Karl Fischer has created a video of a PC-BSD 7.0 Fibonacci (alpha) installation.
Thanks, Karl, for letting me know.
Archive for the 'PC-BSD' Category
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?
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 trade show before and wanted to check it out and support BSD
says Galicia. Both ladies were at the BSD Booth with Matt Olander, CTO at iXsystems, to answer questions about FreeBSD and PC-BSD (incl. the upcoming PC-BSD 7 Fibonacci).
This operating system has been under steady development since the ’70s, and we’re a viable alternative to Linux,
said Matt Olander.
Source: wired.com (08/08/2008)
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 4.1 as the primary desktop interface. We are currently releasing weekly Alpha ISO’s, that allow us to test out the new features, and fix bugs associated with the switch to a FreeBSD 7 and KDE 4.1 base.
He also notes there’s a new version of the PBI Builder software available.
Read the full status update
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 installation and basic customization of the operating system. Software application support is also offered and includes assistance configuring and installing third-party applications, either through the FreeBSD ports and packages system or via Push-Button Installers (PBIs), graphical utilities to remove and install PC-BSD software in a simple to use, self-contained format.
Also included are more customized support offerings across a wide range of server-related issues such as kernel tuning and system optimization, device driver creation, kernel, userland, and embedded systems development, and a host of other services. iXsystems offers 8×5 PC-BSD and FreeBSD OS support and has a devoted Service Support Office and US-based Call Center to assist with technical support issues.
We feel that offering Enterprise Grade Support for FreeBSD and PC-BSD will remove one of the main barriers that the platforms face to expanding adoption. While there may be some companies that are capable of supporting them, there are none, to my knowledge, currently offering services and support on an Enterprise level specific to FreeBSD and PC-BSD
says Matthew Olander, CTO of iXsystems.
For more information, read the announcement or head over to the iXsystems Support page.
Did you know you can buy workstations with PC-BSD pre-installed from iXsystems?
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, as the jump from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.1 is very significant, and required the entire codebase to be ported over to compile / run with QT 4. As such, it is expected that many bugs appear in this alpha, and we appreciate your help in finding and fixing them.
Please note, as the 4.1 version of KDE is in beta, and there is still porting to be done on the BSD side of things, you may be able to help in this area as well. First, if you find bugs in the install + setup of PC-BSD, please let us know via the testing list, and we’ll begin working on them right away. However, if you find bugs in the KDE desktop itself, please be sure to check out the KDE bug database first, and determine if the bug should be reported there, or to the kde-freebsd porting team.
For example, we are already aware of a bug preventing Konsole from working. TIP: Use Alt-F2 to launch xterm instead.
Download links: CD1 (652Mb) | CD2 (578Mb)
MD5 CD1 = 96bc8de9771e28770268eab65889718a
MD5 CD2 = 59993ce3182b0ff4b541cb233c328cce
NOTES:
- You will need to download BOTH CD’s to install PC-BSD from now on. KDE4 is quite a bit larger than 3.x, and one CD wont fit it anymore, even with LZMA compression.
- Also, the porting of the PBI system over to KDE 4.1 is finished as well, and the build server is due to start working on the new 7 series PBIs sometime early next week. This should allow everybody to test a more complete desktop with our entire PBI catalog very soon.
Please remember this is a alpha snapshot so don’t complain when you find problems or errors but report them to the testing list instead.
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 is possible to install Gnome on PC-BSD from ports, but doing this can cause problems and take a lot of time.
For the time being there won’t be a Gnome based PC-BSD version, but Gnove lovers will be delighted to learn that Marcus from the FreeBSD Gnome Team has now created a Gnome PBI.
Download the Gnome PBI (413Mb)
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:
- Popup Blocking
- Tabbed Browsing
- Live Bookmarks (ie. RSS)
- Extensions
- Theme
- FastFind
- Improved Security
To install Firefox3 from the commandline in FreeBSD, PC-BSD or DesktopBSD enter:
portsnap fetch extract (if this is the first time you're using portsnap)
portsnap fetch update
cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 && make install clean
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 PC-BSD specific components.
It’s now possible to order workstations with PC-BSD pre-installed from iXsystems, the parent company of PC-BSD.
Checkout this page for the specifications, customisations and orders.
PC-BSD Laptops aren’t available yet until some drivers have been ported.
