OpenMediaVault

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OpenMediaVault
OpenMediaVault Logo.png
File:OMV6 dashboard.png
Web interface (2024)
Developer Volker Theile
Written in Web interface: PHP, JavaScript (Ext JS)
OS family Unix-like
Working stateCurrent
Source model Open source
Initial release17 October 2011;12 years ago (2011-10-17)
Latest release 6.9.11 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 26 December 2023;18 days ago (26 December 2023)
Repository
Marketing target
Available in English, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian [2]
Update method APT
Package manager dpkg
Platforms
Kernel type Monolithic (Linux)
Userland GNU
Default
user interface 		Web-based
License Free software (GPL v3)
Preceded by FreeNAS v0.7
Official website www.openmediavault.org

OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a free Linux distribution designed for network-attached storage (NAS). [3] [4] The project's lead developer is Volker Theile, who instituted it in 2009. OMV is based on the Debian operating system, and is licensed through the GNU General Public License v3. [5]

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Background

By the end of 2009, Volker Theile was the only active developer of FreeNAS, a NAS operating system that Olivier Cochard-Labbé started developing from m0n0wall in 2005. [6] [7] [8] m0n0wall is a variation of the FreeBSD operating system, and Theile decided he wanted to rewrite FreeNAS for Linux. The project team had known for months that FreeNAS needed a major rewrite in order to support crucial features. [7] Since Cochard-Labbé preferred to stay with a FreeBSD-based system, he and Theile agreed that Theile would develop his Linux version under a different name; [6] that name was initially coreNAS, but within a matter of days Theile discarded it in favour of OpenMediaVault. [8]

Technical design

Theile chose Debian because the large number of programs in its package management system meant that he wouldn't have to spend time repackaging software himself. [9] OpenMediaVault makes a few changes to the Debian operating system. It provides a Web-based user interface for administration and customisation, and a plug-in API for implementing new features. One can install plug-ins through the Web interface.

Features

Plug-ins

By default, OpenMediaVault comes with a limit set of plug-ins. These include:

Third-party plug-ins

Additional plug-ins are available via additional package repositories. The majority of those Plug-ins are developed by a group called OpenMediaVault Plugin Developers. [12] The status of all Plug-ins can be viewed online. [13] In October 2014 there were around 30 plugins available. In June 2015 there were more than 70 stable plug-ins available.

Some of the software that is controllable via third-party plug-ins are: [14]

Minimum System requirements

Release history

For each OpenMediaVault release, Theile chooses a project code name from Frank Herbert's Dune novels. [17]

VersionNameRelease DateEOL DateBaseNotes
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.2Ix2011-10-17 [18] ? Debian 6 Named for the planet Ix.
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.3Omnius2012-04-18 [19] 2012-12-30 [20] Introduced multi-language web interface and graphical user prompt for rights administration via Access Control List. The release is named for Omnius, a sentient computer network in the Legends of Dune trilogy.
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.4Fedaykin2012-09-21 [21] [22] 2013-12-09 [23] Named for the Fedaykin commandos of the Fremen people.
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.5Sardaukar2013-08-25 [24] ?Revised API renders v0.4 plugins incompatible. [25]
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.0Kralizec2014-09-15 [26] 2015-12-26 [27] Debian 7 Improves support for weaker systems; adds a dashboard with support for widgets; improved infrastructure for plug-ins. This release is named for Kralizec, a battle predicted to occur at the end of the universe.
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.0Stone burner2015-06-29 [28] [29] 2017-12-06 [30] Sencha ExtJS 5.1.1 Framework for the WebGUI; revised GUI supports configuration of WiFi, VLAN, et al. This release is named for the stone burner, a nuclear weapon held by House Atreides.
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.0Erasmus [31] 2017-06-132018-07-09 [32] Debian 8 Named for the robot Erasmus.
Old version, no longer maintained: 4.0Arrakis [33] 2018-05-082020-06-30 [34] Debian 9 Named for the planet Dune.
style="background-color: #FDB3AB; " title="Old version, no longer maintained" data-sort-value="5.0 [35] " | Old version, no longer maintained: 5.0 [35] Usul [36] 2020-03-302022-06-30 [37] Debian 10 Named for the secret name of Paul Atreides (Usul) in Dune .
class="templateVersion c" style="background-color: #D4F4B4; " title="Current stable version" data-sort-value="6.0 [38] " | Current stable version:6.0 [38] Shaitan2022-05-04 [39] ? Debian 11 Named for the Fremen term for demon and later to the transformed God Emperor Leto Atreides II
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  2. ↑ "OpenMediaVault". Transifex . Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
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  10. ↑ "OpenMediaVault Features". openmediavault.org. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "OpenMediaVault Package Repository". openmediavault.org. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  12. ↑ github.com, "OpenMediaVault Plugin Developers" Retrieved 2014-10-03
  13. ↑ omv-extras.org, "Latest updates..." Retrieved 2014-10-03
  14. ↑ "OpenMediaVault Plugin Developers Package Repository". bintray.com. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  15. ↑ debian.org/ports. Debian Website, List of ports
  16. ↑ wiki.debian.org/Hardware. Debian Wiki, Supported Hardware
  17. ↑ Theile, Volker (14 July 2011). "First release of OpenMediaVault is called Ix". OpenMediaVault.org. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  18. ↑ OpenMediaVault 0.2 (Ix) has been released
  19. ↑ OpenMediaVault 0.3 BETA available
  20. ↑ OpenMediaVault 0.3.x end-of-life
  21. ↑ Package repository for 0.4 (Fedaykin) is up
  22. ↑ New updates available - OpenMediaVault 0.4.0.1 released
  23. ↑ OMV 0.4 EOL
  24. ↑ OpenMediaVault 0.5 (Sardaukar) released
  25. ↑ OpenMediaVault Blog. 3rd Party Plug-ins. Retrieved 2013-08-31
  26. ↑ OpenMediaVault 1.0 (Kralizec) released
  27. ↑ OMV 1.x is now EOL
  28. ↑ OMV 2.0 (Stone Burner) will be available soon
  29. ↑ Release of OpenMediaVault 2.1 (Stone burner)
  30. ↑ OMV 2.x is now EOL
  31. ↑ Theile, Volker (17 December 2015). "OMV 3 (Erasmus) on Debian 8 (Jessie)". OpenMediaVault.org. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  32. ↑ OMV 3.x is now EOL
  33. ↑ Theile, Volker (27 February 2017). "Results from SUSE Hack Week". OpenMediaVault.org. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  34. ↑ openmediavault 4 goes EOL
  35. 1 2 Theile, Volker (21 August 2019). "Releases". openmediavault.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  36. ↑ Theile, Volker (4 May 2022). "Results from Openmediavault Blog". OpenMediaVault.org.
  37. ↑ openmediavault 5 goes EOL
  38. 1 2 Theile, Volker (4 May 2022). "Releases". openmediavault.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  39. ↑ Theile, Volker (4 May 2022). "Release of openmediavault 6 (Shaitan)". .openmediavault.org. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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