This first release candidate of GhostBSD 18.10 is the first official release of GhostBSD with TrueOS under the hood. The official desktop of GhostBSD is MATE. However, in the future, there might be an XFCE community release, but for now, there is no community release yet.
What has changed since 11.1
GhostBSD is now built from TrueOS instead of FreeBSD
OpenRC is our main init system
LibreSSL is in base
GhostBSD base system can now be upgraded to the next release via TrueOS packages base.
We removed grub from the iso in favor of the new freebsd hybrid loader.
NetworkMgr now supports the option to manage multiple network card connection.
Unionfs was removed from the live session.
The live system has been rewritten to fix many issues
GhostBSD boots directly to mate session
GhostBSD supports ZFS BE by default
FreeBSD ports and packages are incompatible with GhostBSD 18.10
GhostBSD uses TrueOS ports to build packages.
Issues that got fixed
VirtualBox's Firefox scroll up issue
Slim login failing on the live CD
All thanks to iXsystems, TrueOS, Joe Maloney, Kris Moore, Ken Moore, Martin Wilke, Neville Goddard, Vester “Vic” Thacker, Douglas Joachim, Alex Lyakhov, Yetkin Degirmenci and many more who helped to make the transition from FreeBSD to TrueOS smoother.
Time to find more issues
We encourage you to use our issue system at https://issues.ghostbsd.org/projects/ghostbsd/issues/new to report a bug.
Where to download:
All images checksum, hybrid ISO(DVD, USB) and torrent are available here:
https://www.ghostbsd.org/download
For writing an iso to a USB stick:
On BSD
dd if=GhostBSD18.10-RC1.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=4m
On Linux
dd if=GhostBSD18.10-RC1.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M
On Mac
dd if=GhostBSD18.10-RC1.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=10240
Feedback
Is there anything you can help with or get involved? Maybe you want to discuss your experiences or ask us some questions. If so, please contact us on Telegram https://t.me/ghostbsd, IRC Freenode #ghostbsd or GhostBSD Forums.
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