* Upgraded the base OS to FreeBSD 6.0.
- This core update provides a much needed UI performance boost, and now
works with much more hardware.
- For more information on this release of FreeBSD 6, please see
www.freebsd.org
* Added a graphical Language / Keyboard selector at beginning of installation process.
- Lets users select the install & system language they wish to operate under.
- Also allows keyboard models / maps to be selected, for a wide range of functionality.
* Added the Network Manager utility.
- Lets users control and modify their network adapters, setting values such as
IP addresses, Netmask, DNS, Gateway, and Host name.
* The system now ships with Linux Binary Compatability pre-installed.
- Having this package pre-installed means that users can now download and run PBIs of software such as Flash support, or Java for Linux.
* Backwards Compatible with PBI's made for previous versions of PC-BSD.
- Users can install and run the same PBI's created for their prior versions of PC-BSD,
no recompile necessary.
* System reinstall required.
- This release is a major step up from previous PC-BSD's, so a reinstall will be required.
No online update patch will be isssued for 0.8.3 -> 1.0RC1
* Upgraded KDE to version 3.4.3
* Changed cursors on Install CD
* Anti-Aliasing is now enabled by default
* Added "Greek" to lanaguage selection menu
Recommended minimum system requirements
Pentium 2 or higher
128MB Ram
4GB of free Hard Drive space (Either partition, or entire disk)
Network card
Sound card
Software Specs
- FreeBSD 6.0
- KDE 3.4.3
Supported Languages
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English
Bulgarian
Catalan
Danish
German
Greek
Spanish
Estonian
French
Croatian
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Dutch
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese Brazilian
Russian
Swedish
Ukrainian
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
All included packages
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OpenEXR-1.2.2 A high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format
amspsfnt-1.0_3 AMSFonts PostScript Fonts (Adobe Type 1 format)
arts-1.4.3,1 Audio system for the KDE integrated X11 desktop
artswrapper-1.2.2 Setuid wrapper for arts
aspell-0.60.4 Spelling checker with better suggestion logic than ispell
bitstream-vera-1.10_2 Bitstream Vera TrueType font collection
cdparanoia-3.9.8_7 A CDDA extraction tool (also known as ripper)
cmpsfont-1.0_4 Computer Modern PostScript Fonts (Adobe Type 1 format)
compat5x-i386-5.4.0.8 A convenience package to install the compat5x libraries
cups-1.1.23.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple
cups-base-1.1.23.0_5 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, & daemons
cups-lpr-1.1.23.0 The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility binaries (lp* comma
cups-pstoraster-8.15 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers
curl-7.15.0 Non-interactive tool to get files from FTP, GOPHER, HTTP(S)
cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2 General network file distribution system optimized for CVS
cyrus-sasl-2.1.21_1 RFC 2222 SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)
dirmngr-0.9.3 A client for managing and downloading certificate revocatio
expat-1.95.8_3 XML 1.0 parser written in C
fam-2.6.9_6 A file alteration monitor
fftw3-3.0.1_4 Fast C routines to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform
flac-1.1.2 Free lossless audio codec
fontconfig-2.3.2,1 An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
foomatic-db-20050309 Foomatic database
foomatic-db-engine-3.0.2,1 Foomatic database engine
foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts
freetype2-2.1.10_1 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
fribidi-0.10.4_1 A Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorith
gettext-0.14.5 GNU gettext package
ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13 GNU Postscript interpreter
gimp-print-4.2.7_1 GIMP Print Printer Driver
glib-2.8.3 Some useful routines of C programming (current stable versi
gmake-3.80_2 GNU version of 'make' utility
gnupg-1.4.2 The GNU Privacy Guard
gnutls-1.0.24_1 GNU Transport Layer Security library
gpgme-1.0.3 A library to make access to GnuPG easier
gsfonts-8.11_2 Fonts used by GNU Ghostscript (or X)
gtar-1.15.1_1 GNU version of the traditional tar archiver
imake-6.8.2 Imake and other utilities from X.Org
jackit-0.100.0 A low-latency audio server
jasper-1.701.0 An implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 s
jpeg-6b_3 IJG's jpeg compression utilities
kde-3.4.2 The "meta-port" for KDE
kdeaccessibility-3.4.3 Accessibility applications for KDE
kdeadmin-3.4.3 KDE applications related to system administration
kdeartwork-3.4.3 Additional themes, sounds, wallpapers and window styles for
kdebase-3.4.3 Basic applications for the KDE system
kdebase-kompmgr-3.4.3 Utility needed to enable XComposite support in KDE
