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  1. Hmm... by itwerx · · Score: 2, Informative · on Architecural Design Software for Unix?

    ...let's see here...
    -tappity-tappity-tappity-
    In less than ten minutes of Google/Freshmeat and Sourceforge searching we have the following:

    Links to commercial software, some of which has functional demos:
    http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Graphics/CAD/in dex.shtml

    Some FreshMeat projects which fit the bill:
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/varicad/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/cycas/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/brl-cad/

    And some SourceForge stuff to pick through:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3studio/
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3dcad/

    And ya know what? There's a ton more!!!!! (The only reason I spent even this amount of time was to satisfy my own curiosity). So, why don't you, my dear Ask-Slashdotter, go forth and use the resources available to you!!

  2. Hmm... by itwerx · · Score: 2, Informative · on Architecural Design Software for Unix?

    ...let's see here...
    -tappity-tappity-tappity-
    In less than ten minutes of Google/Freshmeat and Sourceforge searching we have the following:

    Links to commercial software, some of which has functional demos:
    http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Graphics/CAD/in dex.shtml

    Some FreshMeat projects which fit the bill:
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/varicad/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/cycas/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/brl-cad/

    And some SourceForge stuff to pick through:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3studio/
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3dcad/

    And ya know what? There's a ton more!!!!! (The only reason I spent even this amount of time was to satisfy my own curiosity). So, why don't you, my dear Ask-Slashdotter, go forth and use the resources available to you!!

  3. Hmm... by itwerx · · Score: 2, Informative · on Architecural Design Software for Unix?

    ...let's see here...
    -tappity-tappity-tappity-
    In less than ten minutes of Google/Freshmeat and Sourceforge searching we have the following:

    Links to commercial software, some of which has functional demos:
    http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Graphics/CAD/in dex.shtml

    Some FreshMeat projects which fit the bill:
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/varicad/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/cycas/
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/brl-cad/

    And some SourceForge stuff to pick through:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3studio/
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3dcad/

    And ya know what? There's a ton more!!!!! (The only reason I spent even this amount of time was to satisfy my own curiosity). So, why don't you, my dear Ask-Slashdotter, go forth and use the resources available to you!!

  4. Re:And....??? by ncc74656 · · Score: 2 · on Homepage Usability
    For that matter Nielsen's own site looks kind of like it was created by somebody who just set up their first MSN dialup account a few days ago... :)
    It wasn't that bad...my biggest complaint would be the godawful HUGE text size used. If you change your browser's text size from "medium" to "smaller," it looks much better.

    (Freshmeat has had the same problem ever since it switched to its new software a few months back.)

  5. Re:Hackability? by Vairon · · Score: 1 · on SonicBlue Going w/ReplayTV 4000 Despite Lawsuit

    When I get one, which I will. Just before I replace the 40hr hard drive with a bigger one, I will be backing up the drive with "Partition Image" http://freshmeat.net/projects/partimage/ or Powerquest's "Drive Image" http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/. That way I can migrate the OS to the new hard drive AND have a backup in case a "upgrade" comes down the line in the future, that removes a feature.

  6. Rio 500 by Null_Packet · · Score: 2 · on Where are the non-SDMI MP3 Players?

    As long as you don't need it to work with XP (No Flames Please), then go with the Rio500.

    They have Windows support (95-2000) that lets you load and erase music on the unit only, while the Linux drivers and apps let you copy music on and off the device. They come with 64 Megs already, and you can add a Smart Media card for more.

    It's an older MP3 player, sure. Capacity is where you'll take the hit, but if you want to use it as you will, and assuming you're a Linux user, the Rio500 should do fine.

  7. Excessive code and excessive nudity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful · on Will Working For Porn Website Ruin an IT Career?

    http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/220/

  8. Re:Insert foot in mouth.... by Vairon · · Score: 1 · on The Problem of Search Engines and "Sekrit" Data

    You must be talking about your own foot, because apparently you're not aware of mod_auth_pgsql and mod_auth_mysql

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_auth_pgsql/ and http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_auth_mysql/.

    In fact a simple search of "mod_auth" on http://www.freshmeat.net returns 22 hits of software that uses HTTP Basic Authentication and checks usernames/passwords against databases, ldap, pam, kerberos, etc.

  9. Re:Insert foot in mouth.... by Vairon · · Score: 1 · on The Problem of Search Engines and "Sekrit" Data

    You must be talking about your own foot, because apparently you're not aware of mod_auth_pgsql and mod_auth_mysql

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_auth_pgsql/ and http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_auth_mysql/.

