Archived thread 514470 from BSD. Markdown source: BSD/thread_514470_PC-BSD_1.4_beta_release.md
http://www.pcbsd.org/index.php?id=89
After months of hard work, the PC-BSD team is pleased to make available the 1.4 BETA release. This version includes many exciting new features and software, such as:
* 3D desktop support via Beryl * KDE 3.5.7 * FreeBSD 6.2 * Xorg 7.2 * New GUI tools & utilities * Optional Components, and much more!
Downloads are here: http://pcbsd.org/?p=download14
...and still without /dev/sequencer support ;-)
But that's not the fault of the dbsd team, who have done a great job.
I've been using it for about a week now and I am really impressed. It's still beta, so a few things break - but all in all a really strong release.
It's wireless gui is the strongest in *BSD, it even uses WPA Supplicant on the backend, so you can configure your WPA encrypted wireless within the gui.
I keep it synced with the ports though, and that tends to break the pbi software manager... So I hope that'll be fixed before the official release.
Yup, PC-BSD is shaping up to be an excellent linux distro, I mean BSD release. :-D
However, compiling annoys the crap out of me and updating with binaries isn't working well.