kdegames-3.4.3 Games for the KDE integrated X11 desktop
kdegraphics-3.4.3 Graphics utilities for the KDE3 integrated X11 desktop
kdehier-1.0_8 Utility port which installs a hierarchy of shared KDE direc
kdelibs-3.4.3 Base set of libraries needed by KDE programs
kdemultimedia-3.4.3_1 Multimedia utilities for the KDE integrated X11 desktop
kdemultimedia-akode-3.4.3 Default KDE audio backend
kdemultimedia-akode-plugins-mpc-3.4.3 Musepack decoder plugin for akode
kdemultimedia-akode-plugins-mpeg-3.4.3 MPEG audio decoder plugin for akode
kdemultimedia-akode-plugins-oss-3.4.3 OSS output plugin for akode
kdemultimedia-akode-plugins-resampler-3.4.3 Resampler plugin for akode
kdemultimedia-akode-plugins-xiph-3.4.3 FLAC/Speex/Vorbis decoder plugin for akode
kdenetwork-3.4.3 Network-related programs and modules for KDE
kdepim-3.4.3 Personal Information Management tools for KDE
kdeutils-3.4.3 Utilities for the KDE integrated X11 desktop
lcms-1.14,1 Light Color Management System -- a color management library
libIDL-0.8.6_1 A library for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition
libXft-2.1.7 A client-sided font API for X applications
libart_lgpl2-2.3.17 Library for high-performance 2D graphics
libassuan-0.6.10 IPC library used by GnuPG and gpgme
libaudiofile-0.2.6 A sound library for SGI audio file
libgcrypt-1.2.2 "General purpose crypto library based on code used in GnuPG
libglut-6.0.1 A graphics library similar to SGI's OpenGL
libgpg-error-1.1 Common error values for all GnuPG components
libiconv-1.9.2_1 A character set conversion library
libidn-0.5.20 Internationalized Domain Names command line tool
libijs-0.35 C library that supports plugin printer driver for Ghostscri
libksba-0.9.12 KSBA is an X.509 Library
libmad-0.15.1b_1 Libmad library (part of MAD project)
libmal-0.40 A library encapsulating malsync
libmng-1.0.9 Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) reference library
libogg-1.1.2_1,3 Ogg bitstream library
libpaper-1.1.14.3 A library providing routines for paper size management
libsamplerate-0.1.2 Secret Rabbit Code: a Sample Rate Converter for audio
libsndfile-1.0.12 Reading and writing files containing sampled sound (like WA
libtheora-1.0.a4 Theora video codec for the Ogg multimedia streaming system
libusb-0.1.10a_1 Library giving userland programs access to USB devices
libvorbis-1.1.1,3 Audio compression codec library
libwww-5.4.0_1 The W3C Reference Library
libxml2-2.6.22 XML parser library for GNOME
libxslt-1.1.15 The XSLT C library for GNOME
linc-1.0.3_4 A library for writing networked servers & clients
linux_base-rh-7.3 Basic packages for Linux mode from Red Hat 7.3/i386
localedata-5.4 Legacy locale data for FreeBSD 6+
mDNSResponder-107.1_1 "Apple's mDNSResponder"
nas-1.7b Network Audio System
neon-0.24.7 An HTTP and WebDAV client library for Unix systems
net-snmp-5.2.1.2 An extendable SNMP implementation
open-motif-2.2.3_2 Motif X11 Toolkit (industry standard GUI (IEEE 1295))
openldap-client-2.2.29 Open source LDAP client implementation
openslp-1.2.1_1 Open-source implementation of the Service Location Protocol
pcre-6.4 Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
perl-5.8.7 Practical Extraction and Report Language
pilot-link-0.11.8_3 PalmPilot communications utilities (backup/restore/install/
pkgconfig-0.19 A utility to retrieve information about installed libraries
png-1.2.8_2 Library for manipulating PNG images
popt-1.7 A getopt(3) like library with a number of enhancements, fro
portaudio-18.1_2 Portable cross-platform Audio API
pth-2.0.5 GNU Portable Threads
python-2.4.2 An interpreted object-oriented programming language
qca-tls-1.0_1 SSL/TLS plugin for Qt
qmake-3.3.5 The build utility of the Qt project
qt-3.3.5 Multiplatform C++ application framework
rpm-3.0.6_10 The Red Hat Package Manager
samba-3.0.20b,1 A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX
samba-libsmbclient-3.0.20b_2 The shared lib from the samba packages
speex-1.0.5,1 An open-source patent-free voice codec
t1lib-5.1.0,1 A Type 1 Rasterizer Library for UNIX/X11
taglib-1.4_1 Library for manipulating ID3 tags and Ogg comments
tiff-3.7.4 Tools and library routines for working with TIFF images
xorg-clients-6.8.2 X client programs and related files from X.Org
xorg-fonts-cyrillic-6.8.2 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2 X.Org font encoding files
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-6.8.2 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-truetype-6.8.2 X.Org TrueType fonts
xorg-libraries-6.8.2 X11 libraries and headers from X.Org
xorg-server-6.8.2_6 X.Org X server and related programs
xpdf-3.01_1 Display PDF files, and convert them to other formats
xterm-206 Terminal emulator for the X Window System
zh-arphicttf-2.11_1 Four Chinese Big5/GB TrueType fonts made by Arphic Technolo
zh-ttfm-0.9.5_1 A Big5/GB enhanced TrueType Font Manager