    In fact a simple search of "mod_auth" on http://www.freshmeat.net returns 22 hits of software that uses HTTP Basic Authentication and checks usernames/passwords against databases, ldap, pam, kerberos, etc.

  10. Re:Insert foot in mouth.... by Vairon · · Score: 1 · on The Problem of Search Engines and "Sekrit" Data

    You must be talking about your own foot, because apparently you're not aware of mod_auth_pgsql and mod_auth_mysql

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_auth_pgsql/ and http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_auth_mysql/.

    In fact a simple search of "mod_auth" on http://www.freshmeat.net returns 22 hits of software that uses HTTP Basic Authentication and checks usernames/passwords against databases, ldap, pam, kerberos, etc.

  11. Use PC DOS by yerricde · · Score: 2 · on Microsoft Runs Out Of Windows XP Family Licenses

    1) Gaming compatibility. There simply is no alternative to using a Microsoft OS if you want to be able to play the vast majority of games that have been made for the PC in the last 20 years.

    In other words, you refer to PC games released from 1982 to the end of 2001. You can get 99% MS-DOS compatible DOS from IBM or from Lineo. You can get a 90% MS-DOS compatible DOS from the FreeDOS Project.

    Sure, you can run *most* DOS games in DR-DOS--but not all of them

    Name some titles? Do they work in IBM's PC DOS?

    and at any rate you'd still have to boot a Windows variant to play all the Windows games.

    If the game was released before 1996 (that's 14 years of PC games), it probably runs under DOS because DirectDraw didn't come out until 1996, previous Windows versions (without DDraw) lacked the video performance of DOS (e.g. no 320x200x8 mode), and most Windows 3.1 games have free clones by now anyway.

    Or just get a Nintendo GameCube or Game Boy Advance and skip the whole thing.

    This is especially true since so many Linux apps are enigmatically named

    How is it any different on windows? Notwithstanding Microsoft's marketing, how can you tell "Excel" stands for a spreadsheet program? What about "Outlook" for an e-mail and calendar program? What about "Napster" or "Limewire" for a media sharing app?

    (how are we supposed to find them in the first place?)

    OSDN Freshmeat.

    Anyone knows instantly what Media Player does--it plays media, like movies and sounds. Great. But how is an end user supposed to know what xanim does?

    xanim: take off the x and you get 'anim' which is one letter away from the 'anime' videos.

    I need Photoshop for image editing--The Gimp is okay, and I can do some script-fu with it that I can't under Photoshop, but it isn't as powerful in most respects, is more clunky and difficult to use, and lacks CMYK color separation which is a must for many graphic artists.

    Photoshop costs $600. Photoshop Elements (same thing as Photoshop without the CMYK stuff; feature set similar to that of GIMP or Jasc's Paint Shop Pro) costs $100. What's the difference? The royalty for the PANTONE patents.

    you see, I'm set in my ways and attached to my apps ... There would just be too steep a learning curve to make the effort worthwhile.

    Would it cost more than $900 (XP Pro license + Photoshop license) to retrain you to use Free software?

    Compatibility with the outside world.

    As long as you use standards-based file formats, you should be safe.

    Why should I put up with not being able to use a film clip, when I could have done so with Windows?

    Why should you put up with stock film vendors who do not make their collections available to their customers in MPEG or MPEG-4 format?

    There are some pretty strange and obscure file formats that have been developed over the years, but almost alays there is software for Windows which will handle it.

    If a file format is obscure enough, the software that can convert it to a more transparent format tends to be older, and WINE tends to run older software more reliably.

    B) Chasing Amy uses (pirated) Windows. Microsoft gets no money from him.

    Microsoft gets $100,000 from him, maximum statutory damages in the US for copyright infringement.

  12. SmartCVS and build tools by drig · · Score: 4, Informative · on Moving from Source Safe to CVS?

    One nice CVS frontend is SmartCVS (www.smartcvs.com). It's written in Java, so it's cross platform (I tried it under Windows, Solaris and Linux). It aims to replace VSS's explorer. You can get a feature-restricted version for free or pay something like $35 for the full version.

    One thing that you should promote about the move is the number of tools that are available for CVS. For instance, there's CVSWeb. It's a web frontend. There's CVS Search which lets you search through comments, etc. A search of freshmeat comes up with a lot of choices.

