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PC-BSD 10.3 Installation and Review on VMware

Easy tutorial on how to install PC-BSD 10.3 on VMware Workstation or Player step by step. We'll also install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) on PC-BSD for better VM performance and usability. You can use this tutorial also for installing PC-BSD 10.3 on physical computer or bare-metal server.

PC-BSD 10.3 Installation Steps:

1. Download PC-BSD 10.3 ISO
2. Create VM on VMware Workstation/Player
3. Start PC-BSD Installation
4. Initial Configuration
5. Install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) in PCBSD 10.3
6. Test VMware Tools Features (Fit Guest Now, Drag-Drop File and Clipboard Sharing)
7. PC-BSD 10.3 Review

Installing PC-BSD 10.3 and Review on VMware

What is PC-BSD?

PC-BSD or PCBSD is a Unix-like operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD. It aims to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy and ready-to-use immediately by providing Lumina, KDE SC, LXDE, Xfce, and MATE as the desktop environment. It provides official binary Nvidia and Intel drivers for hardware acceleration. In addition to FreeBSD ports, and it has its own package management system that allows users to graphically install pre-built software packages from a single downloaded executable file, which is unique for BSD operating systems. The PC-BSD Project is now officially TrueOS.
PC-BSD Website: https://web.pcbsd.org/

PC-BSD 10.3 New Features and Improvements

PC-BSD 10.3 is intended to be the final release in the project's 10.x branch and is based on FreeBSD 10.3. PC-BSD 10.3 uses the FreeBSD boot loader with GRUB offered as an optional alternative. UEFI support has been improved in the system installer and the operating system ships with Lumina 0.8.8 as one of the available desktop environments. Main Changes are:

1. FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE base system
2. Using FreeBSD boot-loader for install media, will be used for installed system in 11.0 as well
3. Updated Qt tool-chain to support Qt 5.5.X
4. Life-preserver bug-fixes to remote replication
5. Made GRUB an optional package, in prep for 11.0
6. Mount Tray will auto-start playback of CD/DVD's upon insert detection
7. Numerous bug fixes in the installer for UEFI / GPT setups
8. Bug-fixes to cleaning up old 'gmirror' installations
9. Firefox 45.0
10. Chromium 48.0.2564.116
11. Thunderbird 38.6.0
12. Lumina 0.8.8

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