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Happy Bitcoin Fork Day!

A minority of bitcoin community are forking to create a new version of bitcoin, called Bitcoin Cash (BCC) on August 1 that splits blockchain in two. It will have no impact on bitcoin balances, just will create a new token. That community miners and developers plan to create an alternative network to increate network capacity. Bitcoin Cash (BCC) will fork bitcoin’s existing software and transaction history. It brings new cryptocurrency tokens on a new blockchain with different rules. Anyone who has already bitcoins will have coins in both BCC and BTC after the fork.

First Blocks of the new Chain

After running into roadblocks this morning, miners were able to successfully create a block on a new blockchain, called Bitcoin Cash, at roughly 2:14 p.m. ET today.

Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud t

Bitcoin Cash launches Tuesday in what is known as a “hard fork” from bitcoin, a virtual currency based on peer-to-peer transactions without any central authority or bank behind it. The new offshoot is a response to the increasing popularity of bitcoin, which is struggling to deal with massive numbers of transactions with its underpinning technology. The main bitcoin currency is adopting a system called Segwit2x that moves transactions out of the current blockchain, while bitcoin Cash will use bigger blocks within the blockchain.

Arguments against increasing the block size?

What exactly are the arguments against increasing the block size?

Gnome Lookin at GitLab

For a long time, GNOME has been using cgit for code hosting and Bugzilla for issue tracking. Over the years, these tools have become increasingly antiquated

Is Google Working on a JPEG Killer?

Pik is a new lossy image format for the internet. This directory contains an encoder and a decoder for the format.

• Apache License

Windows Subsystem for Linux out of Beta

This will be great news for those who’ve held-back from employing WSL as a mainline toolset: You’ll now be able to leverage WSL as a day-to-day developer toolset, and become ever more productive when building, testing, deploying, and managing your apps and systems on Windows 10.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Meet Nitrux: The Most Beautiful Linux Distribution Ever

Nitrux is a new Linux distribution with focus on design. It introduces Nomad desktop which is built on top of KDE Plasma 5 and Qt.

Though Nitrux is based on Ubuntu, it is slightly different from other Ubuntu based distributions because it uses the unstable dev branch. So, the present release Nitrux 1.0 is based on still under development Ubuntu 17.10. Nitrux devs think that “this is close enough to a rolling release model”.

Krita Foundation in Trouble

In other words, because we’re mostly not a company, we should not have claimed back the VAT we paid; but we’re also considered fully a company, so we should have paid VAT in the Netherlands over Dmitry’s work, which we could not have claimed back because the Foundation is mostly not a company.

Firefox Test Pilot

• Firefox Test Pilot – ⁨Send⁩

Send lets you upload and encrypt large files (up to 1GB) to share online. When you upload a file, Send creates a link to pass along to whoever you want. Each link created by Send will expire after 1 download or 24 hours, and all sent files will be automatically deleted from the Send server.

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Now that I really need it, Linux voice control is a nightmare.

I recently injured my hands and wrists and typing gets painful fast. Mouse use is not so bad but still sore. Need voice control and/or transcription software. Dictation (for writing) main need but voice control would be helpful too – I’d be glad of either.

Have tried 3: Simon, PocketSphinx, FreeSpeech. On Ubuntu 17.04. None work out of box. All may work with time & configuration but that hurts! I spent about 3 hours on each and needed a day’s break after each attempt. Usually like messing with command line etc but not right now.
It might work as a cool gimmick. But I think this prevents it helping those with disabilities. I am the only Linux user I know so can’t get help.

Hell. If any program needs to have simple (typing-minimal) setup/install it is a voice control program. I haven’t used Windows for years but may have to soon. So far all attempts to use Linux to ease my pain have hurt like balls.

Trying out Discord JupiterColony

• Would like to test it as a feedback consolidator
• Lets test out the HairCare channel.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Kicking off the Slackware Challenge

• The Slackware Linux Project: Get Slack

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Complicated things explained well

A real world guide to WebRTC

What do we need to get started? Two things: a reasonably recent browser (WebRTC is supported in current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera but not in Safari or many mobile browsers) and drumroll – a server.

An Introduction to the ss Command

The ss command is a tool used to dump socket statistics and displays information in similar fashion (although simpler and faster) to netstat. The ss command can also display even more TCP and state information than most other tools. Because ss is the new netstat, we’re going to take a look at how to make use of this tool so that you can more easily gain information about your Linux machine and what’s going on with network connections.

Systemd for (Impatient) Sysadmins

…and although I’m at philosophical odds with it at some levels, I see no reason why everybody shouldn’t understand it a bit better – especially now that most people will need to deal with it on their favorite distros.

