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PC-BSD 8.1 review

LinuxBSDos: "PC-BSD 8.1 was released on July 20, 2010, roughly five months after version 8.0 was released. Some of the suggestions made in the review of PC-BSD 8.0 have been carried out in this latest release."

Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released

Wine-Reviews: "The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD. With this release we have bundled Wine 1.2, Updated to the latest winetricks release, Updated to the latest DIB Engine patch, Added support for IrfanView 4.27."

Distribution Release: PC-BSD 8.1

PC-BSD 8.1 has been released: "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE and KDE 4.4.5. Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the....

Strike that: now I'm a PC-BSD! - Nothing but blue skies from now on...

A fortnight ago I wrote in I'm a BSD about my initial adventures installing FreeBSD and trying to get it configured as a desktop system. After a few days, I had come to a halt. As one reader put it:...

Development Release: PC-BSD 8.1 RC1

The first release candidate for PC-BSD 8.1, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD, comes with KDE 4.4.4 and improved support for the ZFS file system: "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1-RC1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RC, and KDE 4.4.4. Version 8.1....

Development Release: PC-BSD 8.1 Beta 1

Kris Moore has announced that the first beta release of the upcoming PC-BSD 8.1, a desktop-oriented variant of FreeBSD, is now ready for download and testing: "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1-BETA1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE, and KDE 4.4.4. Version 8.1....

Bordeaux on PC-BSD Screenshot tour

Wine-Reviews: "This is a Bordeaux on PC-BSD 8 Screenshot tour. This tour will show you how easy it is to install Bordeaux on PC-BSD and start installing Windows Applications and Games. Bordeaux has a single dependency on Zenity once Zenity is installed"

Bordeaux 2.0.4 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released

wine-Reviews: "The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.4 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs."

Dru Lavigne's 'The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD' is helping me update my packages and ports

Click: "The FreeBSD Handbook appeared cryptic on how exactly to update packages and ports. I'm sure the answer is in there, but I just couldn't find it."

PC-BSD 8.0 vs. Kubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

Phoronix: "...we took this opportunity to deliver a fresh set of *BSD benchmarks. In this article we have benchmarks of PC-BSD 8.0 x64 against Kubuntu 9.10 x86_64."

PC-BSD 8.0 Goes Gold

OStatic: "Looking for a desktop-centric version of BSD? Check out the latest from PC-BSD, released on Monday. New in this release are improvements in ZFS, KDE 4.3.5 with a new theme, the ability to run 32-bit packages on 64-bit systems, and improvements to the software manager for PC-BSD."

BSD Release: PC-BSD 8.0

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 8.0, a major new version of the user-friendly FreeBSD variant designed for the desktop: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce 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....

Bordeaux 2.0.0 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released

Wine-Reviews: "The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon"

Development Release: PC-BSD 8.0 RC2

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the second release candidate of PC-BSD 8.0, a user-friendly, FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop: "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC2 (Hubble Edition). PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x....

Development Release: PC-BSD 8.0 RC

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the release candidate for PC-BSD 8.0, a user-friendly, FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC, running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.4. PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements....

Development Release: PC-BSD 8.0 Beta

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the first beta release of PC-BSD 8.0, a desktop operating system (with KDE) based on FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA, running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, and KDE 4.3.4. Version 8.0 contains a number of enhancements....

BSD Release: PC-BSD 7.1.1

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD 7.1.1, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 7.2: "Version 7.1.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements from PC-BSD 7.1, including KDE 4.2.4, improvements to printing support, Xorg Server 1.6.1, and much more. For a....

Development Release: PC-BSD 7.1.1 RC2

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the second release candidate for PC-BSD 7.1.1, a FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop: "I've just finished uploading PC-BSD 7.1.1 RC2 for your inspection. This version fixes many of the bugs you've reported from RC1, and also seems to fix a....

Review: My good ol' friend FreeBSD (actually PC-BSD 7.1)

Another day in development...: "And while I continue to use GNU/Linux, I still hold an emotional tie to BSD-based operating systems. It was not until recently that I had decided to give the latest version of PC-BSD a try. This is version 7.1: Galileo Edition."

PC-BSD 7.1 vs. Kubuntu 9.04 Benchmarks

Phoronix: "PC-BSD 7.1 ships with X.Org 7.4 and KDE 4.2.2 installed along with many other packages when using the x86 or x64 DVD installations. Though with the Phoronix Test Suite now having enhanced support for PC-BSD, we decided to see how well PC-BSD 7.1 performs against Kubuntu 9.04."

BSD Release: PC-BSD 7.1

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 7.1, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 7.1: "iXsystems announced today the release of PC-BSD version 7.1. PC-BSD 7.1 is built upon the FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE operating system. It includes updated versions of KDE (4.2.2) and X.Org (7.4). The latest....

Development Release: PC-BSD 7.1 RC1

Kris Moore has announced that the first release candidate for PC-BSD 7.1, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 7.1, is now ready for testing: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.1-RC1, running FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE, and KDE 4.2.1." What's new? "Fixed bugs with....

Development Release: PC-BSD 7.1-BETA1

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the first beta release of PC-BSD 7.1, a user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 7.1: "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.1-BETA1, running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE, and KDE 4.2.1. Version 7.1 contains a number of enhancements....

A quick review of PC-BSD 7.0

Bobulate: "I can be brief about what bothers me most about PC-BSD: there is an error in the Fibonacci sequence in the default wallpaper. It's hardly visible, but glaring at the same time. Maybe this is a consequence of me reading number theory before going to bed every night."

BSD Release: PC-BSD 7.0.2

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 7.0.2, the second bug-fix update of the user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 7: "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.0.2, with an updated FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE under the hood and the latest KDE 4.1.3.....

BSD Release: PC-BSD 7.0.1

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 7.0.1, the first bug-fix upgrade of the new 7.0 series: "After much hard work and testing the PC-BSD Team is happy to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.0.1, the first upgrade in the 7 series, with FreeBSD 7.0 under the....

Review: PC-BSD 7

OSNews: "Being a Linux junkie, I thought it is time to venture into the BSD arena. Recently the PC-BSD team released their latest stable version (PC-BSD 7) code-named Fibonacci Edition."

Bordeaux 1.6 beta 1 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD

Wine-Reviews: "Over the past month we have made some major progress on the BSD port of Bordeaux. Bordeaux for FreeBSD now has a .sh installer, the same one that we use on Linux, so you will need to have py-gtk installed for the installer to work properly."

BSD Release: PC-BSD 7.0

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 7.0, a user-friendly, desktop operating system based on FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce PC-BSD version 7.0 'Fibonacci'. This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-STABLE and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1....