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The PC-BSD team is pleased to make available the first public
9-STABLE snapshot for 64bit systems!<br>
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This snapshot provides both users and developers a means to test out
new features in the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 release. This snapshot may
contain buggy code and features, so users are encouraged to run it
only on non-critical systems. <br>
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Highlights<br>
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* FreeBSD 9-STABLE from 4-11-2012<br>
* New system installer! Greatly simplified for desktop and server
installs.<br>
* New "PC-BSD Server" installation option. Includes command-line
utilities like pbi-manager, warden, metapkgmanager and more.<br>
* Support for ZFS mirror / raidz(1,2,3) during installation.<br>
* Support for SWAP on ZFS, allowing entire disk ZFS installation. <br>
* Support for setting additional ZFS data-set options, such as
compression, noexec, etc. <br>
* Warden jail management integrated into system. Allows creating
jails via GUI, adding packages and other administration. <br>
* First boot setup wizard allows OEM installs to be easily
performed. <br>
* New Bluetooth paring tray / GUI utilities.<br>
* New AppCafe improvements and preferences<br>
* Improvements to wifi utility<br>
* Fixed bug causing untranslated strings to show up empty. <br>
* Numerous bug-fixes to PC-BSD related utilities<br>
* And much more!<br>
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Errata<br>
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* There is a bug installing to boot-camp partitions which will be
fixed in next snapshot<br>
* The warden rc.d script is not enabled by default. Add
'warden_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf to enable.<br>
* The i386 image was not built for this snapshot, however it will
available in the upcoming weeks. <br>
* The installer will not correctly start on systems with < 512MB
of ram, which will be fixed in upcoming snapshots. <br>
* This snapshot does NOT contain the upcoming Intel GEM/KMS video
driver support. This will be available in a future snapshot. <br>
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Download<br>
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The DVD / USB images are available via the PC-BSD mirrors. You may
select the mirror and files from the URL below:<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
iXsystems</pre>
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