helloSystem 0.8 Released As macOS Inspired FreeBSD Desktop OS

helloSystem 0.8 Released As macOS Inspired FreeBSD Desktop OS

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 21 January 2023 at 04:50 PM EST. 27 Comments
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Following the demise of PC-BSD/TrueOS, the most compelling BSD-based desktop operating system with a pleasant out-of-the-box user experience is helloSystem. The helloSystem OS has been aiming to be the macOS of the BSDs and for the past few years has been building a macOS-inspired desktop atop FreeBSD. Out today is helloSystem 0.8 as their newest version built atop FreeBSD 13.1.

The helloSystem 0.8 release continues to focus on being a desktop OS catering to simplicity, elegance, and usability. With the v0.8 release they have re-based against FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE, improves its launch command, pre-installs the VirtualBox Guest Additions for a better Oracle VM VirtualBox user experience, improved handling for MIDI controllers, initial support for launching some AppImage files using the launch command, and support for recent Intel graphics like Gen12/Xe Tigerlake using the DRM kernel module ported over from Linux 5.10.

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helloSystem 0.8


With helloSystem 0.8 there is also various user interface improvements, "force quit application" support in the system menu, and a wide range of other desktop infrastructure and UI tooling. The helloSystem operating system is also now shipping with Trojita as its email client, GPU acceleration is enabled for WebEngine-based browsers like Falkon, there is a new "Processes" utility, and a wide range of fixes throughout the platform.

Downloads and more details on helloSystem 0.8 via GitHub.

Update: See Running The macOS-Inspired, FreeBSD-Powered helloSystem v0.8 On AMD Zen 4 for my brief review of this new release.

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