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GhostBSD 11.1 Finally Ready and Available!

Submitted by ericbsd on Thu, 11/16/2017 - 12:10

After a year of development, testing, debugging and working on our software package repository, we are pleased to announce the release of GhostBSD 11.1 is now available on 64-bit(amb64) architecture with MATE and XFCE Desktop on direct and torrent download. With 11.1 we drop 32-bit i386 supports, and we currently maintain our software packages repository for more stability.

What's new on GhostBSD 11.1

GhostBSD software repository
Support VMware Workstation Guest Features
New UFS full disk mirroring option on the installer
New UFS full disk MBR and GPT option on the installer
New UFS full disk swap size option on the installer
Whisker Menu as default Application menu on XFCE
All software developed by GhostBSD is now getting updated
ZFS configuration for disk

What has been fixed on 11.1?

Fix XFCE sound plugin
Installer ZFS configuration file setting
Installer ZFS setup appears to be incomplete
The installer was not listing ZFS disk correctly.
The installer The partition list was not deleted when pressing back
XFCE and MATE shutdown/suspend/hibernate randomly missing
Clicking 'GhostBSD Bugs' item in the Main menu -> 'System Tools' brings up 'Server not found' page
XFCE installation - incorrect keyboard layout
Locale setting not filling correctly
Update Station tray icon

Where to download?

The image checksum's, hybrid ISO(DVD, USB) images are available at http://www.ghostbsd.org/download.

Writing the iso to a USB stick

On BSD

dd if=GhostBSD11.1-mate-amd64.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=1m

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On Linux

dd if=GhostBSD11.1-mate-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdf bs=1M

On Mac

dd if=GhostBSD11.1-mate-amd64.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1024

For widows look see http://wiki.ghostbsd.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#On_Windows

Reporting issues

We encourage you to use our project management system to report bugs http://issues.ghostbsd.org.

Need help with or want to get involved?

If you need help with GhostBSD or want to be involved in GhostBSD, come chat with us on #ghostbsd, on our community forums or our Telegram group.

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.

Our Patron

Patron	Amount Pledge
Robbie Gibbs	$50
Dave Mathews	$20
Dennis Hüser	$10
Gilbert Soares	$10
Kevin O'Connor	$10
Kostas Papakonstantinou	$5
Leandro Oscar Foschi	$5
Paul Demers	$5
Tim Lawrence	$5
Nathan Crause	$2.50
John Mosher	$1
Tim Howes	$1
myfreeweb	$1
Vittorio Cagnetta	$1

A total of $114.08 has USD has been raised via Patreon in October.

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PayPal Donors

DATE	DONOR	AMOUNT(CAD)	Type
Oct 31 2017	Andreas Stolze	$50	One Time Donation
Oct 29 2017	SPARPEDIA	$1	Monthly Donation
Oct 27 2017	Best Monitors for Gaming	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 27 2017	Scuf Controller Ps4	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 27 2017	Pickup Lines World	$10	Monthly Donation
Oct 25 2017	Lucky Patcher Apk	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 24 2017	Clinton Aarts	$5	One Time Donation
Oct 24 2017	SleekWristbands.com	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 23 2017	Youtube Views	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 22 2017	Immigration Law of Montana, P.C.	$75	One Time Donation
Oct 19 2017	Printable Coupon Code	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 15 2017	parkshoreluxuryproperties.com	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 13 2017	Gear For Gaming	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 13 2017	SRJ News	$1	Monthly Donation
Oct 12 2017	Wesley Van Alstine	$2	Monthly Donation
Oct 12 2017	Achim Woellgens	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 09 2017	Balding Life	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 09 2017	mrkortingscode.nl	$1	Monthly Donation
Oct 09 2017	sparpedia.no	$1	Monthly Donation
Oct 09 2017	RONALDO RAMIRES	$2	Monthly Donation
Oct 08 2017	Natasha Pahuja	$1	Monthly Donation
Oct 07 2017	Anatol Kayser	$25	One time Donation
Oct 07 2017	Gaming Gearoid	$10	Monthly Donation
Oct 07 2017	SmallMicrowave	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 04 2017	E-Form	$5	Monthly Donation
Oct 01 2017	Power Drill Guru	$10	Monthly Donation

A total of $254 has been raised via PayPal in October.

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News

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.

On this RC release, we need help to find more problem. GhostBSD 11.1 is our first release featuring our own software package repository.

What change in 11.1 RC1

We remove grub from the installer for 11.1 it has caused us a lot of problems, and this is why the release is late.
ZFS configuration

Issue that got fixed

The partition list was not deleted when pressing back.
The installer was not listing ZFS disk correctly.

Time to find more issues

We encourage you to use our issue system at http://issues.ghostbsd.org/projects/ghostbsd to report a bug.

Where to download:

All images checksum's, hybrid ISO(DVD, USB) images are available here:

ftp://ghostbsd.org/pub/GhostBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.1-RC1/

For writing an iso to a USB stick:

On BSD

dd if=GhostBSD11.1-RC1-20171031-142739-mate-amd64.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=1m

On Linux

dd if=GhostBSD11.1-RC1-20171031-142739-mate-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

On Mac

dd if=GhostBSD11.1-RC1-20171031-142739-mate-amd64.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=10240

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