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</table>Sidetonehttp://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Complete_Workstation&diff=9696&oldid=prevDrModiford: Slight URL change on patch link2008-01-04T12:15:46Z<p>Slight URL change on patch link</p>
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</table>DrModifordhttp://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Complete_Workstation&diff=9695&oldid=prevDrModiford: Updated PC-BSD to take into account recent 1.4.1.1 update2008-01-04T12:14:44Z<p>Updated PC-BSD to take into account recent 1.4.1.1 update</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The distribution was purchased by hardware and Unix systems integrator iXsystems around October 2006 ([http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3640151 Server Watch coverage]).  The company continues to provide the distribution for free but offers <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">additional </del>paid-for support service that may make it attractive to businesses users.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The distribution was purchased by hardware and Unix systems integrator iXsystems around October 2006 ([http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3640151 Server Watch coverage]).  The company continues to provide the distribution for free but offers <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">both a box-set package of the operating system as well as </ins>paid-for support service that may make it attractive to businesses users<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.  The box-sets are presently available from Fry's Electronics and MicroCenter stores</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Alternatives ==</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There are two distributions based on FreeBSD that offer a full desktop environment 'out-of-the-box' in a similar way  Fedora, Mandriva or SuSE have done with the GNU/Linux system.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">They are not 'forks' of the FreeBSD operating system but pre-packaged, fully configured and ready to install distributions.  Both use KDE as the desktop environment but differ in their intended audiences.  It could be said that they are competing products offering different features to attract a certain group of users to them.  </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== DesktopBSD ===</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">DesktopBSD emerged before PC:BSD and the initial 1.0 version was based on FreeBSD 5.5 but the latest release candidate 1.6 version is based on FreeBSD 6.2.  It pre-dates PC:BSD.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Key features of the upcoming 1.6 version:</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PC:BSD is intended to be the easiest way for someone new to Unix, in particular FreeBSD, to get a desktop environment up and running in the simplest possible way.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* KDE 3.5.7 and X.org 7.2 (offering 3D desktop using GL drivers);</ins></div></td></tr>
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