GhostBSD 20.08.04 released, FreeBSD distribution
3 min readGhostBSD is user-friendly, based on FreeBSD desktop operating system. The goal of the project is to create an easy-to-use and familiar work platform for home or office applications and data repair. It supports a large number of popular lightweight desktop environments, including MATE, Xfce, LXDE, Openbox. It also provides the FreeBSD package management system, Apache’s OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, LibreCAD, and the Eclipse / Anjuta development environment for C, C ++, Java, JavaScript, Jala, Python. It provides all the benefits of the FreeBSD operating system combined with a focus on simplicity for newcomers. It is ship with a simple installer, including MATE or XFCE desktop environments, pre-installed, with a graphical application to easily install software and update your system, codecs to play multimedia files is also pre-installed. GhostBSD is suitable for newcomers to BSD as well as *nix experienced users. With modest hardware requirements, GhostBSD is ideal for modern workstations, and single-board computers 64-bit hardware.
Feature
- Simple
Built on top of FreeBSD, GhostBSD provides a simple desktop-oriented operating system pre-configured with the carefully selected minimal commonly used set software required to start using it to its full potential.
- Elegant
GhostBSD uses the GTK environment to provide an elegant look and a comfortable experience on the modern BSD platform offering a natural and native Unix work environment.
- It is BSD
GhostBSD derived from FreeBSD which is roots go back to the University of California Berkeley Unix Research, historically called “BSD Unix” or “Berkeley Unix” today simply called BSD for Berkeley Software Distribution.
GhostBSD 20.08.04 has been released.
Changelog
This release comes with kernel, OS and software application updates. We updated the MATE desktop to 1.24.0.
A new interesting feature is the boot environment backup before updates.
Issue and Feature completed:
- Adding window to confirm changes to software on the system software-station#9 opened by angelescuo
- Change the release and dev version to yy.mm.dd ghostbsd-build#80 opened by ericbsd
- When Upgrading, ask / help new user create a Boot Environment if one does not exist. update-station#6 opened by wb7odyfred
- Software Station: Columns should be resizeable software-station#10 opened by pcu71
- Disable user’s ability to select “check” button when the software is installing/uninstalling. software-station#8 opened by vimanuelt
- Improve the GBI disk partition database. gbi#29 opened by ericbsd
- Need to add code to load driver for intel and skip AMD to the failover xconfig#3 opened by ericbsd
- Remove default loading of drivers in kldlist ghostbsd-build#74 opened by ericbsd
- Removing chroot ${release} sysrc -f /etc/rc.conf root_rw_mount=”NO” ghostbsd-build#78 opened by ericbsd
- GhostBSD.conf should be move to pkg and repos/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos removed ghostbsd-build#59 opened by ericbsd
- set_doas from finalize.sh be remove and doas remove from packages ghostbsd-build#60 opened by ericbsd
- Move msd-background-helper to ghostbsd mate setting ghostbsd-build#58 opened by ericbsd
- x11/ghostbsd-slick-greeter-settings pkg-deinstall and pkg-install conflics with x11/lightdm ghostbsd-ports#12 opened by ericbsd
- Stop automount on the livecd ghostbsd-build#70 opened by ericbsd
- Remove profile file and code ghostbsd-build ghostbsd-build#69 opened by ericbsd
- Not starting services ghostbsd-ports#3 opened by jfoucry
Pull Request Open and merged:
- Update netcardmgr notnics list networkmgr#38 opened by rgeorgia
- adding code to created BE backup before the os and software upgrade update-station#9 opened by ericbsd
- Fix username for editor and details button reported by users update-station#8 opened by ericbsd
