GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements

GhostBSD as one of the few actively maintained desktop-focused BSD distributions is out with a new release this week...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-24.01.1-Released

[darkoverlordofdata]

No on ever mentions https://nomadbsd.org/. You can even run is from a usb drive.

[jaypatelani]

Kudos to team

[skeevy420]

GhostBSD 24 based on FreeBSD 14. That's actually a very funny coincidence if you're into numerology.

In Cantonese-speaking regions in China, 14 and 24 are considered more unlucky than the individual 4, since 14 sounds like ‘will certainly die’ (ሖ↫) and 24 like ‘easy to die’ (᱃↫).

[andyprough]

No on ever mentions https://nomadbsd.org/. You can even run is from a usb drive.

Distrowatch loves Nomad BSD and promotes it quite often. So you can't really say "No one ever mentions it".

I tried this Ghost BSD in a VM tonight, it ran well and snappy. It has a gui software center, so it appears you don't have to learn FreeBSD cli package management if you just want a simple setup with Firefox and Libreoffice.

The Ghost BSD theme is very attractive. I thought I was in KDE, but it turned out I was in Mate. I didn't know Mate could look so modern.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

No on ever mentions https://nomadbsd.org/. You can even run is from a usb drive.

Thanks for the reminder about this one. A portable *nix that might even work well on machines with NVIDIA GPUs is interesting.

[User29]

No on ever mentions https://nomadbsd.org/. You can even run is from a usb drive.

there isn't too much point in having a "nomad" os that you can run from usb on any PC around you, if the hardware (especially the wifi) support is lagging behind.

[ReaperX7]

How's Ghost and FreeBSD with Steam and gaming these days?

[pabloski]

No on ever mentions https://nomadbsd.org/. You can even run is from a usb drive.

I tried it some years ago. The sad part is that the lack of squashfs ( now it is supported on FreeBSD ) made it impossible to have a "true" live like the Linux ones. Having a stateless ( in the true sense of the term, not like Clear, Fedora et al. use it ) system is sometimes very very useful. PuppyLinux and easyOS implements this philosophy very well.

[darkoverlordofdata]

there isn't too much point in having a "nomad" os that you can run from usb on any PC around you, if the hardware (especially the wifi) support is lagging behind.

I assume you refer to FreeBSD in general having incomplete hardware support. One of the professed purposes for Nomad is to test if your hardware is FreeBSD capable.
I used it to recover an old pc that it turned out had a bad hdd. I ran it on Nomad until I was able to install a new ssd, and then transferred my installation to the ssd, losing none of my interim work. I was satisfied with it.