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PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use

Posted by kdawson on from the fresh-bits dept.

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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  1. Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's finally the year of the BSD desktop! I knew this day would come.

  2. Bah! by OverZealous.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    BSD will never work on the desktop! It's far too Unixy.

    Now, excuse me as I get back to work on my user-friendly Mac.