Category Archives: PC-BSD

PC-BSD 8.1-RC1 Released and Dru joining PC-BSD

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Gerard

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, … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 8.1-BETA1 Released

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Creating PBI packages for PC-BSD (howto)

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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PC-SYSINSTALL – A new system installer backend for PC-BSD and FreeBSD

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Bordeaux 2.0.4 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Gerard

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.4 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD yesterday. Bordeaux 2.0.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release the Bordeux UI changed from a GTKDialog to a GTKWindow, the “OK” … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD 8.1 Release Date: 9 July 2010

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Gerard

Ken Smith wrote to the freebsd-stable mailing list that FreeBSD 8.1 is scheduled to be released on 9 July 2010: For those of you who are wondering when 8.1-RELEASE might arrive, we have discussed it and come up with the … Continue reading →

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(Free)BSD quick news and links (week 16)

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Gerard

Welcome to the (Free)BSD leftovers for week 6. In this post we have a mix of news snippets, quick links, howto’s, links ’n software/package updates. Just a round up of those little things I saved up this week. Previous weeks’ roundups … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 8-Stable testing snapshots

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Gerard

Kris Moore announced bi-weekly snapshots for PC-BSD 8-Stable Our first PC-BSD 8-Stable snapshot is now ready for testing / inspection on i386 & amd64: In the upcoming months I’m going to try and get out a stable snapshot on a … Continue reading →

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