Encrypting drives with LUKS

Linux tracing systems & how they fit together

The thing I learned last week that helped me really understand was – you can split linux tracing systems into data sources (where the tracing data comes from), mechanisms for collecting data for those sources (like “ftrace”) and tracing frontends (the tool you actually interact with to collect/analyse data). The overall picture is still kind of fragmented and confusing, but it’s at least a more approachable fragmented/confusing system.

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Follow Up / Catch Up

How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux

“Talking to enterprises, it became clear that doing this was necessary,” Kumar said. “We were forcing customers to use Windows as their platform of choice.” In another incarnation of Microsoft, that probably would’ve been seen as something positive, but the company’s strategy today is quite different.

Formal Verification of WireGuard Protocal

The WireGuard protocol, described in the technical paper, and based on Noise, has been formally verified in the symbolic model using Tamarin. This means that there is a security proof of the WireGuard protocol.

ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…)

ZFS should have been great, but I kind of hate it: ZFS seems to be trapped in the past, before it was sidelined it as the cool storage project of choice; it’s inflexible; it lacks modern flash integration; and it’s not directly supported by most operating systems. But I put all my valuable data on ZFS because it simply offers the best level of data protection in a small office/home office (SOHO) environment.

Status update about bcachefs

DigitalOcean

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New stuff from the internet

You can root your Google Wifi router, but you’ll need a screwdriver

What’s nice about this hack is that GaleForce will keep working even after Google applies automatic updates to the router. It’s a best-of-both-worlds situation: your home router becomes a Linux box with endless possibilities, but it still has the mesh networking and app-based interface that Google provides.

Smach Z – The Handheld gaming PC

“Hi Smachers,
AMD has kindly agreed to let us inform backers about the new SoC upgrade. We can officially confirm that we are moving to the latest generation AMD technology which will be based on Ryzen and Vega technology.
We’re working together with AMD to bring the best performance to SMACH Z, so it will be the most powerful handheld console in the market. The new generation looks amazing, and we want to thank AMD for all the support and efforts contributed to our project.
At this point we cannot say any more information, but I hope that this announcement works to alleviate the long waiting and to confirm that SMACH Z will feature the best hardware when it will become available.
This decision has been taken after a thorough analysis of the situation. Being forced to move away from Romb.io technology and having to redo the SoC integration has moved our schedule opening the opportunity to bring the latest technology to our design. For the moment this announcements is private only for backers.
Thanks for your support!”

Beginner-Friendly Vulkan Tutorials

For those who don’t know, Vulkan is a new graphics API– in other words, a fresh new way to talk to your GPU and make it do things. It’s managed by the Khronos Group, which means no one corporation controls it. It’s pretty cool, and anyone who wants to do work on GPUs (not restricted to graphics programmers!) should at least have a high level knowledge of what it is.

vkmark: more than a Vulkan benchmark

Ever since Vulkan was announced a few years ago, the idea of creating a Vulkan benchmarking tool in the spirit of glmark2 had been floating in my mind. Recently, thanks to my employer, Collabora, this idea has materialized! The result is the vkmark Vulkan benchmark

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Distro Corner

Slackware turns 24

Today marks 24 years since the original release of Slackware, which continues to be led by Patrick Volkerding. …development on Slackware does continue and its rolling-release code is currently on the Linux 4.9 LTS kernel and has many new packages compared to the v14.2 release.

• Slackware birthday r/linux post

Announcing Mageia 6, finally ready to shine!

The whole Mageia community is extremely happy to announce the release of Mageia 6, the shiny result of our longest release cycle so far!

Though Mageia 6’s development was much longer than anticipated, we took the time to polish it and ensure that it will be our greatest release so far.

Highlights of Mageia 6

• KDE Plasma 5 replaces the previous KDE SC 4 desktop environment
• Support for AppStream and thus GNOME Software and Plasma Discover
• Support for Fedora COPR and openSUSE Build Service
• Successful integration of the ARM port (ARMv5 and ARMv7) in the buildsystem

• While not a new feature, Mageia 6 supports over 25 desktop environments and window managers

• Forking Mandriva Linux: The birth of Mageia

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Interviews and awesome gear from the floor of SouthEast LinuxFest 2014. We round up the highlights of Linux from the south!

Plus some Firefox news we’re stoked about, and we take another step closer to becoming a commandline ninja…

And so much more!

