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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."

6 of 154 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Linux Binary Compatible by ig88b · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just applications.

  2. Re:Am I the only ignorant one to think... by CSHARP123 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only difference is, this is not from Microsoft and it works Just out of the box. You do not need to struggle like how you do with Windows. Hope this helps.

  3. Been testing it by WinterSolstice · · Score: 3, Informative

    And this is a BIG improvement over version 7. Still some bugs to be worked out, but it's got far better integration with the PBI installer (similar to synaptic), a very good GUI installer, and the very latest nvidia drivers.

    Very nice, very well executed. They turned it out pretty fast too.

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  4. that link is wrong by tresstatus · · Score: 3, Informative

    not to point out the obvious, but when you go to the change log link from the summary, you actually wind up going to http://www.unixmen.com/content/view/151/11/ which tells you how to install nagios. here is a link to the pcbsd 8.0 changelog... http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/151/11/

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  5. Re:Wait by flydpnkrtn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Er, well that's not quite true. It seems there's a lot of confusion in this area...

    The OS X kernel is called XNU, and is Mach-based. It's not the FreeBSD kernel.

    OS X's userland is called Darwin, is open source, and IS based on a FreeBSD userland (not kernel)

    Just sayin'

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  6. Re:PBI files by WinterSolstice · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm a huge fan of the PBIs and I think they're a really good way to quickly install objects that would otherwise require ports and complex dependencies.

    The best part is they don't interfere with each other, unlike some of the apt-get/yum type packages. For the most part they encapsulate everything that would have been in the ports build.

    When the PBI is updated, you get a notification and can just clicky click to upgrade it (without trashing the rest of your system just because Gimp 9.9 requires some lib that everything else hates)

    Easy to make too - just get the PBI installer, and then build them from the existing port. Porting still remains an exercise for the reader ;)

    Installing Firefox, Quake, America's Army, Rhythmbox or Gnome like this is awesome. I hope that it takes off as a model.

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    An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.