PC-BSD的目標是成為易于安裝和使用的桌面操作系統，它基于FreeBSD。為達到此目標，它準備了一套圖形化的安裝程序，這將使得即便是UNIX新手也能容易地安裝并使得它運行起來。PC-BSD還將裝備KDE，以提供即刻可用的桌面。目前正在開發的是一套圖形化的軟件安裝管理程序，這將使得安裝預編譯好的軟件變得像其他流行操作系統一樣方便。

Kris Moore has announced that the first release candidate for PC-BSD 7.1, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 7.1, is now ready for testing: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 7.1-RC1, running FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE, and KDE 4.2.1." What's new? "Fixedbugs with NVIDIA driver replacing libwfb incorrectly; fixed bug findingversion number when doing update from 7.1 to 7.1; added tests forpartition / slice space requirements during install; added pykde4 andKDE 4 printing utilities; fixed Flash 9 plugin on amd64; updatedrunports command to accept arguments for running applications in/usr/local; fixed several tools to use UTF-8 when reading file data,fixing localization issues; fixed CUPS ppd search paths, which improvesnumber of available printing drivers." Read the release announcement, changelog and release notes for further information. Download (MD5): PCBSD7.1-RC1-x86-DVD.iso (1,884MB, MD5), PCBSD7.1-RC1-x64-DVD.iso (1,983MB, MD5).

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