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DesktopBSD is a Unix-like, desktop computer-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. Its goal is to combine the stability of FreeBSD with the ease-of-use of KDE, which is the default graphical user interface.
=History and development=
DesktopBSD is essentially a customized installation of FreeBSD and is not a fork (software development) of FreeBSD. DesktopBSD is always based on FreeBSD s latest -STABLE branch but incorporates certain customized, pre-installed software such as KDE and DesktopBSD utilities and configuration files.
A common misconception about DesktopBSD is that it is intended as a rival to PC-BSD as a BSD-based desktop distribution, since they are similar in structure and goals. However, the DesktopBSD project was started approximately one year before the PC-BSD project, despite the fact that the first PC-BSD release came out long before DesktopBSD s. Neither the DesktopBSD nor PC-BSD projects intend to rival each other and are completely independent projects with distinctive features.
The first release candidate of DesktopBSD 1.0 was released on July 25, 2005; the second release candidate on October 10, 2005.
=See also=
=External links=
*[http://desktopbsd.net/ DesktopBSD website] *[http://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3story_id=5104 BSDNews.com article on DesktopBSD] *[http://desktopbsd.sourceforge.net/sub/notes/1.0RC2.html DesktopBSD 1.0RC2 release notes]|
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