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PC-BSD 8.1 review by linuxbsdos
linuxbsdos has a fairly positive review of PC-BSD 8.1, though there is still room for improvement: “PC-BSD 8.1 was released on July 20, 2010, roughly five months after version 8.0 was released. Some of the suggestions made in the review of PC-BSD 8.0 have been carried out in this latest release. In fact, the changes were [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD quick news and links (04/08/2010)
5. August 2010
PC-BSD Blog Dru Lavigne has joined the PC-BSD team this month. The first thing she did, was setting up another blog: the PC-BSD Blog. She already posts BSD related posts on it.toolbox.com: A year in the life of a BSD guru. A new *BSD Planet Website Edward launched AboutBSD recently as a new *BSD blogs agregating website. It [...]
Continue reading...Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released
4. August 2010
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. Bordeaux 2.0.6 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs and includes many new features. Some of the changes are: Wine 1.2 included, Updated to the latest winetricks release, Updated to the latest DIB Engine patch, Added support for IrfanView 4.27, Install the IrfanView Plug ins during [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 8.1 released
21. July 2010
The PC-BSD Team has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5 Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: FreeBSD 8.1-Release KDE 4.4.5 Numerous fixes to the installation backend Support for creating dedicated disk GPT partitioning Improved [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD quick news and links (28/06/2010)
28. June 2010
PC-BSD Installer The new PC-BSD installer (available as GUI and text installer), which is also able to install plain FreeBSD, has now been committed to the FreeBSD source tree. This video goes into the details of the installer. Kris Moore: PC-SYSINSTALL – A new system installer backend for PC-BSD and FreeBSD BSD Certification The BSD Certification Group needs reviewers for the [...]
Continue reading...CrossOver Office and Games for FreeBSD / PC-BSD
23. June 2010
Tom Wickline has written a short introduction on CrossOver Office for FreeBSD / PC-BSD. Codeweavers, the company behind CrossOver, is according to their website, the leading corporate backer of the Wine Project. Wine is an open source software initiative that is systematically re-implementing the Win32 API under Unix. Wine makes it possible for PCs running Unix-based operating [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 8.1-RC1 Released and Dru joining PC-BSD
21. June 2010
PC-BSD has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1-RC1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RC, and KDE 4.4.4. Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog: FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 KDE 4.4.4 Numerous fixes to the installation backend Support for creating dedicated disk GPT [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 8.1-BETA1 Released
8. June 2010
Hot on the heels of the FreeBSD 8.1-BETA1, Kris Moore has now prepared and released PC-BSD 8.1-BETA1. As most of you will now PC-BSD follows the FreeBSD release cycle and is pure FreeBSD, not a fork, clone or anything like that. The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1-BETA1 (Hubble Edition), running [...]
Continue reading...Creating PBI packages for PC-BSD (howto)
8. June 2010
Jesse Smith from Distrowatch has published an howto showing how you can create step-by-step PBIs (software package format used on the PC-BSD operating system (.pbi filename extension)) for PC-BSD: “A few months ago when I reviewed PC-BSD 8.0, some people mentioned the reason they weren’t attracted to the FreeBSD-based operating system was the lack of available PBI [...]
Continue reading...PC-SYSINSTALL – A new system installer backend for PC-BSD and FreeBSD
4. May 2010
This presentation was done by Kris Moore, founder of the PC-BSD Project at AsiaBSDCon 2010. Abstract: The sysinstall tool has been the default system installer for FreeBSD for more than a decade now. While is it has proven itself to be reliable and resilient over the years, it doesn’t support many of the new features that [...]
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23. August 2010
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