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GhostBSD 10.3 Enoch is now available

September 2, 2016 By Cao 1 Comment

The developers of GhostBSD have made available the final RELEASE of 10.3, dubbed “Enoch”. The most notable changes in this version are ZFS support, better VirtualBox support, and many network fixes. See the link below for the full release notes and download the ISO/image here.

After a year of development, testing and debugging we are pleased to announce the release of GhostBSD 10.3 MATE & XFCE which is available on SourceForge and torrents for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

What’s new in GhostBSD 10.3

ZFS support

UEFI support

Installer custom partition creation subjection

VirtualBox support get setup at boot time if needed.

4k partition alignment by default

GhostBSD Software will be updated Quarterly which will bring more stability to GhostBSD still user will be able to change it to latest to have the latest software update.

What changed in GhostBSD 10.3

The installer partition editor UI and partitioning have been improved

VirtualBox additions would be uninstall after installer if it is not runnig in a VirtualBox

Slim is replacing GDM.

Networkmgr display the full SSID

Replaced the HTML/CSS installation slide with a GTK/CSS the slide.

Official announcement: http://ghostbsd.org/10.3_enoch

GhostBSD 10.3 RC1 is ready for testing

August 12, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

The developers of GhostBSD have made available the first release candidate for version 10.3. ZFS filesystem disk encryption was pushed back to GhostBSD 11.0. Download the ISO/update files here.

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This first RC release is ready for testing new feature in GhostBSD 10.3, MATE and XFCE is available on SourceForge for the i386, amd64, and amd64-uefi architectures.

What has been fixed

Installer ZFS Mirror and zraid setup

Installer custom partition problem

Installer UEFI partition

Installer /boot problem

4k partition alignment

Network Manager long SSID name

Network Manager slowness to open the men

Network Manager icon tray crash

Original announcement: http://ghostbsd.org/10.3_RC1

Softpedia – GhostBSD 10.3 RC1 Is Out, but ZFS Disk Encryption Was Pushed Back to GhostBSD 11

GhostBSD 10.3-BETA1 now available

June 24, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

ghostbsd_1 The developers of GhostBSD have releeased first BETA of version 10.3. Download the latest version here.

This first BETA development release is ready for testing and debugging new feature in GhostBSD 10.3, MATE and XFCE is available on SourceForge for the i386, amd64, and amd64-uefi architectures.

What has been fixed.

Localtime time has been fixed
Installer support for UEFI
Fixed boot partition for GPT to supports freebsd-boot, bios-boot and efi

Official announcement – http://ghostbsd.org/10.3_BETA1

DistroWatch – Development Release: GhostBSD 10.3-BETA1

BSD Magazine: FreeBSD Based Dual – Controller Storage System Concept

June 17, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

The most recent BSD Magazine features an article by Mikhail E. Zakharov regarding a FreeBSD based dual-controller concept, benchmark test results between Mac OS X and FreeBSD, an interview with GhostBSD’s developer Eric Turgeon, and more. Download the PDF or EPUB below.

Dear Readers,

Huge apology for our delay. We have been having some technical problems. But new BSD Mag is finally out!

The beautiful month of May is behind us and we are heading into the holiday period. Where are you going to spend your vacation?

What’s more, in the beginning of July, our American readers will celebrate Independence Day. Wishing all the best for you and your families! We hope you will spend this day in peace, happiness, and joy.

Moving on to this issue, it opens with industry news, as always. Next, you will read “FreeBSD based dual-controller storage system concept” by Mikhail E. Zakharov, This is the second great article out of three, by this author.

We are proud to introduce to you Natalia Portillo. She made a great comparison of MacOS and FreeBSD in her article “BenchmarksMacOSxVSFreeBSD”.

After her article, we have another (after the previous issue), a GhostBSD related article “GhostBSD – easy to use yet powerful” by Kalin Staykov. If you like this BSD, you will enjoy our interview with Eric Turgeon as well.

