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| 2009-08-27 |
BSD Release: Jibbed 5.0.1 |
| Zafer Aydogan has announced the release of Jibbed 5.0.1, a NetBSD-based live CD with automatic hardware detection and Xfce desktop: "It's NetBSD time. The long awaited new version of the live CD has finally arrived. It is freshly built from the NetBSD 5.0.1 sources which includes many bug fixes and contains the latest packages from pkgsrc including Filezilla. As always, it contains X.Org from base and the Xfce desktop. Jibbed is a bootable live CD based on the NetBSD operating system that works directly from a CD without need for a hard drive. Automatic hardware detection provides support for a wide variety of graphics cards, sound cards, network interfaces, and USB devices. This live CD showcases a complete NetBSD environment, including compiler sets, and provides features like tmpfs to simulate read-write access on read-only media." More information can be found in the release announcement. Download (MD5): jibbed-5.0.1-i386-LiveCD.iso (465MB), jibbed-5.0.1-amd64-LiveCD.iso (506MB). |
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| 2009-05-14 |
BSD Release: Jibbed 5.0 |
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| NetBSD developer Zafer Aydogan has announced the release of Jibbed 5.0, a live CD based on NetBSD 5.0. An announcement went out a few days ago, but now it has been updated to include information about new features: "Here we go again the with a new version of the NetBSD live CD. This time it's version 5.0, built from the finest NetBSD-5 sources. As usual, the live CD contains the latest packages from pkgsrc and three new packages: AbiWord and two fantastic games - Wormux and Crack Attack!. As always it contains X.Org from base and the Xfce window manager. Jibbed is a bootable live CD based on the NetBSD operating system that works directly from a CD without touching a hard drive. It provides automatic hardware detection and supports many graphics cards, sound cards and USB devices. It also features a rescue environment for NetBSD." Visit the project's home page to read the brief release announcement. Download (MD5): jibbed-5.0-i386-LiveCD.iso (489MB), jibbed-5.0-amd64-LiveCD.iso (530MB). |
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| 2009-03-23 |
Development Release: Jibbed 5 RC3 |
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| Zafer Aydoğan has announced the availability of the third release candidate for Jibbed 5, a NetBSD-based live CD with a graphical desktop: "I'm proud to present the new version of the NetBSD live CD for i386 and amd64. This version has three new features. For the first time, it is possible to install missing packages on the live CD. Additional packages will reside in your RAM. Simply download the missing binary packages from the NetBSD mirrors or compile them by source using pkgsrc. The second feature is the possibility to install NetBSD. The CD contains the sysinst installer. This is the original text-based installer. And the last but not least feature is Xen. As usual, this version contains the latest sources from the NetBSD-5 branch." Visit the project's home page to read the rest of the release announcement. Download (MD5): jibbed-5_rc3-i386.iso (633MB), jibbed-5_rc3-amd64.iso (691MB). |
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| 2009-02-08 |
Development Release: Jibbed 5 RC |
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| Zafer Aydoğan has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Jibbed 5, a NetBSD-based live CD for i686 and x86_64 processors: "Hello folks! I'm proud to present you the premiere of the first NetBSD live CD made for the amd64 port. As usual, this version contains the latest sources from the NetBSD-5 branch. It features select packages from pkgsrc, as well as auto-configuration for networking and graphics cards. This version contains the Xfce window manager and uses X.Org (base). It features VND compression and is only 405 MB in size. The minimum requirement is an i686 or compatible CPU and 128 MB RAM." Visit the project's home page to read the brief release announcement. Download (MD5): jibbed-5_rc1.iso (405MB), jibbed-5_rc1_64.iso (451MB). |
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| 2009-01-11 |
Development Release: Jibbed 5 Beta |
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| Zafer Aydoğan has announced the first beta release of Jibbed 5, a NetBSD-based live CD with Xfce: "I'm proud to present you the latest Jibbed 5 beta release composed from the finest NetBSD 5 branch. It features select packages from pkgsrc, as well as auto-configuration for networking and graphics cards. A new feature is the ability to run Memtest86+ from the boot prompt. This version contains the Xfce window manager and uses X.Org (base). It features vnd compression and is only 400 MB in size. The minimum requirement is now an i686 or compatible CPU and 128 MB of RAM. As you might have noticed, I've changed the version numbering - Jibbed will from now on carry the version number from the NetBSD release it has been build from." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement. Download (MD5): jibbed-5_beta.iso (405MB). |
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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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