PC-BSD Operation System

For people who find free operating system for their PC, Desktop, and Laptop, i think PC-BSD is the good choice. From the PC-BSD website they said "PC-BSD is a free operating system with ease of use in mind. Like any modern system, you can listen to your favorite music, watch your movies, work with office documents and install your favorite applications with a setup wizard at a click". They also offered speed, security, simplicity for our PC. PC-BSD is secure from all virus that running in microsoft windows operation system. And now The PC-BSD Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD 7.1 - Galileo Edition!

Version 7.1 contains a number of enhancements, improvements and bugfixes from the 7.0 series.

* FreeBSD 7.2-Pre
* KDE 4.2.2
* The new KDE 4 printer applet enables users to easily add and manage printers and print jobs without using the CUPS web interface.
* The Add / Remove Programs tool and the Update Manager have been consolidated into “Software & Updates.”
* The Updater Tray has been modified into a small tray-only applet that shows users when updates are available. This is far less taxing on the CPU than its previous versions.
* FreeBSD ports and packages can now be installed in a clean localbase by utilizing the “runports” command.
* Greater stability for Flash 9 allows users to get higher quality from Flash sites such as Hulu and Youtube.
* Enhancements have been made to PC-BSD's System Installer, including upgrade functionality for those who wish to upgrade / repair PC-BSD while preserving their user data.
* Fixes have been made to bugs in the Wi-Fi and Networking tools, as well as to previous Linux Emulation problems.

For a full list of changes, please refer to the changelog. Users who wish to upgrade from PC-BSD 7.0.x are able to do so via the upgrade / repair option during the installation.

Version 7.1 of PC-BSD for i386 and amd64 based platforms is available for download from our mirrors, for purchase from The FreeBSD Mall, as well as via torrent from www.gotbsd.net.

* Download PC-BSD 7.1
* Official Press Release
* Changelog
* Release Notes

For someone who's want to try this operation system PC-BSD team provide installation guide in here. Let's try it, have some fun :)

source: http://www.pcbsd.org/