    Finally, remember that there are scripts to help migrate from VSS to CVS. vss-to-cvs

    -Dave

  13. Re:Why aren't there more rendering engines? by Yorrike · · Score: 1 · on Galeon 1.0 Released
    Then use links or lynx (links is better by a mile IMHO... but open source is about choice, after all).

    If all you want to view is the text without and display enhancements (which is what CSS is used for by any self respecting web designer), you need not a graphical web browser.

  14. Re:Why aren't there more rendering engines? by Yorrike · · Score: 1 · on Galeon 1.0 Released
    Then use links or lynx (links is better by a mile IMHO... but open source is about choice, after all).

    If all you want to view is the text without and display enhancements (which is what CSS is used for by any self respecting web designer), you need not a graphical web browser.

  15. Actual Links to what you want. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Free Scientific Software for Developing World?
    Acutally try these three links & watch other categoies that may do what you want, but not be directly under scientific/engineering:
  16. Re:Netlib and more by Wile+E.+Heresiarch · · Score: 5, Informative · on Free Scientific Software for Developing World?

    I do quite a bit of number crunching. Here are
    some of the resources I use:

    Netlib (www.netlib.org) -- Yes, it's mostly Fortran, but that's a good thing! Just use f2c (easy to find) and translate to C if that's what you want. Don't underestimate the power of decades-old programs -- old == widely used and well-tested.

    StatLib (lib.stat.cmu.edu) -- Collection of statistical software, in various languages, including C, Fortran, and S.

    SAL, Scientific Applications on Linux (sal.kachinatech.com) -- a very large collection of links.

    Freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net) -- Not scientifically oriented, but there is much scientific stuff there, along with all kinds of miscellany.

    Octave (www.octave.org) -- A package for matrix manipulations, similar to Matlab, but free. Useful for all kinds of problems.

    R (www.r-project.org) -- An implementation of the S language for statistics, but also useful for general problems, similar to Octave. S+ is a commercial implementation of S.

    Well, that ought to be enough to get started. To echo something other posters have mentioned -- don't even bother with Windows software. If your budget is tight, save your money for hardware, don't waste it on the MS tax.

  17. Re:These are the days by FattMattP · · Score: 2 · on Mozilla 0.9.6 Released
    does anyone know of a proxy that allows you to rewrite packets on the fly? I think the web's got to the point where I want to start overriding some HTML arbitrarily. I know regular expressions, so some sort of regex interpreter would be quite handy.
    I use FilterProxy for exactly this purpose. From the docs:
    FilterProxy is a Perl script that acts as a generic Web proxy. It is unique in that it allows you to install modules that can perform arbitrary transformations on HTML (or any other MIME-type) and HTTP headers. It filters ads by stripping HTML from the page, anonymizes requests by removing Referer and User-Agent headers, compresses HTML content, and de-animates animated gifs. Configuration is done via Web-based forms or editing a Perl data structure.
  18. Re:RiscOS... by Captain+Pedantic · · Score: 0 · on Rage Against the File System Standard

    ROX-Filer does something like this, which is really what you should be using to manage files if you liked RiscOS.

    The author has written a freshmeat article explaining all this in more detail.

  19. Re:These are the days by sTeF · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla 0.9.6 Released
    hint regarding packetfiltering:


    filterproxy let's you exactly do that. check it out. it's written in perl, and configurable through a web interface. it has many nice other features: gzip content-transferencoding being one. definitly worth to check out.
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/filterproxy/
    http://draal.physics.wisc.edu/FilterProxy/

  20. Re:keep your heads up; this is where the US is goi by shepd · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Saudi Arabia's 'Great Firewall'

    Don't worry -- if you're posting to slashdot you'll be able to circumvent the thing.

    Here's a couple of ways (provided you know someone outside the country on a server the gov't doesn't mind you viewing):

    httptunnel
    corkscrew
    NSTX

    Fortunately, I've already had experience with this. I went to school in the WCBE of Ontario, Canada, where it's against the rules to view nintendo.com when you're doing an essay on which console is the best (this was in high school too...). IIRC, I used a different solution then though (can't remember what now).

    Goodie.

  21. Re:keep your heads up; this is where the US is goi by shepd · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Saudi Arabia's 'Great Firewall'

    Don't worry -- if you're posting to slashdot you'll be able to circumvent the thing.

    Here's a couple of ways (provided you know someone outside the country on a server the gov't doesn't mind you viewing):

    httptunnel
    corkscrew
    NSTX

    Fortunately, I've already had experience with this. I went to school in the WCBE of Ontario, Canada, where it's against the rules to view nintendo.com when you're doing an essay on which console is the best (this was in high school too...). IIRC, I used a different solution then though (can't remember what now).

