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PC-BSD was recently given a full-page review in the September issue of Linux Format. The verdict: 9 out of 10, with particular compliments given for ease of installation and use. Reviewer Ben Everard praised the distro, saying, "Frankly, a few popular Linux distros...
This article will show how to install, upgrade and remove packages using pkgng. It will also discuss some of the improvements over pkg_*tools and demonstrate how pkgng will benefit end users. In addition, the upcoming functionality of pkgng will also be briefly...
ZFS Boot Environments With PC-BSD 9.2 just around the corner, this is a good time to take an advanced look at some of the new functionality coming with it. While there are a number of new features in the works, today we will look specifically at the implementation of...
Last Saturday, Dru Lavigne and Josh Smith attended the FOSSCON Conference hosted in Philadelphia and staffed a FreeBSD booth stocked with swag. Dru Lavigne also gave a talk on FreeNAS 9.1 which covered the new Volume Manager, the new plugin system, and an overview of...
Over the Christmas holidays, PC-BSD 9.1 was released and while it offered many new features and functionality, we haven't sat back and relaxed just yet. In this article I want to give you a preview of some of the high-level changes that will be coming to PC-BSD a bit...
In the second half of Kris Moore’s server room adventures, we touch base with Kris again, who has recently populated his renovated server room with hardware and equipment: Now that we've finished the construction of the actual "room," we get to the fun part: the...
Kris Moore has done it again. The founder and lead developer of PC-BSD has brazenly stepped out into the vast wilderness (limited to the confines of his backyard) and come back inspired with brilliant ideas. Over the span of one and a half weeks, Kris undertook a...
PC-BSD® lead developer Kris Moore was this week's guest on FLOSS Weekly. You can find the episode here. The subject of the episode was PC-BSD®, but topics covered included a number of topics such as BSD history, open source licenses, and choice of text editor....
With the release of FreeBSD® 9 and PC-BSD® 9 Isotope just around the corner, we thought we'd take a look at the new things coming in this version of the operating system. The biggest change in PC-BSD® is that GNOME, LXDE, and XFCE are now fully supported, along with...
We have a new Downloads section that contains both PC-BSD® 8.2: Hubble Edition and PC-BSD® 9-CURRENT, the most recent testing snapshot for PC-BSD® 9: Isotope Edition, and an "IPv6-only" testing version of PC-BSD® 9. IPv6-only versions of FreeBSD and PC-BSD® are made...
