"Last year the Italian FreeBSD user group, GUFI, rekindled the FreeSBIE project to develop a live CD based on the FreeBSD operating system. After more than four months of development, and an equal number of beta releases, the project released FreesBIE 2.0 this month. Codenamed Clint Eastwood, the live CD is based on the recent FreeBSD 6.2 release, and is an ideal platform to experience BSD and learn how things are done in BSD land."
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"People who can think? FreeSBIE was the first live cd for FreeBSD and it's more like Knoppix."
FreeSBIE is good for D&C (demonstrating and convincing) people will small knowledge and / or experience. "Hey, look how colorful it is! And it can play MP3s!" :-) No, I don't want to talk bad about FreeSBIE, I used it at work for months because the "Windows" box was messed up and dysfunctioning in nearly every aspect. It can be used to restore operation availability, to do multimedia stuff, e-mail, web browsing and of course diagnostics (dmesg, pciconf, nmap, ethereal etc.).
BTW, if I remember correctly, there have been live system CDs before FreeSBIE, i. e. the 2nd CD of the 5.0 CD set. It contains a (rudimentary) live system for rescue purposes. No X, no eye candy. But at least a live system.
"Frenzy is more an admin cd like grml for Linux. So it's something rather different."
I will have a look at it, download is running at this moment...
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2007-01-27
who wants to use that FreeSBIE, when a perfect bsd-live-cd allready exists - Frenzy