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

    The puns that can be made here...

  4. 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?

  5. 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.