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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. 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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