    Goodie.

  22. Re:keep your heads up; this is where the US is goi by shepd · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Saudi Arabia's 'Great Firewall'

    Don't worry -- if you're posting to slashdot you'll be able to circumvent the thing.

    Here's a couple of ways (provided you know someone outside the country on a server the gov't doesn't mind you viewing):

    httptunnel
    corkscrew
    NSTX

    Fortunately, I've already had experience with this. I went to school in the WCBE of Ontario, Canada, where it's against the rules to view nintendo.com when you're doing an essay on which console is the best (this was in high school too...). IIRC, I used a different solution then though (can't remember what now).

    Goodie.

  23. PCSX by Resident+Geek · · Score: 4, Informative · on Bleem's Gravestone Online

    Bleem may be dead, but its spirit lives on in PCSX.

  24. ZooLib by bartman · · Score: 1 · on Portable Coding and Cross-Platform Libraries?

    ZooLib allows one to write a single set of C++ sources which can be compiled into native executables for Mac OS, Windows, BeOS, or POSIX-compliant systems that use the X Window system (such as Linux).
    - freshmeat.net/projects/zoolib

  25. Bastille Linux Webpage by ctar · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Migrating from IPChains to Netfilters?

    Bastille Linux's Webpage has a nice 2.4 Netfilter Firewalling document... I also used this GUI which can create rulesets for ipchains and iptables/netfilter. And, yes, if you upgrade your kernel to 2.4, netfilter can still read your ipchains rulesets, so its not necessary to immediately rewrite your rulesets for ipchains/netfilter.

  26. Use a proxy filtering program by Marc+Boucher · · Score: 1 · on Web Ads with Sound?
    My firewall is equiped with a http proxy server which has the hability to filter url. Check WWWOFFLE (on freshmeat) or directly the homesite.
    Once you've found the correct url to use in the filters, the majority of the ads you had been seeing will disappear. You'll be surfing 95% ads free! You can also filter headers transmitted to and from the server (cookies, browser version, ...)

    My results so far are:

    • Arround 90% of the ads filtered
    • Popup and popunder filtered: don't even open if called by external js, otherwise content filtered.
    • Some "brand toolbars" wiped (xoom and nbci when they existed, netscape, freeservers, lycos)
    • No watermark or ads of any sort on Geocities (for all sites)
    • External stats/counters sites filtered (mainly those adding ads to the counter)
    • ...
    There are some other programs doing the same thing. You should be able to find one that fulfills your needs.
  27. Re:Why still running on BIND? by Proteus+Child · · Score: 2, Informative · on Securing DNS From The Roots Up
    why hasn't someone written a better alternative?

    Lots of people have:

    DJB DNS

    Custom DNS

    MaraDNS

    Posadis (though I've no experience with it yet)

    The list goes on and on.. hit Freshmeat.net for some possibilties.

  28. Re:Gnome needs to succeed by n8willis · · Score: 2 · on GNOME Foundation Elections - Final Candidate List
    Well, how's this for starters:

    Freshmeat.net, Browse: Environment: X11 Applications:

    • GNOME (316 projects)
    • GTK (137 projects)
    • KDE (168 projects)
    • Qt (47 projects)

    Check it yourself if you don't believe my cut-n-paste. This generally agrees with my experience monitoring developer's sites -- there is far more activity on the GNOME front than on the KDE front. Who gives a Krap how Kool your drap-and-drop support is, if all of your appliKations are Krummy and derivative? And don't get me started on that naming Konvention.

    Nate

    PS - Oh yeah, one more example I thought of a moment ago:

    Sourceforge.net: Software Map: Environment: X11 Applications:

    • GNOME (1037 projects)
    • KDE (645 projects)


    Again, feel free to check it again on your own. As for me, I'll keep using GNOME because it offers a far superior computing experience. Even if it's not the default install option on Mandrake (my home distro -- so beware any KDE/GNOME counting based solely on who's running what distro).

  29. Re:OpenSF by mark_lybarger · · Score: 1 · on SourceForge Drifting

    are you saying there's no open software out there for use with the oracle database? please check here or here for a couple free/open projects which are exclusive to oracle. They're not exactly pl/sql code, but they are exclusive to oracle. Hell, you'll even find C++ oci libs if you do a search on freshmeat. the point is, i don't really think oracle can sue anyone for making free and open software that has extensions and hooks into commercial rdbms.