“Server Automation for NodeJS over SSH with Nodemiral” by Ray Mahangoe, explains what is Nodemiral and how to install it.

iXsystems prepared a series of articles for you as well. Mark von Fange shared with us its first part “FreeNAS Getting Started Guide: Part 1, Planning, and Installation”.

Finally, as always, you can find a great article by Rob Somerville about Barclays bank.

Enjoy the reading and have a beautiful June! “Don’t count the days, make the days count” – Muhammad Ali.

Marta & BSD Team

Download – https://bsdmag.org/download/freebsd-based-dual-controller-storage-system-concept-new-bsd-mag-issue/

GhostBSD 10.3 ALPHA 2 available

May 27, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

The developers of GhostBSD have made available the second ALPHA for version 10.3. See the link below for the update and full release notes.

This second ALPHA development release is for testing and debugging new feature in GhostBSD 10.3, MATE and XFCE is available on SourceForge for the i386, amd64, and amd64-uefi architectures.

New feature.

UEFI is now supported for 64bit only.

What has been fix.

Gbi log and partition data base is now deleting when closing gbi.
Resetting partition data base when going back the installation type.
4K Partition Alignment.
Networkmgr full SSID name.
System Update duplicating the whole install under /boot/kernel.old
Gbi “back” button error
sudo configuration
Wifi down by default
/etc/localtime not created by installer.
Locales are not correctly set up on installation.
missing kern.vty=vt setting in grub.cf

Official announcement: http://ghostbsd.org/10.3-ALPHA2

DistroWatch – Development Release: GhostBSD 10.3-ALPHA2

Softpedia – GhostBSD 10.3 Development Continues, Now with UEFI Support for 64-Bit Platforms

Phoronix – GhostBSD 10.3 Alpha 2 Has Many Fixes, 64-bit UEFI

GhostBSD 10.3 Enoch ALPHA1 now available

May 6, 2016 By Cao Leave a Comment

The developers of GhostBSD have made available the first 10.3 ALPHA. This GhostBSD distribution is code-named “Enoch”. Notable changes are added support for ZFS and UDF, as well as the base system being FreeBSD 10.3. See the full list of changes below, and download the ISO or image file here.

Yes we skipped 10.2 for 10.3 since FreeBSD 10.3 was coming, we thought we should wait for 10.3. This is the first ALPHA development release for testing and debugging for GhostBSD 10.3, only as MATE been released yet which is available on SourceForge and for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

What’s new

GhostBSD now support ZFS and UFS.

The installer support encryption for ZFS

GhostBSD Software will be updated Quarterly which will bring more stability to GhostBSD still user will be able to change it to latest to have the latest software update.

What changed

The installer did have a big refacing plus a new slide

There is been some important fix to Networkmgr

There is been some speed improvement with Networkmgr

Some UI improvement and speed improvement with Update Station

Mate 1.12

New Grub theme

What has been fixed

Language wish GhostBSD is installed should now be fix

Wifi Problem as been fix with the update of Networkmgr

Official announcement: http://www.ghostbsd.org/10.3_alpha1

GhostBSD 10.1 Finally Available

September 16, 2015 By Cao Leave a Comment

The developers of GhostBSD have made available version 10.1 release. Notable changes are a hybrid USB/DVD image, the return of XFCE, a choice of boot managers to install, OctoPkg update, Station Update Manager, and more. See below for full release notes, and download the ISO here.

