[PC-BSD Testing] Testing 7.1.1-RC1

[Bill Leeper]

A few first impressions:

I chose to install it to my 16GB flash drive as I already have OS's on  
all three internal drives. The install went smoothly after I  
remembered it will not install over the top of a previous PC-BSD  
installation. I reformatted the flash drive to FAT32 and then it  
installed OK. Install takes quite a bit longer this way, but not  
unreasonably so. This versions seems top be slower than the previous  
one did. I don't have any timings but it sure feels slower

As usual HW detection was great and the latest nVidia driver works  
fine, I did have one glitch after booting. The task bar along the  
bottom did not extend all the way across the screen. It was about 3"  
to short on the right side. I had to go into the settings and tell it  
to extend all the way across the screen.

I will do more looking later. I just wanted to get it installed and  
will probably leave it on the flash drive. Good work Kris.


On Jun 16, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Kris Moore wrote:

>
> Thanks for everybodies patience! I've been working to get 7.1.1  
> ready for testing, and the i386 ISO
> is now ready to go:
>
> ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/iso/7.1.1-RC1/i386/PCBSD7.1.1-RC1-x86-DVD.iso
>
> I'm still working on prepping the amd64 ISO, and hope to have it  
> posted tomorrow sometime. The fixes for
> it will be identical to the i386 though, minus the nvidia drivers of  
> course.
>
> The changelog for 7.1.1-RC1 is as below. Please report your findings  
> back to this list so we can get 7.1.1
> ready for a launch here in the near future. 7.1.1 will be the last  
> release to round-out the 7.x series, so
> we can turn our attention to 8.0 and all the major updates that will  
> bring.
>
>
> PCBSD 7.1.1-RC1 - Changelog (06-16-09)
> --------------------------
> * Updated KDE to 4.2.4
> * Updated Nvidia driver to 185.14 - 4071
> * Updated FreeBSD to 7.2-Stable
> * Fixed issues with using the fetch ports GUI causing a crash in  
> kcmshell4. - 4069
> * Improved the System Updater Tray to not use annoying popups and  
> instead just change the icon - 4103
> * Added the older Nvidia 71.86.xx driver - 4066
> * Fixed issues with kppp, which needs suid permissions to function -  
> 4061
> * Moved /PCBSD to /usr/PCBSD and created sym-link to allow small  
> root partitions - 3999 - 4004 - 4008
> * Fixed bugs when "upgrading" a system that uses ZFS root partition  
> - 3995 - 3997
> * Added support to give higher / lower priority to wifi connections  
> - 3871
> * Added ability to edit saved wifi profiles - 3870
> * Added ability to "ignore" updates in the updater tool - 3842
> * Improved the system updater and tray application interaction - 3832
> * Fixed CUPS issues not finding all .ppd files correctly - 3833 -  
> 3834 - 3822
> * Fixed bugs with xterm not running - 3804
> * Improved the default fluxbox configuration - 3793 - 3794 - 3798 -  
> 3808 - 3809
> * Improved the KDE4 default theme - 3805 - 3810
> * Updated the KDM theme - 3812 - 3817
> * Improved the KSplash Theme - 3811
>
>
> --
> Kris Moore
> PC-BSD Software
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