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

[Kiwi Ssennyonjo]

Where is the meeting this month
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> 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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