NomadBSD is gebaseerd op FreeBSD en richt zich op livesystemen. Het draait vanaf een usb-stick en heeft ongeveer 5GB ruimte nodig. Het bijbehorende manifest vermeldt dat onder andere Filezilla, Firefox, Gimp, Gnupg, Nmap, Pidgin, the Sleuth Kit en Thunderbird worden meegeleverd. Versie 130R-20210508 is halverwege vorige maand uitgebracht voorzien van de volgende aankondiging, die ook de wijziging in versienummering verklaard:
NomadBSD 130R-20210508 is now available!
We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 130R-20210508.
Changes since 1.4NomadBSD 1.4 is now available!
- 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.
 
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 <F1> 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.