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PC-BSD Hubble Edition

Written by James T. Nixon III. Posted in PC-BSD

For the past couple of months I have been alpha testing PC-BSD Hubble Edition at work. It was pretty rough, but with the latest alpha (1215), I feel like we’re almost there. I just finished setting up my first 64bit desktop, I know, ridiculous… Now that we have flash, wine, AND brand new 64bit nVidia drivers (Thanks Christian!), I can finally enjoy a 64bit desktop.

I’ve tested Hulu, YouTube, the Silverlight test page (I wish moonlight 2.0 was in ports *hint*), and Pandora.com works flawlessly. I’m also using 64bit PBI’s for Amarok, OpenOffice, Deluge, Vuze, and 32bit PBI for Wine.

I installed 64bit PC-BSD with ZFS on /usr. The new installer is really nice and has the 64bit nVidia drivers included.

Here’s some screenshots of different panel placements. I think it’s time for a different look and feel, what do you think?

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  • James T. Nixon III

    July 29, 2010 |

    Lol, I know right!?

  • Matt Olander

    July 29, 2010 |

    Great pix, James! Haha, that’s ironic that ISC, a customer of iX, won the server! PERFECT ;)

  • alan

    October 28, 2009 |

    One Question Habra version The 3 cds of the PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition

  • Shaul

    September 4, 2009 |

    I would have to completely disagree with what you say how good PC-BSD is. And for the record, I do not use Linux, I do not have Linux installed on any systems. With the code they develop on top of FreeBSD for PC-BSD has consistency issue, and just don’t think they pay close enough attention to code correctness, I think it gets sluggish. Although my first choice is always to use OpenBSD on everything, I have set up FreeBSD as a desktop system. All I do is select minimal install, populate ports and source, patch the system, compile KDE4 from ports, and I find everything runs better and quicker that way. Once Firefox has been compiled from ports, I have seen it load instantaneously when you select it from KMenu. With PCBSD being developed for people who don’t know any tech stuff, and their own lack of proper auditing of code in the manner of say OpenBSD, I see definite performance issues, and some speed issues. I think it just gets bogged down. So that is why I would definitely disagree with what you say about how good PC-BSD is.