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• SouthEast LinuxFest | Linux and in the GNU/South

June 20-22, 2014
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Charlotte, NC

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• Alan Hicks (AlanHicks) on Twitter

• Slackware Linux Essentials, 2nd Edition: David Cantrell, Logan Johnson, Alan Hicks Chris Lumens: 9781571763389: Amazon.com: Books

This Book in designed to get you started with Slackware Linux operating system. It`s not meant to cover every single aspect of the distribution, but rather to show what it is capable of and give you a basic working knowledge of the system.

• Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

• ThinkPenguin.com | Penguin Laptops, Desktops, and Accessories with Linux & GNU Support

• D. Richard Hipp

• Well-Known Users Of SQLite

A few of the better-known users of SQLite are shown below in alphabetical order. There is no complete list of projects and companies that use SQLite. SQLite is in the public domain and so many groups use SQLite in their projects without ever telling us.

Dwayne Richard Hipp (born April 9, 1961) is the architect and primary author of SQLite as well as Fossil SCM.

Tweets from the floor:

Lots of neat looking toys at the archlinux ARM table #self2014 pic.twitter.com/WTb051XaYr

— imabug (@imabug) June 21, 2014

Docker(.io) #self2014 pic.twitter.com/ki04aXxVjV

— imabug (@imabug) June 21, 2014

ZFS 101 #self2014 pic.twitter.com/TT39FRv1q0

— imabug (@imabug) June 21, 2014

And there was much rejoicing #self2014 pic.twitter.com/yBrtRAekhj

— imabug (@imabug) June 21, 2014

• icculus.org/self2014

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Runs Linux

Goofy-looking security guard robot runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

autojump

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The autojump -s command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes usable

Weekly Spotlight

ArchAssault

The ArchAssault Project is an Arch Linux derivative for penetration testers, security professionals and all-around Linux enthusiasts. This means we import the vast majority of the official upstream Arch Linux packages, these packages are unmodified from their upstream source. While our Arch Linux base is primarily untouched, there are times were we have to fork a package to be able to better support our vast selection of tools. All of our packages strive to maintain the Arch Linux standards, methods and philosophies.

— NEWS —

This Firefox OS-powered streaming stick is Mozilla’s answer to Chromecast

Google\’s Chromecast streaming stick could soon get competition from an unexpected source: Mozilla has secretly been working with a partner on a Chromecast-like streaming stick that is powered by Firefox OS. The project was supposed to be under wraps for at least a few more weeks, but Thursday, news started to leak out when a Mozilla evangelist tweeted a photo of a prototype of the device.

A fully open TV casting prototype device running #FirefoxOS. Open boot loader and all. pic.twitter.com/bZ0Uz8P0Zs

— Christian Heilmann (@codepo8) June 19, 2014

Maynard is a Wayland based Lightweight Desktop Environment Designed for the Raspberry Pi and Lower-end Hardware

This Wayland implementation is based on Weston + GTK, and is using the hardware video scaler (HVS) found in Broadcom BCM2835 to make everything nice and smooth. Although this is still work in progress, you can to try it on your Raspberry Pi

AMD Planning Open Source GameWorks Competitor, Mantle for Linux

(51:45) _When asked about AMD input on SteamOS and its commitment to the gamers that see that as the future, Huddy mentioned that AMD was considering, but not promising, bringing the Mantle API to Linux. If the opportunity exists, says Huddy, to give the gamer a better experience on that platform with the help of Mantle, and developers ask for the support for AMD, then AMD will at the very least \”listen to that.\” It would incredibly interesting to see a competitor API in the landscape of Linux where OpenGL is essentially the only game in town.

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XCOM: Enemy Unkown Released For Linux

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Coming up this week, we’ll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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PIE and ASLR in FreeBSD update

• A status update for Shawn Webb’s ASLR and PIE work for FreeBSD
• One major part of the code, position-independent executable support, has finally been merged into the -CURRENT tree
• “FreeBSD has supported loading PIEs for a while now, but the applications in base weren’t compiled as PIEs. Given that ASLR is useless without PIE, getting base compiled with PIE support is a mandatory first step in proper ASLR support”
• If you’re running -CURRENT, just add “WITH_PIE=1” to your /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf
• The next step is working on the ASLR coding style and getting more developers to look through it
• Shawn will also be at EuroBSDCon (in September) giving an updated version of his BSDCan talk about ASLR

Misc. pfSense news

• Couple of pfSense news items this week, including some hardware news
• Someone’s gotta test the pfSense hardware devices before they’re sold, which involves powering them all on at least once
• To make that process faster, they’re building a controllable power board (and include some cool pics)
• There will be more info on that device a bit later on
• On Friday, June 27th, there will be another video session (for paying customers only…) about virtualized firewalls
• pfSense University, a new paid training course, was also announced
• A single two-day class costs $2000, ouch

