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

18.10 software packages update ready.

Submitted by ericbsd on Wed, 10/24/2018 - 17:23

A new software packages build did finish you can now upgrade.

For those who run on 18.10 RC1 do the following command to fix issues from RC1:

sudo pkg update -f

sudo pkg install -f libarchive curl libgksu

sudo pkg upgrade

This will update you to RC2 also.

GhostBSD18.10 RC1 is out and Available for testing

Submitted by ericbsd on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 13:45

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.