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WarBSD 0.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the stop-the-killing dept.

Dan writes "Stacy Olivas has put together a hack of PicoBSD .500 using the FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 source tree. After seeing WarLinux and how it used an embedded version of Linux to get the job done, he started wondering if PicoBSD could be used for the same thing. He calls it WarBSD. Its main intended use is for systems administrators that want to audit and evaluate thier wireless network installations."

20 comments

  1. Interesting... by jwriney · · Score: 4, Funny

    WarBSD? Huh. Good God ya'll. What is it good for?

    --riney

    1. Re:Interesting... by h4nd-3y3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... Absolutely - Nuthin'!!

    2. Re:Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Say it again!!

  2. its nice to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    its nice to see that someone has brought out a version that uses bsd because that means theres more choice to the user as to what he wants.

    the more the bsd the better imo.

    1. Re:its nice to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      yes, thank goodness I will be able to choose between a freely-available unix-like OS, or a freely-available unix-like OS.

      From the page:
      "A: No. WarBSD is my attempt at making a *BSD equivalent to WarLinux "

      Note, not "better" or "different", just "equivalent".

      Yawn. Thank goodness I can have the comfort of the BSD license instead of the evil GPL when using an embedded OS.

    2. Re:its nice to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      GPL is what makes people turn into gays.

    3. Re:its nice to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      GPL=Gay Pervert Loser BSD=Bizzare Sexual Deviant

    4. Re:its nice to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      thats fine by me!

  3. With a name like that... by hkon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will it get funding from the DoD? :-D

    (sorry, Theo)

    1. Re:With a name like that... by cesarcardoso · · Score: 1

      : Will it get funding from the DoD? :-D

      Maybe if it was called WarOnTerror BSD? Or WarOnIraq/Syria/NorthKorea/etc BSD? 8-D

      --
      Cesar Cardoso can be found at cesar at zyakannazio dot eti dot br (or at least I believe so)
  4. Just another fork of BSD :) by mirabilos · · Score: 2, Informative

    They seem to spread well - this shows us that BSDisn't dead, in contrast to GNU (see the recent
    discussion Debian vs GFDL).

    Hint: http://MirBSD.BSDadvocacy.org/

    --
    My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And /. still does not get UTF-8 right in 2012. Wow.)
    1. Re:Just another fork of BSD :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, they spread well alright. You know what else spreads well? Herpes.

      Doesn't mean anyone wants the fucking things.

    2. Re:Just another fork of BSD :) by mirabilos · · Score: 1

      You'd be surprised to hear how many people areconsidering BSD now. Even I was shocked to see
      several people, including IBM's Almaden Research
      Lab, and a bunch of japanese companies, downloading
      my special flavour (MirBSD).
      And many people in IRC get install help from me.
      I feel I'll have a userbase larger than I can
      cope with soon :)

      --
      My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And /. still does not get UTF-8 right in 2012. Wow.)