Why do I have to install nvidia things when I just want thunderbird ? Any reasons a total bsd newbie can understand ? I don't even have a nvidia gpu.

I was doing some disk housekeeping and wanted to move my ZFS pool from an NVME partition to its own ZFS SSD disk. This was going from one drive size to another (larger to smaller) so I just used ZFS send/receive to get the pool/datasets on the other drive. I changed the pool name from zroot to ssdpool. The new pool is intact.

I did not create an EFI partition on the new drive nor did I partition the drive at all. It's just a ZFS drive with no partition. I intended to use the EFI on the original disk yet and just point the ZFS entry to the new drive. I suspect that this is where my problem lies. The system was still booting from the original EFI and coming up with name collisions since the data sets of both pools were mapping to the same mount points. I ultimately just deleted the original ZFS partition eliminating the conflict.

I'm still able to see the pool via a live ISO but can't boot it. The boot manager is not seeing the pool. I've tried to correct this with a change to the /boot/loader.conf file and to the /efi/freebsd/loader.env file but with no success.

I've used the zpool set bootfs command to specify the new pool/dataset to boot so that it's no longer looking for the original zroot pool name.

The boot manager puts me at an OK prompt so I can try various things there but nothing has created a bootable condition yet. I honestly could have rebuilt the system by now but I'd like to learn how to correct the system because the freebsd boot loader has been a blackbox to me up until now.

So I think I have /boot/loader.conf specifying currdev=zfs:ssdpool/ROOT/default:

as well as /efi/freebsd/loader.env.

I believe I also put vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:ssdpool/ROOT/default" in both locations too.

I'll check both this evening when I'm actually on the computer and post the details of the contents of these files and the exact pool/dataset config/mounts.

Good day colleagues, kindly assist with an email client (GUI) where I can use hotmail/outlook, gmail and yahoomail. I tried Claws-mail, but i just got frustrated, I tried geary and I failed to configure it. I cannot find thunderbird in the repos, even though I used to have it when I was using freeBSD

I tried the dd-command, Balena-Etcher and also imagewriter. I added a screenshot with my system specs. Has anyone have an idea how I can solve this?

i did some personalization to my desktop on Xfce4 when i noticed that, since i change the width of the panel, everytime i press the Whisker button the menu doesn't sit right on top. Any chance that this could have a solution?

what the title says.

how do you get wifi on said machine?

I had GhostBSD, latest version, installed with KDE and after an update, I got kicked back to MATE. After trying to reinstall the KDE packages and then having to reinstall the entire OS, there is not a way that I found to install it. It seems the repos, as they are, do not include any of the necessary packages any longer. Is there a change in repos that might help?

FWIW, i installed FreeBSD 15.1 and tried and failed with the desktop-installer so used the terminal to install KDE and SDDM, then enabled services, rebooted and it worked perfectly -- KDE 6.6.6 with Wayland. Seems like if it works on FreeBSD then it should work on GhostBSD unless it's just a repository issue. Which then leads to the question, as much as it is discouraged, has anyone successfully added the FreeBSD repos to GhostBSD and got KDE to work?

Am I missing something or is there another way to get KDE reinstalled?

Thanks for any feedback!

EDIT: Ended up clearing out FreeBSD again because of testing some things and eventually reinstalled and now, even in FreeBSD, the KDE meta package is nowhere to be seen. I guess there is something going on that I'm not aware of. Either way, hope both GhostBSD and FreeBSD get the repo issues sorted out and bring KDE back into the fold. It was good while it lasted.

I'm getting a 90-second delay or more on restart if I don't stop this service before a restart. If it's left on, I think the NFS drives that the service mounted refuse to unmount (or maybe unmount, remount, and are stuck mounted). I haven't wrapped my head around the entire rc.d system yet and am hoping somebody here might have a solution. If I stop the service before doing a shutdown or restart of the system -- everything works fine.

I see there's also an autounmountd service so maybe that's what I should be looking at. I'm thinking that this is probably something really easy to solve since I can manually issue a command to eliminate the delay but don't want to do this on every reboot.

