PC-BSD has released its latest edition of OS based on FreeBSD 7.0. This release has been named Fibonnaci edition. The aim of PC-BSD is to make FreeBSD user friendly and is targeted at the desktop user. Not surprisingly, PC-BSD is easy to install – comes with a nice GUI installer – on ones machine and applications can be installed by the users just like you install applications in Microsoft Windows – ie a point and click process.
PC-BSD comes bundled with propritery NVIDIA graphics drivers and with out of the box Java and Flash support. The latest release also features KDE 4.1.1.
Check out what is new in PC-BSD 7.0 and you may download PC-BSD 7.0 and take it for a trial run. The PC-BSD team has made available the OS in both CD and DVD image formats and also as a Network Install. They have also put together a fabulous guide which walks a neophyte through the entire process and brings him up and running in using PC-BSD.
