New Pacbsd Iso Avaliable

The PacBSD team is happy to announce that a new installation image is finally available for download for 64-bit x86 (x86_64)-based computers. PacBSD is the rebranded successor to ArchBSD, along with a new name, comes several changes, as well. For starters, all of our packages have been rebuilt from the ground up with the focus of matching the versions that FreeBSD’s Ports tree has rather than trying to match what Arch Linux has, which led us into many issues due to the underlying GNU/Linux vs. BSD differences, and we lacked the developer base to be able to resolve them. We also switched to using FreeBSD’s architecture names rather than what Linux uses, so instead of “x86_64” we now have “amd64”.

Currently we are only supporting AMD64-based machines; we may add i386 and ARM/ARM64 support in the future. We have two different install media: an ISO for CD/DVD use and an IMG for USB devices. Be sure to select the right file for your use case when downloading. These are available for download at https://packages.pacbsd.org/iso. Currently the main packages available for testing are LXDE, Chromium, Xorg, wine, transmission, and a few Window Managers. New packages are added daily, and more DE should be available in a few days. Xfce4, Firefox, and VLC will be added to the repositories next. Though there are multiple PKGBUILDs for these already available at https://github.com/PacBSD/abs. You can view daily reports of the repository statuses, which include broken packages, and packages that fail to pull in dependencies, outdated packages, and other information anytime at http://users.pacbsd.org/~repo/repo-report/. Installation help can be found at: https://wiki.pacbsd.org/Official_Arch_BSD_ZFS_Install_Guide. If you need additional help, feel free to join #pacbsd-chat or #pacbsd-dev on Freenode. All new uploaded packages, git commits, and repository reports are posted to #pacbsd-dev daily as well.

If you run into any issues while installing or running PacBSD, please report them to https://bugs.pacbsd.org. For more information, please refer to the original release announcement. To learn more about the project, visit our website.