  30. Re:OpenSF by mark_lybarger · · Score: 1 · on SourceForge Drifting

    are you saying there's no open software out there for use with the oracle database? please check here or here for a couple free/open projects which are exclusive to oracle. They're not exactly pl/sql code, but they are exclusive to oracle. Hell, you'll even find C++ oci libs if you do a search on freshmeat. the point is, i don't really think oracle can sue anyone for making free and open software that has extensions and hooks into commercial rdbms.

  31. Any Contingency Plans in the Works? by Carnage4Life · · Score: 5, Insightful · on SourceForge Drifting

    Considering that no one is exactly sure if VA can make it as a business selling proprietary extensions to Source Forge has anyone thought about what will happen to Freshmeat and Source Forge if (or is it when) VA goes under?

    I know that a couple of projects have started mirroring their Source Forge content in case anything happens but are there any credible replacements being worked in case both these extremely useful sites lose their their parent company? Specifically are there any sites that are viable replacements to either Freshmeat or SourceForge? Currently we have multiple Linux distros so the death of one, two or more companies in that area would be sad but not devastating on the other hand the dissappearance of VA considering how much of a central repository for Open Source apps SourceForge and Freshmeat have become would be devastating.

  32. Just in time for the new release. by dsb3 · · Score: 1 · on Third Time Lucky for OPN

    Didn't v1.0.21 come out a day after the changeover?

  33. Re:Another way of looking at things by Prop · · Score: 1 · on GNOME Foundation Elections - Final Candidate List
    it encourages innovation because the same software isn't created and marketed by zillions of companies

    As a counter-argument to this, do a search for "cd player" on Freshmeat.

    ...grin...

  34. The usual "Why ask Slashdot?" answer... by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Open Source Course for Managers?

    Start interviewing project leaders of popular software titles at Freshmeat or Sourceforge.

  35. Re:I was suprised by AudioGalaxy by TomK32 · · Score: 1 · on Napster Alternatives Coming Strong

    If you can't find a "free" version of a song, try misspelling it, there's also a cool tool to be found at fm to get a whole album by tying artist and album name on your console :-)

  36. Re:The problem is by peter_gzowski · · Score: 1 · on EFF To Defend Music Swapping Service MusicCity

    Yes, except an open source program that is currently WORKING. The giFT project was a great initiative, and even had a wonderful GUI frontend (kift), but the current versions of Morpheus/KaZaA lock it out. There was talk of an open source network (one independant of FastTrack), but then KaZaA brought out a linux client (you can pick it up here), which had the giFT project wondering what the main focus of the project should be. I haven't seen any news posted on the giFT project site in a few weeks. I hope they follow through on their OpenFT initiative.

  37. i use other tools to visualize what... by tarzeau · · Score: 1 · on Real Time Gnutella Visualization

    ...kind of porn users are getting (using www.linuks.mine.nu/porn-get ?) and that's www.freshmeat.net/projects/driftnet

  38. Do Open Source Projects by robbyjo · · Score: 1 · on What Do You Do When CS Isn't Fun Any More?

    If you think that you have enough learning CS subjects, do some open source projects. Search Sourceforge or Freshmeat for interesting projects you think you want to contribute. Then, after some experiences, your interest in CS will grow as your curiousity is pricked and your realized that your knowledge in CS need growing. When that happens, go for another one or two years in Master studies. That will sure be a lot of fun.

  39. Re:12$ Solution, Simple, but what if... by penguinboy · · Score: 2 · on Laptop Data Recovery?

    If you have access to a reasonably fast internet connection and CD burner, you can go download and burn the SuperRescue ISO. It's a fully-featured RedHat install put onto a bootable CD. You can start up with this in most any system, mount the HFS drive, and transfer the files elsewhere - either to another hard drive or to a location on the network. I did this exact procedure just last week. Granted, I do have working Linux boxes around, but the most convenient box to hook the drive up to didn't have a functional Linux install at the time.

  40. making money? by Lxy · · Score: 4, Funny · on Making Money In Open Source

    It's easy to make money in open source. First, grab Freemoney

    [root@localhost freemoney_0.02]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/
    [root@localhost freemoney_0.02]$ make
    [root@localhost freemoney_0.02]$ make install

    That wasn't so hard now, was it?

  41. LFTP? by psychosis · · Score: 2 · on A Better FTP?

    LFTP is an excellent command-line and scriptable tool. Check out the fm.net page for more info.

