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About
NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based on
FreeBSD
. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it
is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but
can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test
FreeBSD
's hardware compatibility.
For a list of installed software packages see the
MANIFEST file
Requirements
The images for 64-bit and 32-bit computers fit on a >=5GB USB flash drive.
A system with a 1.2GHz CPU and 1G of RAM (2G for the ZFS version) should be
able to run NomadBSD decently. Booting is possible via BIOS and UEFI.
Current Version
141R-20240711
Errata
n/a
Development
You can check out the latest code and configuration files at
GitHub
Contributing to NomadBSD
Would you like to translate program interfaces or documentation? Are you a designer or programmer? Check out the open
issues
on
GitHub
. Do you have a cool idea for the project? Join the
NomadBSD developer mailing list
and let us know.
News
NomadBSD 141R-20240711 is now available!
2024-07-15
Changes since 140R-20240126
The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p2.
A hard link creation bug concerning unionfs has been fixed.
A calculation bug which led to an overfull UFS root partition has been fixed.
The fusefs module has been changed to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) timeout errors on unionfs.
The NomadBSD tools have been ported from Qt5 to Qt6.
Several small improvements and bugfixes.
NomadBSD 140R-20240126 Errata released
2024-02-11
The
140R-20240126 Errata
addresses a problem where
pkg upgrade
fails to create hard links.
NomadBSD 140R-20240126 is now available!
2024-01-30
Changes
The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p4.
OpenBox has been replaced by XFCE.
A NomadBSD image based on FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE is now available!
2023-11-27
NomadBSD 132R-20231013 is now available!
2023-10-16
We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 132R-20231013.
Changes since 20221130
The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p4.
The graphical file search utility Catfish has been added.
Turkish translations have been added to the NomadBSD setup.
The uniemoji input method has been added to IBus.
NomadBSD 131R-20221130 is now available!
2022-12-04
We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 131R-20221130.
Changes since 20210508
The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p5.
Except for i386, We now provide two images for each supported architecture.
One which uses ZFS and one which uses UFS for the root filesystem.
The file systems used on the UFS version are now created with soft updates
journaling enabled to reduce file system repair problems after a crash.
The automatic graphics driver detection has been improved. Support for
VIA/Openchrome has been added. For Nvidia graphics card not supported by one
of the Nvidia drivers nv is now used.
For better support of non-latin keyboard input and switching between
layouts, IBus is now used.
The rc script for loading acpi modules has been improved.
The display manager SLiM has been replaced by SDDM.
In order to reduce image sizes, libreOffice and some multimedia packages
have been removed.
The kernel has been build with a patch that prevents some laptops from
hanging when the hwpstate_intel driver is loaded.
See: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=67f2a563bfcad75c16536ca500b06ddc9306dfa0
Turkish localization and support for Opera and Microsoft Edge have been
added to the Linux browser installer GUI.
An experimental nomadbsd-update tool has been added, which allows to update
components of the NomadBSD system.
New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz
2022-06-14
We are happy to announce that Mehmet Mert Gunduz has joined our team. He
did a great job modernizing the NomadBSD website.
NomadBSD 130R-20210508 is now available!
2021-05-11
We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 130R-20210508.
Changes since 1.4
We've decided to change the versioning scheme to the following form:
FFfX-YYYYMMDD, where
FF
is the major two-digit FreeBSD version,
is the minor version, and
stands for ALPHA (A),
BETA (B), RC, or RELEASE (R). Followed by a date. The new scheme
allows us to provide images with different version of FreeBSD.
The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE.
The partition alignment has been changed to 1M to improve the write
speed on flash drives.
A bug where GLX is disabled has been fixed.
Drivers for VMware have been added.
NomadBSD 1.4 is now available!
2021-03-03
We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.4.
Changes since 1.3.2
The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.2-p4.
The installer has been improved.
Problems with booting the installed system via UEFI has been fixed.
The suitable graphics card driver will now be installed and setup,
instead of using the auto-detection on the installed system.
Automatic graphics driver detection has been improved
The menu has been removed.
If no better graphics driver could be found, VESA or SCFB is used.
Autodetection will now run only if the system configuration
changed since the last successful detection.
