Project

Welcome to the Project Page.

Introduction

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

As main desktop Eric choose MATE. Here you can get additional information about our Desktop Environment.

It is simply a question of manpower.

See also

The Base

FreeBSD=>TrueOS=>GhostBSD

GhostBSD is based on TrueOS with FreeBSD 12 STABLE with our twist to it. We are still continuing to use TrueOS for OpenRC, and the new package's system for the base system that is built from ports.
In short: GhsotBSD = FreeBSD + Stuff that is not suported on FreeBSD

GhostBSD is becoming a slow-moving rolling release base on the latest TrueOS with FreeBSD 12 STABLE. When FreeBSD 13 STABLE gets released, GhostBSD will be upgraded to TrueOS with FreeBSD 13 STABLE.

In the Press about FreeBSD

• "It is the unknown giant." Source: c't magazin
• Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD
• FreeBSD is an amazing operating system
• FreeBSD Journal

Who use FreeBSD

• It is used mainly on servers because of its stability. Who uses it: for examble Netflix or WhatsApp. Source:Thomas Krenn

• See also: Internet Service Providers

• List of products based on FreeBSD see Wikipedia

GhostBSD 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.

See also: Community Build

Examples:

• GhostBSD-19.09 'XFCE' - Install & Review
• GhostBSD 20.01 Community Release XFCE