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Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 9.0, a desktop-oriented distribution based on the latest stable FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD development team and iXsystems are pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD version 9.0. Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, this is also the first PC-BSD which offers users....
Kris Moore has announced the availability of the third release candidate for PC-BSD 9.0, a FreeBSD-based desktop distribution and live medium: "The third (and hopefully last) release candidate for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 is now available. This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 base, along with numerous bug....
Kris Moore has announced the availability of the second release candidate for PC-BSD 9.0, a FreeBSD-based desktop distribution: "The second release candidate for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 is now available for download. This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 base, along with numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Notable....
Dru Lavigne has announced the availability of the first release candidate for PC-BSD 9.0, an easy-to-use desktop operating system based on FreeBSD: "The first release candidate for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 is now available! This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 base, along with numerous bug fixes and....
Dru Lavigne has announced the availability of the third beta release of PC-BSD 9.0, a user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD: "The third BETA release of the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 is now available. This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 base, along with numerous bug fixes and....
LinuxCareer: A Linux site take PC-BSD for a spin
Kris Moore has announced the availability of the second beta release of PC-BSD 9.0, a user-friendly, FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop: "The next BETA release of the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 is now available. This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 base, along with numerous bug fixes and....
koinu writes "Phoronix has published benchmarks comparing 3D game performance on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 with the FreeBSD Linux ABI emulation on the 8.2 release of PC-BSD, which is a desktop variant of FreeBSD. Most results show that the emulated Linux layer on FreeBSD performs better than Linux natively. It's pretty interesting, because most people would expect that an additional abstraction layer would generally slow down the execution of binaries." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Kris Moore has announced the availability of an updated development build of PC-BSD 9.0: "PC-BSD 9.0-BETA1.5 is now available. Users already running BETA1 may update to BETA1.5 via the system-updater GUI on the taskbar. Notable changes in this release: enable hplip scanner support; fixed bug removing PBIs sometimes....
Dru Lavigne has announced the availability of the first beta release of PC-BSD 9.0, a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release in the new 9.x series. Major changes: now supports multiple window managers, such....
Linux Notes From DarkDuck: "PC-BSD is another system based on Berkeley System Distribution."
LinuxBSDos: "In continuation of a series of articles on dual-booting Linux and BSD desktop distributions with Windows 7, this article presents a step by step guide on how to dual-boot the latest stable release of PC-BSD, PC-BSD 8.2, on a computer with an existing installation of Windows 7."
Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 8.2, a desktop BSD system based on FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.2 (Hubble edition), running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and KDE 4.5.5. Version 8.2 contains a number of enhancements and improvements, some of the....
The third and final release candidate for PC-BSD 8.2, a FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop, is out: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of the third release candidate for PC-BSD 8.2. This is expected to be the last RC prior to release which is....
Dru Lavigne has announced the availability of the second release candidate for PC-BSD 8.2, a FreeBSD-based operating system with a strong focus on desktop computing: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of the second release candidate for PC-BSD 8.2. This will be the last beta....
The first release candidate for PC-BSD 8.2, a FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop, is out and ready for testing: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate for PC-BSD 8.2. Version 8.2-RC1 contains a number of enhancements, improvements, and bug fixes....
LinuxBSDos: "The current stable release of PC-BSD available for download is version 8.1. Version 8.2 is due sometime very early next year (mid to late January is the likely release time frame), and version 9 much later."
Kris Moore has announced the availability of the first beta release of PC-BSD 8.2, a user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.2-BETA1 which is running FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE, X.Org 7.5, and KDE 4.5.4. Version 8.2 contains a....
LinuxBSDos: "As a desktop distribution built atop FreeBSD, PC-BSD makes available to the desktop user all the cool technologies inside FreeBSD. One of those cool technologies is ZFS, the Zettabyte File System"
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."
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."
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....
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:...
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....
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....
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"
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."
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."