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PC-BSD 10.1.1 Released With New System Updater, Qt5 Desktop Utilities

Written by Michael Larabel in BSD on 2 February 2015 at 12:27 PM EST. 1 Comment

Version 10.1.1 of PC-BSD is now available with a variety of notable improvements to this FreeBSD-based desktop-focused distribution.

PC-BSD 10.1.1 is an exciting quarterly update over PC-BSD 10.1.0, which in turn is based off FreeBSD 10.1. The PC-BSD 10.1.1 release features a new system updater with background updating support, improvements to the GRUB/boot support, conversion to Qt5 for all desktop utilities, a rewrite of the mount tray utility, new OVA files for virtual machines, and a variety of other work.

PC-BSD 10.1.1 desktop updates include GNOME 3.14.1, Cinnamon 2.4.2, and Lumina Desktop 0.8.1. There's also Chromium 39, Firefox 35, and the NVIDIA 340.65 BSD driver.

More details on PC-BSD 10.1.1 via the PCBSD.org announcement.

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