The project goal is to combine security, privacy, stability, usability, openness, freedom and to be free of charge.

[3] Xfce 4.12 From GhostBSD 18.10 to 21.01.20, the project moved its base from FreeBSD to TrueOS.

Beginning from GhostBSD 21.04.27, the project has moved its base back to FreeBSD.

Jim Salter of Ars Technica concluded that GhostBSD was "... perfectly reasonable choice for a desktop distribution."

Without a specific desire for running BSD he wouldn't recommend the operating system instead of a more mainstream Linux distribution.