VMware: FreeNAS has been awarded!
*One more BSD Winner!*, This time is “FreeNAS”:http://www.freenas.org.
*CONSUMER CATEGORY PRIZE* ($5,000)
FreeNAS, a network attached storage (NAS) server. (Olivier Cochard; Paris, France)
FreeNAS is a small (less than 16MB) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6.1 that provides network-attached storage services (CIFS, FTP, NFS, SSH, SCP, RSYNC, AFP). The configuration of this appliance is done from a web management interface.Biographies »
Olivier Cochard is an IP network engineer living in Paris, France. He is 29 years old, married with a one-month-old child. He created FreeNAS for exploring FreeBSD and PHP, and started working with VMware Player in order to test FreeNAS.
*info:*
“FreeNAS”:http://www.freenas.org it’s a “FreeBSD”:http://www.freebsd.org Live CD to implement a “Network Attached Storage”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Attached_Storage.
“*VMware article*”:http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/challenge/winners.html