On 2018-11-10 12:00:01 UTC tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org opined: > 2. Re: GhostBSD and TrueOS (Brian Wood) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 12:48:49 -0600 > From: Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> > To: tclug-list <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] GhostBSD and TrueOS > Message-ID: > <CABWFOjupn0xZtbA-bZ5JpeX-D7Sa3mJCRTarVmFVqDiVYumO8w at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > harv writes: > > So am I. Was an Archlinux user for years but cancer known > > as systemd appeared so needed to look elsewhere. ~2016 tried > > TrueOS and fell in love with zfs filesystem. Unfortunately, > > TrueOS 1803- the preconfigured version hasn't updated since > > march. RC-1 and RC-2 of Project Trident didn't work for me so > > installed FreeBSD 11.2 and lumina DE- developed > > by Trueos devs- and am a happy camper :-) > > I'm confused by what's been going on with TrueOS, Trident > and GhostBSD. The thought occurred to me that the word > 'ghost' in the name may mean they wish to be vague about > who is behind it. > GhostBSD has been around since long before TrueOS came on the scene and based on FreeBSD. Not sure which branch though. TrueOS started out as PC-BSD and is based on FreeBSD-current. Up to version 1803 it came with preconfigured graphical desktop. For version 1806 they decided to drop the desktop and make the distro more of something others could use as a base to build on. https://www.trueos.org/blog/trueosdownstream/ And this is what GhostBSD decided to do- switch their base from whatever branch of FreeBSD they were on to TrueOS. Project Trident is a continuation of TrueOS with graphical desktop. They released RC-3 todaybut with some caveats. See here: https://discourse.trueos.org/t/rc3-update-taken-from-telegram/3431 > I tried the latest version of GhostBSD now and am not sure > if I'm going to stick with it. I had a few small problems. One > was not being able to log out and log back in as a different user. > > What you mention about using FreeBSD and lumina sounds > interesting. Did you build lumina from ports? I've had mixed > results with building things from ports the few times I've done > that. Nope. There is a lumina meta-package but its not complete. Probably also want the pcbsd-utils-qt5 package as well. harv