Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Jan 2008 10:19 UTC, submitted by Oliver
DesktopBSD 1.6 has been released. These are the most notable features introduced: "FreeBSD 6 as a modern and reliable base system. X.Org release 7.3, improving support for modern graphics hardware. Live CD/DVD feature for testing the system without installation to a hard-drive. Revised installer supporting upgrades from 1.0 and previous 1.6 release candidates. Improved package manager usability and performance. Many enhancements and bugfixes for the DesktopBSD tools. Support for multiple processors and multi-core CPUs. Inclusion of the NVIDIA graphics driver for hardware 3D rendering. DesktopBSD build servers as an up-to-date source for precompiled packages" Download.
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2007-05-20
I happen to have tested 1.6-RC1 and really liked it.
I am using FreeBSD a lot, both as a server and also as a desktop, and DesktopBSD is practically FreeBSD+GUI in a quick easy install. Mostly for the times when you need a FreeBSD desktop as fast as possible. The graphics tools for ports and packages are very good as well.
In their site there is also some useful documentation and a wiki. In fact I used the instructions to install and configure CUPS from ports. It all worked out nicely.
Since the base system is FreeBSD you will be able to easily upgrade it (with freebsd-update) to 6.3-RELEASE when time comes. (1.6-RC1 was based on 6.2-STABLE and I moved it to 6.3-RC1 without trouble)
All in all I had a very positive experience with DesktopBSD.