The release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 24.01.1, built on the basis of FreeBSD 14-STABLE and offering the MATE user environment, has been published. Separately, the community creates unofficial builds with Xfce. By default, GhostBSD uses the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB).
In the new version:
- Synchronization with the FreeBSD 14-STABLE branch has been carried out (in the previous version the FreeBSD 13.2-STABLE branch was used).
- In the installer, the user that is created now receives administrator rights, and the password specified for this user is also set for the root user.
- The Update Station application has added the ability to update the system to the next significant branch, i.e. It is now possible to upgrade GhostBSD from a FreeBSD 13.2-STABLE based version to a FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE based version.
Source: opennet.ru