Readme updated today:
This repository is no longer actively maintained.
The TrueNAS build system previously hosted here has been moved to an internal infrastructure. This transition was necessary to meet new security requirements, including support for Secure Boot and related platform integrity features that require tighter control over the build and signing pipeline.
No further updates, pull requests, or issues will be accepted. Existing content is preserved here for historical reference only.
https://github.com/truenas/scale-build
Wondering if this is just the first step towards doing a minio in the future.
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I found a post on the forum:
https://forums.truenas.com/t/scale-build-git-repo-going-closed-source/64313
This is only their old build system which they weren’t using themselves, the rest of the OS will remain open source. However they also said some worrying stuff about including “proprietary pieces of the OS”.
According to their own documentation: https://github.com/truenas/scale-build
The TrueNAS build system previously hosted here has been moved to an internal infrastructure.This doesn’t sound like they are no longer using the build tool, they are simply not open-sourcing it anymore.
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai @SteveTech So are they hosting the source code outside of github on their own platform or is it not going to be available at all?
Afaik they are hosting their code on their own closed source internal system.
So it will no longer be Open-Source
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai That sucks. So where does that leave us opensource advocates? What opensource Nas options do we have now?
OpenMediaVault. CasaOS. There may be others.
No drop-in replacements for everything TrueNAS did, but at least something.
Always blaming security bullshit. I anxiously await a community fork.
Next step is requiring a subscription.
Volker Theile (lead dev of FreeNAS 2006-2009) maintaines OpenMediaVault, based on debian, version 8 was released recently. Not a drop in replacement, and it has its own quirks, but no evil company in the background
Damn man. Technology kinda fucking sucks now. Everything I use is imploding in on itself. Yay!
Not Proxmox! Use it for free at home, but buy it for your business if you can! (But they never force you to)
/hoping it doesn’t bite the dust too
Are they lying about secure boot being a reason or can I go back to thinking SB is part of Microsoft’s EEE attack on software freedom?
It can be a bit of both.
I don’t think secureboot is an attack on freedom exactly (and it’s certainly not an instance of EEE), but I definitely think it shouldn’t be Microsoft holding the keys.
Literally today Chris Titus released a video where he emphasized that no one should be using secure boot because the default backend is Microsoft and no one changes their secure boot config.
If that’s true there’s an argument that the name “secure boot” is hardly detachable from the defaults and thus that name is kid of burnt and shouldn’t be recommended out of an abundance of caution for new users.
So… nobody changes the default settings, therefore everyone should change the default settings… to the wrong option?
edit: Why is it that homo sapiens is always willing to go an extra mile just to hurt itself?
Security through obscurity isn’t security.
There goes my excuse for not giving up and just paying for Unraid.
Unraid pay system switch made me never want to use them
you can always just bypass their security.
Huh
