PC-BSD

Summary

PC-BSD, or PCBSD, is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD. It aims to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE SC as the pre-installed graphical user interface. It provides official binary nVidia and Intel drivers for hardware acceleration and an optional 3D desktop interface through Kwin, and Wine is ready-to-use in running Microsoft Windows software. PC-BSD is able to run Linux software, in addition to FreeBSD ports, and it has its own PBI package management system that allows users to graphically install pre-built software packages from a single downloaded executable file, which is unique for BSD operating systems.

Requirements

Minimum system requirements:

• Intel Pentium II or higher
• 512 MB RAM
• 12 GB of free Hard Drive space (Primary partition or entire disk)
• Network card
• Sound card

Recommended system requirements:

• Intel Pentium 4 or higher
• 1 GB of RAM
• 20 GB of free Hard Drive space (Primary partition or entire disk)
• Network card
• Sound card
• 3D accelerated video card (NVIDIA, ATI)