Category Archives: PC-BSD

PCBSD 7.0 Fibonacci alpha2 (video)

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Gerard

This video gives a quick impression of the new look-n-feel of the upcoming PC-BSD 7 Fibonacci (due September 2008)/ What do you think of it? Please let me know in the comments below?

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BSD at LinuxWorld 2008

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Gerard

pc-bsd girl and pc-bsd babe, in real life Gloria Galicia (photo left) and Perla Ibarra (photo middle), were representing FreeBSD/PC-BSD at the LinuxWorld 2008, San Francisco. I work for one of the sponsors of BSD. I’ve never been to a … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 7 status update

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Gerard

Kris Moore has put an update on the PC-BSD website about the PC-BSD 7 … preparing for the next major release of PC-BSD, also known as PC-BSD 7. This new version will be based on FreeBSD 7, and include KDE … Continue reading →

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iXsystems offers professional FreeBSD and PC-BSD support

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Gerard

iXsystems announced  on 08/07/08 the launch of its Professional Services Division for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. The new Professional Services Division will provide Professional Enterprise Grade support, consulting, and development for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. Service offerings include desktop support such as … Continue reading →

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alpha3 release: PC-BSD 7.0 with KDE 4.1

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Gerard

After several weeks of porting and hard work by KDE on FreeBSD and PC-BSD teams,  PC-BSD is pleased to make the first PC-BSD 7 Alpha with KDE 4.1 (beta2) available! This release is quite a bit different from our previous alphas, … Continue reading →

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Gnome PBI available for PC-BSD 1.5 Edison

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Gerard

PC-BSD is a straight-forward and easy-to-install KDE based operating system. However, on the PC-BSD forums a number of users have been saying they prefer the Gnome desktop environment over KDE and would welcome a Gnome based version of PC-BSD. It … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3 for FreeBSD

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Gerard

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: … Continue reading →

Posted in DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, PC-BSD | 5 Comments

Converting FreeBSD into PC-BSD

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Gerard

This post describes an example of how one can manually convert a FreeBSD installation into a PC-BSD one using the install disk. There are more elegant ways of doing it, such as pulling things from PC-BSDs SVN and compiling only … Continue reading →

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