Shiny and New PC-BSD

PC-BSD version 1.3.0.1 was released yesterday, fixing and updating a few things since last week's 1.3 unveiling. Most importantly, they fixed the nearly fatal flaw where it could trash your partition table if you tried to install into a primary partition that came after an extended one. Here's a list of changes in 1.3.0.1:

• Updated HAL to latest version in Ports. (0.5.8.20070104)


• Added xscreensaver-kde port


• Updated PCInstall code with fixes for extended partitions. (Bug #355,
  Feature Request #203, Bug #334)


• Updated enable.sh script for HAL in Services tool. (Bug #367)


• Updated kcmPBSystem module with fixes Tim made recently (Bug #353)


• Created /PCBSD/browser_plugins directory, and made it a default in
  KDE


• Added Arabic language to installer


• Fixed issue with changing the video card on install CD to "vesa".
  (Bug #372)


• Updated version of CrashHandler which fixes leaving .files in your
  home dir.


• Implemented Feature Request #148 - Documents path now defaults to
  /home//Documents/


• Fixed issue running PBIs directly from CD. The "noexec" flag is now
  disabled by default.
  

I'm not exactly sure what this HAL thing is, but it has been the talk of the PC-BSD forums. It is some kind of new daemon used to detect hardware changes. Time for some investigations!

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