GhostBSD
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
0warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Aug 1, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“If you want something with a graphical environment ready to run, check out GhostBSD, which is based on FreeBSD and features MATE”
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“I switched from Devuan (Debian without SystemD) to GhostBSD a few weeks ago.”
switched from Devuanon “150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation 3 mentions
- NetBSD 11.0 Released 1 mention
- Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007) 1 mention
- I Love FreeBSD 1 mention
- Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep 1 mention
- Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again 1 mention
Data: ghostbsd.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“have a look at GhostBSD”
“GhostBSD DragonflyBSD pf/opn sense even funky hybrid stuff like Chimera Linux”
“If you want something with a graphical environment ready to run, check out GhostBSD, which is based on FreeBSD and features MATE”
“I haven't checked out GhostBSD's site in a while”
“Highly recommended.”
“I switched from Devuan (Debian without SystemD) to GhostBSD a few weeks ago.”
“I tried it and wrote about it”
“GhostBSD.”