<story><title>FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying</title><url>https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Deeplybrassic</author><text>&amp;gt;it is far better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.&lt;p&gt;I have to disagree on this one. Multiple diverging projects create _Stability_, whereas a single project creates _fragility_. One bad step on the only project, and it will be all who suffer</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Excellent news. This is something far more open source projects should do. All this fragmentation is good for nothing, it is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Try to provide a package of a GUI app &amp;quot;for linux&amp;quot;. After you support centos, fedora, debian, ubuntu, gentoo and arch, you&amp;#x27;ll maintain a mess of brittle packaging scripts for years, breaking at each release and some updates. Just making the first release for each is a challenge. Even app images, the least well integrated system will fail at some point.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;ll see how stable is diversity.&lt;p&gt;Then package for windows xp. It probably works on windows vista, 7, 8 and 10.&lt;p&gt;Now I do see a lot of value in diversity. Resiliance, ethics, competition, collaboration...&lt;p&gt;Stability isn&amp;#x27;t one.</text></comment>
<story><title>FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying</title><url>https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Deeplybrassic</author><text>&amp;gt;it is far better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.&lt;p&gt;I have to disagree on this one. Multiple diverging projects create _Stability_, whereas a single project creates _fragility_. One bad step on the only project, and it will be all who suffer</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Excellent news. This is something far more open source projects should do. All this fragmentation is good for nothing, it is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbreese</author><text>I might agree with you in theory, but in the specific instance, there were never really two distinct projects. They were artificially maintained as two distinct projects to have an arbitrary “enterprise” project and the community-supported project.&lt;p&gt;The relationship between FreeNAS and TrueNAS is more like the difference between Fedora and RHEL. Both sponsored by the same company, but the later is the more mature, “enterprise” version.&lt;p&gt;So instead of having FreeNAS and TrueNAS we’re going to have “TrueNAS Core” and “TrueNAS Enterprise”.&lt;p&gt;It’s honestly not that big of a shift from a practical perspective.</text></comment>