http://www.osnews.com/story/9212/Review_FreeSBIE_1_1_-_Free_System_Burned_In_Economy Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:44 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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 Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? more screenshots available here:
http://www.hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=75... Mon, 20 Dec 2004 19:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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... Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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! Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? You are probably talking about gtkrellm or gdesklets. dont know if its available on freebsd thou. I am only using Linux Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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 Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Tue, 21 Dec 2004 02:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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). Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? "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. Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? kernel panic, for some reason unknown to me BSD does not like my hardware... Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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... Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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. Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? 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 Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments