operating system release , based on FreeBSD technologies, the TrueOS project develops a ready-to-use graphical user distribution reminiscent of the old PC-BSD and TrueOS releases. The installation size 3 GB (AMD64).
As part of the Trident project, development is also underway on the Lumina graphical environment and all previously available graphical tools from PC-BSD, such as sysadm and AppCafe. The Trident project was formed after the transformation of TrueOS into a separate modular operating system, which can be used as a platform for other projects. TrueOS is positioned as a 'downstream' fork of FreeBSD, modifying the base of FreeBSD with support for technologies such as OpenRC and LibreSSL. During development, the project adheres to a six-month release preparation cycle with updates scheduled in advance.
Some features of Trident:
- A predefined firewall profile for sending traffic through the anonymous Tor network, which can be activated during the installation process.
- For web navigation, the browser (QupZilla) is offered, with a built-in ad blocker and advanced settings for tracking protection.
- ZFS is used as the default file system, along with the OpenRC initialization system.
- During system updates, a separate snapshot is created in the file system, allowing for an instant rollback to a previous state in case of issues after the update.
- LibreSSL from the OpenBSD project is used instead of OpenSSL.
- Installed packages are verified with a digital signature.
In the new release, the transition to the stable branch TrueOS 19.04 (v20190412) has been made, which branched from FreeBSD 13-CURRENT. Packages are synchronized with the FreeBSD ports tree as of April 22. The installation image now includes the boot manager . On UEFI systems, both rEFInd and the traditional FreeBSD boot loader are now installed simultaneously.
The repository has added 441 new packages, including dnsmasq, eclipse, erlang-runtime, haproxy, olive-video-editor, openbgpd, pulseaudio-qt, qemu2, qutebrowser, sslproxy, zcad, as well as a large number of modules for Perl, PHP, Ruby, and Python. The versions of 4165 packages have been updated. All utilities and applications based on Qt4 have been removed from the distribution, and support for Qt4 has also been discontinued in the FreeBSD ports.
Desktop has been updated to version . Unfortunately, the list of changes in Lumina has not yet been published on . Recall that Lumina adheres to a classic approach to organizing the user environment. It includes a desktop, application panel, session manager, application menu, environment settings system, task manager, system tray, and virtual desktop system. The components of the environment using the Qt5 library. The code is written in C++ without QML and under the BSD license.
As part of the project, a proprietary file manager called Insight is being developed, featuring capabilities such as support for tabs to work simultaneously with multiple directories, accumulating links to favorite directories in a bookmarks section, an integrated multimedia player and photo viewer with slideshow support, tools for managing ZFS snapshots, and support for external plugin handlers.
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