GhostBSD 23.10.1
Roll over Slimer. Nate Drake explores the latest GhostBSD and finds that, like Casper, it’s extremely friendly and easy to manage.
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IN BRIEF
GhostBSD began as an OS to hack Gnome using FreeBSD tech. Although it’s now switched to MATE, it still lives up to its reputation of offering a userfriendly way to explore BSD.
SPECS
CPU: 1GHz 64-bit
Mem: 4GB (8GB recommended)
HDD: 15GB (30GB recommended)
Builds: AMD64
According to the official website, GhostBSD is “a simple, elegant and friendly BSD operating system for desktops and laptops based on FreeBSD”. As the website diplomatically puts it, “BSD is generally considered beyond the average computer user’s knowledge.” Those niche users who want to try BSD but struggle with text-only installers seem to be GhostBSD’s intended audience, as it combines FreeBSD with its own graphical tools for ease of use.