GhostBSD
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| Developer | Eric Turgeon, GhostBSD Team |
|---|---|
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | GhostBSD 1.0 (March 2010) |
| Latest release | GhostBSD 22.06.18 (20 June 2022) |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| User interface | MATE (official), Xfce (community) |
| License | FreeBSD license |
GhostBSD is a FreeBSD-based operating system created in March 2010. The goal of the project is to make FreeBSD easier to use, incorporating a desktop environment with a graphical package manager. It uses fish as its default shell.
In 2018, starting with GhostBSD 18.10, GhostBSD moved its base from FreeBSD to TrueOS. The project shifted its base back to FreeBSD in version 21.04.27 (released 29 April 2021), making 21.01.20 (released 23 January 2021) the last version to use TrueOS as its base.
Timeline[edit | edit source]
| Version | Release date | Notes/Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | March 2010 | First GA release |
| 1.5 | — | Introduced Compiz support |
| 2.0 | 13 March 2011 | Improvements to GDM |
| 2.5 | 24 January 2012 | Gives user choice of preconfigured GNOME or LXDE desktop |
| 3.0 | 10 March 2013 | Last version to include GNOME 2 |
| 3.1 | 28 June 2013 | Point release to fix bugs |
| 3.5 | 7 November 2013 | Replaced LibreOffice with Apache OpenOffice |
| 4.0 | 4 October 2014 | — |
| 10.1 | 13 September 2015 | Various new features added |
| 10.3 | 31 August 2016 | Added new software |
| 11.1 | 16 November 2017 | Added GhostBSD software repositories, dropped 32-bit support, WhiskerMenu as default menu for Xfce |
| Version | Release date | Notes/Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 18.10 | 1 November 2018 | First release based on TrueOS |
| 19.04 | 13 April 2019 | — |
| 19.09 | 16 September 2019 | Moved from TrueOS CURRENT to STABLE
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| 19.10 | 26 October 2019 | — |
| 20.01 | 22 January 2020 | — |
| 20.03 | 31 March 2020 | — |
| 20.04 | 10 August 2020 | — |
| 21.01.20 | 23 January 2021 | — |
| GhostBSD version | Release Date | Desktop Environment | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21.04.27 | 29 April 2021 | GhostBSD is now based on FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE | |
| 21.5.11 | 11 May 2021 | ||
| 21.09.06 | 7 September 2021 | Switch from OpenRC to FreeBSD rc.d | |
| 21.09.08 | 9 September 2021 | ||
| 22.06.15 | 18 June 2022 | ||
| 22.06.18 | 20 June 2022 | ||
| 23.06.01 | 5 June 2023 | ||
| 23.10.01 | 28 October 2023 | MATE 1.26.0 | |
| 24.01.01 | 13 February 2024 | Based on FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE | |
| 24.04.1 | 20 May 2024 | MATE 1.28.1 | Based on FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE |
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Boot menu
Boot screen
Login screen
Desktop
Demo
Ditto, in Italian
