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Some of news about GhostBSD

Submitted by ericbsd on Sat, 08/24/2019 - 08:39

For the last three months, there were some efforts to bring OpenRC to 12-STABLE with TrueOS all thanks to Miwi. Due to this effort, we will follow the STABLE branch instead of CURRENT. This change brings ABI stability and less code change for system updates. The only downside is that all current GhostBSD users will need to reinstall GhostBSD. This change is mostly due because tracking all changes in CURRENT was hard, and the latest Nvidia driver did not work well with CURRENT. The fast API changes in CURRENT and GhostBSD not being able to keep up with CURRENT changes it did bring problems with building our software packages, so the decision was made to go the STABLE ABI route with 12 STABLE branches.

There is some iso on our development repos that everyone can download to test and report issues on our download page.

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GhostBSD 19.04 Now Available

Submitted by ericbsd on Sat, 04/13/2019 - 14:53

Finally, GhostBSD 19.04 is out! GhostBSD 19.04 has several improvements from the volume controller to the installer, and for the first time, we added and changed some code in the base system. GhostBSD 19.04 is available with our official MATE desktop, and there is also a community Xfce desktop version available. This release is a significant improvement from GhostBSD 18.12. Enjoy!

What has changed since 18.12

Replaced slim by Lightdm
Updated the system to FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r324678+de2c6abb2b7(ghostbsd-master) GENERIC
Added the supports of ZFS with MBR on the installer
Removed TrueOS setting to default to ZFS which improved the installation of UFS
Fix default mate-terminal setting
Added GhostBSD boot mute
Added Refine setup on the installer
Removed gksu
Fixed UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' problem with Software Station

Issues reported that got fixed

Bug #66: INSTALLATION FAIL CUSTOM PARTITIONING
Bug #67: Can't boot the installer
Bug #69: Custom disk configuration is not working (documentation issue?)
Bug #74: No enabled connection in a VirtualBox guest if you active bridged networking or NAT.
Bug #75: Cannot boot from the USB drive
Bug #78: No volume control for sound and Control Center Sound preferences don't stick
Bug #79: USB3 support
Bug #80: Misspelling in Mate network icon tooltip
Bug #82: fail to install to a custom partition.
Bug #84: keymap us in DM
Bug #103: Station Tweak UI not working with code
Feature #58: Default keyboard on the login screen as default US
Feature #91: Change GNOME MPlayer to other media player
Feature #95: Can not use TAB on the login screen to switch fields

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=GhostBSD19.04.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=4m

On Linux

dd if=GhostBSD19.04.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M

On Mac

dd if=GhostBSD19.04.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=10240

To upgrade from 18.12:

Yeah, there has been so much change since 18.12, we are now maintaining our base, from FreeBSD and TrueOS, with all the changes that happened we recommend that all users should back up and reinstall.

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