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PC-BSD 7.1 Released With Integrated Software Manager

Posted by kdawson on from the new-bits dept.

Death Metal writes "PC-BSD 7.1 is built upon the FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE operating system. FreeBSD is a UNIX-based operating system that provides a high level of security and stability. The Galileo Edition of PC-BSD includes updated versions of KDE (4.2.2) and Xorg (7.4). The latest version of KDE includes new window effects, screen savers, and better 3D Acceleration. PC-BSD exclusively features the Push Button Installer, a software installation wizard with a wide range of applications. The latest version improves PBI self-containment to increase reliability. The Add / Remove Programs tool and the Update Manager have been consolidated into 'Software & Updates.'"

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  1. 10 gigs? by FudRucker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    of disk space for a friggin OS is just crazy! i like FreeBSD & PCBSD, but it is getting bloated!

    i have the disk space (500gigs), but i would have to re-arrange some disk partitions which means i would have to burn several DVDs of backup so i don't lose data, you would think any OS would keep t3h bloat below 5 gigs!

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    1. Re:10 gigs? by jdong · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It's a natural tradeoff when every application is designed to be self-contained. This is the same issue Mac OS X faces with its .app bundles -- each app basically ships a /usr like prefix with all of its dependencies on top of the base OS X API's, and application startup times on cold cache pales to a shared-dependency approach.

    2. Re:10 gigs? by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Interesting

      While I understand your point in principle, storage is beyond dirt cheap these days. I have a hard time finding laptops with less than a 100 GB drive, and a 1.5 TB drive can be had for $130 on Newegg.

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    3. Re:10 gigs? by samriel · · Score: 3, Interesting

      ^^^Because I know I'm going to get called out, the dependencies live in /Library or /Users/(user)Library, not /(user)/Library.^^^

    4. Re:10 gigs? by Cyberax · · Score: 3, Insightful

      My new SSD drive is 64 GB and 10 GB is NOT a small amount.

      Ubuntu works just fine with a fraction of that space.

    5. Re:10 gigs? by Ash-Fox · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Bloated, or featureful? Does Vista include a decent text editor? Compilers? Server software

      You know... For average people, that sounds bloated.

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  2. Obligatory nitpicking. by kwabbles · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure it's based on 7.2 PRE, not 7.1. The summary also makes it look like the software manager is a new feature, which it is not. The PBI system has been around for a while in PC-BSD.

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  3. Re:What about XFS? by jdong · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm quite sure you mean ZFS. XFS is SGI's popular journaling filesystem.

  4. Re:Xorg 7.4? by value_added · · Score: 3, Informative

    How do I find out which version of Xorg I have?

    The same as for version numbers for all your other other ports -- pkg_info(7)

    pkg_info -Ex xorg

  5. livecd? by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can the DVD download also be used as a live-cd? I'd like to see what it's like before installing.

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  6. Re:Unix based? by ducomputergeek · · Score: 3, Informative

    BSD can be traced back to MaBell and Unix.

    This video has a decent history of BSD in a nutshell:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7833143728685685343

    It's linux that advertised itself as being "Unix-like".

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  7. So just like Ubuntu by Gothmolly · · Score: 4, Interesting

    but with a different mascot, a different package manager, and different themes ?

    Snark aside - what does this BSD do that any Linux distro or other BSD doesn't ?

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