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| 2024-07-15 |
NEW • BSD Release: NomadBSD 141R |
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NomadBSD is a live desktop system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. The project has published a new update, NomadBSD 141R, which brings the base system up to date with FreeBSD 14.1. The release announcement shares the highlights: "NomadBSD 141R-20240711 is now available. Changes since 140R-20240126: the base system has been changed to FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p2; a hard link creation bug concerning Unionfs has been fixed; a calculation bug which led to an overfull UFS root partition has been fixed; fhe Fusefs module has been changed to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) timeout errors on Unionfs; the NomadBSD tools have been ported from Qt 5 to Qt 6; several small improvements and bug fixes. The images for 64-bit and 32-bit computers fit on a larger than 5 GB USB flash drive. A system with a 1.2 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM (2 GB for the ZFS variant) should be able to run NomadBSD decently. Booting is possible via BIOS and UEFI." NomadBSD is available in UFS and ZFS flavours for multiple architectures. Download (pkglist): nomadbsd-141R-20240711.amd64.ufs.img.lzma (2,517MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-141R-20240711.amd64.zfs.img.lzma (2,636MB, SHA256). |
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| NomadBSD is a 32-bit and 64-bit 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.
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| 2022-12-04 |
BSD Release: NomadBSD 131R |
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NomadBSD is a 64-bit live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. The project's latest release is version 131R and the release announcement offers a list of new features: "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." Download (pkglist): nomadbsd-131R-20221130.amd64.ufs.img.lzma (1,922MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-131R-20221130.amd64.zfs.img.lzma (2,053MB, SHA256). |
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| 2021-05-13 |
BSD Release: NomadBSD 130R-20210508 |
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A new stable version of NomadBSD has been released. NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB Flash drives, based on FreeBSD. It features automatic hardware detection and setup and it is configured to be used as a desktop system (with Openbox as the default window manager). The new release, labeled as version 130R-20210508, upgrades the underlying base system to FreeBSD 13.0: "We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 130R-20210508. Changes since 1.4: we've decided to change the versioning scheme to the following form - FFfX-YYYYMMDD, where FF is the major two-digit FreeBSD version, f is the minor version, and X stands for ALPHA (A), BETA (B), RC or RELEASE (R), followed by a date; the new scheme allows us to provide images with different version of FreeBSD; the base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE; the partition alignment has been changed to 1M to improve the write speed on Flash drives; a bug where GLX is disabled has been fixed; drivers for VMware have been added." Here is the full release announcement. Download (pkglist): nomadbsd-130R-20210508.img.lzma (2,085MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-130R-20210508.i386.img.lzma (2,071MB, SHA256). |
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| 2021-03-04 |
BSD Release: NomadBSD 1.4 |
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Version 1.4 of NomadBSD, a persistent live system for USB flash drives based on FreeBSD and featuring a graphical user interface built around Openbox, has been released: "We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.4. Changes since 1.3.2: the base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.2-p2; the installer has been improved; problems with booting the installed system via UEFI has been fixed; the suitable graphics card driver will now be installed and set up, instead of using the auto-detection on the installed system; automatic graphics driver detection has been improved and the menu has been removed; if no better graphics driver can be found, VESA or SCFB is used; auto-detection will now only run if the system configuration has changed since the last successful detection; touchpad support has been improved - if X.Org reports a problem with the touchpad, kern.evdev.rcpt_mask is automatically adjusted to use sysmouse." See the release announcement for a complete changelog. Download (pkglist): nomadbsd-1.4.img.lzma (2,318MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-1.4.i386.img.lzma (2,284MB, SHA256). |
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| 2021-01-27 |
Development Release: NomadBSD 1.4 RC1 |
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Marcel Kaiser has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NomadBSD 1.4, a FreeBSD-based live operating system for USB flash drives (with persistence), available for both x86_64 and i386 architectures. The new build upgrades the base system to FreeBSD 12.2 and also provides various improvements: "We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.4. Changes since 1.3.2: the base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.2-p2; the installer has been improved; problems with booting the installed system via UEFI has been fixed; the suitable graphics card driver will now be installed and set up, instead of using the auto-detection on the installed system; automatic graphics driver detection has been improved and the menu has been removed; if no better graphics driver can be found, VESA or SCFB is used; auto-detection will now only run if the system configuration has changed since the last successful detection; touchpad support has been improved - if X.Org reports a problem with the touchpad, kern.evdev.rcpt_mask is automatically adjusted to use sysmouse." Read the remainder of the release announcement for a complete changelog. Download (pkglist): nomadbsd-1.4-RC1.img.lzma (2,363MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-1.4-RC1.i386.img.lzma (2,301MB, SHA256). |
