Category Archives: DesktopBSD

The DesktopBSD project is in the process of being revived. EchoD has brought the website and the forums back to live. DesktopBSD 1.7 was released back in 2009 and Peter Hofer announced that would be the last release baked up … Continue reading →

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 / … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →