9-CURRENT-20110225 Snapshot Available for Testing
Kris has just announced the availability of the latest snapshot:
With the 8.2 release finished, now our attention will be turning to the 9-CURRENT branch, and what will eventually become 9.0. I’ve just finished uploading the latest snapshot of 9, which is available from our FTP site.
This release contains a lot of changes from the previous snapshot, including some changes to how the installation of meta-pkgs is shown, a redesign of the Software Browser for browsing PBI repositories, and more.
In regard to the Software Browser, it has now been renamed the “AppCafe”, and it should be functional for browsing and installing some of the PBIs we’ve uploaded for testing, such as firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, etc.
In the upcoming days I will also be working on the import of a new PC-BSD Control Panel.
As usual, please give this snapshot a whirl, and report any bugs and issues to the testing mailing list.
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Comments (9)
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For the control panel will we get this as an update or will we have to wait for another release of version 9 to get this? I guess if it will come with another release then I will just wait for it. At work I use a proxy for faster access but your ftp site will not allow this. Some do and some do not but it would be nice if you did accept this.
You can always get just the changes to the control panel using the commands in this post: http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/10/first-look-at-new-control-panel/
It builds on both 8.x and 9.x. You can choose to fine tune the svn command to svn co svn://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/src-qt4/pc-controlpanel which will give you just the controlpanel (but won’t necessarily provide the full functionality for all of the icons as some are in other subdirs of src-qt4).
Since PC-BSD team is working on a new PBI format, I would like to see delta PBIs also coming to PC-BSD, making it simple to upgrade the packages.
Delta PBIs are definitely part of the new PBI format
As an example, Kris tested the Firefox PBI and the delta update was only 8 MB, representing a 95% reduction in size from the original PBI.
I’ve tried this snapshot on both Lenovo T61p and HP XW8400 workstation and I get a blank screen after KDE starts on the live image. I have to press the power button to turn computer off.
The issue may be related to this thread on testing: http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/testing/2011-March/005063.html. Does it boot if you select VESA mode?
I will try again but my computers both have a Nvidia graphic card installed.
Thanks for your reply.
That’s interesting… Yes, let us know. Also, the next snapshot is due out in the next day or so.