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FreeBSD LiveCD 1.1 Ready For Download

Posted by timothy on from the best-way-to-sample dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's my pleasure to announce FreeSBIE 1.1, a LiveCD based on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. Some of the innovations since 1.0 include: A renewed series of scripts to support power users; An installer to let users install FreeSBIE 1.1 on their hard drives, thus having a powerful operating system such as FreeBSD, but with all the personalizations FreeSBIE 1.1 carries; and the presence of the best open source software, chosen and personalized, such as X.Org 6.7, XFCE 4.2RC1, Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 0.9.2. Moreover, many bugs were solved thanks also to the help of numerous beta testers which we are honoured to thank. For more information visit FreeSBIE.org"

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  1. Re:The bar is raised again for /stand/sysinstall by sirket · · Score: 3, Insightful

    /stand/sysinstall may not have every bell and whistle in the world but damned if it doesn't do everything I need to and very quickly. I can go from sysinstall coming up to the OS starting to be installed with the options and partitioning I want in under 2 minutes. I haven't found another installer that comes close. I have a netboot image which installs a complete version of FreeBSD customized with the packages I want including partitioning and formatting in under 7 minutes from the time I boot the computer to the point at which it reboots and is ready for use.

    As for installation size, well- I am not sure what you are talking about. FreeBSD has a number of preset system types which include certain packages. I do minimal installs as a starting point for my own embedded work. Other times I do complete installs. Do I want apache installed as part of my base system? Ye gods no. I prefer to install just a few small packages on my system and do not want 34 hidden packages installed for every one I select in an installer. I would like to know exact version numbers and specific compile time options. You may not care. I do.

    As for the package problems- why is X part of the base system and yet installed as a package? Probably so that FreeBSD can move the whole base system into a series of packages to make it more modular. I don't know that for sure but it certainly makes sense.

    -sirket