Soon after availability of Free-BSD 10.3-RELEASE, PC-BSD team also announced release of PC-BSD 10.3-RELEASE, latest stable update in PC-BSD 10.x series. PC-BSD is a FreeBSD based operating system specially targeting desktop users. In additional to traditional open source desktop environment, it also offers a in house build desktop environment known as Lumina Desktop.
Following are major highlights of this release.
Following are major highlights of this release.
See original release announcement in PC-BSD mailing list.
- FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE base system
- Using FreeBSD boot-loader for install media, will be used for installed system in 11.0 as well
- Updated Qt tool-chain to support Qt 5.5.X
- Life-preserver bug-fixes to remote replication
- Made GRUB an optional package, in prep for 11.0
- Mount Tray will auto-start playback of CD/DVD's upon insert detection
- Numerous bug fixes in the installer for UEFI / GPT setups
- Bug-fixes to cleaning up old 'gmirror' installations
- Firefox 45.0
- Chromium 48.0.2564.116
- Thunderbird 38.6.0
- Lumina 0.8.8