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GREAT QUESTIONS! Answers below: When future versions of TrueNAS are released, we will test them internally before we make them available via an update mechanism within our UI. Most updates should be able to be applied immediately, but in the event we find a reason to delay the update, notice will be provided to the community. As a more direct question, we think most OS updates will be doable within 1-2 weeks of their TrueNAS SCALE release. You can disconnect us from your server at any time and just use the TrueNAS UI if you want. However, the "install" is still a HexOS install at that point, pointing to our app repo. If you want, you can reinstall TrueNAS SCALE native on your boot device, reboot, import the storage pools we created under HexOS, and continue using TrueNAS natively from there. Yes. If you do things that are destructive, they will have destructive impact ;-). To be clear, there is no safety net when you're navigating in the TrueNAS UI. No bumper lanes there to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot, so the TrueNAS UI is "Swim at your own risk!". We are a replacement management interface for TrueNAS SCALE. The primary focus in the early beta is ease-of-use. Longer term, we will build a docker container that will side-load with the OS to add additional functionality not natively available or part of the out-of-the-box TrueNAS SCALE experience. Buddy backups is a great example of a feature that we are building that will leverage technology in TrueNAS (e.g. replication), but will wrap it in simplicity and marry it with a service that makes connecting to other users far more automated. The app repo that HexOS points to is a clone/fork of the app repo provided by TrueNAS themselves. This allows us to continue to build out our app library independent from them, but also allows us to incorporate anything they do with relative ease. There is no method to adding additional app repos within TrueNAS (nor HexOS), but we do intend to support loading something like Portainer (or another equivalent) for advanced users that want to add 3rd party containers. The command deck will be required for certain functionality. It will ALWAYS be required for initial system provisioning. The main reason is that the HexOS installer does not include our UI and it never will. Instead, the local UI will be loaded via a Docker container that we will install after initial system provisioning. Think of it similar to setting up an iPhone or Android device. You need the Internet + a Google/Apple account to get going, but then you can turn on airplane mode and do whatever you want. Same idea here. The latter (when you receive the early access invite). I updated the terms policy to reflect this as well as it wasn't clear.

As far as receiving access, the first wave of invites is going out today. We are taking this approach to test our infrastructure scalability and stability. All the features of HexOS itself will be available with the lifetime license. You are not buying a license solely to the beta. And any features we add to HexOS in the future (that do not have a metered cost like cloud backups) you will get as well.

The selection process for invites is primarily based on order of those who have purchased. And yes, if you were customer #5, you will get access first. Can't get into details right now of how the waves are being structured.

While we slate the fix to the dark mode toggle, I've made dark mode the new default. What do you guys think? Keep this default or do you want the light theme as default?

Good find! Thank you! We will disable/fix.

This issue has been resolved and all mail that was queued has been sent. Thank you!

As you may have seen on the announcement bar, our mail provider hit a limit and we are working to get it expanded ASAP. Really sorry about this everyone!! Team is already pressing to get this resolved.

ZFS all the way

Correct. Lifetime licenses mean lifetime. There are certain features that come at an increased cost to deliver on a recurring basis such as premium support services, cloud backup, or other similar services. Those would be sold a la carte. In the future, we will offer a subscription for HexOS itself which will be at a lower price point. Lifetime licenses will always be available.

Raidz expansion is the feature to search about. It's really amazing!!

Due to an issue with our send mail provider, we blew way past our hourly sendmail limit and so messages are being queued. We have requested a limit increase and will report back once this issue is fully resolved. Your purchases and registrations are going through, and you will receive your confirmations eventually. Our apologies for this and we will get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Actually.... You can add one drive at a time to expand! They have to be the same size as the drives you already have in a pool, but you can expand like that.

Hah! Hopefully a 50-series GPU from NVIDIA!

Yes, this is confirmed. Its why we went through such pains to make a responsive design for the UI/UX 😉

Lifetime licenses are issued per server. You can "disconnect" a server from HexOS and free up that license for use on another. If you want two systems for remote backup, you would need two licenses.

Thanks. Invision was chosen simply because its a platform we were already familiar with from our previous endeavors. I do like discourse a lot and given some of the other changes Invision has been making, we may consider switching at some point.

Someone copy and pasted from an AI ;-). UPS support is definitely something we want to do, but will likely come after the 1.0 release.

You should receive both a receipt and an early access program details email. Let us know if you don't receive them within the next hour. The servers are getting hit hard right now, so some message sending may be delayed.

Licenses are NOT tied to your physical hardware. Just migrate your storage devices to new electronics and get going. Great question though and will probably add it to the FAQ.

Some users are reporting that attempting to toggle dark mode isn't working for them. If you're using the controls in the top right of the forums, try using the theme switcher in the bottom left. We will address this in an update in the future.