Last week GhostBSD 2.0 was released

GhostBSD is a free operating system based on FreeBSD that can either be installed or run as Live-CD. Its default graphical environment is GNOME and GhostBSD 2.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.2.

The installer is not a point-and-click GUI but a python script. However, for most people who have used BSD or Linux, the questions are self explanatory.

Some of the changes, additions and features are:

• support auto mount of USB Devices!
• new logo
• bug fixes
• new live file system
• improvements to GDM
• based upon FreeBSD 8.2
• package installation and management can be done with the new package manager, Bxpkg

Included software packages are:

• Gnome 2.32
• Rhythmbox 0.12.8_3
• Pidgin 2.7.7
• Firefox 3.6
• Thunderbird 3.0.11

Prashanth has written a review on Das U-Blog: Review: GhostBSD 2.0

I tried to install GhostBSD 2.0 in VirtualBox but some issue would not allow the installer finish installation.

The GhostBSD Team has also released a new website. Unfortunately, it’s still very bare and contains some bugs and spelling errors. Hopefully this will be dealt with soon.

Let’s see how GhostBSD and PC-BSD 9.0 (Gnome) will square up…