14 DAY TRIAL // The GhostBSD developers have announced this past weekend the availability of the first Alpha development release of the upcoming GhostBSD 11.0 open-source, BSD-based operating system.
GhostBSD 11.0 development is ongoing, and a first Alpha build is now ready for public testing, for early adopters and anyone else who wants to help the GhostBSD developers polish the final release of the operating system by fixing the remaining bugs. This Alpha adds the missing Xfce .xinitrc configuration file and theme engine.
It also introduces a new desktop wallpaper for the Xfce desktop environment, repairs the broken sound plugin, and implements the popular Whisker Menu tool as default application menu for searching and launching installed apps. GhostBSD 11.0 Alpha 1 also comes pre-installed with the latest Nvidia proprietary graphics drivers and a ZFS configuration file.
"This Alpha release is ready for testing and [it should not] be used in production. There will be no need to reinstall another development release of GhostBSD 11.0 since the Update Manger will push the update of GhostBSD. MATE and Xfce images are available with [support for] i386 and amd64 architectures," explain the developers in the release announcement.
If you want to help with the testing, you are encouraged to use GhostBSD's issue system at http://issues.ghostbsd.org/projects/ghostbsd for reporting bugs. You can download the 64-bit or 32-bit ISO images of GhostBSD 11.0 Alpha 1 with Xfce and MATE desktops right now from our website, but please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, not to be used in a production environment.