The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 22.01.12 has been published, built on FreeBSD 13-STABLE and offering the MATE desktop environment. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS filesystem. Both Live mode operation and installation on a hard drive are supported (utilizing its own installer ginstall, written in Python). Boot images are created for the x86_64 architecture (2.58 GB).
In the new version, components providing optional support for the OpenRC initialization system have been removed from the base system. The dhcpcd package has also been removed in favor of the standard DHCP client from FreeBSD. The VLC media player has been rebuilt with UPNP support. Distribution identification has been ensured in the /etc/os-release file (now recording GhostBSD 22.01.12 instead of FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE) and GhostBSD is indicated in the output of the uname command. The initgfx package is used for automatic configuration of AMD Radeon HD 7000 and older GPUs. Data about security issues is extracted from the vuxml.freebsd.org database, marking packages with unresolved vulnerabilities. The p7zip package has been removed from the base distribution due to vulnerabilities and maintenance issues.
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