Autodetection can be disabled via the boot menu in case there
is a problem.
Touchpad support has been improved
If Xorg reports a problem with the touchpad,
kern.evdev.rcpt_mask
is automatically adjusted to use
sysmouse.
The tool DSBXinput has been added which allows for easy
configuration of touchpads and mice.
An rc-script for saving an restoring the display brightness has been added.
A GUI for easy installation of the Linux Chrome, Brave and Vivaldi browser has been
added. They allow to use streaming services like
Netflix
Prime Video
or
Spotify
Support for selecting other window managers or desktop environments by pressing
in the graphical login manager (
SLiM
has been added.
wifimgr
has been replaced by
NetworkMgr
The subsystem for auto-starting applications used by NomadBSD does now conform to the
XDG autostart specs
The partition which uses the remaining space is now mounted under
/data
/compat
/var/tmp
/var/db
, and
/usr/ports
are now nullfs mount points for their
counterparts under
/data
, so that users don't have to create symlinks for those directories
anymore.
Bad news for i386 users: Since
drm-legacy-kmod
is now obsolete, there is
no i386 support for accelerated graphics for Intel and ATI/AMD cards aymore.
The first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.4 is now available!
2021-01-26
We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.4.
Changes since 1.3.2
The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.2-p2.
The installer has been improved.
Problems with booting the installed system via UEFI has been fixed.
The suitable graphics card driver will now be installed and setup, instead of using the auto-detection on the installed system.
Automatic graphics driver detection has been improved
The menu has been removed.
If no better graphics driver could be found, VESA or SCFB is used.
Autodetection will now run only if the system configuration changed since the last successful detection.
Touchpad support has been improved
If Xorg reports a problem with the touchpad,
kern.evdev.rcpt_mask
is automatically adjusted to use sysmouse.
The tool DSBXinput has been added which allows for easy configuration of touchpads and mice.
An rc-script for saving an restoring the display brightness has been added.
A GUI for easy installation of the Linux Chrome and Brave browser has been added. Both browsers allow to use streaming services like
Netflix
Prime Video
, or
Spotify
Support for selecting other window managers or desktop environments by pressing
in the graphical login manager (
SLiM
) has been added.
wifimgr
has been replaced by
NetworkMgr
The subsystem for auto-starting applications used by NomadBSD does now conform to the
XDG autostart specs
The partition which uses the remaining space is now mounted under
/data
/compat
/var/tmp
/var/db/freebsd-update
/var/db/portsnap
, and
/usr/ports
are now nullfs mount points for their counterparts under
/data
, so that users don’t have to create symlinks for those directories anymore.
Bad news for i386 users: Since
drm-legacy-kmod
is now obsolete, there is no i386 support for accelerated graphics for Intel and ATI/AMD cards anymore.
NomadBSD Forum is back
2020-10-16
The NomadBSD is back. Thank you for your patience.
NomadBSD Forum down for maintenance
2020-10-16
The NomadBSD is currently down for maintenance.
NomadBSD 1.3.2 Errata available
2020-10-16
1.3.2 Errata
NomadBSD 1.3.2 is now available!
2020-07-06
We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.3.2.
Changes since 1.3.1
The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1-p6.
rtsx-kmod
which is a driver for Realtek card readers,
has been added.
The ZFS layout used for installing NomadBSD on a harddisk has been
changed to allow beactl to back up the boot environment. Thanks to
@maurizio-emmex.
load_iichid
has been added. It is a rc-script, which offers the
user, via a
dialog
(1) menu, to load the experimental iichid
driver from
sysutils/iichid
if it finds a I2C HID.
graphics/intel-backlight
has been added.
A curses menu has been added, which allows user to acknowledge licenses
of certain wireless drivers in order to use them.
A unionfs_maxfiles
rc.conf
variable has been
added. It controls how many files can be opened on the unionfs.
graphics/mirage
has been replaced by
graphics/viewnior
A patch from 12-STABLE has been added to the
acpi_video
module,
which sends
devd
events whenever the brightness was changed.
brightness_listener
has been added. It is a tool that listens in
the background on devd events for keypresses of screen brightness
buttons and shows the current brightness level using
dunst
(1).
volumecontrol
has been added. It is a wrapper around
/usr/sbin/mixer
to increase, decrease and toggle mute the
soundcard and display the current value with
dunst
(1).
