PC-BSD 8.0 Goes Gold

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 25, 2010

“Looking for a desktop-centric version of BSD? Check out the
latest from PC-BSD, released on Monday. New in this release are
improvements in ZFS, KDE 4.3.5 with a new theme, the ability to run
32-bit packages on 64-bit systems, and improvements to the software
manager for PC-BSD.

“PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD and uses KDE as its default desktop
environment. The 8.0 release of PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD
8.0-RELEASE-P2 which moved ZFS out of experimental status, improved
SMP scaling, better support for VirtualBox, and improvements in the
USB subsystem. PC-BSD is designed to make BSD much easier for
desktop use”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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