DesktopBSD 1.6RC3 for AMD64 released

[Peter Hofer]

DesktopBSD 1.6RC3 for AMD64 is now available for download via BitTorrent and 
from our mirror sites. It includes several improvements made since the 
release of 1.6RC3 for i386, including:

 * Better performance by disabling SMP on single core/processor computers
 * Fixed installation on disks with special partition names
 * Inclusion of the FreeBSD ports collection on the DVD

The new release candidate comes with Xorg 7.3 and uses KDE 3.5.8 as its 
desktop environment. Many desktop applications are included, such as:

 * Amarok 1.4.7
 * K3B 1.0.3
 * KTorrent 2.2.2
 * Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9
 * Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.9
 * OpenOffice.org 2.3.0
 * Pidgin 2.2.2
 * VideoLAN Client (VLC) 0.8.6c

Upgrades from 1.0, previous release candidates and even the i386 version are 
supported. Language packages for 18 different languages are included and can 
be installed from the DVD.

- Website: http://desktopbsd.net
- Download: http://desktopbsd.net/index.php?id=84
- Tracker: http://svn.desktopbsd.net
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