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FreeBSD Based Live CDs

Posted by timothy on from the peanut-butter-chocolate dept.

Newtonian_p writes "Now the BSD world has an answer to Knoppix. The FreeSBIE project have released a live FreeBSD based system on CD. There are also plans to develop a suite of programs to be used to create a personalized disk." If it offers a painless BSD install (the way Knoppix makes it easy to install Debian to a hard drive), this should be a popular project. Reader Cronopios links to a related effort called LiveBSD which "has heavily modified FreeSBIE's scripts to allow for apache mysql and many other programs to run."

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  1. FreeSBIE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least if I mess up the CD burning, I won't get a coaster!

  2. Plan 9 by IncarnadineConor · · Score: 4, Funny

    When is someone going to make one of these for plan 9? Leaving one of those in my drive would be a perfect way to make sure no one can screw with my computer.

  3. Wahoo! by Zebra_X · · Score: 2, Funny

    This will make an awsome Haxering platform. If you get run up on by the feds, just pull the battery out of your laptop.

  4. Uh oh..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Live CD? BSD?

    The puns that can be made here...

  5. Re:BSD isn't a hard install by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Now I'm gonna sue you!

    I did exactly what you told me to do, but when I tried to burn the floppy, my burner jammed. Now I can't even burn CD's anymore.

    Then I burned the floppy by hand (with a match) and stuck it into my Apple][. Immediately smoke started to come out of the back and now my priceless Apple is RUINED!!!

  6. Dead, LiveCD, make up your mind... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 2, Funny

    This should kick of a nice, long round of "BSD is Live" jokes.

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    You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
  7. ALLRIGHT!! by dos4who · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now I can finally make use of all those Knoppix FriSBEEs I've burned over the years...

    ~m

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    "Yes, I have a Disaster Recovery Plan. It's called my Resume"
  8. Re:BSD isn't a hard install by krusader · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. Burn floppy

    Isn't it going to be hard to boot off that floppy if you burn it?

  9. What do you mean ...FreeBSD ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All the trolls told me BSD is dead ...WHAT ! you mean whatever the trolls say are not tru ?

  10. Re:OS Comparison by IronChef · · Score: 4, Funny

    It really is not set up for a GUI, and you will do a ton of work getting it there.

    yeah, "make install" just about killed me. and I can never remember that "startx" thing you have to do.