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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."

3 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. Fun, but not installable from this CD by gardyloo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Many live CD systems now have taken to being installable from those same CDs. According to the release announcement, one still has to acquire an OpenBSD release set to install to hdd. Too bad.

  2. Re:no compiler? by Piranhaa · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not a big deal. You can simply extract comp43.tgz from any OpenBSD mirror.. Just for the record, it's 75MB gzip COMPRESSED. But ya, why would you need a compiler for a bootable CD?

    Found here: http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/comp43.tgz

  3. Re:no compiler? by Piranhaa · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry, you are mistaken:
    http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/install43.iso (203M)

    They've had a bootable CD ISO for quite some time, but would be required to do a net install. It's not a big deal since the whole download is just over 100MB. If you couldn't do that you, would need to supply another CD or USB with the install files on it. In the last 2-3 releases, the OpenBSD started created a pre-compiled bootable ISO with all the files included.