GhostBSD Project Goals

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GhostBSD Project Goals


The goals of the GhostBSD Project are to provide:

  • An already configured GTK desktop and software on a FreeBSD system.
  • A simple installer where you answer a few simple questions in the graphical or text base installer.
  • Automatically configured hardware like video, sound, network and other devices.
  • GTK desktop environment (Mate) to support your day-to-day computing needs.
  • Some easy software management. Package manager to install and uninstall Software.
  • A large number of software packages are available from FreeBSD Package and ports. FreeBSD have currently over 23,000 applications.
  • GhostBSD can run almost any GNU/Linux application using Linux binary compatibility. You are able to run many Windows applications using Wine.
  • GhostBSD is not affected by viruses, spyware and other malware.
  • GhostBSD drives do not need to be defragmented and does not slow down over time.
  • Also trying to supports ZFS which is a self-healing filesystem.
  • 32-bit and 64-bit systems.