FreeBSD LiveCD 1.1 Ready For Download 106
An anonymous reader writes "It's my pleasure to announce FreeSBIE 1.1, a LiveCD based on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE.
Some of the innovations since 1.0 include: A renewed series of scripts to support power users; An installer to let users install FreeSBIE 1.1 on their hard drives, thus having a powerful operating system such as FreeBSD, but with all the personalizations FreeSBIE 1.1 carries; and the presence of the best open source software, chosen and personalized, such as X.Org 6.7, XFCE 4.2RC1, Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 0.9.2. Moreover, many bugs were solved thanks also to the help of numerous beta testers which we are honoured to thank. For more information visit FreeSBIE.org"
Fast torrent (Score:2)
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i'll leave the torrent open
Re:...FreeBSD Live... (Score:2)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html
Re:...FreeBSD Live... (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html [xs4all.nl]
This one isn't bad either ;) (Score:1, Interesting)
http://wigen.net/data/bsdmascots/daemonettes/larg
Re:This one isn't bad either ;) (Score:2)
it's fucking awful
I'm embarrassed to be a FBSD if that's anything to do with it
Re:This one isn't bad either ;) (Score:2)
Give me a break.
But to tell the truth, I had always seen these [natey.com] two [brucifer.org] versions (they're screenshots), and to me they look *much* better than the original. [rsf-pix.com]
And besides that, my fav is still the daemonette by Bellamy [keltia.net].
But to say "it's awful"... Come on.
ok.. enough with soft-porn. ;)
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Re:This one isn't bad either ;) (Score:1)
boring sexist rubbish
i like porn, but that just isn't even erotic (to me)
Re:...FreeBSD Live... (Score:2)
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While live cd's are an interesting idea (Score:1)
Re:While live cd's are an interesting idea (Score:5, Informative)
Re:While live cd's are an interesting idea (Score:2, Interesting)
I use mine when I'm working either with a machine having some sort of OS problem or an old machine I have no intention of using, but from which I need to recover some data. I can pop in the Live CD and boot to an always-working OS. From there I can either access/transfer my data or restore the disk image. It's not unlike the system restore boot disks that have come with systems for years. These are just more robust. I always have one in my desk or bag.
It's also a great way to evaluate a new or update
Re:While live cd's are an interesting idea (Score:1)
Having a self contained live CD gives you enoug
Re:While live cd's are an interesting idea (Score:4, Informative)
turning on swap is a good idea as well:
then you can try mounting all the other partitions:
Re:While live cd's are an interesting idea (Score:2)
Also, FreeSBIE made a very nice fluxbox desktop (I learned about torsmo and idesk through it) and now I use it as a template for crea
Re:While live cd's are an interesting idea (Score:2)
See this link [netbsd.org] and this link [stevens.edu] for details.
Re:While live cd's are an interesting idea (Score:1)
Roaming Users (Score:4, Interesting)
Also works great if you are in a windows shop and cant login to any PC in the area you are at.. just boot the CD and you instantly (normally) have network.. Not that the security people would approve.. But its their fault for leaving the machines 'boot from cdrom' active.
Re:Roaming Users (Score:2)
OR it's their fault for not putting a password on the CMOS... Or it's their fault for keeping that password on a post-it. Or their fault that they don't have the case locked so I can't clear the CMOS...
Re:Roaming Users (Score:2)
This would be in conjunction with the network admins to lock down the system's OS afterwards..
Sure there are always ways in, but you at least lock the doors and close the windows when its your job to secure the house.....
Re:Roaming Users (Score:2)
As was I.
Requiem for the FUD (Score:5, Informative)
FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004) [internetnews.com]
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004) [netcraft.com]
"[FreeBSD] has a secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004) [slashdot.org]
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."
NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004) [slashdot.org]
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004) [netbsd.org]
OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004) [eweek.com]
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004) [newsforge.com]
*BSD in general:
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;) [keltia.net]
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004) [mi2g.com]
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
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Re:Requiem for the FUD (Score:1)
I'm assuming (based on standard conventions) that the M is mega, and the ps is per second... but what is the p? Pixels? (Last I checked, pixels don't get routed)...
Petabytes? Did someone forget that Peta was the amount and not the unit?
You'd think Pbps (petabytes per second) would suffice if that was the case... or an amount a few orders of magnitude larger than Peta for Mega Pbps...
