VirtualBSD 9.0 Officially Announced

VirtualBSD 9.0, a desktop ready FreeBSD 9.0 built around the XFCE Desktop Environment and distributed as a VMware appliance that can also be made to work with VirtualBox, has been announced.

VirtualBSD 9.0 is aimed at users that have heard of FreeBSD, but haven't tried it because they were afraid to build a system from scratch.

The developers wanted to provide an operating system that had good aesthetics and usability for the average user, integrating common applications, plugins and multimedia codecs, which means the OS will be functional out-the-box.

The most important applications included in the VirtualBSD distribution are Firefox 9.0.1, Thunderbird 9.0, Pidgin 2.10.1, Xchat 2.8.8, LibreOffice.org 3.4.4, Gimp 2.6.11. VLC 1.1.13, Transmission 2.42. Miro a.k.a. Democracy Player 4.0.3, Samba 3.4.14, and CUPS 1.5.0.

Download VirtualBSD 9.0 right now from Softpedia.