Taking a peek at GhostBSD 1.0

“The PC-BSD project brings a user-friendly pre-configured KDE
desktop to the FreeBSD community. Which is all well and good, but
what if you’re more of a GNOME person? Well, it turns out there is
a project in the works for you too. The GhostBSD project is in its
early stages, but it’s paving the way for users who enjoy running
GNOME on a FreeBSD base without any configuring or installing extra
software. I had a chance to exchange emails with Eric Turgeon, the
project’s founder and lead developer.

“* * * * *
DW: First, could you tell us what experience you had with BSD prior
to starting GhostBSD? Did you develop with FreeBSD or other
projects before creating your own BSD variant?

“ET: I’d never developed anything before, I was just a normal
FreeBSD GNOME user. I came from Ubuntu and, a part, by PC-BSD. I’m
not a fan of KDE and had never found a BSD project with GNOME. I
decide to do it, without any skill in programming at all. It took
me eight months to do the first release based on the FreeSBIE
system. The first live CD I made was buggy. I added, changed and
removed a lot of the code from the FreeSBIE makefile for the beta
and for the release. The GhostBSD makefile is made from 60%
FreeSBIE code, 5% from the FreeBSD GNOME live CD code and 35% by
myself. I have one year of programming skill, learned by
myself.”

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