PC-BSD 8.0 Released

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.5
PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
KDE 4.3.5
Brand new System Installer, allows [...]

PC-BSD 8.0-RC2 Released

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC2 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.5
PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
KDE 4.3.5
Brand new System Installer, allows [...]

PC-BSD 8.0-RC Released

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.4
PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements over the 7.x series. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2
KDE 4.3.4
Brand new System Installer, allows [...]

PC-BSD 8.0-BETA Released

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, and KDE 4.3.4
Version 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:

FreeBSD 8.0-Release
KDE 4.3.4
Brand new System Installer, allows the install of PC-BSD [...]

PC-BSD 7.1.1 Released

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD 7.1.1
Version 7.1.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements from PC-BSD 7.1, including KDE 4.2.4, improvements to printing support, Xorg Server 1.6.1, and much more.
For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Users who wish to upgrade from PC-BSD 7.0.x [...]

iXsystems Unveils PC-BSD Workstation

A known and usual problem with alternative operating systems is getting them on normal users’ desktops. OEMs won’t take you seriously until you gain massive traction, and even then your chances are still pretty low. So, iXsystems, PC-BSD’s parent company, decided to take matters into its own hands, and has unveiled a PC-BSD workstation, with [...]

[PC-BSD Testing] 7.1.1RC2 for Testing

I’ve just finished uploading PC-BSD 7.1.1RC2 for your inspection!
This version fixes many of the bugs you’ve reported from RC1, and also seems to fix
a lot of the issues with intel video cards. (It works perfectly with my 965 again)
ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/iso/7.1.1-RC2/i386/
Known Issues:
* VLC still displays error on exit, fixed in SVN, it’ll be in 7.1.1 final
* The [...]

Review: My good ol’ friend FreeBSD (actually PC-BSD 7.1)

For those of you who are regular visitors, you may already know that before I started playing with GNU/Linux (2001/2) I was using FreeBSD. And while I continue to use GNU/Linux, I still hold an emotional tie to BSD-based operating systems. It was not until recently that I had decided to give the latest version [...]

PC-BSD 7.1-RC1 Released

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.1-RC1, running FreeBSD 7.2-Pre, and KDE 4.2.1
Version 7.1RC1 contains a number of enhancements and bugfixes from beta1. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
Version 7.1-RC1 of PC-BSD is available for download from our mirrors, as well as bittorrent from www.gotbsd.net. [...]

PC-BSD 7.1-BETA1 Released

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.1-BETA1, running FreeBSD 7.1-Stable, and KDE 4.2.1
Version 7.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the changes are:

KDE 4.2.1
Xorg 7.4
Separate PC-BSD and FreeBSD localbase, allows running both PBIs and FreeBSD ports [...]

PC-BSD 7.0.2 now available!

The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.0.2, with an updated FreeBSD 7.1-PreRelease under the hood and the latest KDE 4.1.3.
Version 7.0.2 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the changes are:

KDE 4.1.3
Improved desktop performance with Nvidia Cards
Improved [...]

PC-BSD 7.0.1 available

After much hard work and testing the PC-BSD Team is happy to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.0.1, i.e. the first upgrade in the 7 series, with FreeBSD 7.0 under the hood.
Version 7.0.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the changes [...]

PC-BSD 7 is a mixed bag

FreeBSD is a Unix-like open source operating system that can trace its ancestry back to the original Unix. It’s well known and well respected in the server marketplace, but until recently FreeBSD lacked an easy-to-use desktop version. In 2005 the PC-BSD project was started to provide just that. This month PC-BSD version 7 was released. [...]

PC-BSD gets Bordeaux 1.6

BSD fans can now get their hands on Bordeaux, a commercial front end to the Wine project. The development team today announced the release of Bordeaux 1.6 beta 1.
“Over the past month we have made some major progress on the BSD port of Bordeaux. Bordeaux for FreeBSD now has a .sh installer, the same one [...]

PC-BSD 7.0

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 7.0, a user-friendly, desktop operating system based on FreeBSD: “The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce PC-BSD version 7.0 ‘Fibonacci’. This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-STABLE and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 desktop.
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PC-BSD 7 Beta 1 Available

The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD version 7-BETA1!
This release marks the first PC-BSD based on FreeBSD 7-STABLE and the KDE 4.1 desktop, and also provides many new ways to install, including DVD, USB and Network/Internet installation choices. Our PBI site has also been updated with a wide variety of [...]

PC-BSD 1.5.1 Available

PC-BSD version 1.5.1 is now available for download as both ISO and updates from version 1.5. This version provides updates to the default port set, as well as numerous bug fixes to the system tools & utilities. Also, additional translations have been added to provide a more complete localized experience. Users currently running 1.5 may [...]

Not so happy with FreeBSD and PC-BSD

The same thing has happened to me more than once. I install a FreeBSD-derived operating system on the $0 Laptop (the Gateway Solo 1450) and I marvel at the way it manages the noisy CPU fan right out of the box.
Then, the next day, it’s all over. The fan blows. And blows. Even a complete [...]

iXsystems Announces Release of PC-BSD Version 1.5, Edison Edition

iXsystems announced today the release of PC-BSD Edison Edition. PC-BSD is a fully functional open source desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE. FreeBSD is one of the most used UNIX-like operating systems in the world and is widely renowned as the most stable and secure server operating system. PC-BSD has a Push-Button Installer (PBI) [...]

PC-BSD 1.4.1

The PC-BSD development team has announced the release of PC-BSD 1.4.1, an update version of the FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop: “An update to PC-BSD was released today, version 1.4.1. This new version may be obtained from our download page, additionally users who are running version 1.4….
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