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France mirror is moving to its own dedicated server.

Submitted by ericbsd on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 18:59

Like the title says, we are moving the France mirror to is own dedicated server. We will point the sub domain to the new server, and the pkg.fr and download.fr will be unstable for the next 24 hours. The old mirror will put down eventually, it is hosted on the same machine that we build all software packages and ISO's, but in a Jail.

All that said, we have some great news coming soon involving NextArray stay tunned!

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GhostBSD 20.01 Now Available

Submitted by ericbsd on Wed, 01/22/2020 - 14:06

I am happy to announce the availability of GhostBSD 20.01 with some improvements made to the installer, mainly improvements to the way the installer UI deals with custom partitions involving GTP and UEFI. Also, some system and software has been updated

GhostBSD 20.01 ISO has some minor improvements over 19.10. It provides an up to date ISO with the latest packages and system updates for new installation with a simple installation process to get you going quickly. For current installation, no need to reinstall.

What has changed since 19.10

Systems got updated to 12.1-STABLE
MATE is now at 1.22.2
Added a warning when an incorrect password is used in Software Station.
Fix the UI installer limitation with GPT and UEFI.

Issues reported we fixed

Bug #123: GBI partition not working properly
Feature #117: remove doas in NetworkMgr code and add sudoers.d/networkmgr

To upgrade if not done already:

sudo pkg update -f
sudo pkg upgrade

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=GhostBSD-20.01.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=4m

On Linux

dd if=GhostBSD-20.01.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M

On Mac

dd if=GhostBSD-20.01.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=10240

Feedback

Is there anything you can help with or get involved in? Maybe you want to discuss your experiences or ask us some questions? If so, please contact us on Telegram https://t.me/ghostbsd and GhostBSD Forums.

Find a bug?

Please, before reporting a bug, make sure there is no related bug reported. When reporting a bug, please give as much detail as possible on the issue and be clear and precise on how to reproduce otherwise chance are that your ticket might get ignored. Report bug here: https://issues.ghostbsd.org/projects/ghostbsd If you need help please visit https://forums.ghostbsd.org or https://t.me/ghostbsd.

Donate or become a patron.

We depend on you to get GhostBSD a better system. Please donate or even better become a patron! Donate to GhostBSD or become a GhostBSD Patron on Patreon.

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GhostBSD 19.10 Now Available

Submitted by ericbsd on Sat, 10/26/2019 - 20:50

I am happy to announce the availability of GhostBSD 19.10 with some improvement to the live ISO and UEFI multiboot fix with some improvements.

GhostBSD 19.10 ISO is a significant improvement of over 19.09. Our latest ISO that contains improvements to our EFI multiboot installation process and our backend installer. GhostBSD 19.09 marked the last major change of GhostBSD. For current users of GhostBSD 19.09, there is no need to reinstall to upgrade to GhostBSD 19.10. For new users, the GhostBSD 19.10 ISO provides a simple, elegant installation process to get you going quickly.

What has changed since 19.09

UEFI multiboot installation for supported hardware.
Changed the ISO boot setup
Removed netmount services

Issues reported we fixed

Bug #113: update station issues
Feature #119: Rewrite the code to build the live iso, to fix the issue case by sysroot with EFI.
Feature #120: Adding folder ghostbsd in EFI partition and add fallback in \EFI\BOOT

To upgrade if not done already:

sudo pkg update -f
sudo pkg upgrade
sudo rc-update delete netmount
sudo reboot

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=GhostBSD19.10.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=4m

On Linux

dd if=GhostBSD19.10.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M

On Mac

dd if=GhostBSD19.10.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=10240

Feedback

Maybe you want to discuss your experiences or ask us some questions? Is there anything you can help with or get involved in? If so, please contact us on Telegram https://t.me/ghostbsd and GhostBSD Forums.

Donate or become a patron.

We depend on you to get GhostBSD a better system. Please donate or even better become a patron! Donate to GhostBSD or become a GhostBSD Patron on Patreon.

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