GhostBSD 18.10 is Released and Available to Download
The GhostBSD team have announced a new release, GhostBSD 18.10, which is the first stable version from the project to use TrueOS instead of FreeBSD as the operating system's base. The new version also adopts LibreSSL over OpenSSL, removes the GRUB boot loader in favour of FreeBSD's loader and the operating system uses ZFS as the default file system
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
