DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users.
DesktopBSD 1.6RC3 for AMD64 is now available for download via BitTorrent and
from our mirror sites. It includes several improvements made since the
release of 1.6RC3 for i386, including:
* Better performance by disabling SMP on single core/processor computers
* Fixed installation on disks with special partition names
* Inclusion of the FreeBSD ports collection on the DVD
The new release candidate comes with Xorg 7.3 and uses KDE 3.5.8 as its
desktop environment. Many desktop applications are included, such as:
* Amarok 1.4.7
* K3B 1.0.3
* KTorrent 2.2.2
* Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9
* Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.9
* OpenOffice.org 2.3.0
* Pidgin 2.2.2
* VideoLAN Client (VLC) 0.8.6c
Upgrades from 1.0, previous release candidates and even the i386 version are
supported. Language packages for 18 different languages are included and can
be installed from the DVD.
