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FreeSBIE

FreeSBIE is a LiveCD—an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD without any installation process and without any hard disk. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 365 KB)Freesbie screenshot This is a screenshot of copyrighted web page. ... Download high resolution version (1024x768, 365 KB)Freesbie screenshot This is a screenshot of copyrighted web page. ... A LiveCD is an operating system (usually containing other software as well) stored on a bootable CD-ROM that can be executed from it, without installation on a hard drive. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... A rendering of the BSD daemon by Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD is a free, open source, Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through 386BSD and 4. ...


CD boot time depends on the seek time of the CD-ROM drive. The operating system may also exhibit a delay when opening programs, as they must be read off the disc each time they are loaded. There is an option to install to a hard disk, which significantly improves performance.


Goals

The goals of the FreeSBIE project are:

  • To develop a suite of programs to be used to create your own CD, with all the personalizations you like
  • To make various ISO images available, maybe each one with its different goals and possible uses

See also

A rendering of the BSD daemon by Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD is a free, open source, Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through 386BSD and 4. ... A LiveCD is an operating system (usually containing other software as well) stored on a bootable CD-ROM that can be executed from it, without installation on a hard drive. ...

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FreeSBIE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (202 words)
FreeSBIE is a LiveCD—an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD without any installation process and without any hard disk.
As of October 10, 2006 the latest version is FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 which is a complete rewrite of the so-called toolkit.
The first version of FreeSBIE 2 was developed during the summer of 2005, thanks to Google’s Summer of Code.
FreeSBIE 1.1 Release Announcement (565 words)
For more information about FreeSBIE, visit the website: http://www.FreeSBIE.org Mission FreeSBIE 1.1 was created from the omonimous toolkit to offer users a tool whose uses range from networking activities, to multimedia, to disaster recovery.
Included software Along with FreeSBIE is distributed a complete and heterogenous collection of the best open source software now available, making it the ideal tool for the student, the teacher, the network administrator, the computer addicted, the scheptical, the curious and also the newbie taking a first approach to FreeBSD 5.3.
FreeSBIE 1.1 comes with 2 Desktop Environments (apart from the well-known shell) to satisfy the needs of those who want a lightweight desktop environment, and those who want a complete one.
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