Happy New Year! - PC-BSD Forums

kmoore134 · #1 01-07-2008, 07:05 PM

Happy New year to all!

I wanted to post a brief message to our users and developers, thanking them for their support over the last year, and offering a few peeks into what we are planning for '08.

First of all we are eagerly awaiting the release of KDE 4 and FreeBSD 7, and will start on a new version of PC-BSD based on these sometime in the months after their release. Also, we plan on a 1.5 release based on FreeBSD 6.3 and KDE 3.5.8, which will be the last release in the 1.x series. We also plan on releasing a 64 bit native version of PC-BSD starting with version 1.5. This version will also have its own set of 64 bit PBIs to ensure that users can run their applications natively, as they should be.

Also in the next few weeks an update to the PBI creator will be released, which will offer a few new features, such as being able to choose a different install location for their applications. We are also busy working on an update to PBIDir, which will make it easier to monitor and install the latest PBIs. This along with our new PBI Auto-Building system will help ensure that PBIs are up to date, and often available in 24-48 hours after the
related port has been updated in the ports tree.

We are looking forward to another year of leaps forward in PC-BSD usability and power, and hope everybody enjoys the improvements!

TerryP · #2 01-07-2008, 10:42 PM

Hmm, I think I used to say PC-BSD v1.8 was going to be the first 'complete' PC-BSD release... guess I was wrong ;-)

2.2... Here I wait hehe.

nowax · #3 01-09-2008, 12:13 PM

I can't wait for 2.x series but so far 1.5 should be stable and i hope it will work fine on my laptop coz now i have to use vista (writing my thesis). But still waiting :)

putu · #4 01-10-2008, 04:56 AM

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....coz now i have to use vista....

Vista :-o are you kidding ? :lol:

nowax · #5 01-10-2008, 10:36 AM

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....coz now i have to use vista....

Vista :-o are you kidding ? :lol:

Nope :)
I have to because XP does not working stable and Vista is so so far i'm using it.

mogchr · #6 01-21-2008, 02:26 AM

I tried installing xp on someone's comp who was trying to rid it of vista, and I guess some comps don't play nice with xp anymore...

I can't wait until PC-BSD 2.x!

brucenico · #7 01-22-2008, 06:56 PM

Best wishes for everyone, and especially to all the pc-bsd team ! :) I still really enjoy this distro, some bugs are present, things are sometimes easier with linux distro (automount of my SD-card for example, availability of some softwares like vmware, etc.), etc. BUT the GOOD APPROACH is there with the auto-sufficient .pbi softwares, which use a known version of the OS and its embedded softwares, and so many things which works so fine directly out of the box ! :)

So: best wishes for PC-BSD OS ! :D