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[News] Many Free Operating Systems Receive Funding

Google's Summer of Code 2008

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| "Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! Over the past three years, the program has 
| brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries 
| worldwide, all for the love of code. We look forward to welcoming more new 
| contributors and projects this year," begins a page listing all the projects 
| planning to participate in this year's GSoC. Among the numerous planned 
| participtants there are many kernel projects, including DragonFly BSD, 
| FreeBSD, Git, GNU/Hurd, Linux, Minix, and NetBSD.      
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http://kerneltrap.org/Google's_Summer_of_Code_2008

New Review:

PC-BSD 1.5 - Becoming More Usable!

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| There is no doubt that PC-BSD is has the aesthetics even without Compiz 
| Fusion. It is also very easy to use. However, the small of number of the 
| available PBIs has remained the Archilles' heel of PC-BSD. The number has to 
| be increased exponentially and this will need more efforts from the 
| developers and more commitments from the iXsystem. If I may sidetrack a 
| little, I would write that I had great pleasure using Zenwalk Linux 5.0 and 
| PC-BSD 1.5 for running Logmein Java applet.      
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http://linuxseekers.com/index.php/component/content/article/43-unix-like-reviews/44-pcbsd-15-review


Related and recent:

First look at PC-BSD 1.5

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| Compiz Fusion is included in this release and worked really well. There's a 
| menu entry which, when clicked, asks if you'd like to enable it at boot. When 
| clicked, Compiz Fusion is immediately enabled and special effects are 
| available. I didn't suffer any instability or performance issues when using 
| this application, but it did seem to require the restart of X to disable the 
| feature.     
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080317#feature


iXsystems Announces Release of PC-BSD Version 1.5, Edison Edition

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| iXsystems announced today the release of PC-BSD Edison Edition. PC-BSD is a 
| fully functional open source desktop operating system based on FreeBSD 
| 6.3-STABLE. FreeBSD is one of the most used UNIX-like operating systems in 
| the world and is widely renowned as the most stable and secure server 
| operating system. PC-BSD has a Push-Button Installer (PBI) wizard developed 
| exclusively for PC-BSD that lets users download and install a wide range of 
| available applications in a self-extracting and self-installing format.      
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http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/56/26/


My Vietnamese Students used PC-BSD

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| Most of them were successful though all preferred doing their projects in 
| Linux, that is what they told me. The bash shell in PCLinuxOS, according to 
| them, was easier since it told them which directory they were in. In short, 
| they got used to seeing $ /usr/home/guest/Desktop in PCLinuxOS while in 
| PC-BSD, they only saw $. pwd I kept telling them :)    
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http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=539

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