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| 2020-07-06 |
BSD Release: NomadBSD 1.3.2 |
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NomadBSD is a 64-bit live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. The project's latest release updates the operating system to be up to date with FreeBSD 12.1 and fixes the filesystem layout to allow tools like bectl to snapshot the boot environment. "We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.3.2. Changes since 1.3.1: the base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1-p6; rtsx-kmod, which is a driver for Realtek card readers, has been added; the ZFS layout used for installing NomadBSD on a hard disk has been changed to allow beactl to back up the boot environment; load_iichid has been added - it is a rc-script which offers the user, via a dialog(1) menu, to load the experimental iichid driver from sysutils/iichid if it finds a I2C HID; graphics/intel-backlight has been added; a curses menu has been added - it allows user to acknowledge licenses of certain wireless drivers in order to use them; a unionfs_maxfiles rc.conf variable has been added - it controls how many files can be opened on the Unionfs file system; graphics/mirage has been replaced by graphics/viewnior; a patch from 12-STABLE has been added to the acpi_video module - i sends devd events whenever the brightness is changed...." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: nomadbsd-1.3.2.img.lzma (2,606MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2020-03-08 |
BSD Release: NomadBSD 1.3.1 |
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Marcel Kaiser has announced the release of NomadBSD 1.3.1, an updated build of the project's FreeBSD-based, desktop-oriented operating system featuring the Openbox window manager. This release brings various improvements, but also an increased size of the decompressed image: "We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.3.1. Changes since 1.3: the base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1-p2; the automatic network interface setup has been improved - this includes better hardware detection and support for IPv6; the NomadBSD image size has exceeded the 4 GB mark - a Flash drive of 5 GB and above is now required; due to the bigger image size, Claws-mail could be replaced by Thunderbird; the NomadBSD setup now locks all kernel module packages to prevent users from running into problems when upgrading their packages; nomadbsd-chusr, which is a graphical tool for modifying user accounts, has been added; nomadbsd-sysinfo, which is a shell script to collect information about the running system, has been added; Zeroconf via avahi and mdns has been added...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. As usual, NomadBSD is available in the form of IMG files for amd64 and i386 architectures as well as Apple computers. Download links: nomadbsd-1.3.1.img.lzma (2,547MB, SHA256, pkglist), nomadbsd-1.3.1.i386.img.lzma (2,218MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-1.3.1.img.lzma (2,522MB, SHA256). |
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| 2019-12-10 |
BSD Release: NomadBSD 1.3 |
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Marcel Kaiser has announced the release of NomadBSD 1.3, a new stable version of the project's FreeBSD-based, desktop-oriented operating system featuring the Openbox window manager: "We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.3. Changes since 1.2: the base system has been changed to FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1; due to a deadlock problem, FreeBSD's Unionfs has been replaced by Unionfs-fuse; the GPT layout has been changed to MBR - this prevents problems with Lenovo systems that refuse to boot from GPT if 'lenovofix' is not set, and systems that hang on boot if 'lenovofix' is set; support for ZFS installations has been added to the NomadBSD installer; the rc-script for setting up the network interfaces has been fixed and improved; support for setting the country code for the WLAN device has been added; auto configuration for running in VirtualBox has been added; a check for the default display has been added to the graphics configuration scripts - this fixes problems where users with Optimus have their NVIDIA card disabled; NVIDIA driver version 440 has been added...." Continue to the release announcement for more information. NomadBSD 1.3 is available in the form of IMG files for amd64 and i386 architectures as well as Apple computers. Here are the download links: nomadbsd-1.3.img.lzma (2,296MB, SHA256, pkglist), nomadbsd-1.3.i386.img.lzma (2,193MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-1.3.img.lzma (2,296MB, SHA256). |
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| 2019-11-18 |
Development Release: NomadBSD 1.3 RC1 |
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NomadBSD is a 64-bit 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. The project has published a new development snapshot based on FreeBSD 12.1. "We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.3. Changes: The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1. Due to a deadlock problem, FreeBSD's unionfs has been replaced by unionfs-fuse. The GPT layout has been changed to MBR. This prevents problems with Lenovo systems that refuse to boot from GPT if lenovofix is not set, and systems that hang on boot if lenovofix is set. Support for ZFS installations has been added to the NomadBSD installer. The rc-script for setting up the network interfaces has been fixed. Support for setting the country code for the wlan device has been added. Auto configuration for running in VirtualBox has been added. Auto configuration for running in VirtualBox has been added." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: nomadbsd-1.3-RC1.img.lzma (2,279MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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