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FreeSBIE 1.1 Screenshot Tour

Posted by timothy on from the cuteness-and-light dept.

linuxbeta writes "FreeSBIE is a FreeBSD LiveCD, or an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD, without any installation process, without any hard disk. It's possible to use the BSDInstaller to install FreeSBIE on your hard drive, and then turn it into FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE by means of cvsup. At OSDir we installed FreeSBIE 1.1 and grabbed a series of great screenshots of this slick FreeBSD OS."

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  1. Uh-huh by Rie+Beam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "LiveCD, or an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD, without any installation process, without any hard disk."

    I'm sad to report that the above statement was half the summary.

  2. xfce4....as heavy? by endx7 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, FreeSBIE must be trying for lightweight if they consider xfce4 to be heavy.

    I mean, if you are going to talk about heavy you have to talk about gnome or kde :P

    1. Re:xfce4....as heavy? by setagllib · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's pretty heavy given its lack of functionality. For most uses, Fluxbox with a pager and use of ~/.gtkrc[-2.0] is enough, but at less than a tenth the size. A large part of its size is its image-based themes though.

      I tried GNOME 2.8 before and was heftily disappointed. It has about a third of the functionality of KDE but with about ~30MiB extra compressed source to download. If it wasn't for its less-evil-than-Qt license it would have no merit at all.

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    2. Re:xfce4....as heavy? by evilviper · · Score: 2, Funny
      Wow, FreeSBIE must be trying for lightweight if they consider xfce4 to be heavy.

      No, xfce4 just simply is heavy, I'm afraid. The fact that there are elephant-sized window managers out there doesn't make a horse lightweight.

      If you've been using XFce for long, you know that it used-to be FAR lighter. Before the switch to GTK-2, the panel + window manager used up about 6MBs of RAM, and was incredibly fast. Some of it is the fault of XFce4 including many more eye-candy features, but it's mostly GTK-2.
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  3. Why screenshots from an OS? by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is rubish. Most likely they are screenshoots of the window manager.

    If one is talking about the advantages and disadvantages of an OS one should talk about what the OS does better and what the OS has still to achieve.

    I am sick and tired of the fanboys of eye candy "reviewing" an OS based on how "nice" the window manager looks (who cares if the window manager itself is a PITA to configure).

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    1. Re:Why screenshots from an OS? by ShogZilla · · Score: 2, Informative

      That is rubish. Most likely they are screenshoots of the window manager.

      Screenshots 1-5 are of the bootloader and subsequent setup - no WM to be found. Admittedley, from that point forward it's all X+WM.

  4. Re:*BSD - a litany of failure by Spoing · · Score: 2, Insightful
    1. So why now? Why did *BSD fail?

    None of the major BSDs -- Free/Net/Open -- have failed. I'm sure that in raw numbers -- not counting OSX -- more people use the BSDs now than in the past.

    The BSDs are Unix/Unix-like, and as such are useful to anyone who knows *nix. As a Linux/Solaris/Windows guy, I would neither have a problem with specifically suggesting FreeBSD or using it myself.

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  5. Re:*BSD is dying by ic0wb0y · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If any other OS had been as dead as FBSD, it would really be dead. FBSD can survive a nuclear attack. When all other OS's die, BSD will still be chugging. What can kill it? Invenstors can't pull out. Stock can't decline. Marketers can't abandon it. Idiots have never even used it in the first place, so abandonment can't be a factor. Writers have tried to contribute to it's demise but have been unsucceful. OS wars haven't made a dent in it's armor. BSD may not be a gleeming superstar, but it is the salt of the Earth. Amazing Kreskin will be long dead and forgotten but BSD will remain its cosmogonic self, and still catching flak just like all the other Gods have since the dawn of man.

  6. What is that? by numbski · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the upper right hand corner of the desktop?

    I've been looking for something similar to Mac OS X's GeekTool for X11, but hadn't found anything yet. That looks like what I'm looking for.

    Anyone know?

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    1. Re:What is that? by 0racle · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I have xrootconsole displaying the contents of the syslog, but it doesn't handle a log swtich over well. If you use KDE there is superkaramba, for Gnome I assume gDesklets can do the same thing.

      I would also like to know what that thing in the top right was aswell though.

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    2. Re:What is that? by Raagshinnah · · Score: 2, Informative

      I would also like to know what that thing in the top right was aswell though.

      That`s torsmo.

  7. Different? by cuteseal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is this different to the hundreds (ok I exaggerate) of other "boot off a usb keydrive / cd rom" distros out there?

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