FreeBSD live cd

[Flatline]

I'm posting this from a running FreeBSD live cd...it's pretty nifty, really. FreeSBIE Site

Kind of like Knoppix, but FreeBSD based; good hardware detection and a really nice default desktop (although, of course, it boots into a terminal by default and you have to manually start your x-session). If it had a hard drive install option, I would give it one hell of a test drive.

Just thought it might be interesting for those of us who want to have a look-see at the *BSDs without doing a full install

 

[n0cmonkey]

Does it have xdm?

I'm personally waiting for a public release of DragonflyBSD...

 

[Flatline]

When you run xinit, it starts up a (pretty heavily) modified xfce session; it's actually a pretty nice desktop.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Flatline
When you run xinit, it starts up a (pretty heavily) modified xfce session; it's actually a pretty nice desktop.

I was just thinking, that if it has xdm it shouldn't be too tough to get it to start up into X. It's how I boot my laptop to an X login prompt.

 

[groovin]

n0c,

i dont know much about dragonfly but besides whats on their site... its 'vague' to me.

what exactly is the aim of dragonfly and how is it suppsod to fork off from Freebsd?

 

[XBoxLPU]

Originally posted by: groovin
n0c,

i dont know much about dragonfly but besides whats on their site... its 'vague' to me.

what exactly is the aim of dragonfly and how is it suppsod to fork off from Freebsd?

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[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: groovin
n0c,

i dont know much about dragonfly but besides whats on their site... its 'vague' to me.

what exactly is the aim of dragonfly and how is it suppsod to fork off from Freebsd?

I don't know the whole story, so I'll just post what I know (I'll try not to go into speculation because it just isn't worth it, but I may give you enough to google for all the drama if you want it and it exists ):

Matt Dillon, a long time and great FreeBSD coder, left FreeBSD. He had some ideas that he could not impliment on FreeBSD because they were not agreed upon by enough people. He started Dragonfly BSD, and forked it from the FreeBSD 4.something release that was out at the time. He and his group are slowly pulling in some of the parts of FreeBSD 5, and working on other improvements.

His idea of a thread based SMP implimentation (I don't understand all of it, or even enough to explain it well) instead of a locking/mutex design intrigues me. But it is still very early in the design of the OS, and they don't exactly have an installer. I think they have a live cd that you can install from or something. 1.0 is supposed to be released early this summer, but it is supposed to be another developer release basically.

There was an interview with him on osnews.com just recently. It was pretty interesting and happens to be one of the reasons I want to try it out. If you get a chance read it.

I don't think DragonflyBSD is a reason not to use FreeBSD (or ekkobsd being a reason not to use OpenBSD). It's just another BSD with different ideas that might be worth trying or might intrigue you.

 

[SUOrangeman]

http://www.livebsd.com/

I haven't figured out which will continually be the most -up-to-date, ...FreeSBIE or the disc(s) from LiveBSD.

-SUO