[kwlug-disc] [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: TrueNAS, Unraid (Mar 2024)

[Paul Nijjar]

Online at https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug 

or in LIB 329 at the Dana Porter Library at the University of
Waterloo. There is more location info here: https://kwlug.org/node/1345

It would be great to see you online or in person. It's been a long
time!

On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 09:38:02PM -0500, Kiwi Ssennyonjo wrote:
> Where is the meeting this month
> Sent from my mobile device
> 
> > On Mar 2, 2024, at 20:27, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-announce <kwlug-announce at kwlug.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > A good number of people at KWLUG sure love running servers at home.
> > (Who knew that there were even computer servers any more? I thought
> > servers no longer existed because all our stuff is stored in The Cloud
> > (tm), which is made of fluffy water particles and not computer
> > hardware?) Like pogo sticks and macram�, servers are back in
> > style. During last month's meeting the topic of Network Attached
> > Storage (NAS) products came up, which provide storage for all those
> > cat videos and family pictures accessible to different devices on your
> > home network.
> > 
> > We decided to devote this month's meeting to a no-holds-barred claws
> > out fight between two products: TrueNAS and Unraid. TrueNAS is a
> > family of storage products -- some based on FreeBSD, some based on
> > Debian GNU/Linux. Unraid is a proprietary product based on Linux.
> > Jason Paul and Colin_ will be standing up for TrueNAS, and John Steel
> > will be defending Unraid. Regardless of the winner we will learn some
> > things about what features are out there, and what people like and
> > dislike about these NAS products. 
> > 
> > In other news, we will be having another restaurant meetup on
> > Wednesday, March 13. The restaurant is TBA, but may involve Pho. I
> > suppose you can pre-emptively RSVP to dinner at kwlug.org . We'll post
> > more details to the website and mailing list as we have them.
> > 
> > Elsewhere in the community, the UW Computer Museum is holding another
> > hardware day on Tuesday, March 5 from 10am to 4pm. They will have lots
> > of retro hardware on display, and I believe will be trying to get some
> > of that gear working again. There will also be a talk by Devon Merner
> > on how the iMac G5 was used in the development of the Xbox. See more
> > information here: https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum/events/computer-museum-hardware-day-march-5-2024
> > 
> > There are other events happening this month too! See watcamp.com for
> > more.
> > 
> > That's what I have for this month. We will again be holding our KWLUG
> > meeting in hybrid format (and would be interested in opinions about
> > how that is going). The meeting will start at 7pm on both 
> > 
> > https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug
> > 
> > and in-person at the Dana Porter library, room LIB 329, at the
> > University of Waterloo.
> > 
> > - Paul
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