The September issue of BSD Magazine has two articles on PC-BSD. BSD Magazine is available for free download from this website.
Kris Moore’s article, Keeping Up to Date in PC-BSD 9, is on pages 8–9. This article introduces the newly designed Update Manager and demonstrates how to use both the command line and the graphical version of this utility.
The following PBI is now available in Software Manager:
Samba: Samba4 is an attempt to implement an Active Directory compatible Domain Controller. In short, you can join a WinNT, Win2000, WinXP or Win2003 member server to a Samba4 domain, and it will behave much as it does in AD, including Kerberos domain logins where applicable.
Note that this PBI provides
PC-BSD will once again have a booth at Ohio LinuxFest on Saturday, September 10 in Columbus, Ohio. Kris Moore, Ken Moore, and Dru Lavigne will be at the booth, so be sure to drop by and say hi and get your PC-BSD questions answered. We’ll be giving out copies of PC-BSD 9.0-BETA1.5, FreeNAS8.0.1-BETA4, and some cool swag while it lasts.
The following PBI is now available through Software Manager:
Subversion: Subversion is a version control system designed to be as similar to cvs(1) as possible, while fixing many outstanding problems with cvs(1).
Thanks to Jesse Smith for creating the PBI and to logan54 for requesting it.
The following PBI is now available in Software Manager:
Phoronix Test Suite: The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available for the *nix operating system. This software is designed to effectively carry out both qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner.
Thanks to Ken Moore for creating this PBI and to
The following PBI is now available through Software Manager:
MyPaint: MyPaint is a fast painting/scribbling program. It supports pressure sensitive graphic tablets and comes with an easy to use brush collection. There is a complex interface for creating your own brushes, focusing on brush dynamics (changes with speed, pressure, or randomly). The canvas size is unlimited and undo is supported,
Kris has just announced the availablily of the next testing release. From the announcement:
PC-BSD 9.0-BETA1.5 is now available!
Users already running BETA1 may update to BETA1.5 via the system-updater GUI on the task-bar.
Notable changes in this release:
The PC-BSD Forums now have the following RSS feeds, making it handy to see new threads in your favourite RSS reader:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/external.php
http://forums.pcbsd.org/external.php?type=RSS2
The following PBI is now available through Software Manager:
Xfe: X File Explorer (Xfe) is an MS-Explorer like file manager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander. Xfe aims to be the file manager of choice for Unix addicts.
Thanks to Jesse Smith for creating this PBI and to XENOHEAVEN for requesting it.
The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release in the new 9.x series. 9.0-BETA1 is now available for download from the website or ftp server.
Caution
This is a BETA release, for early adopters and testers. Please use caution deploying in production environments. Additionally only a small number of apps are currently packaged and
Kris announced yesterday on the translation and developer mailing lists that PC-BSD 9.0 is now in code freeze in preparation for the final release. From the announcement:
We’ve begun the process of rolling 9.0-BETA1 images, so from this point the pcbsd/current branch is frozen for all UI changes, to allow translators time to finish translating strings for 9.0-Release. Bugfixes which
The following PBI is now available through Software Manager:
F-Prot: F-Prot Antivirus for BSD Workstations utilizes the renowned F-Prot Antivirus scanning engine for primary scan but has in addition to that a system of internal heuristics devised to search for unknown viruses. This version of F-Prot is a command line n-demand scanner. Please note that the license explicitly permits
The following PBIs are now available through Software Manager:
Yabause: Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator. It currently runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and is being ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is also ported to the Sega Dreamcast as a separate project. It is written in C using the SDL and OpenGL libraries with support for cdrom
Our provider will be doing some scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, July 6th. This means that the PC-BSD website, ftp server for downloads, and the pootle translation site may experience a short period of downtime. If any of these sites happens to be down when you try to access it, you probably hit the maintenance window–try again a little later.
The following PBIs are now available through Software Manager:
OpenSSN: OpenSSN is a modern submarine simulator which focuses on keeping control of the submarine simple, letting the player focus on the tactical situation.
Minetest: Minetest is an Infiniminer/Minecraft inspired game.
ClamTK: ClamTk is a GUI front-end for ClamAV using gtk2-perl. It is designed to be an easy-to-use frontend for Unix
The July issue of BSD Magazine has an article introducing the PC-BSD 9.0 Control Panel on pages 12–15. It also provides instructions for building the Control Panel on FreeBSD or PC-BSD 8.2. The ability to add the administrative tools of any window manager regardless of the window manager you are currently logged into is pretty slick. You can also read
John R Davis Jr. has started some torrents to speed up the download of the latest testing snapshot. If you use a torrent, please leave your torrent program open so that it can seed the file. When you seed, it speeds up the download of that file for everyone else. Note that you have permission to seed these files as
Kris has announced that the next testing snapshot is available:
The next snapshot for PC-BSD 9 is now available!
Notable changes in this release:
The following PBIs are now available through Software Manager:
SABnzbd+: SABnzbd+ is a cross-platform binary newsreader. It makes downloading from Usenet easy by automating the whole thing. You give it an NZB file or an RSS feed, it does the rest. Has a web-browser based UI and an API for 3rd-party apps. Ideal for servers too.
Make-A-PBI: The Make-A-PBI program
Ken Moore has just announced that a new PBI for Firefox 5.0 with proper flash implementation has just been re-released. As an added bonus, it is also about 1/2 the size of the previous (non-flash-enabled) 5.0 attempt. Let us know if you experience any other bugs with this version of Firefox.