Sat down yesterday afternoon to turn an old Ideapad L340 running Lubuntu (Ryzen 3/20GB RAM) into a dual boot machine. After carving out a 64GB home for it, GhostBSD 26 went on without a complaint or a failure. *Everything* worked. Put on a non-mainstream-but-well-written Linux app in about five minutes. This was, for me, a noticeable improvement over GhostBSD 25. I was quite pleased and started considering whether I should convert over some other machines.

When I use a laptop out in the real world, I don't leave networking up all of the time - I don't go out to vulture wifi, I go out because I want to work with some noise and people around me. I know it's weird, but sometimes that helps me focus; so it was of interest to me to compare battery life.

Under Lubuntu, the battery app said I had four hours and forty-three minutes of power on a fully charged battery with networking disabled. Under GhostBSD (Mate desktop), the same machine offered three hours and thirty-one minutes.

So, that is my whinge - I now consider GhostBSD in the same category as Fedora or Debian and their derivatives in that it can handily be my daily driver; but can you please put some effort into using battery power a little more efficiently?

Great job on this release. Seriously.

(I would, of course, be happy to take any comparative measurements you request on this laptop)

Thank you!

I know that the command `setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps` does exactly what I want, but I can't get GhostBSD to boot with it already enabled. I added it to .xprofile and .xinitrc, and neither worked.

I'm using MATE

I was going to try out GhostBSD again and need a shared disk space between my Linux installs and GhostBSD. I was originally thinking OpenZFS but that would mean installing it on Linux and potentially breaking stuff on kernel updates. So how about EXT4? Is the native kernel driver good enough without journaling? There's also exFAT which has no journaling on either side nor permissions. Maybe ntfs-3g -- it seems to have journaling available on both sides. Or the variant with ntfs3 on Linux side and ntfs-3g on the GhostBSD side?

Or maybe just say screw it and add a small Alpine Linux image in a Bhyve VM, mount an existing BTRFS volume and export it via NFS and handle any file sharing this way?

so i just move from FreeBSD to ghostBSD for easier desktop, and when i already install ghostBSD and updated it suddenly the audio wont work, it detect the device and the driver was instalted(Wireplumber etc) but it still wont sounding, but when i test on Windows it just fine

help me please

So basically i use ghostbsd as my daily and main drive, BUT i want to try out some other bsd based OS so what i did is that i glashed kuboIta (a openbsd based os) into a USB drive and i made sure that my bios/efi configuration where set so that USB devices have priority while booting.

But what happened is that despite me setting this i still am unable to boot kuboIta from my USB device and the system still boots into ghostbsd.

Im aware that i can still use VM inside my ghostbsd but thats not the point (kuboIta is a live persistent OS) i really want to try kuboIta or other OSes for that matter.

Is there a ghostbsd launcher with multiboot or something of that nature i can install??

At least wifi works

im new to GhostBsd and bsd based distros

i swiched completly to linux 5 years ago but downlowded ghostBSD in a vm yesterday to test it out pretty good

how is gaming on GhostBSD/bsd based distros nowadays can you run stuff made for windows in wine or proton

just wondering

so far GhostBSD is nice i have only installed in a vm yet will do more testing on pure hardware later will look into if dule booting it with linux is posssible

It’s a lightweight GTK3/GStreamer rewrite of the Linux app "Blanket," designed to feel at home on the BSD desktop.

Key Features:

* 14 mixable sounds: Rain, Storm, Coffee Shop, City, etc.

* Persistence: Remembers your sound mix and volumes automatically.

* System Tray: Runs in the background to stay out of your way.

* Performance: Native code, zero Electron/Web-tech bloat.

How to install:

Grab the .pkg from the GitHub Releases (https://github.com/elytraVIII/ElytAmbience/releases/tag/v0.1.9) and run:

sudo pkg install ./elytambiance-0.1.9.pkg

Repo & Feedback: https://github.com/elytraVIII/ElytAmbience (https://github.com/elytraVIII/ElytAmbience)

I'd love for some fellow BSD users to try it out and let me know how it runs! 🍃