PC-BSD 7 Released, With KDE 4.1.1 88
Gonzalo Martinez-Sanjuan Sanchez writes "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce PC-BSD version 7.0! (Release Name: Fibonacci Edition.) 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. Users will immediately notice the improved visual interface that KDE 4.1.1 offers, as well as a large improvement in hardware support and speed from the update to FreeBSD 7-Stable."
Re:But...? (Score:5, Informative)
Does it run Linux?
Yeah, just install /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc6.
Re:Nostalgia edition? (Score:5, Informative)
64 bit downloads on the torrent page, but not the image page. How odd!
http://www.gotbsd.net/ [gotbsd.net]
Also appears to include Linux compatibility out of the box. Will have to give this a go sometime.
Re:Wonderful naming, there (Score:5, Informative)
Well, it's aimed at the desktop, maybe they could call it "Desktop-BSD". Except that "Desktop" as a word is somewhat anachronistic.
And it is already taken. [desktopbsd.net]
Re:But...? (Score:1, Informative)
Occasional user of elfbrand may be required.
It's brandelf
Re:But...? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Why the obsession with Linux? (Score:5, Informative)
So go to the vmware site and request FreeBSD support. There was a forum thread about it actually.
FreeBSD has two built in shells and several editors. I don't see what's so hard about pkg_add -r bash nano if you want to go GNU.
The bash port adds it to /etc/shells so chsh works. Other BSDs include different shells. For instance, OpenBSD has a modified pdksh which is decent. MidnightBSD and MirBSD include mksh. MidnightBSD also has tcsh and ash (/bin/sh is ash in freebsd too)
Dragonfly and MidnightBSD include mined as an alternate editor as well.