While our open source app NoMAD can be a great tool to help users bound to Active Directory, its main purpose is to help move your Macs off binding to AD while still getting all of the functionality. Cosmic Nomad A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux You have had enough of the solar system and now you fly as a Nomad from planetary system to planetary system.
Help fighting the Coronavirus with your computer!
By running Folding@Home you can provide computing power that helpsto find therapeutics for COVID-19 and other diseases. Please see Coronavirus – What we're doing and how you can help in simple terms for more information. The software is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. If you wantto run Folding@Home on FreeBSD, installthe port biology/linux-foldingathome.
About
NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based onFreeBSD®. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, itis configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, butcan also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to testFreeBSD®'s hardware compatibility.
For a list of installed software packages see theMANIFEST 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 should be able to run NomadBSD decently.Booting is possible via BIOS and UEFI.
Current Version
1.4
Errata
n/aDevelopment
You can check out the latest code and configuration files atGitHub.
Contributing to NomadBSD
Would you like to translate program interfaces or documentation? Are you adesigner or programmer? Check out the openissues onGitHub.Do you have a cool idea for the project? Join theNomadBSD developermailing list and let us know.News
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 beenadded. 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 byNetworkMgr.
- The subsystem for auto-starting applications used by NomadBSD does now conform to theXDG 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 theircounterparts under/data
, so that users don't have to create symlinks for those directoriesanymore.- Bad news for i386 users: Since drm-legacy-kmod is now obsolete, there isno 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.
- If Xorg reports a problem with the touchpad,
- 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 aymore.
NomadBSD Forum is back
2020-10-16
The NomadBSD forum is back. Thank you for your patience.
NomadBSD Forum down for maintenance
2020-10-16
The NomadBSD forum is currently down for maintenance.NomadBSD 1.3.2 Errata available
2020-10-16 Stardust raiders mac os.
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:https://forum.nomadbsd.org
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 byunionfs-fuse
- The GPT layout has been changed to MBR. This prevents problems with Lenovosystems that refuse to boot from GPT if 'lenovofix' is not set, and systemsthat 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 graphicsconfiguration scripts. This fixes problems where users with Optimus havetheir 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, settingthe default user and autologin has been added.
- nomadbsd-adduser, a Qt tool for added preconfigured user accounts to the systemhas 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 beenadded.
- 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 accessingsamba 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 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 first rolling release of NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT isnow available!
2019-09-19
We are pleased to present the first rolling release (rr130c190919) of NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT.
Changes
Space Nomad Mac Os Catalina
- 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.
NomadBSD 1.2 Errata available
2019-04-25
The errata file for NomadBSD 1.2 isnow available.
NomadBSD 1.2 released!
2019-04-21
We are pleased to announce the release of NomadBSD 1.2! We would like tothank 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.
- A 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.
- A 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 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.
NomadBSD 1.2-RC2 released!
2019-02-18
The second release candidate of NomadBSD 1.2 is now available! We would like tothank all the RC1 testers who sent us feedback and bug reports. If you noticeany 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.
- A 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.
- A 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.
NomadBSD 1.2-RC1 released!
2019-01-15
The first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.2 is available! If you notice anyproblems, please let us know.
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 first rolling release of NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT isnow available!
2019-09-19
We are pleased to present the first rolling release (rr130c190919) of NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT.
Changes
Space Nomad Mac Os Catalina
- 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.
NomadBSD 1.2 Errata available
2019-04-25
The errata file for NomadBSD 1.2 isnow available.
NomadBSD 1.2 released!
2019-04-21
We are pleased to announce the release of NomadBSD 1.2! We would like tothank 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.
- A 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.
- A 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 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.
NomadBSD 1.2-RC2 released!
2019-02-18
The second release candidate of NomadBSD 1.2 is now available! We would like tothank all the RC1 testers who sent us feedback and bug reports. If you noticeany 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.
- A 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.
- A 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.
NomadBSD 1.2-RC1 released!
2019-01-15
The first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.2 is available! If you notice anyproblems, 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 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
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
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.
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
Review of NomadBSD 1.0.1
2018-05-06
RoboNuggie made a review of NomadBSD 1.0.1. You can find the videohere. 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
Space Nomad Mac Os Update
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.