GhostBSD 18.10 is the first GhostBSD release based on TrueOS. Earlier, this distribution was based on FreeBSD. The GhostBSD 18.10 brings an impressive MATE Desktop experience. Indeed, this is the best BSD that I have ever tried.
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| GhostBSD 18.10 MATE Desktop - First impression |
| Distribution Name |
GhostBSD |
| Version |
18.10 |
| Code name |
NA |
| Release Date |
1st November 2018 |
| Desktop Environment |
MATE Desktop |
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| GhostBSD 18.10 ships MATE Desktop 1.20.3. It provides more robustness with a lot of issue fixes |
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| Traditional MATE application menu in GhostBSD |
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| GhostBSD file manager |
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| Eye of MATE |
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| Pluma Text Editor |
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| Resource usage on idle state. GhostBSD 18.10 consumes only 300 MB of memory on idle state. This is quite impressive comparing to other popular MATE distributions like Ubuntu MATE. Ubuntu MATE 18.10 takes over 800 MB of memory on idle state. But, In GhostBSD CPU usage is almost double of Ubuntu MATE. |
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| The MATE Control Centre |
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| Octopkg is an advanced package manager shipped with GhostBSD |
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| Shotwell Image Manager |
That's all for now!!
Usually, I posts a few more screenshots for each distributions. Unfortunately, I could not do that because of
- Inability to create bootable USB drive. I followed the dd instructions provided in project's official website. But, it did n't work. I even tried writing the entire USB drive with zeros.
- In VirtualBox, the distribution was hanging while opening resource intensive applications like Firefox, MATE Control Centre & something else, or Octopkg with package updates.
Hopefully, I can address these issues in upcoming GhostBSD release and post a few more screenshots.
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