Spanish translations have been added to
nomadbsd-adduser
Thanks to Hugo Salgado.
A bug which makes the brigtness keys of the ThinkPad T450 fail has been
fixed.
The bwn(4) module was build with
BWN_GPL_PHY
enabled to build it with N-PHY support, which is needed for BCM43224 and
BCM43225 devices.
x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
and
x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
have been replaced by
x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput
NomadBSD Forum created
2020-03-19
We now have set up a forum for you to look for help and give us feedback:
NomadBSD 1.3.1 is now available!
2020-03-08
We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.3.1.
Changes since 1.3
The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.1-p2
The automatic network interface setup has been improved. This includes
better hardware detection, and support for IPv6.
The NomadBSD image size has exceeded the 4GB mark. A flash drive >= 5GB
is now required.
Due to the bigger image size, mail/claws-mail was replaced by mail/thunderbird.
The NomadBSD setup now locks all kernel module packages to prevent users
from running into problems when upgrading their packages.
nomadbsd-chusr
, which is a graphical tool for modifying user
accounts, has been added.
nomadbsd-sysinfo
, which is a shell script to collect
information about the running system, has been added.
Zeroconf
via
avahi
and
mdns
has been added.
Czech translations have been added by Martin Orszulik.
French translations have been added by Grégory Reinbold.
Indonesian translations have been added by Andreas Bayu.
Key bindings for taking screenshots (
[Print]
),
and for locking the screen (
Ctrl + Alt + L
have been added.
A theme for the lock screen has been added.
Several small tweaks and bug fixes have been added.
NomadBSD 1.3 is now available!
2019-12-07
We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.3.
Changes since 1.2
The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1
Due to a deadlock problem, FreeBSD's unionfs has been replaced by
unionfs-fuse
The GPT layout has been changed to MBR. This prevents problems with Lenovo
systems that refuse to boot from GPT if "lenovofix" is not set, and systems
that hang on boot if "lenovofix" is set.
Support for ZFS installations has been added to the NomadBSD installer.
The rc-script for setting up the network interfaces has been fixed and improved.
Support for setting the country code for the wlan device has been added.
Auto configuration for running in VirtualBox has been added.
A check for the default display has been added to the graphics
configuration scripts. This fixes problems where users with Optimus have
their NVIDIA card disabled, and use the integrated graphics chip instead.
NVIDIA driver version 440 has been added.
nomadbsd-dmconfig, a Qt tool for selecting the display manager theme, setting
the default user and autologin has been added.
nomadbsd-adduser, a Qt tool for added preconfigured user accounts to the system
has been added.
Martin Orszulik added Czech translations to the setup and installation wizard.
The NomadBSD logo, designed by Ian Grindley, has been changed.
Support for localized error messages has been added.
Support for localizing the password prompts has been added.
Some templates for starting other DEs have been added to
~/.xinitrc
The interfaces of nomadbsd-setup-gui and nomadbsd-install-gui have been improved.
A script that helps users to configure a multihead systems has been
added.
The Xorg driver for newer Intel GPUs has been changed from
"intel"
to
"modesetting"
/proc has been added to
/etc/fstab
A D-Bus session issue has been fixed which prevented thunar from accessing
samba shares.
DSBBg which allows users to change and manage wallpapers has been added.
The latest version of update_obmenu now supports auto-updating the Openbox menu.
Manually updating the Openbox menu after packet (de)installation is therefore no longer needed.
Support for multiple keyboard layouts has been added.
www/palemoon has been removed.
mail/thunderbird has been removed.
audio/audacity has been added.
deskutils/orage has been added.
the password manager fpm2 has been replaced by KeePassXC
mail/sylpheed has been replaced by mail/claws-mail
multimedia/simplescreenrecorder has been added.
DSBMC has been changed to DSBMC-Qt
Many small improvements and bug fixes.
The image(s) and instructions can be found
here
The first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.3 is now available!
2019-11-17
We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.3.
