GhostBSD 20.08.04 with MATE
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| Developer | Eric Turgeon and GhostBSD Team |
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| OS family | Unix-like (BSD) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Latest release | 24.01.1[1] / February 13, 2024; 4 months ago (2024-02-13) |
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| Platforms | amd64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic FreeBSD kernel |
| Default user interface | MATE and Xfce |
| License | FreeBSD license |
| Official website | www |
GhostBSD is a Unix-like operating system based on FreeBSD for x86-64, with MATE (previously GNOME) as its default desktop environment and an Xfce-desktop community based edition. It aims to be easy to install, ready-to-use and easy to use. The project goal is to combine security, privacy, stability, usability, openness, freedom and to be free of charge.
GhostBSD stands for (G)nome (host)ed by Free(BSD): MATE, the desktop environment currently used by GhostBSD, is a fork of Gnome 2.
Prior to GhostBSD 18.10, the project was based on FreeBSD. In May 2018 it was announced that future versions of the operating system would be based on TrueOS.[2] In 2020, with the discontinuation of TrueOS, GhostBSD switched back to FreeBSD.[3]
| GhostBSD version | Release date | FreeBSD version | Desktop environments | Changes |
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| 1.0[4] | March 2010 | 8.0 | GNOME 2.28 | First general availability release[5] |
| 1.5 | ? | 8.1 | GNOME 2.30 | Introduced Compiz support. (This version was also distributed with the January 2011 issue of the German magazine freeX, which also featured an article about the new OS.) |
| 2.0 | March 13, 2011 | 8.2 | ? | Improvements to GDM et al. |
| 2.5[6][7] | January 24, 2012 | 9.0 | ? | Choice of preconfigured GNOMEorLXDE desktop[8] |
| 3.0 | March 10, 2013 | 9.1 | ? | The last release to deploy the GNOME 2 desktop environment |
| 3.1 | June 28, 2013 | ? | ? | Apoint release primarily to fix bugs |
| 3.5[9] | November 7, 2013 | ? |
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LibreOffice exchanged for Apache OpenOffice 4.[10] |
| 4.0[11] | October 4, 2014 | 10.0 | ? | Various new features[12] |
| 10.1[13] | September 13, 2015 | 10.1 | ? | Software additions[14] |
| 10.3 | August 31, 2016 | 10.3 | ? | ZFS support, UEFI support, ...[15] |
| 11.1[16] | November 16, 2017 | 11.1 | MATE 1.18
Xfce 4.12 |
GhostBSD Software repositories, dropped i386 support, WhiskerMenu as default menu (Xfce)[17] |
From GhostBSD 18.10 to 21.01.20, the project moved its base from FreeBSDtoTrueOS. Following are TrueOS-based GhostBSD releases.
| GhostBSD version | Release Date | Desktop Environment | Changes |
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| 18.10[18] | November 1, 2018 | MATE 1.20 | First release based on TrueOS |
| 19.04[19] | April 13, 2019 | MATE 1.22 and XFCE | |
| 19.09[20] | September 16, 2019 | MATE and Xfce | Moved from TrueOS CURRENT to STABLE |
| 19.10[21] | October 26, 2019 | ||
| 20.01[22] | January 22, 2020 | ||
| 20.03 | March 31, 2020 | ||
| 20.04[23] | August 10, 2020 | MATE 1.24 and Xfce | |
| 21.01.20[24] | January 23, 2021 |
Beginning from GhostBSD 21.04.27, the project has moved its base back to FreeBSD.
| GhostBSD version | Release Date | Desktop Environment | Changes |
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| 21.04.27 | April 29, 2021 | GhostBSD is now based on FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE | |
| 21.5.11[25] | May 11, 2021 | ||
| 21.09.06[26] | September 7, 2021 | Switch from OpenRC to FreeBSD rc.d | |
| 21.09.08[27] | September 9, 2021 | ||
| 22.06.15 | June 18, 2022 | ||
| 22.06.18[28] | June 20, 2022 | ||
| 23.06.01 | June 5, 2023 | ||
| 23.10.01[1] | October 28, 2023 | MATE 1.26.0 | |
| 24.01.01 | February 13, 2024 | Based on FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE |
GhostBSD was originally licensed under the 3-clause BSD license ("Revised BSD License", "New BSD License", or "Modified BSD License")
In 2014 Eric Turgeon re-licensed GhostBSD under 2-clause license ("Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License"). GhostBSD contains some GPL-licensed software.
The following are the recommended requirements.
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