GhostBSD 11.0 PREALPHA4 is out for testing

Hi guys, if you ever used FreeBSD, then you probably know about GhostBSD. Few ours ago the developer team released 4th preaplha of GhostBSD 11.0. It is based on FreeBSD and offers more user-friendly nature than the later. Earlier versions of this distribution used TGZ as package management, but now it uses PKG as package management. By default GhostBSD uses MATE and Xfce as desktop environment.

According to official announcement, prealpha4 will be available for both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. It will now support VMWare X. You can manage network settings using Doas. New UFS full disk installation option including disk mirroring is also added in feature list. Live disk X configuration will done straight before getting to desktop. Lots of software updates are done and some older issues are solved. 

While there is not much announced yet, you can try out the new alpha and help developers to fix the bugs quickly. You can simply head to official website to download latest alpha or use below direct links to downloads.

 

GhostBSD 11.0 PREALPHA4 32 bit

GhostBSD 11.0 PREALPHA4 64 bit

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FreeBSD 11.0 release announced

FreeBSD, a well known and vastly used operating system based on the BSD version of UNIX got release announcement of FreeBSD 11.0. With numerous of changes and improvements in the previously released development releases, now finally the finally release is here with first stable release, FreeBSD 11.0.

What's New In Here?
Well, the announcement has a nice list of highlights about the FreeBSD 11.0 stable release.
OpenSSH got an update, added to that OpenSSH DSA key generation is now disabled by the default and protocol 1 is no more supported.

There are new supports in wireless term,802.11n is now supported with broader wireless driver support. The svnlite the well known control version control system tool got an update to 1.9.4.

Support for arm64 architecture has also been added with some added support to native graphics in this final release. For detailed information about this final release kindly head over to the release notes.
Download the latest FreeBSD according to your system requirements,the release note includes the way to upgrade from earlier versions as well.So, follow it up.All the download images can be found here.