GhostBSD - a look at the latest release 2024

[@spaceguybob]

I love the background music it’s relaxing

[@theperfectionist1607]

I wish BSD was more popular

[@EirikrTinkerTries]

Use it and make your own video, start to spread the word. Even if it’s a short, quick overview.

[@b6yg]

The only way BSD becomes more popular is with a GUI installer even Openbsd has no GUI installer.

[@theperfectionist1607]

@@b6yg I agree. FreeBSD should have a GUI installer

[@b6yg]

​@@theperfectionist1607 Thank you I did try Freebsd and Openbsd on a new computer but the Command line installation confused me or gave me problems so I gave up. Then I wouldn't say I like Alpine Linux since it uses a command line installer. I prefer Kali Linux as my Main operating system to Manjaro Linux and that's mainly what I would use I tried to use Qubes OS but it always caused me problems with the installation so I gave up. People say Linux has also many different distros but It's easy for me to figure out what I prefer to use, to be honest For installation I want something easy and not to be stressed so I avoid FreeBSD and OpenBSD and Alpine Linux and Qubes os causes me too many problems. I'm using Kali Linux as my main Distro and I love it. I'm happy you are enjoying using Freebsd and a GUI installer would encourage me to use Freebsd I just don't want to stress when installing a distro.

[@anieziisandezzlas]

I don't. It has a permissive license which allows big tech to make it proprietary and take control over their users. BSD has to be the least popular possible. Use GNU/Linux. KZbin IS REMOVING MY COMMENTS

[@htx80nerd]

Love the soundscape atmospheric music.

[@megatronskneecap]

We'll always be here for you Gary. Great videos that always cheer me up so I'll always be happy to give back.

[@mikepartin571]

Also, thanks for the Danny John Jules clip! 😃

[@faldarith]

I just got my dual boot ghostbsd + windows set up, fresh on both counts - and immediately went right to your channel.

[@faldarith]

I actually ended up running into real dependency frustration in my fresh windows install, things that Microsoft prepackaged that had to be replaced and all sorts of nonsense

[@euxaristia]

we love you Gary

[@mikepartin571]

Love the videos Gary, keep em coming. How about a look at some of the more esoteric features and setups, like HA firewalls with PF+CARP+PFSync, or some real fun with highly available NAS setups with hot-copy replication using CARP+HAST+ZFS. Not many people covering those features, and they are seriously fun to play with.

[@greenhorngameplays5743]

Gary, would you kindly make some tutorials or just talk about Wayland and Wayfire on FreeBSD? It would be nice to hear you talking about it. Thanks for the great content man.

[@Ziggurat1]

At first glance I thought the thumbnail was about Bruce Dickinson showing off a BSD distro

[@unduloid]

You're not wrong.

[@spicynoodle7419]

I was very excited about Project Trident, previously named PC-BSD. It's quite ambitious but you still need quite specific hardware to run it properly - like all other BSDs

[@spicynoodle7419]

Oh wow, apparently they have ditched FreeBSD and are now based on Void Linux. What a turn

[@spicynoodle7419]

Huh, TrueOS is also discontinued. The BSD island looks bleak tbh

[@kendallgreen5767]

I use ghostbsd updated to 24.07.1 along with Ubuntu 24.04.1 and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I like Ghostbsd because it is a unified operating system with the latest packages. Ubuntu and SUSE often have outdated default packages, which may require updating. I like the Copy on Write file systesm ZFS and Btrfs. It has save me reinstalling an OS several times since I can clone and boot into a snapshot of an earlier version.

[@siddeshwarpn1516]

does GhostBSD support Mac m2? using virtual box?

[@DeFrisselle]

I've been using GhostBSD on my old Lenovo laptop for years Often using it to stream on Twitch when I'm away from my main PC

[@p73737E]

minimal, clean and usable. perfect! any future plans on any desktop oriented bsd to launch with the redently ported KDE 6?

[@theperfectionist1607]

BSD should come with KDE

[@Explorer982]

wait - this is music from Falcon 4.0?

[@buckeye43210]

Is a modern Citrix client available?

[@allwelikeworms]

Nice Cat reference with the Fish shell.

[@keyboard_g]

Is there an equivalent to flatpak or Distrobox for Unix operating systems? For example an easy to use wrapper for Jails or Zones?