ZFS stripe width

• A new blog post from Matt Ahrens about ZFS stripe width
• “The popularity of OpenZFS has spawned a great community of users, sysadmins, architects and developers, contributing a wealth of advice, tips and tricks, and rules of thumb on how to configure ZFS. In general, this is a great aspect of the ZFS community, but I’d like to take the opportunity to address one piece of misinformed advice”
• Matt goes through different situations where you would set up your zpool differently, each with their own advantages and disadvantages
• He covers best performance on random IOPS, best reliability, and best space efficiency use cases
• It includes a lot of detail on each one, including graphs, and addresses some misconceptions about different RAID-Z levels’ overhead factor

FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 released

• The third BETA in the 9.3 release cycle is out, we’re slowly getting closer to the release
• This is expected to be the final BETA, next will come the RCs
• There have mostly just been small bug fixes since BETA2, but OpenSSL was also updated and the arc4random code was updated to match what’s in -CURRENT (but still isn’t using ChaCha20)
• The FreeBSD foundation has a blog post about it too
• There’s a list of changes between 9.2 and 9.3 as well, but we’ll be sure to cover it when the -RELEASE hits

Interview – Bryce Chidester – brycec@devio.us / @brycied00d

Running a BSD shell provider

Tutorial

Chaining SSH connections

News Roundup

My FreeBSD adventure

• A Slackware user from the “linux questions” forum decides to try out BSD, and documents his initial impressions and findings
• After ruling out PCBSD due to the demanding hardware requirements and NetBSD due to “politics” (whatever that means, his words) he decides to start off with FreeBSD 10, but also mentions trying OpenBSD later on
• In his forum post, he covers the documentation (and how easy it makes it for a switcher), dual booting, packages vs ports, network configuration and some other little things
• So far, he seems to really enjoy BSD and thinks that it makes a lot of sense compared to Linux
• Might be an interesting, ongoing series we can follow up on later

Even more BSDCan trip reports

• BSDCan may be over until next year, but trip reports are still pouring in
• This time we have a summary from Li-Wen Hsu, who was paid for by the FreeBSD foundation
• He’s part of the “Jenkins CI for FreeBSD” group and went to BSDCan mostly for that
• Nice long post about all of his experiences at the event, definitely worth a read
• He even talks about… the food

FreeBSD disk partitioning

• For his latest book series on FreeBSD’s GEOM system, MWL asked the hackers mailing list for some clarification
• This erupted into a very long discussion about fdisk vs gnop vs gpart
• So you don’t have to read the tons of mailing list posts, he’s summarized the findings in a blog post
• It covers MBR vs GPT, disk sector sizes and how to handle all of them with which tools

BSD Router Project version 1.51

• A new version of the BSD Router Project has been released, 1.51
• It’s now based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE instead of 10.0-RELEASE
• Includes lots of bugfixes and small updates, as well as some patches from pfSense and elsewhere
• Check the sourceforge page for the complete list of changes
• The minimum disk size requirement has increased to 512MB

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In the final moments of 2013 our virtual LUG shares their expectations and predictions for 2014. We’ll debate some of the most anticipated changes.

Plus a frank Slackware discussion, rolling Ubuntu is back again, your emails, and more!

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Into 2014

• NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware

The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories in order to implant bugs before they reach their destinations. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA\’s TAO group is able to divert shipping deliveries to its own \”secret workshops\” in a method called interdiction, where agents load malware onto the electronics or install malicious hardware that can give US intelligence agencies remote access.

The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories in order to implant bugs before they reach their destinations. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA\’s TAO group is able to divert shipping deliveries to its own \”secret workshops\” in a method called interdiction, where agents load malware onto the electronics or install malicious hardware that can give US intelligence agencies remote access.

Mail Sack:

• Why no love for Slackware

Question for next week:

• Does groupthink / management by consensus tamper open source innovation. Does backlash to aggressive and sometimes new or “risky” ideas inhibit bold invitations?

• Example: Debian can’t get off the pot about their init. Choosing systemd would impact 0.8% of their user base negatively (according to voluntary stats) and be beneficial for Linux as a whole not just Debian. Yet they can’t make the call.

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It’s our review of PC-BSD 9.0 and 9.1. Allan joins us and we cover everything from the end-user experience, to setting up a Linux Jail running on top of PC-BSD. Plus we discuss a few bumps in the road bumps we hit, who we think is the target audience for our open source cousin, and much more!

Plus: We run through a batch of release announcements, the good and the bad for Ubuntu + Amazon, your feedback, and so much more!

