PC-BSD 9.0 (Isotope Edition) available

iXsystems has announced the availability of PC-BSD 9.0 (Isotope Edition)(via).

Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, this is the first release of PC-BSD which offers users a variety of desktop environments to choose from, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and more!

Also available are pre-built VirtualBox and VMware images with integrated guest tools for rapid virtual system deployment, and native support for installing directly to OS X BootCamp partitions.

Some 9.0 highlights:

• Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE.
• Support for installing a variety of Window Managers, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and more!
• Improved PBI system, allows library sharing, binary diff updating, custom repositories, digital signing and more!
• Support for “freebsd-update” via the System Update GUI.
• New Control Panel, providing consistent configuration options across various Window Managers.
• Improved networking utilities, including wifi quick-connect.
• Enhanced “Life-Preserver” utility for doing off-site rsync backups of user data.
• New VirtualBox / VMware disk images, with integrated guest tools.
• Support for UFS+Journaling out of box.
• New graphical boot options page.
• Support for installation to BootCamp partitions on OS X systems.
• And much more!

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Check out the press release: iXsystems Announces Release of PC-BSD 9.0 Isotope Edition