From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 20:49:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210DE16A41F for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:49:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vadim_nuclight@mail.ru) Received: from mx3.mail.ru (mx3.mail.ru [194.67.23.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D6643D45 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:49:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vadim_nuclight@mail.ru) Received: from [83.172.3.96] (port=32229 helo=[83.172.3.96]) by mx3.mail.ru with esmtp id 1EAD2w-0007cB-00 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:49:31 +0400 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:46:55 +0700 From: Vadim Goncharov X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.10.01) Personal Organization: Home X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1165301644.20050831034655@mail.ru> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <365D9D24-637F-40F1-A0DF-99013818571F@offmyserver.com> References: <365D9D24-637F-40F1-A0DF-99013818571F@offmyserver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Frenzy FreeBSD LiveCD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Vadim Goncharov List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:49:33 -0000 Hello Matt, Wednesday, August 31, 2005, 1:11:09 AM, you wrote: MO> Here's where you can get the iso for the FreeBSD business card cd MO> that we call BSDLive. It was a great success at OSCON and Linux MO> World. Especially at Linux World, where we were happy to see all the MO> linux laptops rebooted to FreeBSD as people checked it out ;-) MO> Since the iso is less than 48mb, it's pretty skimpy but we managed to MO> get blackbox with the opera browser on there so you can still do MO> quite a bit with it. This is a live cd, so it doesn't install MO> anything on the hard drive. It's great for somebody that wants to MO> give FreeBSD a try or to carry in your wallet/purse. MO> http://www.offmyserver.com/bsdlive I wonder why there too little FreeBSD-based LiveCD projects are known to community and PR-ed outside of it. I've using one FreeBSD LiveCD, named Frenzy, and found it _very_ useful. Reading about "great success" oà BSDLive, I expect that Frenzy will be a sensation :) Frenzy, "a portable sysadmin's toolkit", is a 200 Mb geom_ugz-compressed LiveCD ISO image (600 Mb unpacked) fitting on one mini-CD disk; no HDD required for operation. When Frenzy boots, it creates required memory disks, automatically detects and mounts HDD partitions (UFS, FAT16/32, NTFS, EXT2FS are supported). It also mounts FreeBSD swap space as Frenzy swap, if found. If you wish you can create a swap file on mounted partitions. There is also an automatical mouse type detection (PS/2, serial, USB). If you want X, Frenzy will autoconfigure it for you, on first typing "startx". Configured fluxbox and Opera are also present :) All settings (read: made/changed user files) can be saved and loaded from/to floppy or USB flash. Developer scripts used to build ISO image are also present on disk (open source all-in-one). Although Frenzy is mostly dedicated for sysadmins and other technical guys (it was named the best hacker's LiveCD in one article i've read), it contains several applications for "normal" use, including AbiWord, XMMS and MPlayer. For example, last time I've used Frenzy was to help my friend. He was temporarily sitting with fully-operable machine, but without hard-disk. He is inexperienced (typical home) user, using computer mostly for entertainment purposes, heared something about Linux and scared by "all these months of configuration". After brief lecture and few typing by me he was given a nice GUI, and in short time he learned how to mount Windoze shares on the network, then seeing films in MPlayer and listening audio in XMMS. He was impressed by 4 dektops :) anâ said that audio quality was better than on Windoze. He decided to try and install for learning one of unix-like systems in the future, more preferably FreeBSD. Good result, I thought that time :) More information: http://frenzy.org.ua (http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/ for english text) -- Best regards, Vadim Goncharov ICQ UIN 166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru