14 DAY TRIAL // The GhostBSD operating system, a FreeBSD-based distro that uses the Xfce, LXDE, MATE, and OpenBox desktop environments, has finally reached a stable version, 4.0.
The developers of GhostBSD have had quite a few Beta releases until now, but it looks like they've managed to overcome all the issues and they are now pushing the final version of this very interesting OS. It's based on FreeBSD and uses many of its packages, but it's radically different from it. In fact, if you were to put the two systems side by side you would have a hard time saying that one is based on the other.
All in all, GhostBSD 4.0 Karine is not a big release and it doesn't pack a whole lot of changes, but there are a few interesting ones that should be very fun and interesting for the users who already have an older version. For example, GCC has been replaced by clang as the default compiler, make has been replaced with bmake, Networkmgr is now the default network manager, and MATE is the default desktop.
The distribution is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Check out the official announcement for more details about this release. You can download GhostBSD 4.0 right now from Softpedia. Please keep in mind that this is not a Linux distribution and it works a little bit differently. Give it some time and you will find that it's worth the wait.