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| 2008-12-08 |
BSD Release: Frenzy 1.1 |
| Sergei Mozhaisky has announced the release of Frenzy 1.1, a FreeBSD-based toolkit for system and network administrators. This, according to the developer, will be the project's last release: "At last, Frenzy 1.1 is released. This is a final release of Frenzy, I decided to discontinue the development of this project." What's new? "Added Unionfs support; introduced FEM (Frenzy Extension Modules) system, which allows to plug-in additional software without rebuilding ISO image; Frenzy can now be booted from ISO image on hard drive; added options to boot with DMA disabled on ATAPI or ATA devices; added parameters to loader menu - 'mode' to choose resolution in console mode, 'sound' for sound card auto-detection, 'nofem' to disable FEM modules search and loading; added feature to use FAT partition as boot partition; bug fixes." Read the detailed release notes for a complete list of changes and new features. Download (MD5) the English or Russian edition from here: frenzy-1.1-std-EN.iso (199MB), frenzy-1.1-std-RU.iso (197MB). |
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| 2007-12-12 |
Development Release: Frenzy 1.1 Beta 3 |
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| Sergei Mozhaisky has announced the third beta release of Frenzy 1.1, a portable toolkit for system and network administrators based on FreeBSD 6.2: "At last, a new beta version of Frenzy is released. Here are most important changes since 1.0: base system is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, X.Org updated to 7.3; system moved to Unionfs file system, you can edit almost all files after boot; added Frenzy Extension Module (FEM) support, a utility for FEM creation is available on FTP server; added ability to boot from ISO file on hard disk; boot options with disabled ATAPI DMA or ATA DMA; loader options 'mode' (select console resolution) and 'sound' (sound card detection); added options for work with serial console; GCC removed from base system, it will be available as FEM module; added more than 100 applications, among them ntfs-3g." Here is the full release announcement. Download: frenzy-1.1-std-en-BETA3.iso (198MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-12-07 |
Development Release: Frenzy 1.1 Beta |
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| Sergei Mozhaisky has announced the first beta release of Frenzy 1.1, a light-weight FreeBSD-based live CD with a collection of utilities for security and forensic analyses. New features in this release include: support for Unionfs; experimental inclusion of "fem-modules" (Frenzy extension modules); option to boot from ISO image on hard disk; optional "combined boot" from CD and USB storage device; new boot parameter 'no-fem' to exclude loading Frenzy extension modules; new "devel" scripts; support for large MS DOS partitions; new "wheel" group with write privileges to mounted hard disk partitions. Read the full release announcement (in Russian) for further details. Download: frenzy-1.1-BETA-ru.iso (198MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-06-06 |
BSD Release: Frenzy 1.0 |
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| Frenzy 1.0, a FreeBSD-based live CD with tools for system administration, network analysis and hardware testing, has been released: "New release: Frenzy 1.0 (Dreamchild). Frenzy is a system administrator's portable instrument, a live CD based on FreeBSD OS, which allows the administrator to boot from it and get a fully functional system with a wide variety of software for tuning, testing and analysing the network, testing computer hardware and much more. Frenzy is released in two different variants: Frenzy standard and Frenzy extended." Read the rest of the release notes for further information. Download: frenzy-1.0-std-EN.iso (195MB, MD5), frenzy-1.0-ext-EN.iso (253MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-05-24 |
Development Release: Frenzy 1.0 RC2 |
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| Sergei Mozhaisky has announced the availability of the second release candidate of Frenzy 1.0, a live CD based on FreeBSD 6.1: "Frenzy 1.0-RC2 have been released. Improvements since RC1: install2hdd - select language of installed system; nessus - added default Nessus user 'frenzy', password 'yznerf'; xautoconf - QEMU, support, handling DDC absence; addfrenzyuser renamed to addsshuser; Fluxbox menu generated at build stage, menu language depends on build type; auto-login may be disabled; devtree: tree view device list; frestore - restore backup from specified file; servconf - service setup (sshd, ftpd, httpd); gnotepad+ replaced with leafpad." Read the rest of the release notes for further details and download links. Get the English edition from here: frenzy-1.0-RC2-std-EN.iso (192MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-05-15 |
Development Release: Frenzy 1.0 RC1 |
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| The first release candidate of the FreeBSD-based Frenzy has been released, this time with support for English and other languages. Some of the more interesting features include: "Base system - FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE; improved boot loader with different boot options; selection of system language; setting of RAM disk size; possibility of booting from compressed image on hard disk; different hard disk interaction modes; configuration center (frconf) with modules for setting up console, swap file, LAN, dial-up, VPN and ADSL; hard disk installer (install2hdd); USB Flash installer (install2flash); new backup utilities (frbk-create and frbk-restore), stress-testing utility (stresstest); brand new look." Read the release notes for a detailed list of all features and changes. Download: frenzy-1.0-RC1-std-EN.iso (192MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-05-02 |
Development Release: Frenzy 1.0 Beta 1 |
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| Frenzy is a small FreeBSD-based live CD with a good collection of security and penetration testing tools. After several months of delays and fundraising, the project has now announced the first beta release of the upcoming version 1.0. The new Frenzy is based on a pre-release version of FreeBSD 6.1, includes an improved hard disk installer, language options, an option to load the entire system into RAM disk, various methods to monitor disk activity, several new configuration tools, a new backup mechanism, an installer for USB storage devices, a stress testing utility, and many other updates. More details can be found in the release notes (in Russian). Download: frenzy-1.0-BETA1-std-RU.iso (186MB, MD5). This beta release supports the Russian language only. |
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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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