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• syncBackup
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• CentOS The Community ENTerprise Operating System

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• Slackware 14.0 Linux Released
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  • First Look: GNOME 3.6
• Open webOS 1.0 Edition
• Open webOS ported to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
• Ubuntu 12.10 Amazon Shopping Results to be Made Optional
  • Bug #1054282 “No obvious way to restrict adult shopping suggestions
• External Beta News | Valve
• Unity 4: Linux Publishing Preview: What, How, and Wherefore
• Ubuntu Software Center, On openSUSE

PC-BSD:

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• Download PC-BSD 9.1-RC1

• For full release versions, along with the full selection of CD, DVD and USB images, PC-BSD also offers ready to use VirtualBox and VMWare images

• The Install:
  • Your choice of Desktop Environments, Installer automatically adjusts the defaults depending on how much ram you have installed
  • Your options: KDE, Gnome, LXDE or XFCE
  • Another option is TrueOS, a console based server, FreeBSD with the CLI version of Warden, the PBI system, ZFS Boot Environments and other utilities
  • The install also offers vanilla FreeBSD Server
• Disk Partitioning
  • PC-BSD allows you to do a full ‘root on ZFS’ install (only recommended if you have 4 or more GB of ram), including creating many different datasets with different settings such as compression for optimal use of space
  • You have the option of the Basic Wizard, the Advanced Wizard, or the FreeBSD CLI partitioning system
  • The advanced Wizard also allows you to setup more complex ZFS mirror or RAIDZ
  • You can choose to optionally encrypt your hard disk using GELI
• Warden
  • Warden is a Graphical and Command Line based manager for FreeBSD’s Jails feature
  • In FreeBSD a jail is a secondary installation of the OS files, which is then started in a chroot, and the processes, network and user/group IDs are separate
  • Allows you to manage three types of jails:
  • Traditional Jail – run internet applications in a container, if compromised, the attacker only gains access to the jail, not the host OS
  • Ports Jail – less secure version if jails, allows you to install applications from the FreeBSD ports tree without interfering with the PBI package manager in the host OS
  • Linux Jail – install Debian or Gentoo in a jail, and run your linux applications in a full linux environment
  • Warden also allows you to stop a jail, pack it up, and move it to a different physical machine
  • Warden also allows you to install meta-packages into the jails with a single click, allowing you to deploy apache+php+mysql in no time
  • Warden can back your jails storage with ZFS, allowing you to take advantage of ZFS features such as snapshots, clones (writable snapshots), revert to a previous snapshot, etc

• Warden Wiki

Chris’ notes:
Hardware:
HP Envy 17 – Wifi was not detected. Only the vesa video driver seemed to work.

VM: No major issue, video performance is not great.

If you consider yourself someone who likes to stay current on open source software releases, try out new betas, and upgrade right after release – PC-BSD is probably not for you.

I failed to find the KDE desktop compelling for me. A good enough implementation, but error pages in certain areas and a lack of anything particular interesting drove me to try the other desktops.

This is one, of two audiences I think PC-BSD could be great for. The first is Gnome 2 lovers. Gnome 2.32 ships with PC-BSD as an option, along with LXDE and XFCE. I tried them all, but Gnome 2 was the most fun. It really was a treat to set up the old workhorse the way I used to like it.

It also made me realize, the world has moved on and Gnome 2 is just not for me anymore.

However, if the work horse aspect is important to you – then you might be the second category of user I think PC-BSD is great for. The enterprise workstation.

FreeBSD is an awesomely cohesive and well built system, even as an outsider in a strange new land I can detect and appreciate the collective thought behind this operating system. On top of that, it’s stable, fast, and has one of the best file systems in the world for managing and protecting large sets of data.

The speed and utility of the Gnome 2 desktop is great, the XFCE setup would also work quite well in a workstation type setup.

Combine that with years of updates, iXsystem’s enterprise expertise and you could have a major contender in the workstation market.

All that said, if you want the latest version of HandBrake (PBI: 0.9.3 current: 0.9.8), PiTiVi ( PBI: 0.13.4 current: 0.15.2), or Chromium (PBI: 21.0 Current: 22.0) and so on, you’ll need to look else where.

Much of this can be alleviated by taking advantage of the FreeBSD ports tree, which PC-BSD makes it easy to setup with just a few clicked.

If wireless and 3D acceleration are important features for you, test the system first.

For users like myself, there are areas of the system that feel a bit unpolished. Perhaps the result of a small, but dedicated team. And despite the team’s amazing efforts, it still feels like the FreeBSD desktop market could be shrinking as the Linux game market heats up.

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