Trident 19.06 OS Release by TrueOS Project

Took place operating system release Trident 19.06, 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 iso image 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.

In the new release, a major update of the versions of applications in the repositories and components of the base system has been carried out, which have incorporated changes from the FreeBSD 13-CURRENT branch and the current ports tree. For example, chromium 75, firefox 67.0.4, iridium 2019.04.73, gpu-firmware-kmod g20190620, drm-current-kmod 4.16.g20190519, virtualbox-ose 5.2.30 have been updated. Changed many of the default settings offered by TrueOS. Added a series of new system packages "*-bootstrap". ZFS On Linux related packages have been renamed to nozfs and openzfs. Since the changes affected the package structure of the base system, before starting the update installation process, you should run the "sudo pkg install -fy sysup" command.

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 Falkon (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.

Source: opennet.ru