[@damianateiro]

No xd

[@georgeh6856]

If you don't like all the dependencies, then consider the alternative. They could just put every library needed with every application as a bundle. But then what about libraries which get used by 10, 20, or 50 different apps. Each one of those 50 apps will have that same library included in its bundle. So then you would have to download all 50 bundles which means downloading 50 copies of the same library as part of each bundle. That would be very wasteful and time-consuming. Dependencies allow you to download that library only once, and then use it for all 50 apps.

[@GiorgioBeltrammi]

I came from Linux after 16 years of use of it. It's a year that i'm using GhostBSD and to me is not ghanged nothing. Everything I used to do with Linux (html pages, video editing, image editing, watching films, social, text writing and more), I can do with Ghost and the same tools. BSD lacks nothing, at least for me.

[@dagetheone]

does ghost have flow blade video editor pkgs

[@8BitInsekt]

Quod erat demonstrandum: GUIs make things more graphical, but not easier.

[@MrBingo37]

Bsd is awesome even without..sound ! Is there a walkthrough how to get sound working?

[@cliffsloane6548]

I installed GhostBSD mostly because I could explore BSD using the Mate environment. But now, I only treat it like a distro and not like a distinct operating system. Is there anything you can suggest I do that will teach me a bit about how BSD differs from Linux?

[@gone57576]

@@cliffsloane6548 Desktop BSD will always feel like a linux distro sadly. Try learning it using the FreeBSD Handbook if you want to see the simplicity of the system

[@antonio.taverna]

Thank you. The only thing that I could say Is that on FreeBSD side something like docker is missing. I am aware of the FreeBSD hypervisor ma has not the same level of simplicity of docker for desktop use cases. For example in Linux world there are projects like distrobox that with docker lat use applications that are not compatible with the current distro with another distro inside a container.

[@rikhardfsoss]

jails?

[@antonio.taverna]

@@rikhardfsoss yes but you can't achieve the same result I think. Distrobox for example let you execute also graphical apps with also USB and audio redirection.

[@ToranK]

with me same thing, but desktop did not boot. Ghostbsd runs in memory, but I have 12 GB...

[@EirikrTinkerTries]

I wish there were an Arch/BSD on top of Ghost, perhaps? Uses pacman for package management and has access to the AUR + an API to processes PKGBUILDs for BSD’s expectations.

[@fluxington]

You can find ways of putting the DE you want on top of FreeBSD. For example, there are guides for Cinnamon and KDE.

[@BennettWenger]

Hello! I'm a long time Linux user who wants to get into BSD. I super duper would like to install Ghost on my Dell netbook, but it won't recognize the interval nvme storage. Help?

[@samuel.venable]

Likely due to the lack of drivers. You could always try FreeBSD-CURRENT and it might have the drivers RELEASE and STABLE do not yet have, but that will be a lot buggier. My suggestion is use Linux until you have hardware with compatible drivers for FreeBSD. GhostBSD is strictly based on STABLE iirc, so you don't have the same luxury you do with vanilla FreeBSD.

[@josecabrera5632]

The BSD family seems to have a good problem with modern devices drivers. Yet, this family offers great OSs!!

[@equiliser]

I want to dable and learn linux and wanted to know if you have any recomendations for a bootable usb version of linux that is good for the complete beginner ?...keep up the good work

[@MinuteManGameReviews]

Ubuntu

[@DoubtingThomas333]

EndlessOS

[@suchen6845]

We all know without watching #1 feature: no zoom

[@NSA-n8n]

if Stephen King was a techie

[@kev2020-z9s]

The way I look at it is you help us so we help you.

Oh no, if it has FreeBSD 14 drivers, it means it won't support (yet) the AMD Radeon 7900 XTX

[@christianwn]

Ghost BSD was so unstable / unpolished that I kicked it out after 1 day. Win95 was more stable.

[@robbolastname6799]

useful vid, most reviews of -ahem- get bogged down in the window manager and how cool it is to have rounded corners on the menu bar. one follow-up I like to suggest is upgrades (major/minor). and update release schedule. I prefer not to upgrade unless (as you also mention) you need a particular feature or there is a genuine security issue. If it a'int broke WTF, ...trying to work here! ... tried too many -ahem- "distros" ... seems maybe, what, within 2 days after the last updates - even when check for updates are off - nag nag nag .... upgrade now otherwise 'Eee Sux in China will eat your data and show your (non existing) camera pron browsing history to your family.' oh FFS, please GTFO ... trying to work here!

[@han20071]

apparently your are a KDE person

[@alfajrdream]

BSD, Debian are the best

[@christianwn]

Then I recommend, trying Void Linux