Re:Requiem for the FUD (Score:1)
The installer is the dragonfly installer... (Score:5, Informative)
The article poster might at least have mentioned that, but here it is, in a comment.
The DragonFly installer team really deserve kudos for this thing. Especially for making it so generic. I heard someone even made an OpenBSD installer from this. It really is that flexible and easy to muck with.
The first revisions of this relied on CAPS, which is the new IPC framework in DragonFly. Later on, other ways of IPC were added (sockets etc.) which makes this possible. Also, kudos to GeekGod of livebsd.com for sending the patches to the FreeSBIE team.
The cool thing about the bsdinstaller is that the interface is decoupled from the back end which does the actual partitioning/copying/etc. There is even a CGI front-end available. Do your installs from a web browser! :) Oh, and an X-based installer (both Qt and GTK) is in the works.
Re:The installer is the dragonfly installer... (Score:4)
DragonFly's a promising OS that often goes unnoticed because it's still in its infancy, but BSD users surely have great expectations about it - and when you're an OS that people don't know yet, a nice piece of software like this installer is surely a *very* good way of introducing yourself. :)
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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.
Re:The installer is the dragonfly installer... (Score:2)
I'd probably be running DragonFly now if I could actually get anything but the base system compiled. Shame having to go back to running Gentoo Linux just t
Re:The installer is the dragonfly installer... (Score:1)
I know about Knoppix being "sold" by some people as an easy way to start running a Debian, but due to the numerous custom Knoppix packages, it is a pain in the ass to maintain once installed.
Re:The installer is the dragonfly installer... (Score:2)
In other words, you can have an 5.3-STABLE (warning, that is still a development branch, but as the name suggests, it's pretty stable) system or 5.3-RELEASE, or even 6-CURRENT if you want - depending how you set your standard-supfile.In short, you'll have a fully functional FreeBSD system, you can even decide which version you want.
Cvsup, ports/src tree ... these might sound al
Re:The installer is the dragonfly installer... (Score:2)
Of course, there's been talk of replacing sysinstall for years...
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The bar is raised again for /stand/sysinstall (Score:3, Funny)
Not with ACME installation boosters strapped to their backs! Not with Vulcan mind-melds of Stephen Hawking channeling Alan Turing! Not with Bert Rutan sending them into space! Not with Anthony Schumacher delivering a laptop down the quarter mile in under four and a half seconds! Not with Bret Favre throwing them across the Gates of Hell. Not with...
Re:The bar is raised again for /stand/sysinstall (Score:2)
DragonFly's installer is basically a more abstract and flexible brother to NetBSD 2's installer, though I'm not sure if they had that in mind. But the partitioning (BSD part
Re:The bar is raised again for /stand/sysinstall (Score:4, Insightful)
As for installation size, well- I am not sure what you are talking about. FreeBSD has a number of preset system types which include certain packages. I do minimal installs as a starting point for my own embedded work. Other times I do complete installs. Do I want apache installed as part of my base system? Ye gods no. I prefer to install just a few small packages on my system and do not want 34 hidden packages installed for every one I select in an installer. I would like to know exact version numbers and specific compile time options. You may not care. I do.
As for the package problems- why is X part of the base system and yet installed as a package? Probably so that FreeBSD can move the whole base system into a series of packages to make it more modular. I don't know that for sure but it certainly makes sense.
-sirket
Re:The bar is raised again for /stand/sysinstall (Score:2)
Here's how to install only a boot loader, folks:
Go into a custom setup,
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If *BSD is dying... (Score:2, Funny)
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>The actual facts cannot be obscured by trolls
Sadly, this isn't true. :(
If it were true, FUD wouldn't work. But to a certain extent it does.
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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.
[OT] Correction (Score:1, Offtopic)
Until now it hasn't been like that: I apologize, I'm still experimenting. Let's say, this whole anti-FUD process is still in its beta (or alpha?..) stage.
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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.
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*tsk*.. (Score:2)
And, there is a better way.
FWIW: I'm unplugging for (approx) 15 days, Happy Holidays to all the BSDers around the world! :)
(..and Requiem for the FUD [slashdot.org], of course)
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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.
NetBSD (Score:1)
Is there a NetBSD liveCD around for x86?
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