NomadBSD 131R-20221130 released: Livesystem based on FreeBSD

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NomadBSD is a live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD®. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD®‘s hardware compatibility.

Changelog 131R-20221130

Changes since 20210508

  • The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p5.
  • Except for i386, We now provide two images for each supported achitecture. One which uses ZFS and one which uses UFS for the root filesystem.
  • The file systems used on the UFS version are now created with soft updates journaling enabled to reduce file system repair problems after a crash.
  • The automatic graphics driver detection has been improved. Support for VIA/Openchrome has been added. For Nvidia graphics card not supported by one of the Nvidia drivers nv is now used.
  • For better support of non-latin keyboard input and switching between layouts, IBus is now used.
  • The rc script for loading acpi modules has been improved.
  • The display manager SLiM has been replaced by SDDM.
  • In order to reduce image sizes, libreOffice and some multimedia packages have been removed.
  • The kernel has been build with a patch that prevents some laptops from hanging when the hwpstate_intel driver is loaded. See: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=67f2a563bfcad75c16536ca500b06ddc9306dfa0
  • Turkish localization and support for Opera and Microsoft Edge have been added to the Linux browser installer GUI.
  • An experimental nomadbsd-update tool has been added, which allows to update components of the NomadBSD system.

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