NomadBSD 1.3.1 is now available!

NomadBSD 1.3.1 has recently been made available. NomadBSD is a lightweight and portable FreeBSD distribution, designed to run on live on a USB flash drive, allowing you to plug, test, and play on different hardware. They have also started a forum as of yesterday, where you can ask questions and mingle with the NomadBSD community. Notable changes in 1.3.1 are base system upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1-p2. automatic network interface setup improved, image size increased to over 4GB, Thunderbird, Zeroconf, and some more listed below. Download the latest ISO/image here.

We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.3.1.

Changes since 1.3

The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1-p2

The automatic network interface setup has been improved. This includes better hardware detection, and support for IPv6.

The NomadBSD image size has exceeded the 4GB mark. A flash drive >= 5GB is now required.

Due to the bigger image size, mail/claws-mail was replaced by mail/thunderbird.

The NomadBSD setup now locks all kernel module packages to prevent users from running into problems when upgrading their packages.

nomadbsd-chusr, which is a graphical tool for modifying user accounts, has been added.

nomadbsd-sysinfo, which is a shell script to collect information about the running system, has been added.

Zeroconf via avahi and mdns has been added.

Czech translations have been added by Martin Orszulik.

French translations have been added by Grégory Reinbold.

Indonesian translations have been added by Andreas Bayu.

Key bindings for taking screenshots ([Print]), and for locking the screen (Ctrl + Alt + L) have been added.

A theme for the lock screen has been added.

Several small tweaks and bug fixes have been added.