PC-BSD - an easy FreeBSD (finally)

I wrote about my first experience with a BSD when I tested the NetBSD 2.0 LiveCD last week. I recall that, for all its functionality, it was a really ugly and two-years-ago operating system. From what I can tell that is not uncommon with distributions of BSDs.

It looks like that’s about to change with PC-BSD. PC-BSD is still in a pre-release version (you can get the 0.5a beta version here) but it seems promising. According to the release specs and the screenshots PC-BSD is capable of running a moden KDE and other software packages.

This is great news for the Linux user who wants greater security or the BSD user who wants to finally get their hands on some decent software.