DesktopBSD

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**DesktopBSD**

Website:	http://desktopbsd.net/
Company/ developer:	Peter Hofer and Team.
OS family:	BSD
Source model:	Open source
Latest stable release:	1.0 / March 28, 2006
Kernel type:	Monolithic kernel
Default user interface:	KDE
License:	BSD license
Working state:	Current

DesktopBSD is a UNIX-derivative, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. Its goal is to combine the stability of FreeBSD with the ease-of-use of KDE, which is the default graphical user interface. It is available for the IA-32 and AMD64 platforms.

1 History and development
2 Features
3 1.6 Release is expected to have
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History and development

DesktopBSD is essentially a customized installation of FreeBSD and is not a fork of FreeBSD. DesktopBSD is always based on FreeBSD's latest -STABLE branch but incorporates certain customized, pre-installed software such as KDE and DesktopBSD utilities and configuration files.

A common misconception about DesktopBSD is that it is intended as a rival to PC-BSD as a BSD-based desktop distribution, since they are similar in structure and goals. However, the DesktopBSD project was started approximately one year before the PC-BSD project, despite the fact that the first PC-BSD release came out long before DesktopBSD's. Neither the DesktopBSD nor PC-BSD projects intend to rival each other and are completely independent projects with distinctive features and very different attitudes.

The first release candidate of DesktopBSD 1.0 was released on July 25, 2005; the current release is 1.0 final which was made available on March 28, 2006.

[edit] Features

Graphical installer allowing to partition disks and create users
Graphical tool for managing, installing and updating software using FreeBSD ports system
Graphical management of network interfaces and mounting/unmounting drives

Current release is based on FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE and KDE 3.5.1.