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PC-BSD 8.1 Released

The PC-BSD Team announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5

Version 8.1 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Some of the notable changes are:

  • FreeBSD 8.1-Release
  • KDE 4.4.5
  • Numerous fixes to the installation backend
  • Support for creating dedicated disk GPT partitioning
  • Improved ZFS support
  • Bugfixes to desktop tools / utilities

Minimum system requirements:

  • Pentium II or higher
  • 256MB Ram
  • 12GB of free Hard Drive space (Either partition, or entire disk)
  • Network card
  • Sound card

Recommended system requirements:

  • Pentium 4 or higher
  • 512MB of Ram
  • 20GB of free  Hard Drive space (Either partition, or entire disk)
  • Network card
  • Sound card
  • 3D accelerated video card

Bug Fixes

  • Change pc-sysinstall to not adjust partition tables
  • Add “install desktop icons” checkbox to software manager when you are prompted to install an application

New Features/Tools

  • Add option for installer to remove unused i10n support files
  • Specify to use password or random keys for encrypted volumes
  • Add support to create / delete slices in the installer
  • Give option in Software Manager to change update check frequency
  • Allow encryption of “/” by creating a /boot partition with keys/kernel
  • Change bootloader to allow selecting multiple options, such as disable acpi + vesa mode
  • Explore option to prompt user to overwrite kde4 profile
  • Provide work-around for XGUI to bring desktop up in default mode/allow user configuration of xorg.conf
  • Provide more ZFS install functionality, merge to using only a single zpool for all zfs mounts
  • Update Install GUI to allow specifying multiple zfs mounts on a single partition
  • Change to using gpart / GPT for dedicated installs in pc-sysinstall
  • Improve LifePreserver with directory selection, exclude options and reporting

Version 8.1 of PC-BSD is available for download from our mirrors, as well as via torrent from www.gotbsd.net .

via PC-BSD 8.1 Released.

2010
07/21
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July Issue of BSD magazine

BSD magazine Issue: July 2010

BSD Magazine July 2010 Cover

BSD Mag is a free monthly online publication available for download in PDF format.

This months issue features OpenBSD and features the following articles:

  • Building a Desktop Firewall with pf and fwbuilder
  • OpenBSD Some Interesting One Floppy Systems
  • Remote Installation of the FreeBSD Operating System without a Remote Console
  • OpenBSD as a Mail Server
  • Performance Comparison ITTIA DB and SQLite
  • Interview with Jeff Roberson
  • FreeBSD Experience and Success Story

For more OpenBSD goodness check out the OpenBSD journal

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2010
07/02
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Robert Wallace
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Linux Distros Released the Week of 2010-05-16

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Looks like Btrfs could replace Ext4 as the file system in Ubuntu 10.10 ”Maverick Meerkat”. The new version will also include GNOME 3.0. The release date for Ubuntu 10.10 is scheduled for 10.10.2010. More info at The H

ComputerWorld had an interesting article about the five best things coming in Fedora 13 which should be released tomorrow. The article covers the following 5 features:

  • Professional-level color management
  • Better printer driver support
  • Improved open-source graphic drivers
  • Improved KVM support
  • Easier to use and more stable to boot

I’ll try to download Fedora 13 tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

New Distribution Releases

Here are some of the Distributions release last week. List taken from DistroWatch

From the list I’m looking forward to trying out Arch and Chakra (I know Chakra is technically Arch, but it does offer a nice Live CD)

Upcoming Releases and Announcements

List taken from DistroWatch
  • 2010-05-25: Fedora 13
  • 2010-05-28: FreeBSD 8.1-BETA1
  • 2010-05-28: Pardus Linux 2009.2 RC

I will be testing out Fedora 13, and Chakra. If I see anything worth mentioning I’ll let you know. If you’ve tried any of the releases above please leave a comment to let me know what you think.

2010
05/24
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GNU Screen and byobu

Iwasa Matabei - Iwasa Matabei - artelista.com

GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer which allows you to run multiple console based applications within a single terminal. With screen there isn’t a need to have multiple terminal windows open and if you’re running in console mode you won’t need to worry about running out of console.

Screen is extremely helpful when administering a remote machine allowing you to have multiple consoles through a single SSH tunnel. It also allows you to detach from a console and exit you SSH session and reattach to the console either locally or another SSH tunnel. Read more

2010
01/15
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