FreeBSD-Based TrueOS Gets New Stable Update, Adds Lumina Desktop 1.2.2, More

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

A new stable update of TrueOS has been published recently as a significant step forward for the FreeBSD-based operating system by adding new functionality and updating many of the core components.

Dated June 2, 2017, the stable TrueOS update adds the latest Lumina 1.2.2 desktop environment and OpenRC 0.26.2 init system. Copy, cut and rename functionality has been added to Lumina’s desktop icons, along with paste, new file and new folder functionality in the right-click context menu. Best of all, it looks like the Lumina Desktop port has been made modular.

“The Lumina port is now modular: the x11/lumina metapackage still installs all Lumina utilities,” explain the devs. “However, Lumina is now also broken down into a few standalone packages. Individual desktop utilities can be found under deskutils/lumina-*, the Lumina Desktop now exists in the x11/lumina-core package, and the core utilities… (read more)

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