Changes
The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1
Due to a deadlock problem, FreeBSD's
unionfs
has been replaced by
unionfs-fuse
The GPT layout has been changed to MBR. This prevents problems with
Lenovo systems that refuse to boot from GPT if
lenovofix
is not set, and systems
that hang on boot if
lenovofix
is set.
Support for ZFS installations has been added to the NomadBSD installer.
The rc-script for setting up the network interfaces has been fixed.
Support for setting the country code for the wlan device has been added.
Auto configuration for running in VirtualBox has been added.
A check for the default display has been added to the graphics
configuration scripts. This fixes problems where users with Optimus have
their NVIDIA card disabled, and use the integrated graphics chip instead.
NVIDIA driver version 440 has been added.
nomadbsd-dmconfig, a Qt tool for selecting the display manager
theme, setting the default user and autologin has been added.
nomadbsd-adduser, a Qt tool for added preconfigured user accounts
to the system has been added.
Martin Orszulik added Czech translations to the setup and
installation wizard.
The NomadBSD logo, designed by Ian Grindley, has been changed.
Support for localized error messages has been added.
Support for localizing the password prompts has been added.
Some templates for starting other DEs have been added to
~/.xinitrc
The interfaces of nomadbsd-setup-gui and nomadbsd-install-gui have
been improved.
A script that helps users to configure a multihead systems has been
added.
The Xorg driver for newer Intel GPUs has been changed from
intel
to
modesetting
DSBBg
which allows
users to change and manage wallpapers has been added.
The latest version of
update_obmenu
now supports auto-updating the Openbox menu. Manually updating the
Openbox menu after packet (de)installation is therefore no longer
needed.
Support for multiple keyboard layouts has been added.
www/palemoon has been removed.
mail/thunderbird has been removed.
audio/audacity has been added.
deskutils/orage has been added.
The password manager fpm2 has been replaced by KeePassXC
Many small improvements and bug fixes.
The image(s) and instructions can be found
here
The first rolling release of NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT is
now available!
2019-09-19
We are pleased to present the first rolling release (rr130c190919) of NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT.
Changes
The rc-script for setting up the network interfaces has been fixed. Support for setting the country code for the wlan device has been added.
Support for ZFS has been added to the NomadBSD installer.
The GPT layout has been changed to MBR layout used by the FreeBSD memstick images. This prevents problems with Lenovo systems that refuse to boot from GPT if "lenovofix" is not set, and systems that hang on boot if "lenovofix" is set.
Support for multiple keyboard layouts has been added.
Auto-configuration for running in VirtualBox has been added.
The Xorg driver for newer Intel GPUs has been changed from "intel" to "modesetting".
A check for the default display has been added to the graphics configuration scripts. This fixes problems where users with Optimus have their NVIDIA card disabled, and use the integrated graphics chip instead.
The latest version of update_obmenu now supports auto-updating the Openbox menu. Manually updating the Openbox menu after packet (de)installation is therefore no longer needed.
Support for configuring a multihead system has been added.
Some templates for starting other DEs have been added to ~/.xinitrc.
The setup wizard and the installer have been improved.
The image(s) and instructions can be found
here
NomadBSD 1.2 Errata available
2019-04-25
The
errata file
for NomadBSD 1.2 is
now available.
NomadBSD 1.2 released!
2019-04-21
We are pleased to announce the release of NomadBSD 1.2! We would like to
thank all the testers who sent us feedback and bug reports.
Changes
The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.0-p3
TRIM has been enabled by default.
vt(4)
color theme has been added.
The
dialog(1)
based setup has been replaced
by a Qt GUI which supports dynamic translation. Currently available
translations are German and Russian.
In order to reduce the number of implicit package upgrades and
possible inconsistencies, the
pkg(8)
default
repository has been changed to "Quarterly".
A recent copy of the NomadBSD handbooklet has been added to nomad's
home dir.
A new option has been added to the boot menu which allows users to set
hw.syscons.disable
The kernel tunable
vfs.root_mount_always_wait=1
has been added to
/boot/loader.conf to prevent mountroot from mounting the root partition
before the device is available.
Dynamic creation of configuration files for Intel GPUs has been added.
