This document contains notes regarding DesktopBSD 1.0 Release Candidate 3, such as information about installation, known bugs, security issues and fixes. Please consult this document before reporting bugs.

DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users. DesktopBSD 1.0-RC3 is based on FreeBSD 5-STABLE from 23 October 2005 and KDE 3.4.3. See the DesktopBSD website for further details.

Please read the 1.0-RC3 changelog that contains new features and bugfixes since 1.0-RC2.

Burn the ISO-image available at the website on a CD-R or DVD-R and insert the disc before your computer starts. You probably have to change the boot order of your BIOS to be able to boot from your CD/DVD drive. When the computer boots, wait until the installer appears and follow the instructions. When the installation finished, don't forget to remove the media from your drive so your computer won't boot from it again. Start your newly installed operating system and use the configuration wizard to add users, set the system password and get a short introduction to the concepts of DesktopBSD. Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured your new DesktopBSD installation!

Currently, there is no way to upgrade from a previous release candidate.

	The package manager must be restarted manually after retrieving a package list the first time, otherwise no operations (install/upgrade) will work
	Using the search function in the Deinstallation Wizard and then clicking "Select all" or "Select none" affects all packages, not only the displayed search results
	Choosing Russian at the installation switches the keyboard layout to "ru", which prevents from entering valid user names in the installed system, therefore Russian users should install in English and modify the locale settings for their users in KDE