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I have been following Open Media Vault since I first heard about it 18 months or so ago, it has been developed by one of the guy's behind FreeNAS and OMV has now been released to the public.

OMV has been developed from the ground up, based on Debian Linux (Ubuntu is based on Debian) as opposed to FreeBSD (Unix) that FreeNAS is based on, it is also worth noting that Mac OSX is also based on Unix along with Linux.

I have got to say that Volker (the developer of OMV, a German guy if I am not mistaken) has put a lot work into this project, although I am little disappointed that OMV is only available in a 64bit distro.

For anyone wishing to build an all singing and all dancing NAS box, rather than a full blown server then OMV could be the ideal solution.

No doubt OMV will lack the flexibility of a Ubuntu server, it seems to cover most bases as a NAS.

http://openmediavault.org/

And just in case anyone may be interested http://www.freenas.org/

I am tempted to build an OMV box just to see if it is any good as a NAS.

Andy

I now have OMV running as a VM in my server and I must it seems really good.

The web GUI appears to have been well thought out.

OMV, like FreeNAS user's can "Spin down" drives by a couple of simple mouse clicks, something that is sadly missing from Webmin.

I can see no reason why this feature cannot be included in Webmin, unless of course someone knows better.

Andy