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PC-BSD 9.1 Now Available

[Posted December 19, 2012 by ris]

The PC-BSD team has announced that PC-BSD 9.1 is now available. "This release includes many exciting new features and enhancements, such as a vastly improved system installer, ZFS “Boot Environment” support, TrueOS (A FreeBSD based server with additional power-user utilities), and much more!"

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Posted Dec 20, 2012 3:42 UTC (Thu) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126) [Link]

does it come with pkng support?

PC-BSD 9.1 Now Available

Posted Dec 20, 2012 5:02 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

If you mean pkgng, as I understand, PC-BSD uses its own packaging system (PBI) but you can also use FreeBSD packages/ports. Since it is based on FreeBSD 9.1, perhaps it already includes pkgng, otherwise it shouldn't be a problem installing it yourself.