PC-BSD 10 - Quarterly Update now released

Life, as they say, is what happens while you're busy doing something else, and so I hadn't been using my PC-BSD for a while, and it got its quarterly rebuild while I wasn't paying attention.

I decided to use it today, for what i expected to be a few minutes, and as soon as I started it, an updates notice came on screen, so I thought "this can't take too long, so I'll do it first..." and an hour later, over 800 Mb of revisions had been downloaded and installed, and my program was ready to use once more.

Unlike Windows or that fruit-flavored other one, the folks at PC-BSD don't wait for a couple of years and death by a thousand cuts before issuing upgrades to the operating system. They have a schedule, in fact, for doing it quarterly, and since it's the end of the first quarter since this version 10.0 came out, it
means it's now time for version 10.0.1, which is why it took an hour to get it all freshened up and smelling nice and working even nicer. More people ought to take a serious look at this PC-BSD. It's a hell of a nice program, and the Unix that it's based on has been around since Bill Gates was in short pants, so it's a well-developed and proven system. You should try it. Did I mention that it's a free download? So put away your credit card. This isn't Windows. This is for people who actually enjoy using their computers and don't want to spend forever twiddling with the system to keep it going. This system keeps itself going! And I love that! You will too.