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GhostBSD 18.10 0n Linux Action News

Submitted by ericbsd on Tue, 11/06/2018 - 15:02

GhostBSD 18.10 Now Available

Submitted by ericbsd on Thu, 11/01/2018 - 14:20

GhostBSD 18.10 is our first official release of GhostBSD with TrueOS under the hood, and the official desktop is MATE. However, in the future, there might be some community release, but for now, there is no community released yet.

What has changed since 11.1

GhostBSD is now built from TrueOS instead of FreeBSD
OpenRC is GhostBSD main init system
LibreSSL is the default SSL
GhostBSD base system can now be upgraded to the next release via TrueOS packages base
We removed grub from the iso in favor of the new FreeBSD hybrid loader.
NetworkMgr now supports the option to manage multiple network card connection.
Unionfs was removed from the live session.
The live system has been rewritten to fix many issues
GhostBSD boots directly to mate session
GhostBSD supports ZFS BE by default
FreeBSD ports and packages are incompatible with GhostBSD 18.10
GhostBSD uses TrueOS ports to build packages.
drm-next-kmod was added for newer AMD and Intel support
ibva-intel-driver and libva-vdpau-driver was added to supports accelerated video driver for some Intel card
nvidia-driver-390.87 was added by default to support latest Nvidia card.
xconfig was created to add generated default xorg.conf.

Issues that got fixed

VirtualBox's Firefox scroll up issues
Slim login failing on the live CD
Bug #70 Cannot run Octopi, missing libgksu error.
Bug #71 LibreOffice doesn't start because of missing libcurl.so.4
Bug #72 libarchive is a missing dependency

All thanks to iXsystems, TrueOS, Joe Maloney, Kris Moore, Ken Moore, Martin Wilke, Neville Goddard, Vester “Vic” Thacker, Douglas Joachim, Alex Lyakhov, Yetkin Degirmenci, Damian Szidiropulosz and many more, who contributed one way or another for the making of this release.

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=GhostBSD18.10-RC1.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=4m

On Linux

dd if=GhostBSD18.10-RC1.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M

On Mac

dd if=GhostBSD18.10-RC1.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=10240

To upgrade from RC:

sudo pkg update -f

sudo pkg upgrade

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News

GhostBSD18.10 RC3 is Available for testing

Submitted by ericbsd on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 14:04

This third release candidate of GhostBSD 18.10 is the third official testing 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.

What has changed since RC2

Eric updated VirtualBox xorg config
Eric removed gop setting known to cause some minor issues.
Lots of packages got upgraded.

Time to find more issues

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

Updating from RC2 to RC3:

sudo pkg update -f

sudo pkg upgrade