# What is the difference between FreeNAS and FreeNAS?

What is the difference between FreeNAS and FreeNAS?

##### Post Metadata
- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Pinned by G2 as a common question



## Comments
### Comment 1

I guess the question should actually should be "what is the difference between FreeNAS and TrueNAS", because now it says "between FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
The answer to that question is, there is no difference. TrueNAS used to be called FreeNAS in the past.

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Procesmanager bij Open Line



### Comment 2

Freenas had it's name updated to Trunas and received a ui update other than that its the same team and same product.

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Owner



### Comment 3

Well, as stated there is no difference between these. Meaning is it safe to assume you meant to state the difference between TrueNAS and FreeNAS. Functionally, I am not aware of much difference between these two either. Run them both today in production.

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: S



### Comment 4

I assume to mean the difference between FreeNAS and TrueNAS.  If so FreeNAS was the original project they had created TrueNAS as the commercial offshoot.  Over time they retired FreeNAS and are only upgrading TrueNAS from now on.

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Senior Tech Ops Engineer at Scientific Games



### Comment 5

There is no difference when comparing FreeNAS to itself...

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Software Engineer at Metafile Information Systems, Inc.



### Comment 6

I suspect this is comparison of the various editions in which case you can check here:

https://www.truenas.com/compare-editions/

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Backend Software Developer at Sonar



### Comment 7

I think you mean FreeNAS and TrueNAS? The main difference is then merging the codebases of their open source and enterprise product so it's easier to develop and maintain. Going forward only TrueNAS will be getting updates. 

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- Posted at: almost 4 years ago
- Author title: Software Engineer at Ascend Learning




## Related Product
[TrueNAS](https://www.g2.com/products/truenas/reviews)

## Related Category
[Storage Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/storage-systems)

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