widespread, meaning more people know their way around a Linux box – but Linux knowledge doesn’t transfer well over to FreeBSD.The Reg FOSS desk just found out about two different new dedicated NAS OS based on FreeBSD – and saliently, based on the current FreeBSD 15 codebase, which was released in December 2025, with version 15.1 arriving in June. REG AD FreeCORE-15.0-U1 appeared on August 27th. It’s the first update for Fre