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Bordeaux 2.0.4 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released
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” button has also been re-named to “Install”. The Wine bundle has been upgraded from 1.1.36 to 1.1.41, [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.1 Release Date: 9 July 2010
26. April 2010
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 initial target schedule. The highlights are: Freeze May 24th, 2010 BETA1 May 28th, 2010 RC1 June 11th, 2010 RC2 June 25th, 2010 RELEASE July 9th, 2010 As usual, [...]
Continue reading...(Free)BSD quick news and links (week 16)
24. April 2010
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 can be found here. FreeBSD News FreeBSD & Google Summer of Code 2010 FreeBSD Project is participating [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 8-Stable testing snapshots
29. March 2010
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 bi-weekly basis or so. This will let us do advanced testing on new features of PC-BSD, as [...]
Continue reading...(Free)BSD quick news and links
10. March 2010
FreeBSD Returning committer: Niels Heinen (ports) (07/03/2010) New committer: Neel Natu (src) (03/03/2010) PC-BSD 1. Quick Poll – which pages would you like to see printed from Dru’s latest book in the upcoming BSD Magazine issue? 2. How does PC-BSD 8.0 compare with Kubuntu 9.10? This is probably comparing apples with pears, but for those liking comparison reviews, check PC-BSD [...]
Continue reading...Taking a look at PC-BSD 8.0 (Distrowatch)
9. March 2010
After having tried and reviewed FreeBSD 8, Jesse Smith has now taken PC-BSD 8 for a spin, and he’s overall very pleased with the speed, ease-of-use and the hardware support for his desktop PC. He is also very impressed with the PC-BSD Installer and its Package Manager. He concludes his review with: While on the topic of [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 8.0 in blogosphere
5. March 2010
PC-BSD 8.0 was released last week. Version 8.0 of this desktop-friendly and user-friendly FreeBSD version seems to be liked, mentioned and welcomed on many websites. The announcement made it even on the BSD-undriendly Slashdot. Some other sites: ostatic.com – PC-BSD goes gold phoronix.com – PC-BSD 8.0 Released For A Polished, Friendlier FreeBSD Desktop h-online.com – PC-BSD 8.0 “Hubble Edition” [...]
Continue reading...Released: PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition)
23. February 2010
iXsystems has announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.5. PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2 KDE 4.3.5 Brand new System Installer, allows the install of PC-BSD or FreeBSD Run in [...]
Continue reading...Distrowatch interview with Kris Moore (PC-BSD 8)
19. February 2010
Distrowatch interviewed Kris Moore, the main developer of PC-BSD. The conversation is mainly about the upcoming PC-BSD 8. Recently, I had a chance to exchange some e-mails with Kris Moore (pictured on the right), the founder of the PC-BSD project. For those of you interested in the BSD scene, PC-BSD is a desktop operating system which uses [...]
Continue reading...The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD (Book)
9. February 2010
PC-BSD 8.0 is almost here, and so is The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD. This book is written by Dru Lavigne and due to be published later this month, 28 February. Since its initial release in early 2006, the PC-BSD operating system has quickly become a popular desktop for both novice and experienced computer users. Novice users [...]
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