TrueOS

TrueOS
Lumina desktop running on TrueOS
DeveloperiXsystems
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source
Initial release2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Latest release
  • Rolling release (UNSTABLE), based on FreeBSD-CURRENT
  • Long-term support (STABLE) every 0.5 years, based on FreeBSD-STABLE
    • 18.12[1] / 15 December 2018; 5 years ago (2018-12-15)
Package manager
Platforms
Kernel typeMonolithic (FreeBSD)
Default
user interface		Lumina
LicenseBSD
Official websitetrueos.org
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TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued[3] Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT.[4]

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[5] 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.[6] Graphical end-user-oriented OSes formerly based on TrueOS were GhostBSD and Trident.[7] 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[8] 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.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference lastrelease was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Our Team". TrueOS Project and iXsystems. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b "TrueOS Discontinuation". TrueOS. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  4. ^ Smith, Josh (1 September 2016). "PC-BSD Evolves into TrueOS | TrueOS". TrueOS Project and iXsystems. Retrieved 2016-11-20 – via www.trueos.org.
  5. ^ "System Selection Screen/10.0 - PC-BSD Wiki". pcbsd.org. Archived from the original on 15 January 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  6. ^ "TrueOS to Focus on Core Operating System". www.trueos.org. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Project Trident Ditches BSD for Linux". 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  8. ^ "Chapter 11. Linux Binary Compatibility". freebsd.org. Retrieved 9 February 2014.