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GhostBSD

GhostBSD is a user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. Its default desktop is MATE, but a separate community edition with Xfce is available too.

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SmartOS

SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9).

Technical Specs Comparison
GhostBSDSmartOS
FreeBSDBaseSolaris
pkg / txzPackage Managerpkgsrc
RCInit Systemother
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
Latest Version
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
April 18, 2026Release DateJune 11, 2026
x86_64
Architecture
x86_64
GershwinMATEXfceNo Desktop
Desktops
GershwinMATEXfceNo Desktop