by Cao | Feb 22, 2017 | Linux, Lumina, TrueOS
Lumina Desktop Environment, developed by Ken Moore of TrueOS, has been making rounds in the BSD world and is now being recognized by Linux users alike. Read the article to see how Lumina can be ideal for your Linux workflow, due to its simplicity as a lightweight...
by Cao | Feb 3, 2017 | TrueOS
This article by Tim Moore discusses the integration of OpenRC to improve TrueOS’s management of system services. Read more about the benefits of OpenRC in the link below. OpenRC is a dependency-based init system working with the system provided init program. It...
by Cao | Jan 6, 2017 | Lumina, TrueOS
Ken Moore, developer of Lumina, has released version 1.2 for the lightweight desktop environment packaged with TrueOS. This release features new plugin, custom themes such as Windows / OSX / MATE type desktops, a removal of libLuminaUtils, and more. See below for the...
by Cao | Nov 17, 2016 | iXsystems, TrueOS
iXsystems Inc. has announced the launch of TrueOS, a desktop FreeBSD based operating system that evolved from the PC-BSD name. Notable features are its rolling release updates, Lumina Desktop Environment, and more features such as TrueOS Pico coming soon. Head on over...
by Cao | Sep 9, 2016 | TrueOS
Check out these articles from Michael Larabel, of Phoronix, giving his input on TrueOS, DragonFlyBSD, GhostBSD, and various BSD operating systems. He provides thoughts on the ease of use, what needs work, and his top choices. While I’ve been running PC-BSD on...
by Cao | Sep 2, 2016 | PC-BSD, TrueOS
As announced earlier this week, PC-BSD has changed its name to TrueOS. The developers made another announcement indicating that TrueOS is a rolling release based on FreeBSD-CURRENT. Download the new ISO/image here. TrueOS combines the convenience of a rolling release...
