Project

Introduction

GhostBSD has started as a hobby in 2009 from Eric Turgeon and Francois Toussaint. See: A Brief History of GhostBSD

The plan was and is until now to create a desktop operating system that is based on the BSD universe.
As main desktop he choose MATE.

This desktop environment is the main target of Eric. It is simply a question of manpower.

See also

Project Goals

The goals of the GhostBSD Project are to provide:

• A simple, elegant desktop environment to support your day-to-day computing needs.
• Easy to use software management program for installing any of the 32,000 available applications.
• Linux binary compatibility to run almost any GNU/Linux application.
• Well-designed graphical installation programs.
• Automatic hardware (e.g., video, sound, network, devices) detection and configuration.
• A hardened 64-bit BSD system that is unaffected by malware, viruses, spyware, and malfeasance.
• OpenZFS support for modern amd64 systems.
• The best user experience possible.

Developers

Main Developers

• Eric Turgeon and
• Joe Maloney. He is also the main developer of FuryBSD
• Source: GitHub

Tasks

• Works on the official GhostBSD development repository
• GhostBSD Roadmap
• Beta Testing

Community Developers

There are a lot of developers around the world who are interested in GhostBSD and show how to install other desktop environments.

Examples:

• GhostBSD-19.09 'XFCE' - Install & Review