NomadBSD 1.2-RC1 is Released, Available to Download
NomadBSD is a 64-bit live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery.
Changes since 1.1
- The Base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE
- The setup menu has been improved, and new configuration options for choosing the standard web browser, e-mail client, filemanager, and editors have been added.
- The script for detecting and loading the Intel video driver has been improved.
- The user interface has been slightly changed.
- Support for the local keymap when entering the geli password has been added.
- Support for resetting NomadBSD has been added. Users can execute
- /usr/libexec/nomad/nomad_setup reset
- in single user mode to bring NomadBSD back to its initial state.
- Localized XDG standard dirs have been added.
- The swap partition has been removed.
- linux_base has been removed.
- Several small improvements and bugfixes.
- New packages:
- devel/geany
- x11-wm/plank
- x11-themes/lxappearance