    Not sure if it does the encrypted password part, but it has almost every other bell and whistle out there. My fave is the 'mirror' and 'mirror -R' commands - does a comparison with the local file timestamps/sizes and only "get"s or "put"s the required files.

  42. fsck tv by Gordo · · Score: 2, Informative · on PC-Based Digital Cable Decoder Hack?
    Fsck tv (freshmeat entry) is what you are looking for.

    Project seems to be on the back burner, it was written during the 2.2.13 days, and includes a mod of the xawtv package, and only seems to work for North Amercian cable. FORTYoz you still out there? Anything you want to add?

  43. Re:Cygwin! by Alan+Shutko · · Score: 2 · on Windows 2000 CLI Email Clients?

    There are a few different ssh clients written in Java. (Such as this one.) Throw one of those on a web page, and you have a more secure connection from anywhere. Not as good as you can get, but at least everything isn't sent cleartext over the wire.

  44. Re:HOB by Mr.Phil · · Score: 2 · on AS400 Client Access Clone for Linux?

    AS/400 uses 5250 emulation, and there is a package called tn5250 that works for me on the AS/400 at work. I've not seen any type of GUI interface for the 400 on linux, and I've not heard a peep from IBM on anything on that front.

  45. Hurmmm? This is old and worn out? by ImaLamer · · Score: 1 · on DIY linux-based MP3 player Appliance

    Ok, so you want to build a set top box?

    Get a non-tower pc case, Mobo[etc], Floppy drive, CD-Rom and sound card.

    Do your homework and make sure that all the hardware is supported by linux.

    You will have to find a way to get TV output [i'm not that smart].

    Put this disk into the floppy drive and put in a mp3 [data] cd.

    Why bother using HD space to hold mp3s? The cd's can be used in car players, sega dreamcast and many DVD players... hell, any PC can read a data CD!

    No X11, no HD, no router, any crappy hardware.

  46. But but but... by Bob+McCown · · Score: 4, Funny · on Software "Open Monopoly"

    We already have open monopoly!

  47. SuperRescue by RovingSlug · · Score: 1 · on Tiny Apps

    Hrm, instead of a stripped-down 1.44 MB bootable system, how about a full-featured 650 MB bootable CD-ROM solution? SuperRescue CD.

  48. Tiny operating systems by Black+Acid · · Score: 4, Informative · on Tiny Apps
    The folks who develop FreeBSD released PicoBSD, which according to their homepage can be used as follows:
    • diskless workstation
    • portable dial-up access solution
    • custom demo-disk
    • embedded controller (flash or EEPROM)
    • firewall
    • communication server
    • replacement for commercial router
    • diskless home-automation system

    PicoBSD's applications are really small. Fitting a whole OS onto a single floppy diskette is quite beneficial, and often means that the expensive hard disk can be eliminated. There are also several other small Unix clones, including Minix and Alfalinux (Slackware on 2 floppies). BBIAgent Router is simply amazing: it's a single-floppy Linux-based router and firewall.

  49. Tiny operating systems by Black+Acid · · Score: 4, Informative · on Tiny Apps
    The folks who develop FreeBSD released PicoBSD, which according to their homepage can be used as follows:
    • diskless workstation
    • portable dial-up access solution
    • custom demo-disk
    • embedded controller (flash or EEPROM)
    • firewall
    • communication server
    • replacement for commercial router
    • diskless home-automation system

    PicoBSD's applications are really small. Fitting a whole OS onto a single floppy diskette is quite beneficial, and often means that the expensive hard disk can be eliminated. There are also several other small Unix clones, including Minix and Alfalinux (Slackware on 2 floppies). BBIAgent Router is simply amazing: it's a single-floppy Linux-based router and firewall.

  50. Tiny operating systems by Black+Acid · · Score: 4, Informative · on Tiny Apps
    The folks who develop FreeBSD released PicoBSD, which according to their homepage can be used as follows:
    • diskless workstation
    • portable dial-up access solution
    • custom demo-disk
    • embedded controller (flash or EEPROM)
    • firewall
    • communication server
    • replacement for commercial router
    • diskless home-automation system

    PicoBSD's applications are really small. Fitting a whole OS onto a single floppy diskette is quite beneficial, and often means that the expensive hard disk can be eliminated. There are also several other small Unix clones, including Minix and Alfalinux (Slackware on 2 floppies). BBIAgent Router is simply amazing: it's a single-floppy Linux-based router and firewall.