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

[Ron Singh]

I walk slow, but it only takes me 13 minutes to go from 368 Phillip Street
to Davis Centre by foot.
Anyone who would like to visit the museum can park at 368 Phillip Street
for the duration.
I've sought permission from the property owner and he's cool with geeks
being geeks, geeking out at DC and parking at his building:-)

So, don't let parking concerns prevent you from enjoying a visit to the
museum!

Ron S.



On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 8:27 PM 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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