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Obarun
Obarun is an Arch Linux based distribution featuring the S6 init software in place of systemd. Obarun provides a live disc featuring the JWM graphical interface. Utilities, such as pacopts, are included for working with Arch's repositories, including the Arch User Repository (AUR).
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| 2020-08-10 |
NEW • BSD Release: GhostBSD 20.08.04 |
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GhostBSD, a desktop operating system based on the development branch of FreeBSD, has published a new version. The project now includes the option to automatically take filesystem snapshots (called boot environments) prior to performing package updates. This allows the administrator to recover in situations where package upgrades break the operating system or prevent it from booting. "I am happy to announce the availability of GhostBSD 20.08.04. 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. Change the release and dev version to yy.mm.dd. When upgrading, ask / help new user create a Boot Environment if one does not exist. Software Station: Columns should be resizeable. Disable user's ability to select 'check' button when the software is installing/uninstalling." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-20.08.04.iso (2,694MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| GhostBSD is a user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. Its default desktop is MATE, but a separate community edition with Xfce is available too. It also features a selection of commonly used software, a rolling-release development model, and a bootable live image with an intuitive graphical system installer.
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| 2022-06-18 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 22.06.15 |
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The GhostBSD project develops a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. The project's latest snapshot is GhostBSD 22.06.15 which includes better handling of NVIDIA drivers and smoothly upgrade processes. "Some of the improvements are automation on the livecd to install the proper Nvidia driver, and when a package fails to upgrade, Update Station will reinstall it and resume the update. I have added the BWN_GPL_PHY option in our default GENERIC kernel to compile drivers that include GPLv2 code. Now, most Broadcom devices are detected, including my iMac. In most cases bwn_v4_ucode_load="YES" or bwn_v4_lp_ucode_load="YES" need to be added in /boot/loader.conf. In addition, GhostBSD was upgraded to 13.1-STABLE from 22/05/31. Features added: Do not show updates available when packages are syncing. Add a file called syncing when new packages are syncing and remove it when completed. Add code to update-station read if syncing is in the repository and do not prompt users for upgrades. Add code to software-station to not allow software installation with software-station during a packages sync." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-22.06.15.iso (2,721MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2022-01-17 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 22.01.12 |
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The GhostBSD project has published an update to their FreeBSD-based, rolling release desktop system. The project's new snapshot fixes a number of issues and removes an unmaintained package from the default install. "This new ISO image contains fixes, improvements and software updates. Finally, the installer hanging at the cleaning stage for ZFS installation got fixed and OpenRC and dhcpcd were removed from the base code. Furthermore, automation configuration for HD 7000 series and older GPUs has been added. I also added the support for os-release to show GhostBSD name and GhostBSD version in applications like mate-system-monitor, Python distros, pfetch and neofetch and added a new set of wallpapers for 2022 and removed p7zip from the default selection since it is vulnerable and unmaintained. Changelog: remove OpenRC-related code from base and contrib; remove OpenRC services from libexec/rc; remove dhcpcd from contrib; remove rc_system from loader; build VLC package with UPNP option; customize /etc/os-release; add GhostBSD to uname output so pfetch/neofetch can display correct OS info; initgfx for the automatic configuration of the graphics hardware...." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-22.01.12.iso (2,584MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-11-26 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 21.11.24 |
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GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented, rolling release operating system based on FreeBSD. The project's latest snapshot adds a new tool for tracking the version of the rolling-release operating system. "This new ISO image contains kernel, operating system and software updates. In addition, I added a new command-line software called ghostbsd-version that gives you the GhostBSD version, FreeBSD version, kernel version, and operating system version. At the date of this release, if you run ghostbsd-version or ghostbsd-version -v, it should output 21.11.24. This version number will be incremented with the date of new package built on packages when update is performed. The ISO image version is now following the last package build version instead of an ISO image build date in the hope of removing confusion about the ISO image version. Changelog: added version file in the package repository; added /etc/version with ghostbsd-build from the version file in the package repository; added feature in update manager to update /etc/version; created ghostbsd-version; moved version under set_ghostbsd_version and set the GhostBSD ISO image version from the repository...." Additional information on the new GhostBSD snapshot can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-21.11.24.iso (2,671MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-09-07 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 21.09.06 |
