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FreeBSD Based Live CDs
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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Please spread this
He means zombies =)
FreeSBIE!
FreeSBIE!
Heh. That's a fun name to even imagine yourself saying. Especially if you're obsessive-compulsive, like me.
It gets your lips all scrunched together. Kinda like "SHUR-ona"
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You ain't trolling fast enough! Fill this topic with trollposts! Teach those BSD snobs a lesson for being so condescending.
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Saw that in my morning routine of news but no links yet
> Linux needs LiveCDs, but the BSDs certainly stand on their own.
Why is a Linux user dishing BSD -1 Flaimbait, but a BSD user dishing Linux +1 Interesting?
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I have an in-car PC that runs FreeBSD.
It boots an EPIA 5000 from a 32Mb CF card and plays mp3s from any of the cds in the NEC 4 disk CDROM.
I hope to add a 7" lcd to it soon and see what I can make it do next.
Hopefully when my GPS mouse comes I can do some sort of homebrew routefinder
My fello 9fan Matthias has done a bit of a walkthrough with scripts for making FBSD fit in under 32Mb
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Thursday, February 26, 2004
I have been running FreeBSD since the 3.x days. Right around this time Linux became popular but I stuck with FreeBSD for several academic reasons. At that point one was as good as the other, but as time went on this changed. Linux started gathering a huge following and it really hit its stride. The developers made leaps in bounds in hardware support. Meanwhile, FreeBSD crawled from 3.x to 4.x, which was a great improvement to be sure, but not as rapid or large as what Linux had been offering.
Being locked into FreeBSD by familiarity and investment at that point I wistfully watched the GNU community race ahead. I wish something would start a similar firestorm of FreeBSD development. I thought nothing of it when Apple bought NeXT in 1996. The Rhapsody project, which was basically just adding some Apple technology to OpenStep, didn't interest me. When Steve Jobs announced Mac OS X in 1999, however, my ears perked up at the mention of my favorite Unix. Apple was going to update the very cores of OpenStep into something new FreeBSD was going to be a huge part of that.
Since Mac OS X v10.0 was released in 2001, Apple has been filtering BSD code in and out of their kernel, userland, and libraries. This code then makes its way back to FreeBSD. Apple's pattern is to sync every major Mac OS X release with the latest major FreeBSD release. For example, Mac OS X v10.1 corresponded to FreeBSD 4.4 and Mac OS X v10.2 matched up with FreeBSD 4.7. By the time Apple released Panther, their contributions back into FreeBSD had amassed into a new FreeBSD milestone, the 5.x branch. Mac OS X v10.3 contained bits of both FreeBSD 4.9 and FreeBSD 5.1.
Look at it this way, only after Apple started modifying FreeBSD 4.x and submitting their modifications did FreeBSD progress to the 5.x branch. The advanced VM and SMP code that allows Mac OS X to run so efficiently is the very same code that finally put FreeBSD on the level with Linux. I run FreeBSD 5.2 on a four-way Xeon box at work and thank Apple every day. If it weren't for the Mach micokernel from Apple we wouldn't be able to do these nice things with FreeBSD now or probably ever.
It's also kind of ironic how such a big deal was made by Wind River Systems buying out both BSDI and Walnut Creek Software. (Does anyone remember this?) The plan was to merge BSD/OS into FreeBSD and sell a special enterprise edition of the operating system while still maintaining the Open Source project. Sadly this fizzled out. No one ever predicted that Apple, of all companies, would ride in with the cavalry and pick up the pieces. Apple has done much more than Wind River ever managed to.
After such a long and precarious history FreeBSD is finally going somewhere and we no longer have to worry about the latest hardware support of when the next release will be. We're firing on all cylinders now, and within a couple more years there will be more FreeBSD installs than Linux or Solaris! I'm not so proud that I can't see what is behind this. Apple saved FreeBSD and I have no problem admitting or accepting that. I doubt many others who use FreeBSD do, but I just wanted to point it out.
Thank you, Apple, for saving FreeBSD.
Lies, lies, lies! What a load of crap! Google on any of these quotes!
and I thought taht BSD was dead...
Didn't you know ? Frisbees are dieing!
I just purchased a million dollar machine for $25.00. Cannot figure out if I am going to get to play with FreeBSD (PLEASE say YESSSS), I would like to know if LINUXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX would do it also. Play I mean. It now only runs a DYNIX version of System V and BSD combo.
So Can my SEQUENT 5000 run the bad ass demon?
Please MR. Devilish Penguin lie to me.
I must admit, I laughed at the name "FreeBSD Live". I'm disappointed that the trolls couldn't come up with a wittier piece of trollery given material like that.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
You can call a lump of shit a "rose," but that doesn't mean it won't stink.
mod parent up!
The license.
wow, a user simply describes his problems and you already accuse him of being too stupid to use bsd?
no wonder people hate on BSD so much.. you guys are such assholes