Category Archives: DesktopBSD

CrossOver Games announced

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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DesktopBSD 1.7 – Development snapshot

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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DesktopBSD – Unix for the masses

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Gerard

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, … Continue reading →

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DesktopBSD 1.6 reviewed

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Gerard

raiden.net has a pretty nice review of the latest version of DesktopBSD, 1.6 DesktopBSD, a derivative of Freebsd designed for desktop use, has come a long way since its early inception back in late 2005. Originally created as a way … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD vs DesktopBSD; similarities & differences

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Gerard

Similar to my m0n0wall vs pfSense; similarities & differences post, I thought I’d also post a “PC-BSD vs DesktopBSD; similarities & differences” overview since I get so much trafic from people trying to find out what the similarities and differences … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD in 2007 – a review

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Gerard

2007 is over. It was a very successful year for open source software and another 12 interesting months have passed for FreeBSD. In this post I want to look back at 2007 and see how FreeBSD faired, what happened in … Continue reading →

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DesktopBSD 1.6 final released

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Gerard

The wait is over. After about 20 months since v1.0, 1.6 has been released. This release is the first stable release of the 1.6 branch and comes with a great number of new features and improvements. It is based on … Continue reading →

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DesktopBSD – day 30 – the verdict

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Gerard

Jan Stedehouder has finished his series on “Desktop BSD – 30 days”. Read the verdict here. On November 1st I started with this series about DesktopBSD and we are now six weeks later. Six weeks in which I played, wrestled … Continue reading →

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