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TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT. Up to 2018, it aimed to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE SC, Lumina, LXDE, MATE, or Xfce as the desktop environment. In June 2018, the developers announced that since TrueOS had become the core OS to provide a basis for other projects, the graphical installer had been removed. Graphical end-user-oriented OSes formerly based on TrueOS were GhostBSD and Trident. TrueOS provided official binary Nvidia and Intel drivers for hardware acceleration and an optional 3D desktop interface through KWin, and Wine is ready-to-use for running Microsoft Windows software. TrueOS was also able to run Linux software in addition to FreeBSD Ports collection and it had its own .txz package manager. TrueOS supported OpenZFS and the installer offered disk encryption with geli. Development of TrueOS ended in 2020.
TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT. Up to 2018, it aimed to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE SC, Lumina, LXDE, MATE, or Xfce as the desktop environment. In June 2018, the developers announced that since TrueOS had become the core OS to provide a basis for other projects, the graphical installer had been removed. Graphical end-user-oriented OSes formerly based on TrueOS were GhostBSD and Trident. TrueOS provided official binary Nvidia and Intel drivers for hardware acceleration and an optional 3D desktop interface through KWin, and Wine is ready-to-use for running Microsoft Windows software. TrueOS was also able to run Linux software in addition to FreeBSD Ports collection and it had its own .txz package manager. TrueOS supported OpenZFS and the installer offered disk encryption with geli. Development of TrueOS ended in 2020. Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar Define $dy = -3 # shift text to right side of bar Define $now = 31/12/2016 Define $start = 29/04/2006 ImageSize = width:160 height:720 PlotArea = width:50 height:700 left:50 bottom:10 DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:$start till:$now TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2007 PlotData= bar:Leaders color:red width:26 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S from:29/04/2006 till:$now from:29/04/2006 till:29/04/2006 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:1.0 from:29/05/2006 till:29/05/2006 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:1.1 from:12/07/2006 till:12/07/2006 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:1.2 from:31/12/2006 till:31/12/2006 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:1.3 from:24/09/2007 till:24/09/2007 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:1.4 from:12/03/2008 till:12/03/2008 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:1.5 from:23/04/2008 till:23/04/2008 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:1.5.1 from:19/09/2008 till:19/09/2008 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:7.0 from:17/10/2008 till:17/10/2008 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:7.0.1 from:10/12/2008 till:10/12/2008 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:7.0.2 from:10/04/2009 till:10/04/2009 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:7.1 from:06/07/2009 till:06/07/2009 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:7.1.1 from:23/02/2010 till:23/02/2010 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:8.0 from:21/07/2010 till:21/07/2010 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:8.1 from:24/02/2011 till:24/02/2011 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:8.2 from:13/01/2012 till:13/01/2012 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:9.0 from:18/12/2012 till:18/12/2012 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:9.1 from:07/10/2013 till:07/10/2013 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:9.2 from:29/01/2014 till:29/01/2014 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:10.0 from:14/11/2014 till:14/11/2014 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:10.1 from:21/08/2015 till:21/08/2015 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:10.2 from:04/04/2016 till:04/04/2016 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:10.3 from:01/09/2016 till:01/09/2016 shift:($dx,$dy) fontsize:XS text:TrueOS Since version 7, PC-BSD began following the same numbering system as FreeBSD. Since version 9.0, the KDE SC, customized to support tighter application integration and the .txz package management system, was no longer the only desktop environment supported by PC-BSD. While manual installation of other desktops such as Xfce and GNOME had been technically possible in earlier releases, none of these were supported in the earlier versions, and major functionality was lost when not using PC-BSD's special build of KDE SC. Starting with version 9.0, PC-BSD added other desktop environments, including GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, and MATE. PC-BSD used to support both amd64 and i686 architectures. Support for i686 was dropped in version 9.2. (underlined red) status message shown in widgets of a PC-BSD 10.1.2 network manager (running on MATE). Three network interface widgets (2 Ethernet and 1 Wi-Fi) showing two network interfaces being up, one being down with no cable plugged in (hence: "no carrier").]] Starting in September 2016 with the rebranding of PC-BSD, TrueOS became a rolling release distribution based on FreeBSD's current branch.
Minimum
amd64 processor 1 GiB of RAM 20 GiB free hard drive space Network card
Recommended
amd64 processor EFI system partition for installation of rEFInd 4 GiB of RAM 30 GiB of free hard drive space on a primary partition for a desktop installation, or 20 GiB for a server installation 50 GiB is recommended for installations with backup services 3D accelerated video card Network card Sound card File:PC-BSD 10.1.2 MATE Screenshot.png|Screenshot of a PC-BSD 10.1.2 desktop (MATE) with dual monitor (dual head, pivot). The running free and open-source (FOSS) programs are: GIMP, OpenShot, file manager, Eric Python development IDE. Also shown: Minecraft 1.8.7 (with "Forge" mods). DistroWatch Interview with Kris Moore on DistroWatch Interview with Kris Moore on FLOSS Weekly
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