DesktopBSD
DesktopBSD is a brand new BSD operating system with the goal to bring BSD to the masses. It's been founded by an Austian, Peter Hofer. The first testing version has been published in March 2005. After a year, a first stable release appeared.
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Pic 1. DesktopBSD - random desktop
DesktopBSD creators used FreeBSD as a base for the new operating system. The main differences between the parent and the child is that DesktopBSD offers a long-awaited graphical installer and a preconfigured KDE desktop.
Another desktop BSD project, PC-BSD has nothing to do with it. DesktopBSD does not introduce features which make it incompatible with FreeBSD. It rather uses the strengths of the BSD leader, adding extra features for end-users, like a graphical GUI to the ports system for easy software installation.
The OS is provided for 2 main architectures: i386 and AMD64/EM64T. The first can be downloaded as a single CD (additional CD contains the localizations) or DVD. The second is available as a DVD only (1,2 GB).
Version 1.0 provides a KDE desktop (3.5.1) with tons of popular applications like Firefox, IRC client X-Chat 2, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 (or KOffice 1.4.2 in case of AMD64 version), Amarok player, Gaim messenger and GIMP for image manipulating.
External DesktopBSD resources
- Official DesktopBSD website
- DesktopBSD@DistroWatch
- Description on Wikipedia
- DesktopBSD 1.0 Release Notes
News
Documentation, guides and tips
- Official FAQ
- DesktopBSD Wiki Portal
- Hints, Tips & Howtos
- Using DesktopBSD — tips for newbies
Help, forums, community
Reviews
- 1.6: www.raiden.net
- 1.3: www.raiden.net, www.triedit.org
- 1.0: opensourcelearning.info, Linux/BSD Gangster, NewsForge, 7thGuard, Linux Forums
Interviews
Download
- 1.6 (32/64-bit): DVD ISO
- A list of ISO images to download
Screenshots
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Please check the links to DesktopBSD wiki and forum. They aren’t working. You have omitted ‘h’ out of ‘http’ in those links.
Thanks, mehul. Fixed. If you would like to further help on making the DesktopBSD description way better, consider visiting our Wiki at http://wiki.polishlinux.org/desktopbsd and edit the missing data.