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A bootable Live CD similar to [Knoppix], but using the FreeBSD operating system.

The official website is http://www.freesbie.org/

[zcat | BruceKingsbury] has a mirror of the ISO at http://zcat.wired.net.nz/files/

Comes with most of the same stuff as knoppix (firefox, evolution, xchat, gnomemeeting, gimp, mplayer, xmms, xawtv, etc.
a few games. No openoffice?)

During startup it asks for keyboard layout, and boots to the root prompt rather than straight into X. 'startx' brings up a fairly nice gnome-based desktop. As yet I've only tried it on one machine, but it did correctly find video and soundcard, network, USB, etc.
Also it has a nice SMB browser and I've been told FreeBSD's inbuilt NTFS support is ahead of Linux's.

The desktop menus are all in Italian, but the software itself is still all English.

No page links to FreeSBIE.

Last edited on Friday, March 5, 2004 10:42:10 pm by zcat(1)

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