GhostBSD 24.10.01 - USB

Version 24.10.01 Release Date: November 17, 2024 (Changelog)

GhostBSD is a user-friendly BSD operating system built on top of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is known to be a solid, powerful, secure and stable server operating system, providing an excellent base for a desktop operating system.

FreeBSD seems to be aimed at more experienced or technically inclined users. As such, newcomers to the BSD platform can be confused, especially for those who lack the technical expertise required.

GhostBSD aims to provide a familiar workstation with all of the features and benefits of FreeBSD, combined with a twist that is the MATE desktop environment and a focus on user-friendliness. GhostBSD is suitable for newcomers, as well as experienced BSD users.

Features

GhostBSD shares many of the same features as FreeBSD, including:

• Integrated Firewalls, Jails, Linux emulation, Network Virtualization, and bhyve.
• KMS and new drm2 video drivers
• The FreeBSD ports collection
• The New Binary Packaging System pkgng

GhostBSD added a few extra features of its own, including:

• A user-friendly installation process
• Automatic detection of your computer’s hardware
• Automatic configuration of your network card
• Pre-installed desktop environments
• Pre-installed codecs to play multimedia files

Objectives

The project has the following objectives:

• Be freely available for anyone to use
• Freedom to customize the system and to modify the code
• Respect privacy
• Provide a consistent and intuitive work environment
• Provide a secure and stable system

Minimum System Requirements

• 64-bit processor
• 4GB+ of RAM
• 15 GB of free hard drive space
• Network card

Note: GhostBSD can't successfully install in a system with less than 4G of ram because once GhostBSD is booted, it runs from the ram and not from the USB flash drive or DVD.