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PC-BSD 7 Released, With KDE 4.1.1

Posted by timothy on from the repeat-not-dead dept.

Gonzalo Martinez-Sanjuan Sanchez writes "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce PC-BSD version 7.0! (Release Name: Fibonacci Edition.) This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-Stable and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 desktop. Users will immediately notice the improved visual interface that KDE 4.1.1 offers, as well as a large improvement in hardware support and speed from the update to FreeBSD 7-Stable."

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  1. Re:But...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Does it run Linux?

    Yeah, just install /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6.

  2. Re:Nostalgia edition? by bestinshow · · Score: 4, Informative

    64 bit downloads on the torrent page, but not the image page. How odd!

    http://www.gotbsd.net/

    Also appears to include Linux compatibility out of the box. Will have to give this a go sometime.

  3. Re:Wonderful naming, there by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, it's aimed at the desktop, maybe they could call it "Desktop-BSD". Except that "Desktop" as a word is somewhat anachronistic.

    And it is already taken.

  4. Re:But...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Occasional user of elfbrand may be required.

    It's brandelf

  5. Re:But...? by fedcb22 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Get with the times :) Install /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f8

  6. Re:Why the obsession with Linux? by laffer1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    So go to the vmware site and request FreeBSD support. There was a forum thread about it actually.

    FreeBSD has two built in shells and several editors. I don't see what's so hard about pkg_add -r bash nano if you want to go GNU.

    The bash port adds it to /etc/shells so chsh works. Other BSDs include different shells. For instance, OpenBSD has a modified pdksh which is decent. MidnightBSD and MirBSD include mksh. MidnightBSD also has tcsh and ash (/bin/sh is ash in freebsd too)

    Dragonfly and MidnightBSD include mined as an alternate editor as well.

    --
    MidnightBSD: The BSD for Everyone