For GPUs using the legacy i915kms driver, the UXA acceleration method is
used. For newer GPUs SNA is used which fixes performance problems (at
least on HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell))
The backend for compton has been changed to xrender. This fixes input
delay problems with the NVIDIA driver. Further, it makes using compton
with VESA and SCFB possible.
x11/dmenu has been added which can be started by pressing Ctrl+Space.
A bug where the NVIDIA GLX libraries could not be found because of
path changes in the nvdia-driver-{304,340,390} packages has been fixed.
A bug where executing
pkg install
delete
lead to overwriting the
library path to the NVIDIA libraries has been fixed.
dialog(1)
menu has been added to the
initgfx
script which allows the
user to choose between auto detection and a non-accelerated graphics
driver.
The detection of network devices has been improved.
A script with a Qt5 frontend for installing NomadBSD on a hard
disk has been added.
Support for building 32bit images has been added.
The user interface has been slightly changed.
Support for the local keymap when entering the geli password has been added.
Support for resetting NomadBSD has been added. Users can execute
/usr/libexec/nomad/nomad_setup reset
in
single user mode to bring NomadBSD back to its initial state.
Localized XDG standard dirs have been added.
The swap partition has been removed.
linux_base has been removed.
Several small improvements and bugfixes.
The image(s) and instructions can be found
here
NomadBSD 1.2-RC2 released!
2019-02-18
The second release candidate of NomadBSD 1.2 is now available! We would like to
thank all the RC1 testers who sent us feedback and bug reports. If you notice
any problems, please let us know.
Changes since 1.2-RC1
The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.0-p3
TRIM has been enabled by default.
vt(4)
color theme has been added.
The
dialog(1)
based setup has been replaced
by a Qt GUI which supports dynamic translation. Currently available
translations are German and Russian.
In order to reduce the number of implicit package upgrades and
possible inconsistencies, the
pkg(8)
default
repository has been changed to "Quarterly".
A recent copy of the NomadBSD handbooklet has been added to nomad's
home dir.
A new option has been added to the boot menu which allows users to set
hw.syscons.disable
The kernel tunable
vfs.root_mount_always_wait=1
has been added to
/boot/loader.conf to prevent mountroot from mounting the root partition
before the device is available.
Dynamic creation of configuration files for Intel GPUs has been added.
For GPUs using the legacy i915kms driver, the UXA acceleration method is
used. For newer GPUs SNA is used which fixes performance problems (at
least on HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell))
The backend for compton has been changed to xrender. This fixes input
delay problems with the NVIDIA driver. Further, it makes using compton
with VESA and SCFB possible.
x11/dmenu has been added which can be started by pressing Ctrl+Space.
A bug where the NVIDIA GLX libraries could not be found because of
path changes in the nvdia-driver-{304,340,390} packages has been fixed.
A bug where executing
pkg install
delete
lead to overwriting the
library path to the NVIDIA libraries has been fixed.
dialog(1)
menu has been added to the
initgfx
script which allows the
user to choose between auto detection and a non-accelerated graphics
driver.
The driver database of sysutils/dsbdriverd has been extended to detect
more network devices:
The device ID list for
run(4)
iwm(4)
and firmware modules has
been extended.
A record for
rtwn(4)
devices has
been added.
A script for installing NomadBSD on a hard disk has been added.
Support for building 32bit images has been added.
The image(s) and instructions can be found
here
NomadBSD 1.2-RC1 released!
2019-01-15
The first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.2 is available! If you notice any
problems, please let us know.
Changes since 1.1
The Base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE
The setup menu has been improved, and new configuration options for
choosing the standard web browser, e-mail client, filemanager,
and editors have been added.
The script for detecting and loading the Intel video driver has been
improved.
The user interface has been slightly changed.
Support for the local keymap when entering the geli password has been added.
Support for resetting NomadBSD has been added. Users can execute
/usr/libexec/nomad/nomad_setup reset
in
single user mode to bring NomadBSD back to its initial state.
Localized XDG standard dirs have been added.
The swap partition has been removed.
linux_base has been removed.
Several small improvements and bugfixes.
New packages:
devel/geany
x11-wm/plank
x11-themes/lxappearance
The image(s) and instructions can be found
here
NomadBSD 1.1 released!
