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Frenzy - FreeBSD-based LiveCD for sysadmins

Posted by Hemos on from the try-out-something-new dept.

techniX writes "Frenzy is a portable system administrator toolkit - FreeBSD-based LiveCD. It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis. Size of ISO-image is 200 MBytes (3" CD). Current version is 0.3, it contains almost 400 applications, full software list is on their site. Main website as well as some screen shots Frenzy 0.3 screenshot"

42 comments

  1. Re:Prepare For Server Destruciton! by FidelCatsro · · Score: 1

    The server may get fried , but the mirror and the info will live on .
    http://frenzy.org.ua.nyud.net:8090/eng/v03_softlis t.shtml

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  2. A "Live" CD???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is *BSD we are talking about. A "LIVE" CD? Isn't that.... oh. never mind.

    1. Re:A "Live" CD???? by JamesTRexx · · Score: 2, Funny

      We could always call it an UNDEAD cd. :-P

      Don't hit me, I use FreeBSD at home and work...

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    2. Re:A "Live" CD???? by nacturation · · Score: 1

      We could always call it an UNDEAD cd.

      That would be very appropriate: http://undeadly.org/

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  3. An admin's savior :-) by JamesTRexx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cd's like these are very useful, even in our Windows-centric company. One laptop had a fried harddrive, Windows crashed upon starting. First I tried the recovery console which was no help because the disk was beyond repair, then I tried a BartPE XP cd but that wouldn't recognize neither the nic in the docking nor a USB nic (no, I didn't want to have to add all sorts of drivers etc. to it first). Downloaded a FreeSBIE cd and it worked perfectly. The guy was very happy about his saved data, the shmuck.
    *goes off to browse the site*

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  4. Window Maker by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 1

    I hope they come up with a version that defaults to Window Maker. :)

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    1. Re:Window Maker by CoolGopher · · Score: 1

      Nice to see someone else has good taste too! :)

  5. No EMACS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This cd cannot be used for serious tasks. It lacks the most essential application. EMACS.

    1. Re:No EMACS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's on the second CD. Ran out of room.

    2. Re:No EMACS? by lachlan76 · · Score: 1

      No, actually, I think you will find that that is a cryptographic hash for each segment of the program....each segment is on one of those hard drives over there in the box ;)

    3. Re:No EMACS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Emacs doesn't need to run on an operating system any more, it's assimilated Hurd and now it has its own live DVD.

  6. Re:FreeBSD is Dying by SirCyn · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know your data is almost 4 Years old, right?

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  7. Re:for the love of god, and all that is holy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny



    Forgot to click "Post Anonymously", did you?

  8. Expect anything? by alib001 · · Score: 1

    Russian?

    Um...

    Well the screenshot looked nice anyway.

    1. Re:Expect anything? by Mozhaisky_Sergei · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yes, Russian language is default, but you can select English as interface language while booting - see screenshot here: http://frenzy.org.ua/files/screenshots/frenzy03-lo ader.png

    2. Re:Expect anything? by alib001 · · Score: 1

      Oh OK. Is there information in English about the live CD somewhere?

  9. Re:Developer Laments: What Killed FreeBSD by jago25_98 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kind of a problem that when something gets sucessful something is lost. Fell like you can't win.

    BSD for me is the fallback for if I feel linux is going to far the Windows side.

    Do something different, are OS'es really that interesting anymore?

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  10. This would be a Troll?.. WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I agree with the modding down (when all the FUD is under the +1 level, this should be as well), but being it a collection of pretty relevant *facts*, labeling it as Troll is an unjustifiable abuse.

    1. Re:This would be a Troll?.. WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here.

    2. Re:This would be a Troll?.. WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >Here.

      There's nothing, in the pointless discussion you linked, that shows that the ancestor is not a collection of relevant *facts*.

    3. Re:This would be a Troll?.. WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Linux can barely do 100Kpps"

  11. excellent toolkit by Ragica · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is a really great collection of software for admins and hackers (in the good sense of the word). In my opinion it is the most useful bootable kit i've yet seen.

    I booted the GUI once briefly, but didn't have a mouse hooked up so it was useless. I don't really care about the GUI. The focus of this kit is mostly command line tools (though there are some gui-only tools). The system boots to a prompt; you have to start X from the command line if you want it.

    It's pretty annoying the way it defaults to Russian if you don't press e within three seconds during boot up. But hey, it was made by Russians who are probably pretty annoyed by all the English they are forced to endure.

    The BSD kernel is very nice for detecting hardware. They're method of automounting drives seems to work pretty well. The little help system they have included which categorises and lists all of the installed utilities to help you find your way around is indeed very helpful (it would be better still if it was searchable).

