Version 1.1 of FreeSBIE, a FreeBSD Live CD, was released last week, and here's a first look. Update: Screenshots via OSDir.com. 
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A useful mini review and I liked his style of writing. FreeSBIE 1.1 is installable to disk, but a feature I really like is that FreeSBIE also has tools to make a new live CD from your hard disk just like PCLinuxOS P7,P8. I was just making an order for latest CDs from BudgetLinuxCDs and now I must add FreeSBIE.
Brian N
more screenshots available here:
http://www.hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7509
Does anyone know what is the program that prints these monitoring information of the desktop? Apart from superkaramba is there another one?
Sorry if I am out of context I am trying to make my freebsd desktop look nice...
Wow I'm currently on FreeSBIE, posting this, and I must say I'm very much amazed at the sheer beauty and elegence of all this-- autoconfig was smooth, and errorless. Great stuff!
I had the CD lying around for a while now, but it wasn't up untill now that I had some time to try it out. Should've done it earlier!
You are probably talking about gtkrellm or gdesklets. dont know if its available on freebsd thou. I am only using Linux
Currently running FreeBSIE out of curiosity, and it looks like the program that is running is called "torsmo". I killed it and reran it ... yep.
It's using torsmo for the upper right meters, gkrellm for the left side, and idesk for the icons on the desktop.
Kinda neat, but nothing wows me too much. I'm gonna dig a bit, but I don't see the huge draw to it over my cute Arch install. :-p
You should try BSDeviant: http://bsdeviant.unixpunx.org, In this moment it's down, I don't know if the project is dead, but is the best FreeBSD-based Live CD I've ever tried. It's under 210 Mb. I think its better than FreeSBIE.
I have a little problem with the sound when I installed it on my hardisk. There's none! 
However, when booting directly from the CD, I can play my mp3s. I didn't look for the problem, don't have the time yet. My sound is an AC97, btw.
This cd looks cool, but it utterly fails on my test system. I believe the problem is due to drivers not working with the inteli810 video system (beos fails for the same reason).
See paragraph 5.4.3.1 at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.... for info on the i810 chipset and Free BSD.
"You are probably talking about gtkrellm or gdesklets. dont
know if its available on freebsd thou. I am only using Linux"
Yes, various gtkrellm tools are availabe for *bsd users. You can search the ports collection:
www.freebsd.org/ports
Here are the search results in the ports collections based on
"GKrellM". I believe that the orginal posting has a typing error. It is "GKrellM" not "gtkrellm".
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=GKrellM&stype=all
Dont forget to check out the fluxbox handbook (slit):
http://fluxbox.org/docbook/en/html/chap-slit.html
Enjoy your new desktop.
kernel panic, for some reason unknown to me BSD does not like my hardware...
I'd be interested to see how FreeSBIE performs on a more modern machine. Perhaps a follow-up review? Or maybe I'll just try it myself...
Hurray, booting from the cd was great, everything detected, so i decided to use the installer script and boot again.
Mousewheel not working anymore. And where the **** is that xorg configuration file located? Certainly not in etc/x11
Sound also not working anymore. A great distro untill you make the mistake of trusting it and installing it on your harddisk.
It also screwed up my ntfs partitions, thank you very much.
My apologies for your ntfs partition destroied, but not all users out there are thinking that this is wrong
Anyway, /scripts dir in cdrom is not copied when you launch bsdinstaller (a last-hour-bug), so if you copy this dir in your ex-ntfs partition, you'll have all freesbie staff your girlfriend loves