The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 1.3 BETA1. This release gives users and testers the opportunity to test-drive the new PC-BSD install wizard, along with the updated base system, running KDE 3.5.4, an improved look and feel, and many other enhancements.
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I've been suffering trying to use FreeBSD as a desktop system for years. While their ports/package system work great for server usage, they fall apart when trying to use for large desktop applications (like X, Gnome, OpenOffice) due to the number of security bugs and time to compile these huge monsters. Enter PC-BSD. Everything is automated and just works. It is not only the easiest BSD to use, but I would say it competes with Windows, Mac in the ease of use department. While PBIs are terrible for server usage, they are a godsend for workstation usage. Kudos to the great job the PCBSD team is doing. Now I could live in a BSD world, using FreeBSD on my servers and PCBSD on my workstations.
PCBSD/FreeBSD are the Ubuntu/Debian combo of the BSD world.
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"Is this the default theme and UI font? Horrible!"
Maybe, but, hey, you can do everything you want to make your desktop look better.
This is my PCBSD desktop:
http://www.geocities.com/n_visnjic/pcbsd/ssPCBSD4.jpg
and how about this:
http://www.geocities.com/n_visnjic/pcbsd/ssPCBSD3.jpg
PSBSD is definitely something you can customize and tweak the way you want.
"I plan to replace OpenSuSE 10 with PC-BSD"
I did it a year ago since PCBSD proved to be better
choice for my Pentium II 450 MHz than SuSE 10.
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We target regular users who are for most of them MS Windows users and while we don't want to copy MS Windows, there are things that these users feel more comfortable with, such as crystal look and feel or a "Start" menu.
Adapting to the tastes of our target user base is critical for massive adoption. PC-BSD targets users who don't need to be computer savvy to use Unix, and also offers a fully-functional FreeBSD system for developers and system administrators to feel at home.
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I like PC-BSD to give it to other people who want to have an operating system on their computer (instead of a replacement made by MICROS~1). PC-BSD does a good job, but lacks a few applications that really rue, e. g. the Midnight Commander or X-Chat. The german internationalization could be much better as well, but other ways than the seldom used GETTEXT don't be in the focus of the PC-BSD developers.
The GUI doesn't look good. It looks too much like... you know what it looks like. Why has everythink to look this way? Looking childish, playful...
And - by default - some strange TCP and UDP ports seem to be open. I could state this as I had a PC-BSD machine on the network here at work. That should NOT be the default behaviour. This could be a security risk...
The PBI package system is quite cool and makes it easy to install applications. Because it's a FreeBSD, you can use the "old fashioned" ways of installing applications as well, make install, pkg_add and portinstall. You have the strong features of BSD plus the easy tools for administration. This composition is great.
Finally, I have to admit, thatt I prefer a "real handmade" FreeBSD installation with WindowMaker. :-)
Edited 2006-10-19 19:34
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Anyone know if the wpi driver from OpenBSD has been ported over?
Not yet, we got ipw right now.
NAME
ipw -- Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
device ipw
device pci
device wlan
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following lines in loader.conf(5):
if_ipw_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
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How about ipw2200
Port: iwi-firmware-2.4_7
Path: /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware
Info: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Driver Firmware
Maint: flz@FreeBSD.org
B-deps:
R-deps:
WWW: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
Port: iwi-firmware-kmod-3.0_1
Path: /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware-kmod
Info: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Firmware Kernel Module
Maint: flz@FreeBSD.org
B-deps:
R-deps:
WWW: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
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agp0: <NVIDIA nForce3-250 AGP Controller> mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff at device 0. 0 on pci0
panic: pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory
Uptime: 1s
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds
Boot with ACPI disabled doesn't work after install either.
Dropped my overclocking down and disabled speed spectrum on the mobo, still no go
Safe Mode Panics
Single User Mode Panics
Option 5 -verbose logging....spins through and reboots it self before I can see anything, what I can catch is something to do with pmap.
So guess I got to figure out what pmap_mapdev is.
Are there any options at the loader prompt I can try?
Thank you,
P.S. I'll post on the user forum too.
P.P.S I use Linux on here daily, Solaris 11ish and Freebsd 6.1
http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?p=35838#35838
Edited 2006-10-19 22:12
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I'm gonna wait till 1.4 release to install it on Notebook.. since 1.4 has PPPOE connectivity.
You can use this tutorial in the meantime: http://faqs.pcbsd.org/6_17_en.html
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Ah I got my answer in the Quick guide :
PC-BSD only recognizes primary partitions and considers logical partitions as a whole primary partition. Trying to install on a logical partition will convert your extended partition into a primary partition and erase all logical partitions of your system.
OK, then no PC-BSD on my laptops nor my desktop machines 
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The new install wiz look great. I'm thrilled that a server installation is possible. I've always wanted a FreeBSD om my server - and have tried a couple of times - but always endded up with an OpenSUSE.
I've had plans to replace the OpenSUSE with an eComStation on the server, but this news will make me rethink that plan again.
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i tried out pc-bsd 1.0 back then, and it was a joy to use, except that there were minor hiccups in that my graphic tablet didn't work, and i never got my printer to work (though that could be simply user stupidity on my part; i'm not CUPS-savvy).
anyway, for the most part, it auto-detected the other components of my system, and it was a joy to use. i thought i'd wait some time before using it again, so that more PBI software will be available, as well as better hardware support.
time to play around with the little red devil again. 