Original: http://ghostbsd.org/10.1_release_eve

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After a year of development, testing and debugging we are pleased to announce the release of GhostBSD 10.1 MATE & XFCE which is available on SourceForge and torrents for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

What’s new in GhostBSD 10.1

GhostBSD ISO image is hybrid that can be burn on DVD or USB stick

XFCE is coming back

Users can chose to install the BSD boot manager, Grub boot manager or simply None and use their Linux Grub

Station Tweak a fork of Mate Tweak

OctoPkg GUI frontend for pkgng written in Qt

Station Update Manager to update FreeBSD base system and third party software

Software from pkg or ports can be installed in the live DVD/USB session

VT Console by default

Instant verification for user and root to know if the password is strong and match on the system installer

Host name and user name auto completion when typing the real name

Vim

What changed in GhostBSD 10.1

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GhostBSD 10.1 BETA2 now available

July 22, 2015 By Cao Leave a Comment

The developers of GhostBSD have made available version 10.1 BETA2. Some changes noted are hybrid ISO image for DVD/USB, XFCE re-added, UI improvement of installer partition editor, options to choose boot manager, and more.

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We are pleased to announce the availability GhostBSD 10.1 BETA2 MATE & XFCE which is available on SourceForge for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

Before going further I will like to say a special thanks Ovidiu who recently join back the project and Andrea who join the project, they have help to make GhostBSD better, add up new feature and fixed issue.

Changes and fix between 10.1-BETA1 and 10.1-BETA2 include:

GhostBSD ISO image is hybrid that can be install on DVD or USB stick

XFCE as been added back to the project

The installer partition editor have been improved at the UI and at the system level

The user can chose to install the BSD boot manager, Grub boot manager or simply None and use their Linux Grub

The installation process failed to copy has been improved and fix

Software from pkg or ports can be now installed from live DVD/USB session

PCDM Locales and Keyboard Layout are now functional

Some Radon/ATI and Intel issue has been fix

Qt development tool has been removed from the default system

SpiderOak has been removed from the default system

Where to download:

The image checksums, hybrid ISO(DVD, USD) images are available here:

http://www.ghostbsd.org/download

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GhostBSD 10.1 Beta 1 now available

May 9, 2015 By Cao Leave a Comment

ghostbsd_2 The developers of GhostBSD have made available the first 10.1 Beta.

Original post: http://ghostbsd.org/10.1-beta1

I am pleased to announce the availability the first BETA build of the 10.1-RELEASE of the Release cycle which is available on SourceForge for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

Changes and fix between 10.1-ALPHA2 and 10.1-BETA1 include:

Mouse integration suport for VirtualBox

Instant verification for user and root to know if the password is strong and match on the system installer

Host name and user name auto completion when typing the real name

Guake has been added as default software

Vim has been added as default software

PCDM Locales fixed

Where to download:

The image checksums, ISO images and USB images are available here:

http://www.ghostbsd.org/download-10.1

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GhostBSD 10.1 Alpha 2 now available

March 23, 2015 By Cao Leave a Comment

The developers of GhostBSD have released their second alpha for version 10.1.

I am pleased to announce the availability the second ALPHA build of the 10.1-RELEASE Release cycle which is available on SourceForge for the amd64 and i386 architectures.

Changes and fix between 10.1-ALPHA1 and 10.1-ALPHA2 include:

The PCDM theme file as been fixed which was creating blinking black screen.

Macro windows decoration has been fixed.

The installer GPT partition problem has been found and fixed in pc-sysintall.

Some installer text error has been fix.

The user shell selection has been fix from the last change to have csh by default since fish have a bug from the ports.

Where to download:

The image checksums, ISO images and USB images are available here:

http://www.ghostbsd.org/download-10.1

Important info

Please be aware that this release provides beta tester and developers with a system to test out new features for the upcoming release. This release may contain buggy code and features, so we encourage you to run it only on non-critical systems.

We encourage you to use our new issue system build with MantisBT http://issues.ghostbsd.org/main_page.php.

Note: Developers can’t fix problems that we are not aware and can’t reproduce; if you report a problem give us a detailed reports that we can reproduce the problem.

Thank you for using GhostBSD and have a lot of fun beta testing GhostBSD!

Eric Turgeon

Development’s News

Original link: http://ghostbsd.org/10.1-alpha2