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PC-BSD 1.1 Screenshot Tour

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-desktop dept.

linuxbeta writes to tell us DistroWatch is reporting that PC-BSD has released version 1.1 which updates the core OS to FreeBSD 6.1, adds better driver support to the kernel and improves the overall speed on many systems. OSDir also has a screenshot tour available for general consumption.

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  1. PC-BSD rox0rz by JPriest · · Score: 5, Informative
    I have been using PC-BSD for a couple weeks now, I love it. I use pretty standard hardware so I have not had much trouble with driver support.

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  2. Screenshots by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice screenshots I suppose, though they don't tell me all that much.

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    1. Re:Screenshots by jonbuys · · Score: 2, Informative

      I've got a couple of movies online over here: http://www.jonstechblog.com/movies/movies.html if you'd care for a closer look.

  3. Not yet ready by jasonmanley · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am a huge fan of PC-BSD but I have found it to be very slow. On both my laptop and PC it is slow. To open firefox or openoffice or netbeans takes very long. The updates are huge and everytime I install the startup process hangs on the sendmail initiation and I have to edit a file to make that go away. I believe it has promise but it's not there yet.

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    1. Re:Not yet ready by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Informative

      > the startup process hangs on the sendmail initiation

      sounds like DNS trouble

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  4. Re:DesktopBSD by John+Nowak · · Score: 3, Informative

    First result for "BSD vs Linux" on Google:
    http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4lin ux/bsd4linux1.php

  5. Re:DesktopBSD by jonathansizz · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can use ports just as easily on PC-BSD as you can on DesktopBSD. PBI's are an extra option.

  6. Does it run Linux? Yes. by KwKSilver · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it does run Linux binaries. The earlier versions required binary compatibility to be added post-install. Since PC-BSD moved to FreeBSD kernel 6.0, Linux binary compatibility is pre-configured. There is no post-installation configuration now. Just add packages, either by .pbi, pkg_add, or ports. And yes, Kim, I know you were kidding.

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