The developer team around Eric Turgeon has GhostBSD 21. 01.15 Approved. The new version of the preconfigured, FreeBSD-based desktop system is available as a hybrid ISO image for CD-R or USB sticks. The current MATE or Xfce are available as desktop environment.

Slimmed down A target of GhostBSD 21. 01. 15 it was to reduce the memory requirement so much that the live system including ZFS also runs on computers with only 4 GByte RAM – you switch here on a single board computer based on ARM? In order to make GhostBSD leaner, the powerful office suite LibreOffice and the Messenger Telegram were removed from the list of preinstalled packages. The packages can, however, be installed later via the package management without any problems.

The focus on modern ZFS also led to the decision not to install on UFS (Unix file system) more than with an assistant to offer a supported option. If the system is partitioned by hand (custom partitioning), UFS partitions can still be created for special cases. Some improvements and minor bugs have been made to the installer itself. Among other things, he had overzealously prevented the installation in the past in the course of checking various installation conditions.

Improved A missing line in / etc / fstab resulted in previous versions to problems with the Steam client, which runs surprisingly well in the GNU / Linux emulation of FreeBSD. The corresponding line has been added in the current release.

The release notes for GhostBSD provide an overview of all error corrections and features 21. 01. 15. In addition, GhostBSD takes over 21. 01. 15 as usual, the meanwhile new functions, improvements and bug fixes from the upstream, i.e. from the original FreeBSD base system.

Images for CD-R, USB stick and VMs GhostBSD 21. 01. 15 can be used as ISO Hybrid image can be downloaded for free from the GhostBSD project page. Who GhostBSD 21. 01. 15 in a virtual machine under VirtualBox, you should note that the VirtualBox extensions are no longer pre-installed and must be upgraded if necessary. The extensions ensure that a virtual machine is better integrated into the host and, for example, offers high resolutions for the desktop via a special virtual graphics card.

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