PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use

donadony writes "Last Monday PC-BSD 8.0 was released. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD and uses KDE as its default desktop environment. PC-BSD is designed to make BSD much easier for desktop use. The 8.0 release includes support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64 and improvements in the USB subsystem. The PC-BSD team has also developed a friendly package manager system with a simple-to-use GUI tool (see the screenshots tour). For a full list of changes, refer to the changelog."

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Re:UNIX vs. Linux?

[BitZtream]

No, its not, and POSIX does not define UNIX. POSIX is the portable OS interface, it was originally intended for Unix derivitatives, but it does not define what UNIX is. The Open Group defines what UNIX is, and Linux is not in the list.

Interestingly enough, the others you mentioned ARE UNIX, Linux is the only one that isn't.

The difference is simply in the name and licensing of that name, but it still bothers me that Linux fanboys can't get it through there head that you can't call yourself UNIX until you pay the piper. It may be dumb that you essentially 'buy' the right to be called UNIX, but thats just the way it is. Buy the right, or stop fucking trying to pretend you did. Go off on some tangent about how UNIX is retarded because its proprietary or its just a name that you buy or some crap like that ... something thats actually true at least.