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BSDanywhere Announces First Release
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."
Why would you want a compiler on a read-only system? A text-editor may be useful to craft an e-mail (in /tmp), but results of compilation are typically expected to survive a reboot or two...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Shame. Who would use OpenBSD beyond system admins and developers I can't really see. And as another post noted below, you still have to roll your own install media or fork over money.
(oh, and the instructions on making your media are not very clear. Basically says "look at the files here, and have fun)
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
...is it that makes it "unrepresentative?" Is this like those people who hand you their resume and say, "actually this doesn't really represent me so please feel free to call if you have any questions?"
They've been up on a variety of torrent sites for a while and you can get them from the OpenBSD website. I've been using it off and on for years and I think it's worth ponying up for the install disks. I keep coming back so I guess they're doing something right.
They also have a rather small CD image you could download and then do the rest of the install via FTP.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Who would use OpenBSD beyond system admins and developers I can't really see.
What's wrong with OpenBSD? The latest release comes with a lot of software, including a recent(-ish) version of KDE. While it's not my first choice for a desktop, I wouldn't cry if someone told me I had to use it.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Shame. Who would use OpenBSD beyond system admins and developers I can't really see.
Think kids. As in smart, curious kids. Yes, they still make those.
What's the value of information that you don't know?
What about something like a student lab. The system boots to an always clean environment, you do some programming exercises including compilation and save the results to a USB flash drive. Next student reboots so nothing nasty is left over from previous users (except filth sneezed onto the keyboard).
I received 3x copies of 4.4 today as well (we order a few at work). November 1 they'll have the ISOs up (they do that now).
Just IMHO, though, if you're a *nix weenie and don't use OpenBSD it's almost a certainty that you use OpenSSH. It's a good gesture to toss them a few bucks for an ISO set or donate.
Trolling is a art,
Student labs tend to be administered by professional admins. Those people neither need nor will accept a one-size-fits all solution made by someone else. And they can devise a read-only boot-from-the-network solution, that works better, is easier to maintain, and is otherwise superior to a pre-made CD.
But yes, there may be cases, where a compiler could come handy even on a read-only system. Yet, when deciding, what to throw out to save space, the compiler toolchain is the obvious first candidate — right after the UUCP subsystem (if OpenBSD still includes that even in the full distribution — FreeBSD no longer does, for example).
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.