DesktopBSD 1.7 snapshot
- Posted by Oliver Herold on March 21st, 2008 filed in Uncategorized
- 12 Comments »
First remember it’s an early snapshot, so there will be certainly some problems! But apart from that it’s DesktopBSD based on FreeBSD 7.0R. I did a first test, there are some minor quirks with the mounting tool and the scheduler is SCHED_4BSD, so it has got a performance drop especially on uniprocessor systems. The first preview version will follow soon with SCHED_ULE activated and some other useful addons. So if you’re eager to test, you’re welcome 
But remember it’s an early test!
You can download the snapshots there (scroll to the bottom) at the usual servers (mirror too). We have prebuild packages for FreeBSD7 on the server.
March 21st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I hope that this will become DesktopBSD 2.0, with FreeBSD 7 and KDE 4.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
KDE 4.1 will be out in summer first, so no there will be first a release with FreeBSD 7 and without KDE 4.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Yeah, i agree with zaratustra..
DesktopBSD 2.0 with FreeBSD 7 and KDE 4 would be a good name.
Other distros with minor kde and freebsd 7 could remain 1.x
I’m downloading it. I like the new freebsd 7 innovations although Linux still catch the eye..
One good improvement would be the wireless stuff.. however, since bsd is still server oriented, i guess this new multicore-system they developed is very good.
Lovely to website servers.
Impressive effort to improve database performance.
nice way to go.
I expect to see DesktopBSD 2.0
Good Páscoa
March 21st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
>One good improvement would be the wireless stuff
There is a lot of new development in FreeBSD 7 in terms of wireless drivers.
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
[...] 1.7 Snapshot Posted in March 23rd, 2008 by toomany in DesktopBSD, FreeBSD Acabo de ver la entrada de DesktopBSD Blog, donde comentan que tienen a punto una snapshot de la versión 1.7, ya sustentada por un FreeBSD [...]
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
[...] snapshot version only support i386 machine. it doesn’t support am64 machine. A blog post of Official introduction says DesktopBSD based on the FreeBSD 7.0R (version 1.6 is base on the FreeBSd 6.3RC). and new [...]
March 24th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
[...] build of DesktopBSD 1.7, an operating system based on the recently released FreeBSD 7.0, was announced and ready for downloading & testing. First, remember it’s an early snapshot, so there [...]
July 18th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I wonder when the 64 bit version may come out? Waiting it along with nvidia drivers and flash …
October 13th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
i REALLY hope that desktopbsd developers DO NOT inculde KDE4, at least it becomes 4.3. desktopbsd should use freebsd7 as a base, but kde 3.5.10 is as good as it gets.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Still using FreeBSD but trying PCBSD at present.
KDE 4 in PCBSD isn’t stable so stick a while with KDE 3.5.
Option to login as root would be useful to save continual SU’s especially during initial post-install setup (PCBSD).
Anyway will try DesktopBSD shortly.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:05 am
Good work! And stay off KDE 4.X until its proven stable. But you guys at D-BSD need to make more noise, PC-BSD is stealing the show
May 14th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Hello, Next to time….
Why not use FreeBSD 7.2? and KDE 4.2?
or only kde 4.2?
KDE4 is very bad, is shit….
Has got very very, erros in the desktop and graphical KDE4.
Put in New DesktopBSD! KDE 4.2