Submitted by admin on Thu, 2008-01-10 01:11
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Version 1.6 of DesktopBSD, a FreeBSD-based desktop OS with a KDE-based front, has been released (see release notes). Changes:
- FreeBSD 6
- X.Org v7.3
- Live CD/DVD
- Revised installer, which allows upgrade from v1.0 and from 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
Screenshots here, downloads (CD and DVD images for i386 and AMD64) here.