DesktopBSD 1.6 Released
January 30, 2008Yesterday I was planning to install OpenSuse 10.3 on my 3rd 20Gig hard disk because I started to be annoyed by slow start-up of my current operating system. Before I started the installation, I browsed and visited Freebsd.org to see updates on one of my favorite operating system. Actually, I use FreeBSD 6.x on almost all of my projects that requires a file server. I was hoping that FreeBSD 7.0 might be released so I will use it but version FreeBSD 7.0 is still on testing stage. Instead I found out that DesktopBSD 1.6 was released this January 2008. DestkopBSD is a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD.
So I downloaded the .ISO installer of the DesktopBSD (i386). I chose the DVD installer which is about 1.5 gigabytes because it contains the complete package of the OS. I planned to use CloneDrive program to extract the image installer so I can start the installer under Windows. I was thinking that it’s the same with OpenSuse 10.3 that contains a windows installer but unluckily it doesn’t have. You need to boot it in DVD so I need to burn it. Well, My problem is I can not install it because I don’t have a DVD Reader/Writer so I can’t use it. For the meantime I’ll use OpenSuse. I’ll install it right now, if I can buy a DVD Reader/Writer later, I’ll try to use DesktopBSD instead.
