FreeSBIE is a
live CD
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, an
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ef ...
that is able to load directly from a bootable CD with no installation process or hard disk. It is based on the
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular ...
operating system. Its name is a
pun
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on
frisbee
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. Currently, FreeSBIE uses
Xfce and
Fluxbox
Fluxbox is a stacking window manager for the X Window System, which started as a fork of Blackbox 0.61.1 in 2001, with the same aim to be lightweight. Its user interface has only a taskbar, a pop-up menu accessible by right-clicking on the des ...
.
FreeSBIE 1.0 was based on FreeBSD 5.2.1 and released on February 27, 2004. The first version of FreeSBIE 2 was developed during the summer of 2005, thanks to the
Google Summer of Code
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. FreeSBIE 2.0.1, which is a complete rewrite of the so-called toolkit, is based on FreeBSD 6.2 and was released on February 10, 2007. According to
DistroWatch
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the FreeSBIE project is discontinued.
Goals
The goals of the FreeSBIE project are:
*To develop a suite of programs to be used to create one's own CD, with all the personalizations desired
*To make various ISO images available, each with its different goals and possible uses
See also
*
Comparison of BSD operating systems
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References
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External links
historic FreeSBIE project homepage (archive.org)An interview with a FreeSBIE developer
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