Re: [ALUG] Any experience of FreeNAS / OpenMediaVault

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Of-course there's a lot to be said for just installing your distro of choice and just using what you need.

This last is certainly what I'd do, for a headless machine just use something like Ubuntu Server and it takes very little space and can update itself happily for a long time without attention.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. As it happens I spent some time over the weekend setting up both FreeNAS and OMV in VirtualBox environments. After that I decided to just build a headless Debian 7 box :-) Cheers, Ewan