This release is the first stable release of the 1.6 branch and comes with a great number of new features and improvements. It is based on the second release candidate of FreeBSD's upcoming production release 6.3 and provides the user with an enhanced KDE 3.5.8 desktop environment.
The most notable new features are:
FreeBSD 6 as a modern and reliable base system
X.Org release 7.3, improving support for modern graphics hardware
Live CD/DVD feature for testing the system without installation to a hard-drive
Revised installer supporting upgrades from 1.0 and previous 1.6 release candidates
Improved package manager usability and performance
Many enhancements and bugfixes for the DesktopBSD tools
Support for multiple processors and multi-core CPUs
Inclusion of the NVIDIA graphics driver for hardware 3D rendering
DesktopBSD build servers as an up-to-date source for precompiled packages
Katalog 
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