Download NomadBSD 130R-20210508

NomadBSD is based on FreeBSD and focuses on live systems. It runs from a USB stick and needs about 5GB of space. The corresponding manifest mentions that Filezilla, Firefox, Gimp, Gnupg, Nmap, Pidgin, the Sleuth Kit and Thunderbird, among others, are included. Version 130R-20210508 was released mid-last month with the following announcement, which also explains the change in version numbering:

NomadBSD 130R-20210508 is now available!

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, f is the minor version, and X 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!

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.