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| 2007-02-11 |
BSD Release: FreeSBIE 2.0.1 |
| Matteo Riondato has announced the release of a bug-fix version of FreeSBIE 2: "You may remember that FreeSBIE 2.0 was released on January 15th. It turned out it had some annoying bugs, one of which was especially serious, as it prevented USB mice from working. This fact led us, the FreeSBIE staff, to develop a bug-fix release, 2.0.1. All the bugs that have been pointed out were solved and this release has been more thoroughly tested, to offer a better FreeSBIE experience to our users. FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RELEASE (code name Black Mamba) is based on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, both in terms of sources and packages. It contains more than 450 pieces and 1.3 GB of software, all in a single CD-ROM." Here is the full release announcement. Download: FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso (671MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent. |
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| 2007-01-15 |
BSD Release: FreeSBIE 2.0 |
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| Matteo Riondato has announced the release of FreeSBIE 2.0, a major new version of the popular FreeBSD-based live CD based: "FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE available! FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE (codename Clint Eastwood) is based on the fresh FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, both in terms of sources and packages." FreeSBIE is one of the growing numbers of FreeBSD-based live CDs, booting into the Xfce or Fluxbox desktop and sporting a number of popular applications, such as Firefox 1.5.0.8. The latest version also adds the ability to backup and restore data on a hard disk and provides privacy enhancing features with Tor and Privoxy. Please read the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: FreeSBIE-2.0-RELEASE.iso (668MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-11-27 |
Development Release: FreeSBIE 2.0 RC1 |
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| Matteo Riondato has announced the availability of an unscheduled release candidate for FreeSBIE 2.0, a FreeBSD-based live CD: "The circumstances make me release a fourth ISO image which is not FreeSBIE 2.0, but FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 (Release Candidate 1). This is due to the number of bugs which had been fixed after 2.0-BETA was released. If no major bugs are found, FreeSBIE 2.0 is going to be released not too long after FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE has been released. Hopefully you will be able to put a FreeSBIE 2.0 CD-ROM under your Christmas tree. FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 is based on the RELENG_6_2 branch of the FreeBSD source tree and on the RELEASE_6_2_0 branch of the ports tree." Here is the full release announcement with a list of download mirrors carrying the CD image. Interested testers can download it from here: FreeSBIE-2.0-RC1-20061123.iso (636MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-11-12 |
Development Release: FreeSBIE 2.0 BETA |
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| Matteo Riondato has announced the beta release of the FreeBSD-based FreeSBIE live CD, version 2.0: "After FreeSBIE GMV and FreeSBIE LVC (2.0-PREBETA), a new ISO is available from today. This is the third of a series of four ISO images: GMV, LVC, EW, and CE, with CE being hopefully FreeSBIE 2.0. The image being release today is EW, which is FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA. FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA is based on the RELENG_6 branch of FreeBSD as it was on 20061008. Ports are based on the RELEASE_6_2_0 branch. ... A known bug consists in the 'freesbie' user not allowed to use ping(8). Another problem is the date after boot: it is set to Epoch. This is still an issue in FreeSBIE-2.0-BETA but will be solved in future ISO images." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download: FreeSBIE-2.0-BETA-20061108.iso (612MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-10-14 |
Development Release: FreeSBIE 2.0 PRE-BETA |
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| Matteo Riondato has announced the availability of a new development build of FreeSBIE 2.0. Called "LVC", this is one of the series of releases that should take us to the final version in the middle of November. From the release announcement: "This is the second of a series of four ISO images: GMV, LVC, EW, and CE, with CE being hopefully FreeSBIE 2.0. Similarly to GMV, LVC is based on the HEAD branch of FreeBSD, so on FreeBSD 7-CURRENT. Ports are approximately from the same date. EW and CE, on the other hand, will be based on the RELENG_6_2 branch, both for sources and for ports." Besides all the software updates, this release of FreeSBIE also includes "cheatcodes" containing various FreeSBIE boot options. The CD image is available for download via BitTorrent, as well as a number of mirrors specified in the announcement; here is a quick download link: FreeSBIE-LVC-20061010.iso (548MB, MD5). |
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| 2004-12-20 |
Review: FreeSBIE 1.1 - Free System Burned in Economy |
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| OSNews has published a review of FreeSBIE 1.1, a live CD based on FreeBSD 5.3: "It should also be noted that once this distro is installed to your hard drive, it can be upgraded to a complete FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE installation using cvsup. That is a huge benefit for those people thinking of checking out FreeBSD but might be intimidated by a regular FreeBSD install and manually configuring everything to get the level of customization achieved in FreeSBIE." Read the rest of the review here. Also available - a 52-page FreeSBIE screenshot slide show at OSDir.com.
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| 2004-12-06 |
Distribution Release: FreeSBIE 1.1 |
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| The second release of FreeSBIE, a FreeBSD-based live CD, is now available: "It's our honour and pleasure to announce FreeSBIE 1.1, a live CD based on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. Some of the innovation since 1.0 include: a renewed series of scripts to support power users in the use of FreeSBIE 1.1; an installer to let users install FreeSBIE 1.1 on their hard drives, thus having a powerful operating system such as FreeBSD, but with all the personalizations FreeSBIE 1.1 carries; the presence of the best open source software, chosen and personalized, such as X.Org 6.7.0, XFce 4.2RC1, Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 0.9. Moreover, many bugs were solved thanks also to the help of numerous beta testers which we are honoured to thank." Read the official release announcement for additional details. Download: FreeSBIE-1.1-i386.iso (596MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2004-10-16 |
Development Release: penBSD |
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| Have you ever wanted a BSD operating system on a bootable USB pen drive? This is now a possibility, courtesy of the FreeSBIE project, which has just released a test image of "penBSD": "A test image of a minimal FreeSBIE, suitable for external support like USB pen or compact flash, is now available for download. If you want to help us testing it, you can download the image and script in the same directory, plug in your USB pen, and launch flashfreesbie.sh. Possibility of booting depends on your computer's BIOS. Although the uncompressed image is 64MB, it contains only ~20MB of data. The flash script will format your device, mount it, mount the image in loopback and copy files from it. Therefore, I think that also 32MB support will work. Please help us testing and give us your impressions." This is the full announcement. Download the image from here: FreeSBIE-pen.img.bz2 (43.9MB).
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| 2004-09-27 |
Development Release: FreeSBIE 20040919 (Beta) |
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| The developers of the FreeBSD-based FreeSBIE live CD have released a new beta version to demonstrate their progress towards the next stable release: "We've just released a FreeSBIE beta distribution, to test the latest improvements of the project and to have more feedback preparing the next official release. We also want to test a new BitTorrent tracker, so this release will be available only via BitTorrent." Here is the full announcement. If you'd like to help with testing, fire up your BitTorrent client and point it here: FreeSBIE-20040919.iso.torrent (318MB). Bugs should be reported to the project's Bug Tracker.
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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