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Thank you all for your support and donations. It helps to keep the project infrastructure to build and deliver GhostBSD running.

First, I want to address an error in the January to July 2023 donation report. GhostBSD accumulated 2474.0 CAD from donations through PayPal instead of 3037.0 CAD. There was a bug in the automation script calculating the donation revenue. The total for the January to July 2023 donation report is 5781.94 CAD.

Thank you all for your support and donations. It helps to keep the project infrastructure to build and deliver GhostBSD running. 

From January to July 2023 GhostBSD accumulated 6344.94 CAD. 3307.94 CAD was from Patreon and 3037.0 CAD was from PayPal. At this time last year, GhostBSD made 5904.40 CAD an augmentation of 440.54 CAD compared to last year. There is 13655.06 left to accomplish our goal of 20000 CAD.

You can see the current donor list here.

It is a late report, but I decided to release it anyway. First of all, thank you all for your help and donations. It helps to keep the project infrastructure to build and deliver GhostBSD. 

So last year, GhostBSD accumulated 11077.95 CAD from Patreon and PayPal. It is a deficit of 4395.55 CAD compared to 2021 and a deficit of 198.25 CAD compared to 2020. The goal for 2022 was 20000 CAD. Since the project made 11077.95 CAD, it is a deficit of 8922.05 CAD.

The goal for 2023 is to stay at 20000 CAD.

You can see the 2022 donor list here.

This has been a long time since I have officially released an ISO. With all the difficulties and issues I encounter with the new Xorg version and old Nvidia drivers, this new ISO is overdue. 23.06.01 contains many bug fixes, security fixes, and feature improvements. For details, see the changelog below.

I have read a lot of comments, posts, and tweets lately. I have been reflecting a lot, and I think it is time to rename GhostBSD to GhostOS and switch to base system to Arch. After all, from the comment below, GhostBSD will never become popular if we do not become GNU and FSF compliant.

See the whole post about it here: https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src/discussions/261.

I want to thank all our sponsors, patrons, and donors who donated to GhostBSD through 2022 with their hard-earned money. The total amount donated last July was $941.89. This year, GhostBSD has accumulated 5904.40 CAD so far. This year our goal is 20,000 CAD. 2022 earnings are behind last year, but I understand that we are going through a difficult time. Thank you all for your support.

This new ISO contains a critical fix and software updates. For details, see the changelog below.

GhostBSD 22.06.18 ISO Changelog

The last change to automount was untested, and the live iso was automating all internal drives and caused serious partitioning issues and installation problems. I am sorry to everyone who tried to install GHostBSD and had issues.

After five months, this new ISO is more than overdue. It contains many bug fixes, security fixes, feature improvements, software updates, and OS updates. For details, see the changelog below.

​This new ISO contains fixes, improvements, and software updates. Finally, the installer hanging at the cleaning stage for ZFS installation got fixed, and OpenRC and dhcpcd were removed from the base code. Furthermore, automation configuration for HD 7000 series and older GPUs has been added.

​This new ISO contains kernel, OS, and software updates. In addition, I added a new command-line software called ghostbsd-version that gives you the GhostBSD version, FreeBSD version, kernel version, and OS version. At the date of this release, if you run ghostbsd-version or ghostbsd-version -v, it should output 21.11.24. This version number will be incremented by the date of new packages built on packages every update performed.