operating system release , in which the TrueOS project develops a ready-to-use graphical user distribution based on FreeBSD technologies, reminiscent of older releases of PC-BSD and TrueOS. Installation size 3 GB (AMD64).
The Trident project is also now developing the Lumina graphical environment and all graphical tools previously available on PC-BSD, such as sysadm and AppCafe. The Trident project was formed after the transformation of TrueOS into a standalone modular operating system that can be used as a platform for other projects. TrueOS is billed as a "downstream" fork of FreeBSD that modifies the core FreeBSD package with support for technologies such as OpenRC and LibreSSL. During development, the project follows a six-month release cycle with updates at predictable predetermined timelines.
Some features of Trident:
- The presence of a predefined firewall profile for sending traffic through the Tor anonymous network, which can be activated during the installation phase.
- Browser available for navigating the Web (QupZilla) with a built-in ad blocker and advanced settings to protect against movement tracking.
- The default file system is ZFS and the OpenRC init system.
- When updating the system, a separate snapshot is created in the FS, which allows you to instantly return to the previous state of the system in case of problems after the update.
- LibreSSL from the OpenBSD project is used instead of OpenSSL.
- Installed packages are verified by digital signature.
The new release has moved to the TrueOS 19.04 (v20190412) stable branch, which in turn forked from FreeBSD 13-CURRENT. The packages are in sync with the FreeBSD ports tree as of April 22nd. By default, a boot manager is added to the installation image . UEFI systems now install both rEFInd and the traditional FreeBSD bootloader at the same time.
441 new packages have been added to the repository, 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. Updated versions of 4165 packages. All Qt4-based utilities and applications have been removed from the distribution, Qt4 support has also been dropped in FreeBSD ports.
Desktop updated to version . Unfortunately, the list of changes in Lumina has not yet been published on . Recall that Lumina adheres to the classical approach to the organization of the user environment. The structure includes a desktop, an application bar, a session manager, an application menu, an environment settings system, a task manager, a system tray, a virtual desktop system. Environment Components using the Qt5 library. The code is written in C++ without QML and under the BSD license.
The project develops its own Insight file manager, which has such features as tab support for simultaneous work with several directories, accumulation of links to favorite directories in the bookmarks section, the presence of a built-in multimedia player and photo viewer with slideshow support, tools for managing ZFS snapshots, support for connection of external plug-ins-handlers.
Source: opennet.ru