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BSDanywhere Announces First Release

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the anywhere-that-has-an-optical-drive-that-is dept.

The call of ktulu writes "Good things come to those who wait. After eight months of work the relatively new project BSDanywhere has announced its first final release 4.3. BSDanywhere is a bootable Live-CD image based on OpenBSD. It consists of the entire OpenBSD base system (without compiler) plus enlightenment desktop, an unrepresentative collection of software, automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices as well as other peripherals. Give it a spin."

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  1. BSD? by stim · · Score: 5, Funny

    BSD? Whats that, some type of lunix?

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  2. A LiveCD ... by upside · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... of a dead OS? (Netcraft etc.)

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    1. Re:A LiveCD ... by Piranhaa · · Score: 2, Funny

      OpenBSD is far from dead, buddy. PF, OpenSSH, OpenCVS.. all being widely adopted and ported across OS'. Hell, even windows uses OpenBSD code BSD Licensed code in its OS (traceroute anyone?). The code is solid and highly audited before AND after release. There's a reason there have only been a couple of remote holes in over 10 years. There are NO binary blobs in source and drivers are reverse engineered if necessary to add to the OS. And on another note, the BSD license is a very easy license to follow if needing to reuse the code. There are 3 clauses, and the last one is optional by the author(s) of the code:

      * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
      * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
      * Neither the name of the nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

      After having used OpenBSD now for 7 or 8 years, I REFUSE to put anything else facing my internet connection. It just doesn't make sense.

    2. Re:A LiveCD ... by stim · · Score: 2, Funny

      WOOSH!

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    3. Re:A LiveCD ... by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

      you must be new here.

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  3. Re:Firewire Support? by Windows_NT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cmon now, BSD isnt some flakey OS you put on a MacBook

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  4. cd Enilightenment-dr0.13 by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2, Funny

    mkxmf

    make enlightenment

    (hmmnn. I've got 15 minutes. I wonder what's on "Chips'N'Dips"?)

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  5. Re:no compiler? by OrangeCowHide · · Score: 2, Funny

    I did fork over the money for a OpenBSD 4.3 CD, and I installed it on one machine. A few months later I was going to install it a second time, and the CD was nowhere to be found. I suspect they send out Daemons to sneak into your house and steal copies of your CDs so you have to buy it again (note: yes I am aware that they have downloadable ISOs now, that doesn't stop me from wanting to contribute to a good project).

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  6. Re:Fun, but not installable from this CD by BobNET · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you manage to get out of bed in a morning?

    Morning routine:

    1. Wake up
    2. Start BSDanywhere download
    3. Get out from under the covers

    Laptops are weird.