About

NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD®. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD®'s hardware compatibility.

For a list of installed software packages see the MANIFEST 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 (2G for the ZFS version) should be able to run NomadBSD decently. Booting is possible via BIOS and UEFI.

Current Version

140R-20240126

Errata

140R-20240126 Errata

Development

You can check out the latest code and configuration files at GitHub.

Contributing to NomadBSD

Would you like to translate program interfaces or documentation? Are you a designer or programmer? Check out the open issues on GitHub. Do you have a cool idea for the project? Join the NomadBSD developer mailing list and let us know.

NewsRSS

NomadBSD 140R-20240126 Errata released

2024-02-11

The 140R-20240126 Errata addresses a problem where pkg upgrade fails to create hard links.

NomadBSD 140R-20240126 is now available!

2024-01-30

Changes

A NomadBSD image based on FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE is now available!

2023-11-27

NomadBSD 132R-20231013 is now available!

2023-10-16

We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 132R-20231013.

Changes since 20221130

NomadBSD 131R-20221130 is now available!

2022-12-04

We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 131R-20221130.

Changes since 20210508

New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz

2022-06-14

We are happy to announce that Mehmet Mert Gunduz has joined our team. He did a great job modernizing the NomadBSD website.

NomadBSD 130R-20210508 is now available!

2021-05-11

We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 130R-20210508.

Changes since 1.4

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 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

NomadBSD Forum is back

2020-10-16

The NomadBSD is back. Thank you for your patience.

NomadBSD Forum down for maintenance

2020-10-16

The NomadBSD is currently down for maintenance.

NomadBSD 1.3.2 Errata available

2020-10-16

1.3.2 Errata

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

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

NomadBSD 1.3 is now available!

2019-12-07

NomadBSD 1.3

We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.3.

Changes since 1.2

The image(s) and instructions can be found here.

The first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.3 is now available!

2019-11-17

NomadBSD 1.3 We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.3.

Changes

The image(s) and instructions can be found here.

The first rolling release of NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT is now available!

2019-09-19

We are pleased to present the first rolling release (rr130c190919) of NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT.

Changes

The image(s) and instructions can be found here.

NomadBSD 1.2 Errata available

2019-04-25

The errata file for NomadBSD 1.2 is now available.

NomadBSD 1.2 released!

2019-04-21

NomadBSD 1.2 We are pleased to announce the release of NomadBSD 1.2! We would like to thank all the testers who sent us feedback and bug reports.

Changes

The image(s) and instructions can be found here.

NomadBSD 1.2-RC2 released!

2019-02-18

The second release candidate of NomadBSD 1.2 is now available! We would like to thank all the RC1 testers who sent us feedback and bug reports. If you notice any problems, please let us know.

Changes since 1.2-RC1

The image(s) and instructions can be found here.

NomadBSD 1.2-RC1 released!

2019-01-15

NomadBSD 1.2-RC1 The first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.2 is available! If you notice any problems, please let us know.

Changes since 1.1

The image(s) and instructions can be found here.

NomadBSD 1.1 released!

2018-07-07

Changes since 1.0.1

The image(s) and instructions can be found here.

NomadBSD 1.1-RC2 released!

2018-06-23

The second release candidate of NomadBSD-1.1 is available!

Changes

The image and instructions can be found here.

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

NomadBSD 1.1-RC1

The first – and hopefully final – release candidate of NomadBSD 1.1 is available!

Changes

The image and instructions can be found here.

Review of NomadBSD 1.0.1

2018-05-06

RoboNuggie made a review of NomadBSD 1.0.1. You can find the video here. Thank you!

NomadBSD 1.0.1 released

2018-03-03

Changes

NomadBSD on BSDNow

2018-03-22

NomadBSD was mentioned in BSD Now 238. Thank you, guys!

NomadBSD 1.0 released

2018-02-28

Changes

NomadBSD 0.5.3 released

2018-02-19

Changes