Update: 10-27-2008 Any users who have had issues with installing the 7.0.1 update via the System Updater may instead install the stand-alone PBI update to 7.0.1 by downloading it from pbidir.com
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 are: - KDE 4.1.2
- AMD64 version
- NTFS write support
- Adobe Flash 9 support (Linux -flashplugin9)
- Better WIFI support
- Updates to the System Updater
This version of PC-BSD can be downloaded and installed as a fresh install or, alternatively, can be updated to from PC-BSD 7.0 via the System Update tool. Many thanks for all the feedback we have received via the Forums and the Testing mailinglist. Links: Download | Changelog | PBI packages
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osnews.com PC-BSD 7 review |
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OSNews.com has a positive review of PC-BSD 7 Fibonacci. It concludes with: "I am thoroughly convinced that PC-BSD is the perfect choice for a newcomer to the unix world. It is very straight forward and it requires very little unix knowledge. Even though I mentioned a couple of caveats (eg. Bootloader, Primary partition), I doubt a new user who is installing on a fresh system will ever come across these issues. Even if someone does run into these issues, the solutions provided in this article should give them a starting point. The PC-BSD has a friendly and helpful community, they have an active forum where you can seek help from fellow PC-BSD users. The PC-BSD team has worked really hard on this release and the results are impressive. It is ready to challenge the main stream Operating Systems (Windows, OS X and Linux). I would encourage new users to try PC-BSD without any doubts. I would definitely recommend Linux gurus to give this distribution a chance and I promise, you won't be disappointed." Read the whole article here.
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BSDTalk interview with Kris Moore |
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Will Backman did an interview with Kris Moore, the founder of PC-BSD, this week. They talk about PC-BSD 7, auto PBI building, changes from 1.5 to 7.0 etc etc. The interview (12 mins, available as mp3 and ogg) can be downloaded from the BSDTalk blog.
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Anyone wanting to try out PC-BSD on a virtual machine can now download and run the PC-BSD image for VMware Player and VMware station. The image can be downloaded here.
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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. PC-BSD 7 also offers a large and growing library of self-contained PBI files available for installation, and improvments for other locales on our PBI Directory website. This release also offers new methods of installation, including a DVD, USB and Internet / Network install. Please note, that due to the change to FreeBSD 7 as underlying system and KDE4 as desktop manager, it has been decided not to issue a patch to upgrade from PC-BSD 1.5.x to 7. Technically this would have been a challenge (both FreeBSD 7 and KDE4 are radically different from previous versions), but even if successful, we would not have been able to guarantee a 100% succesful upgrade. So instead of leaving users with a unusable system, PC-BSD 7 has to be installed as a fresh operating system. |
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PC-BSD 7 Beta 1 Available |
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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 software ready for PC-BSD 7, with more being added weekly. 
This release is beta, which means things are still being worked on and fixed in preparation for the final release. Users are highly encouraged to report bugs to our bug database or our testing mailing list. In addition to this, many translations are still waiting to be finished for this release. If you would like to help translate PC-BSD 7 into your native language, please visit our translation website. Lastly a very special thanks needs to go out to our team of developers and testers who have been working so hard to make this release happen!
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