PC-BSD 7 Released, With KDE 4.1.1

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."

Comments

Re:But...?

[sakdoctor]

Does it run a unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD?

Nope, definitely doesn't have the same ring to it.

Re:But...?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does it run Linux?

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

21st century names are so great.

[argent]

Right, they should have named it "Hurtling Llama" or "Stoned Hyena".

Huh?

[bepe86]

7 comments, and no "BSD is dying"-troll yet? Slashdot confirms it, "BSD is dying-troll" is dying.

Re:Nostalgia edition?

[bestinshow]

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.

Fibonacci edition?

[magus_melchior]

So the minor versions go 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...?

("One... two... FIVE!" "Three, sir!" "Three!")

Re:Wonderful naming, there

[Tubal-Cain]

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.

Re:Wonderful naming, there

[mr_mischief]

And yet it's more honest than "Mojave".

Welcomed Release

[foldingstock]

Its nice to see a PC-BSD release based on FreeBSD-7.0.

Personally, I rather like the PBI concept. I got a little frustrated when setting up Firefox v3 on Ubuntu*, due to having to upgrade loads of libraries just to use it, which in turn caused many packages to become unusable unless they were also upgraded. I don't want to do a full OS upgraded just to use a web browser.

With PBI packages, the installation is sandboxed in its own directory, along with the needed libraries. This does take up more space, but in the long run it makes for quite a stable system.


*I like and use Ubuntu. I am not saying PCBSD is better or worse then Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution.

Why the obsession with Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

Very, very often I scratch my head and wonder why there's such an obsession with the Linux kernel when it comes to desktops based around GNOME/KDE. From a desktop end-user point of view (and I'm an end-user), there's little difference between the two. The various types of BSD have great wifi card support, and most printers are supported by CUPS nowadays independently of the kernel. That's just about all I need, to be honest. Everything else I need is provided by software, such as Firefox.

What I like most about BSD is simply that it isn't Linux. It hasn't got the baggage that Linux has. I can mention it in polite conversation without being thought of as a fanatic. There are very, very few BSD fanboys -- people using it tend to be older, and more mature. It doesn't get on Digg, and if it does there will be like 10 comments from people passing the time, rather than debating how Windoze sux!!!!1!

This is a great thing. Perhaps it's just like Linux used to be 10 years ago.

Re:Why the obsession with Linux?

[laffer1]

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.