A Taste of FreeBSD With VirtualBSD

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @01:13AM from the touches-of-os-x dept.

ReeceTarbert writes "If you wanted to try FreeBSD but didn't have the right hardware, or enough time to make it useful on the desktop, VirtualBSD might fit the bill: it's a VMware appliance based on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and features the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and a few of the most common applications to make it very functional right out of the box. If you're curious you can have a look at the screenshots, or proceed to the download page and grab the torrent file right away. (Note: VirtualBSD also works in VirtualBox 2.x as long as you create a new virtual machine and select the virtual disk from the archive instead of creating a new one)."

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screenshots by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-10 01:28 · Score: -1, Troll

Hey look! More originality coming from the OSS world!
1. Re:screenshots by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-10 01:36 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  FOSS has alwyas been popular with broke kids trying to emulate their betters, who run OSX.
  They cloak their envy in cries of freedom even though most of them have never seen even 1 line of code and wouldn't know what to do with it if they did.
Does it run xen? by tomhath · 2009-03-10 05:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Because then I could get it to run Linux.