TrueOS
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TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued[2] Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT.[3]
Developer | iXsystems |
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OS family | Unix-like |
Working state | Discontinued |
Source model | Open source |
Initial release | 2006; 18 years ago (2006) |
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Kernel type | Monolithic (FreeBSD) |
Default user interface | Lumina |
License | BSD |
Official website | trueos |
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[4] 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.[5] Graphical end-user-oriented OSes formerly based on TrueOS were GhostBSD and Trident.[6] 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[7] 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.[2]