A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System

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Simple

Built on top of FreeBSD, GhostBSD provides a simple desktop-oriented operating system pre-configured with the carefully selected minimal commonly used set software required to start using it to its full potential.

Elegant

GhostBSD uses the GTK environment to provide a beautiful look and a comfortable experience on the modern BSD platform offering a natural and native Unix work environment.

It is BSD

GhostBSD is derived from FreeBSD, and its roots go back to the University of California Berkeley Unix Research. Historically it was referred to as "BSD Unix" or "Berkeley Unix." However, today it is simply called BSD for Berkeley Software Distribution.

Latest News

October 2017 financial reports

Submitted by ericbsd on Tue, 11/14/2017 - 09:58

Many thanks to all patrons, donors, and vendors who generously invested in GhostBSD this last October, a total of $368.08 was raised, and like always you ensured that we could meet all the costs associated with running our web server and our packages builder servers for GhostBSD.

GhostBSD 11.1 RC1 is ready!

Submitted by ericbsd on Mon, 11/06/2017 - 11:12

This last development release of GhostBSD 11.1 release is ready for testing. All MATE and XFCE images are available only has 64 -bit architectures. For some of you, it might be chock that we are dropping i386 it is a decision that was hard to make. We hope for those that need i386 will find refuge to another BSD project.

September 2017 financial reports

Submitted by ericbsd on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 08:15

Many thanks to all patrons, donors, and vendors who generously invested in GhostBSD this last September, a total of $207.45 was raised, and like always you ensured that we could meet all the costs associated with running our web server and our packages builder servers for GhostBSD.