PC-BSD 9.0 out now

PC-BSD team and iXsystems has announced the availability of PC-BSD 9.0, FreeBSD based unix distribution (based on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE). Highlights of this release are:

Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE.

Support for installing a variety of Window Managers, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and more!

Improved PBI system, allows library sharing, binary diff updating, custom repositories, digital signing and more!

Support for “freebsd-update” via the System Update GUI.

New Control Panel, providing consistent configuration options across various Window Managers.

Improved networking utilities, including wifi quick-connect.

Enhanced “Life-Preserver” utility for doing off-site rsync backups of user data.

New VirtualBox / VMware disk images, with integrated guest tools.

Support for UFS+Journaling out of box.

New graphical boot options page.

Support for installation to BootCamp partitions on OS X systems.

You can download the OS from here. 

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