FreeBSD-based GhostBSD 24.07.1 launches with improved performance and …

Yesterday, GhostBSD received a new update, which pushed its version number up to 24.07.1. Developed by a team headed by Eric Turgeon, GhostBSD is based on FreeBSD and uses MATE after spending a while employing GNOME as the default desktop environment. A community-driven XFCE edition is also available. The first version of this Unix-like OS was released in March 2010, when it came with GNOME 2.28 and was based on FreeBSD 8.0. 

GhostBSD 24.07.1 arrived later than expected but marks a noticeable step ahead, as the team decided to switch from using OS packages from the internal OS ports to taking advantage of the FreeBSD PKGBSD system instead. This is the main reason for the aforementioned delay, due to the in-depth testing needed to iron out as many bugs as possible. However, the update manager was set to upgrade GhostBSD to PKGBSD from a minor version, and the changes involved by the upgrade might still cause problems to some users. Obviously, performing a clean install will not come with most of the issues that might arrive for those upgrading from an older setup.

In addition to the above, GhostBSD 24.07.1 updates the OS to 14.1-STABLE, refreshes many of the included software packages, improves NetworkMGR, fixes two OpenSSH security problems, and more. Those interested can find the detailed list of changes on the same page as the release announcement. The list of known issues, on the other hand, is available separately on this page. The downloads page includes only links for 64-bit systems.