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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 in God's name would I want a BSOD anywhere...?
BSD? Whats that, some type of lunix?
Browse at -1 to keep an eye out for abuses.
No compiler? What, why?
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...
Just 15 minutes ago I received my CDs of OpenBSD 4.4
... of a dead OS? (Netcraft etc.)
I'm sorry if I haven't offended anyone
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.
Yeah, but does it have FireWire support?
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/17/1331229
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! We have assumed control! - Neil Peart
Looks like this story was a precursor to this one.
One, John McCain is essentially brain-dead. All you have to do is listen to him blabber his response to any question. I was a "P.O.W.". Two, Joe The Plumber is just an abstraction of the proletarian stooges who believe
in the non-issues of McCain.
I have two orders of business regarding Joe The Plumber. In the first place, I find The Plumber's reification of irrationalism a tad disconcerting. Of course, this sounds simple, but in reality, the real issue is simple: He should stop playing verbal games and tell us what he really means.
The Plumber's goons are tools. Like a hammer or an axe, they are not inherently evil or destructive. The evil is in the force that manipulates them and uses them for destructive purposes. That evil is Joe The Plumber, who wants nothing less than to effectuate the downfall of all that is decent and civilized. He likes to compare his causeries to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however, doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them. What do we owe The Plumber? Nothing, absolutely nothing. If he claims otherwise, we have to stand firm and point out that because of The Plumber's obsession with charlatanism, in my effort to uncover his hidden prejudices, I will need to introduce an important but underrepresented angle on his phlegmatic quips. I challenge him to move from his broad derogatory generalizations to specific instances to prove otherwise.
The Plumber's statements such as "The Plumber's way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't" indicate that we're not all looking at the same set of facts. Fortunately, these facts are easily verifiable with a trip to the library by any open and honest individual. Ladies and gentlemen, in order to put an end to The Plumber's evildoing, tremendous sacrifices and equally great labors will be necessary. An equal but opposite observation is that I wish that one of the innumerable busybodies who are forever making "statistical studies" about nonsense would instead make a statistical study that means something. For example, I'd like to see a statistical study of The Plumber's capacity to learn the obvious. Also worthwhile would be a statistical study of how many sniffish meatheads realize that The Plumber seems to have recently added the word "superultrafrostified" to his otherwise simplistic vocabulary. I suppose he intends to use big words like that to obscure the fact that the few pestiferous, pouty blackguards who deny this are not only wrong, they are willfully stuck-up. That should serve as the final, ultimate, irrefutable proof that The Plumber writes a lot of long statements that mean practically nothing. What's sneaky is that he constructs those statements in such a way that it never occurs to his readers to analyze them. Analysis would almost certainly indicate that to the extent that my own age and health will permit, I will criticize the obvious incongruities presented by The Plumber and his pals. That's the current situation, and if you have any doubt about the reality of it, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what's been happening in the world.
To put a little finer edge on the concept, The Plumber has spent untold hours trying to shame my name. During that time, did it ever once occur to him that he has deported himself as an enemy of peace and harmony? Well, while you're deliberating over that, let me ask you another question: Is his incessant burbling about the wonders of emotionalism supposed to convince us that militarism can quell the hatred and disorder in our society? Now, not to bombard you with too many questions, but no one likes being attacked by self-deceiving jackanapes. Even worse, The Plumber exploits our fear of those attacks -- which he claims will evolve any day now into biological, chemical, or nuclear attacks -- as a pretext to undermine the current world order. If you think that's scary, then you should remember that an axiom among The Plumber's fans is that The
They already covered this on Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update. -1 redundant.
...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?"
has been falsified.
I'm interested in running BSD, but let me know when they make a version that's as easy to install as Ubuntu and doesn't use KDE. I'm not a KDE fan, and it seems that with BSD you have an option of KDE or CLI and that's it.
There are plenty of LiveCD versions of BSD, but you can't install any of them! Honesty, I really like FreeSBIE. I just wish they would make it capable of installing itself on a hard disk.
IMHO BSDanywhere is completely pointless.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
mkxmf
make enlightenment
(hmmnn. I've got 15 minutes. I wonder what's on "Chips'N'Dips"?)
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
and why is he or she selling their BS?
operAting systems it there. Bring Ass of them all, exploited that. A was at the same any doubt: FreeBSD NetBSD posts on you got there. Or
Nowadays, anyone who wants to discover a new operating system wants to try a live CD first.
Although there were other live OpenBSD CDs (like OliveBSD), yet another one, especially based upon something original like Enlightenment, is a great thing.
OpenBSD is often described as a server-only (or network-stuff-only) operating system. Actually, it can also be a decent desktop OS.
I'm using OpenBSD on my primary workstation for 7 years and I'm quite happy with it. The only thing I *really* miss, especially as a web developper, is the lack of Flash support (except crappy support with Opera). nspluginwrapper + linux emulation is still as stable as nitroglycerine.
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I was waiting for this as we have a need for a few digital signage/internet kiosk application and I can't think of a better OS that OpenBSD on the default security side. Now to see if I can get it to boot off a Compact Flash card.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
I for one am glad our new overloads decided the CD is still better than the thumbdrive.
I ask this of course I am will probably get bumped down for it. Does anyone really use OpenBSD or NetBSD anymore? I mean the main stream of BSD is FreeBSD which has had the most growth and development. Why do people keep these projects alive? It is like Whitebox Linux which doesn't even have release 5 yet while CentOS does. Is it pride?
Who is Dany, why does he spell his name with only one "n" and why is it BS wherever he is?
The final version removed some of the stuff that's needed, just grab the betas.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
just hope you don't have any problems with it, because theo and co. won't be of any help at all.
Actually, it looks like the last prerelease beta's big "feature" was that it stripped away an already extant installation routine.
There's a reason I don't bother with source-based Linux distributions anymore, and I've never seen one that made installation anywhere near the level of sheer PITA that you see in OpenBSD. User friendly LiveCDs like this are built to pitch an OS as a desktop OS, not a server OS. To strip away a user-friendly installation routine and call it a "feature" seems like a joke to me.
It's intentionally thumbing your nose like this to users that drives them away. I'm at an absolute loss as to why this is supposed to be a decent alternative to a modern BSD and Linux based LiveCD with fully functional installation routines, limiting your level of hassle to one download or purchase. Again, PITA/not going to bother, although I would in a heartbeat if properly packaged ala an Ubuntu LiveCD.
First version: 4.3? Something weird's going on with the versioning here...
I am not devoid of humor.
Need to wipe and reload my primary home computer. I've been thinking about permanently booting from CD and then launching virtual OS, OS, OS,... from there. I like the idea of a read-only OS. Virtual instances are much easier to backup/deploy.
I'm going to take a performance hit. Other than that, what sort of problems am I going to have? Why is this a good/bad idea?
Thanks, SB
jggimi's OpenBSD is quite good as well, you can choose between Gnome KFD Xfce or FluxBox; and they come up usually one week after the official release rather than waiting for months. http://jggimi.homeip.net/livecd/downloads.html