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PC-BSD 7 Released! PDF Print
Monday, 15 September 2008

The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce PC-BSD version 7.0! (Release Name: Fibonacci Edition)

This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-Stable and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 desktop. Users will immediately notice the improved visual interface that KDE 4.1.1 offers, as well as a large improvement in hardware support and speed from the update to FreeBSD 7-Stable. PC-BSD 7 also offers a large and growing library of self-contained PBI files available for installation, and improvments for other locales on our PBI Directory website. This release also offers new methods of installation, including a DVD, USB and Internet / Network install.  

Please note, that due to the change to FreeBSD 7 as underlying system and KDE4 as desktop manager, it has been decided not to issue a patch to upgrade from PC-BSD 1.5.x to 7. Technically this would have been a challenge (both FreeBSD 7 and KDE4 are radically different from previous versions), but even if successful, we would not have been able to guarantee a 100% succesful upgrade. So instead of leaving users with a unusable system, PC-BSD 7 has to be installed as a fresh operating system.