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DesktopBSD – a new start
This is good news for the FreeBSD world, FreeBSD advocacy and the FreeBSD project in general, and current DesktopBSD users in particular: According to the DesktopBSD website development of this KDE-based and FreeBSD based, user-friendly system will be restarted / continued by a group of developers: Since the 5/20/2010 the development was taken up by DesktopBSD by [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD 1.7 – last and final version
7. September 2009
Peter Hofer, founder of DesktopBSD, has announced on the mailinglist DesktopBSD 1.7. This new release comes with FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 as base system and KDE 3.5.10 as desktop environment and includes a large number of pre-installed applications. The easy-to-use graphical installer and utilities allow for a simple installation and configuration process. Notable changes include: FreeBSD 7.2 as stable and [...]
Continue reading...The future of the DesktopBSD project
9. June 2009
A few months ago we were wondering what was happening with DesktopBSD (DesktopBSD; what’s happened). Peter Hofer, the founder of the project, has now put an update on the DBSD Forums: Still, as some may have noticed, I have been able to work on some smaller improvements within the last few months. I now have the [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD; what’s happened?
28. February 2009
It’s been quiet around DesktopBSD the last few months. It’s been a looooong time since the last stable release, and many months since the last publicly available snapshot. There aren’t any blog updates and the svn.desktopbsd.net subdomain is dead. The forums are quite quiet; not as busy as they used to be. I emailed Peter Hofer, the founder of [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD Live USB stick
21. January 2009
Fusselbaer has posted some instructions on how to set up DesktopBSD running live from a USB memory stick. The instructions are in German and can’t unfortunately be automatically translated with Google Translate since the link is https. The steps and commands are easy to follow, but if you’re not altogether sure, copy the (part of the) [...]
Continue reading...Firefox 3 for FreeBSD
2. July 2008
Mozilla Firefox 3 is now available for FreeBSD. Firefox is an award winning, free, open-source web browser for many platforms and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advanced features: Popup Blocking Tabbed Browsing Live Bookmarks (ie. RSS) Extensions Theme FastFind Improved Security To install Firefox3 from the commandline in FreeBSD, [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD & DesktopBSD artwork
22. April 2008
Vermaden has created some nice artwork for both PC-BSD and DesktopBSD. Check these links: PC-BSD artwork DesktopBSD artwork
Continue reading...CrossOver Games announced
19. April 2008
CodeWeavers, the makers of CrossOver Office, have announced a new product: CrossOver Games Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC (or FreeBSD, PC-BSD and DesktopBSD, GvE) Whatever your tastes — first-person [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD 1.7 – Development snapshot
24. March 2008
The first development build of DesktopBSD 1.7, an operating system based on the recently released FreeBSD 7.0, was announced and ready for downloading & testing. First, remember it’s an early snapshot, so there will be certainly some problems! But apart from that it’s DesktopBSD based on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I did a first test, there are some [...]
Continue reading...DesktopBSD – Unix for the masses
19. February 2008
Reptiler reports: Currently I’m playing around with DesktopBSD. This actually is because I’m anyway playing with Xen, so I decided to use the time I spend on Xen to try out a few more systems. One of those is DesktopBSD, a version of FreeBSD customized for desktop-use. Thus it offers what we are used to from [...]
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31. May 2010
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