2018-07-07
Changes since 1.0.1
Base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE
Basic support for MacBooks has been added
A script for loading the matching DRM driver from
graphics/drm-stable-kmod for Radeon GPUs has been added. Together with
x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu more recent AMD Radeon chipsets should
now work out of the box.
For all Intel GPUs the new i915kms from graphics/drm-stable-kmod is
now used.
x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa have
been added as fallback drivers.
Autodetection of the VirtualBox pseudo GPU has been added.
Fallback configuration of SCFB
EFI booting has been fixed.
Support for modern Intel GPUs has been added.
Support for installing packages has been added.
Improved setup menu.
More software packages:
benchmarks/bonnie++
DSBDisplaySettings
DSBExec
DSBSu
mail/thunderbird
net/mosh
ports-mgmt/octopkg
print/qpdfview
security/nmap
sysutils/ddrescue
sysutils/fusefs-hfsfuse
sysutils/fusefs-sshfs
sysutils/sleuthkit
www/lynx
x11-wm/compton
x11/xev
x11/xterm
Many improvements and bugfixes
The image(s) and instructions can be found
here
NomadBSD 1.1-RC2 released!
2018-06-23
The second release candidate of NomadBSD-1.1 is available!
Changes
A script for loading the matching DRM driver from
graphics/drm-stable-kmod for Radeon GPUs has been added. Together with
x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu more recent AMD Radeon chipsets should
now work out of the box.
For all Intel GPUs the new i915kms from graphics/drm-stable-kmod is
now used.
x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb and x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa have
been added as fallback drivers.
The image and instructions can be found
here
Review of NomadBSD by barnabyh
2018-06-19
barnabyh
from
all-things-linux.blogspot.com
wrote a
review of NomadBSD
. Thank you!
NomadBSD 1.1-RC1 released!
2018-06-16
The first – and hopefully final – release candidate of NomadBSD 1.1 is available!
Changes
The base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 11.2-RC3
EFI booting has been fixed.
Support for modern Intel GPUs has been added.
Support for installing packages has been added.
Improved setup menu.
More software packages:
benchmarks/bonnie++
DSBDisplaySettings
DSBExec
DSBSu
mail/thunderbird
net/mosh
ports-mgmt/octopkg
print/qpdfview
security/nmap
sysutils/ddrescue
sysutils/fusefs-hfsfuse
sysutils/fusefs-sshfs
sysutils/sleuthkit
www/lynx
x11-wm/compton
x11/xev
x11/xterm
Many improvements and bugfixes
The image and instructions can be found
here
Review of NomadBSD 1.0.1
2018-05-06
RoboNuggie
made a review of NomadBSD 1.0.1. You can find the video
here
. Thank you!
NomadBSD 1.0.1 released
2018-03-03
Changes
Fix a problem with graphics driver detection.
Fix a boot problem on
Lenovo
X220
Disable the terminal bell.
Add a rc script to automatically load the correct acpi module.
Close/lock root shells on ttyv{0,1,2}.
NomadBSD on BSDNow
2018-03-22
NomadBSD was mentioned in
BSD Now 238
. Thank you, guys!
NomadBSD 1.0 released
2018-02-28
Changes
The setup process has been improved.
Support for optional geli encryption of the home partition has been added
Auto-detection of NVIDIA graphics cards and their corresponding driver has been added. (Thanks to holgerw and lme from BSDForen.de)
An rc script to start the GEOM disk scheduler on the root device has
been added.
More software has been added:
accessibility/redshift (starts automatically)
audio/cantata
audio/musicpd
audio/ncmpc
ftp/filezilla
games/bsdtris
mail/neomutt
math/galculator
net-p2p/transmission-qt5
security/fpm2
sysutils/bsdstats
x11/metalock
x11/xbindkeys
Several smaller improvements and bugfixes.
NomadBSD 0.5.3 released
2018-02-19
Changes
The partition scheme has been changed from MBR to GPT+EFI.
The graphical boot loader by Oliver Fromme has been installed.
The filesystem settings have been changed for better performance.
Growing the filesystem to fill the flash drive can now automatically be done from the setup menu.
The boot time has been reduced.
A problem with the setup on systems where a NVIDIA graphics card is installed has been fixed.
The browser configurations have been changed/included to improve performance.
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