    Anyhow, i love this disk. It's so useful. I tend to us it more than Knoppix now in many situations. All of the more admin-oriented linux boot disks i've tried tend to have gotten stale, not updated, and be hard to find out what tools are on them after booting. Maybe Frenzy will stagnate as well. But for now it is my favourite.

    Also having a lot of BSD boxes of course I am biased. Most of the linux boot disks don't give much attention to UFS/FFS file systems.

    1. Re:excellent toolkit by archen · · Score: 1

      Most of the linux boot disks don't give much attention to UFS/FFS file systems

      That's my main issue as well. I like knoppix, but if I have a REAL problem with my BSD servers, knoppix is pretty much worthless for anything but cloning drives.

      I wasn't too happy with the FreeBSD rescue disk either. I've been using Frisbee, but it takes forever and a day to load. Not sure about fluxbox as the window manager, but like you I tend not to have any mice connected to any of my machines or laying around. This might finally be the tool(set) I've been waiting for.

    2. Re:excellent toolkit by cmad_x · · Score: 1
      I've been using Frisbee, but it takes forever and a day to load.
      Actually it's FreeSBIE, but that's not the point. And yeah, it's rather annoying that it takes soooo long to load. I don't know what it's doing in the meantime, but I hope it's something good.

      Either way, I'm glad this new LiveCD is out. Haven't tried it yet but it looks promising. And boy am I happy it doesn't go directly to X mode! :)
    3. Re:excellent toolkit by JohnBaleshiski · · Score: 1

      > It's pretty annoying the way it defaults to Russian if you don't press e within three seconds during boot up.

      'cmon! I thought all *BSD people were more technically savvy than most. I mean, so you burn 2 cd's; The first one, and then the second where you change the default language to english.

      Sheesh, it's a simple mount, vi, umount, cdrecord.

      And yeah, yeah, hold the emacs comments to yourself. Real men use vi. :)

  12. Re:Developer Laments: What Killed FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Linux isn't going to go too far with the NTFS Windows setup. When Microsoft offers a ext2 or 3 fs, then we have something.

  13. Archivers - no tar or bzip2? by tricops · · Score: 1

    It looks like a decent livecd system and all, but does anyone else find it strange that they would include all those other archivers but not bother with tar or bzip2? I don't know if that software list is exhaustive, but that's pretty weird.

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    1. Re:Archivers - no tar or bzip2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I strongly suspect tar/gzip/bzip2 are there as they are part of the base freebsd system, not addons.

  14. Re:Developer Laments: What Killed FreeBSD by Buzzwang · · Score: 1
    I see this in every submission that mentions or concerns FreeBSD.

    If it's so dead, then why does it keep coming up more and more lately?

    I also can't figure out why so many open source advocates want to see or are wishing for an open source OS to go away. Makes no sense to me. I use BSD. I also use Linux. I also use Windows. Each has found a niche in my network, and all work well. Diversity is the key as some systems/OS's are more profiecent at ceertain tasks than others or have software readily available that I don't have to work at installing before I can use it.

    I just don't get it. Are these doom-sayers of BSD open source folks or not?


    On a side note: Personally, I'm getting tired of hearing the same old stuff about how BSD is dead/dying. How about something new? Like maybe BSD was created by aliens for the betterment of mankind only to be shot-down by man himself? Eh?

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  15. English information about LiveCD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Try http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/.
    You can also notice that tiny Rus/Eng switch on the main page's top right corner. Please remove dust from your monitor. ;)

    1. Re:English information about LiveCD by alib001 · · Score: 1

      Thanks! Yeah that's a lot easier to make out!

      What I think I did was view the screenshots then go back through the directories until I got some HTML. IIRC there wasn't a "gallery" page so I eventually ended up at the Russian version.

      Rus/Eng - I see it now. But the first thing I do when I get to a page is look for the content - text, pictures - not examine the header for abbreviations! I guess it's a part of "banner blindness".

      Hope I'm not the only one to miss Rus/Eng - the live CD looks interesting. I'll go read it now.

  16. I like the idea of a LiveCD with hardware TESTING by tabkey12 · · Score: 1

    Normally, LiveCDs have concentrated on repairing systems, but finding out if there is a problem through running a BSD LiveCD sounds like a very useful idea.

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  17. FreeSBIE clone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Curiosly, frenzy seems to be totally FreeSBIE based. It would be interesting to see if he has reported the original licence.

    1. Re:FreeSBIE clone? by Mozhaisky_Sergei · · Score: 1

      Why do you think so? Frenzy 0.3 does not contain any code from FreeSBIE, this is totally different production. See build scripts and say, if you can, where do I use FreeSBIE code.