Category Archives: PC-BSD

Kris Moore on PBI v4 (Interview)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Gerard

Will Backman from BSDTalk has interviewed Kris Moore,  PC-BSD founder, on the latest version of PBI (PC-BSD Push Button Installer). Listen to the interview here.

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PBI creating tutorial (in Spanish)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Gerard

Jacob Luevano has created a great tutorial for Spanish speakers showing how to create PBIs (PC-BSD’s click-n-install packages). If your mother tongue is Spanish and you’ve been wanting to create PBIs, there’s no excuse any more. PC-BSD proporciona un sistema … Continue reading →

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pbiDir.com – new version

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Gerard

We’re happy to announce the new version of pbiDir.com where you can download the point-n-click installation PBI packages for PC-BSD. The site now includes screen-shots of applications, comments, user logins and much, much more! Also announced on our PC-BSD blog.

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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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PC-BSD in the classroom

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Gerard

Kevin Miller used PC-BSD in one of his classes and got his students to use it too. Thanks for spreading the word, Kevin! Read Kevin’s “My Vietnamese Students used PC-BSD” account for details.

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PC-BSD PBI Creator 4.0 released

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Gerard

Version 4.0 of the PBI installation program has been released, which includes several new features: New wizard screen during installation, allows user to select a custom installation directory. Installer now displays disk space required for program, and available space on … 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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New Year’s message from PC-BSD

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Gerard

PC-BSD’s New Year’s message offers a few peeks into what is planned for 2008: PC-BSD 1.5 based on FreeBSD 6.3 and KDE 3.5.8 64-bit native version planned Update to the PBI Creator and PBIdir.com PBI Auto-Building system up-and-running On behalf … Continue reading →

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