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GhostBSD is a user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. The project has published a new version, GhostBSD 21.09.06 which migrates service management from OpenRC to FreeBSD's rc.d approach. "What is new in 21.09.06? GhostBSD moved back to FreeBSD rc.d to start services. Github ticket completed: Disable access to home directories. ghostbsd-src opened by ghost. Leaving some fractured pastes about Update-Station and sudo pkg update update-station#21 opened by wb7odyfred. (GhostBSD-21.04.27.iso) package configuration file anomalies at /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/ ghostbsd-pkg-conf opened by grahamperrin. Empty list of packages software-station opened by simonsaman. Inappropriate connections to open Wi-Fi networks with 5.5 on FreeBSD networkmgr opened by grahamperrin. For Open Networks, /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file gets written without double quotes around SSID name. networkmgr opened by wb7odyfred. Automatic switchover networkmgr opened by Crushless. Minor cosmetic - authentication is spelled wrong networkmgr, opened by technics. Wired: DHCP: not gaining an address networkmgr opened by grahamperrin." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-21.09.06.iso (2,634MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-04-30 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 21.04.27 |
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Eric Turgeon has announced the release of GhostBSD 21.04.27, the latest version of the project's desktop operating system based on FreeBSD, with MATE as the default desktop. This release updates the base system to FreeBSD 13.0: "I am happy to announce the availability of the new ISO image, 21.04.27. When we started to port all the GhostBSD code from 12.2-STABLE to 13.0-STABLE, several problems arose with OpenRC, devd and drivers not loading at boot. We discovered that OpenRC devd and devmatch services implementations were not working properly. We had to create rc.devmatch to replace the OpenRC service implementation of devmatch.conf for devd. With devmatch now starting properly, all drivers get loaded at boot and when a new device is inserted. In addition, we were able to remove all changes we made in the GENERIC kernel, making the default kernel a bit smaller. I fixed ntpd and WireGuard services. Automatic configuration for network cards has been removed from NetworkMgr and added to the script started by devd." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-21.04.27.iso (2,521MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-01-16 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 21.01.15 |
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GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. The project has released a new snapshot which reduces its memory footprint on live media. This release also removes the guided partitioning option which would take over an entire disk with a UFS partition. "I am happy to announce the availability of the new ISO 21.01.15. This new ISO comes with a clean-up of packages that include removing LibreOffice and Telegram from the default selection. We did this to bring the zfs RW live file systems to run without problem on 4GB of ram machine. We also removed the UFS full disk option from the installer. Users can still use custom partitions to setup UFS partition, but we discourage it. We also fixed the Next button's restriction in the custom partition related to some bug that people reported. We also fix the missing default locale setup and added the default setup for Linux Steam, not to forget this ISO includes kernel, userland and numerous application updates." The release notes offer further details. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-21.01.15.iso (2,524MB, pkglist). |
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| 2020-11-30 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 20.11.28 |
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Eric Turgeon has announced the release of GhostBSD, the latest stable build of the project's desktop operating system based on the development branch of FreeBSD and featuring the MATE desktop: "I am happy to announce the availability of GhostBSD 20.11.28. This release comes with a new live system that leverages ZFS, compression and replication first introduced in FuryBSD by Joe Maloney. The 20.11.28 release contains numerous improvements, including OS fixes for Linuxulator to improve Linux Steam performance, an updated kernel and GhostBSD userland updates. Userland updates include a MATE desktop upgrade to version 1.24.1, Software Station performance improvements and numerous application updates. Issue and feature completed: asks for Restart no matter what the update; update manager hangs when running twice; build.sh can't find ghostbsd-common-settings; xdg-user-dirs-update push in ISO bad locale...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information and upgrade instructions. Download: GhostBSD-20.11.28.iso (2,975MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). A separate community build with Xfce is also available: GhostBSD-20.11.28.iso (2,744MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2020-05-01 |
BSD Release: GhostBSD 20.04 |
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The GhostBSD project creates a desktop-oriented, FreeBSD-based operating system. The project has published a new version, GhostBSD 20.04, which fixes a number of installation and ZFS-related issues at setup time. "I am happy to announce the availability of GhostBSD 20.04, but first thanks to all people that gave feedback and reported issues. We fixed a couple of problems that were found in 20.03. This release comes with kernel and OS updates and numerous software applications updates and many improvements like replacing gnome-mount and hald with FreeBSD devd and Vermaden automount which make auto mounting and unmounting of external device way more stable and supports more filesystems. What has changed and got fixed since 20.03: Fixed ZFS forced 4k option on ZFS full disk installation. Added 4k to default when creating ZFS partition with the installer partition editor. Fixed pool cleanup when deleting ZFS partition with the installer partition editor. Replaced gnome-mount and hald with FreeBSD devd and Vermaden automount. Fixed update manager weird loop. Fixed duplicate software repository config." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-20.04.iso (2,545MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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