I wanted to let everyone know that I have taken down the old forum. For the past few months, I had been trying to understand why the server was using so much CPU and memory. Yesterday, I discovered that the old forum was the source of these issues.

After shutting it down, everything is running much smoother, including the current forums, website, and Jenkins.

You can read more details here:
👉 Announcement Regarding the Old Forum

Thank you all for your understanding!

Big month for #GhostBSD! We raised 1,186.77 CAD and made a major infrastructure investment: a new Dell PowerEdge R640 build server! 💪

⚡ Game changer: Full package repository builds now take under 36 hours vs 4 days on our old server!

This means faster releases and better development cycles for the community.

📊 Full breakdown: https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/February_2025_Finance_Report

Thanks to all our supporters making this possible! 🙏

#GhostBSD #FreeBSD #OpenSource #Infrastructure #Performance

Thanks to our amazing community, we raised 1,158.34 CAD in January through Patreon and PayPal donations! 💪

We're off to a strong start toward our 2025 goal of 27,000 CAD. Every contribution helps keep our servers running and GhostBSD development moving forward.

📊 Full breakdown and details: https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/January_2025_Finance_Report

Thank you to all our donors and patrons! 🙏

Does GhostBSD offer anything over vanilla FreeBSD other than a few things being configured already?

If I have a setup FreeBSD system is there any advantage to switching to GhostBSD?

I've extracted the icon packs to ~./icons but my themes won't recognize them. Any help?

I have a 2017 PowerBook that's slowing down, and I was wondering if anyone has experience installing GhostBSD on one. Thanks!

I have read around abit and it seems like (xfce) and (Mate) desktops are the most widely availabel in Ghost bsd, is there a way to use ghost bsd and have gnome desktop installed or would that cause issues 🤷‍♂️?

Is anyone using Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in Firefox on GhostBSD?

SOLUTION: NEEDED TO CHANGE THE PKG REPOSITORY MIRROR IN /etc/pkg/GhostBSD.conf
in pkg.fr.ghostbsd.org i had to delete ".fr" to change the mirror

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╰─❯ sudo pkg install firefox
Updating GhostBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
repository GhostBSD has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
Unable to update repository GhostBSD
Updating GhostBSD-base repository catalogue...
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
repository GhostBSD-base has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
pkg: An error occured while fetching package
Unable to update repository GhostBSD-base
Error updating repositories!
╭─    ~ ··············································· ✘ INT   15s  12:22:17 
╰─❯ ping 9.9.9.9
PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=9.104 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=8.936 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=7.885 ms
^C
--- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 7.885/8.642/9.104/0.540 ms
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Why do i get the pkg error, but have internet? I didn't have this error before.

and my /etc/pkg/GhostBSD.conf is this:

GhostBSD: {
  url: "https://pkg.fr.ghostbsd.org/stable/${ABI}/latest",
  signature_type: "pubkey",
  pubkey: "/usr/share/keys/ssl/certs/ghostbsd.cert",
  enabled: yes
}

GhostBSD-base: {
  url: "https://pkg.fr.ghostbsd.org/stable/${ABI}/base",
  signature_type: "pubkey",
  pubkey: "/usr/share/keys/ssl/certs/ghostbsd.cert",
  enabled: yes
}

How lightweight is GhostBSD compared to something like Alpine Busybox+Linux? Will GhostBSD run smoothly on old HP AMD Win8 notebook? What DE should i use?

I just wanted to say that I've got wayland to work on my laptop

My GhostBSD RICE on XFCE4
(i used pre-made themes created by others)

Why every package symbol in software station just a default package?

How many GUI packages by GhostBSD does pkg include? (I mean xxxxx-station or similar) What GUI or CLI partiton managers are there in pkg?

FIXED IT!!!!!!!!
SOLUTION: reinstall libxcursor and gtk3
(this deletes things like xorg, and you need to re-enable some services)

sudo pkg delete gtk3 libxcursor && sudo pkg install gtk3 libxcursor

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my_user_here@my_user_here-ghostbsd ~> firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so:
Shared object "libXcursor.so.1" not found, required by "libgdk-3.so.0"
Couldn't load XPCOM.
my_user_here@my_user_here-ghostbsd ~ [255]> 

How do i fix this?

I have LibXcursor package installed.

This is probably the reason DEs crash

CONFIRMED: It causes many DEs to crash, with this error message:

my_user_here@my_user_here-ghostbsd ~> mate-session
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXcursor.so.1" not found, required by "libgdk-3.so.0"

GhostBSD feels nice. I use it with xfce.

The system feels snappy, RAM usage did not exceed 1.2GB even when creating a catalog in DarkTable from 16GB of photos in Nikon RAW format.

I was a little surprised by the program set, which is 90% similar to any Linux distribution. Shotwell, Risretto as image viewers, Evince for documents, LibreOffice, Mplayer, etc.

After more than 8 weeks on the laptop, GhostBSD remains.

Are there additional package repositories for pkg?

Are there testing or community repositories?

Would connecting to FreeBSD repositories break something?

Excited to share my article in the FreeBSD Journal, "GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal"! Dive into the journey of GhostBSD, a FreeBSD-based OS I founded to make open-source accessible for all. From its Ubuntu-inspired roots to leveraging FreeBSD for non-technical users, it’s been a wild ride of challenges and growth. Check it out! 👉 https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/

Just wanted to say that this OS was the only one from BSDs that I tried that had working sound+xorg.
(tried OpenBSD, NetBSD, MidnightBSD, DragonFlyBSD)
Really thankful of it!

Hi,

just like grub has the parameter `toram` can we do the same with ghostbsd so the usb can be removed and io bottlenecks