“BSDi announced the new BSD Desktop Edition to fill the growing
demand for packaged BSD operating systems. The BSD Desktop Edition
will be available at retail outlets including BestBuy, CompUSA,
Fry’s, MicroCenter, Staples, and RCS as well as BSDi’s
www.freeebsdmall.com.”
“The BSD Desktop Edition includes the latest releases of the
popular FreeBSD open source operating system; Applixware Office
Suite from VistaSource, a complete desktop productivity package
including word processor, html authoring, spreadsheet, presentation
manager, e-mail, and graphics; and Partition Magic from PowerQuest
for running multiple operating systems on the same personal
computer….”
“FreeBSD 4.1 offers the latest operating system enhancements and
contains a number of significant advancements. Key enhancements to
FreeBSD 4.1 include industry standard IPv6 and IPSec (for both IPv4
and IPv6) implementations from the KAME Project. Among many
enhancements, FreeBSD 4.1 supports raccoon, the KAME IKE daemon,
which has been shown to interoperate well with other vendor IKE
systems, meaning that FreeBSD 4.1 can be used in a heterogeneous
IPSEC environment. Additionally, FreeBSD 4.1 can now be installed
on an IPv6-only network, such that IPv4 is not required.”