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RAV TUX
February 9th, 2008, 12:35 PM
Yet Another Small Distro for your using enjoyment.


The pocket sized BSD!

Damn Small BSD (DSBSD) is a small (50mb or less) FreeBSD live-CD desktop environment geared toward developers and system administrators, but we also include applications that the average user may find handy.
http://www.damnsmallbsd.org/

See the Damn Small BSD Distropedia article here. (http://cafelinux.org/distropedia/node/187)
init1
February 9th, 2008, 07:21 PM
Nice! :D I'm downloading it now. I've been meaning to exparement more with BSD, so this seems like the perfect opportunity.
sandysandy
February 9th, 2008, 07:25 PM
how similar / different is BSD from Linux.
can u dual boot it with linux and windows.
does it also use grub.

regards
init1
February 9th, 2008, 08:00 PM
how similar / different is BSD from Linux.
can u dual boot it with linux and windows.
does it also use grub.

regards
If you know Linux command line, you should be able to use BSD command line
You can set up a dual boot with BSD, but not with this CD. It only supports full disk installs.
I don't know about grub but i doubt it.
darrelljon
February 9th, 2008, 10:50 PM
Its pre-alpha so I'd wait.
Antman
February 10th, 2008, 04:35 AM
how similar / different is BSD from Linux.
can u dual boot it with linux and windows.
does it also use grub.

regards

If you want to try out a full BSD version on a live CD check out DesktopBSD (http://www.desktopbsd.net/index.php?id=31).
init1
February 10th, 2008, 06:23 PM
Its pre-alpha so I'd wait.
Yeah currently the environment is very basic, and it has less commands than busybox. It's does seem promising however, so I'll be sure to keep an eye on this one :D
RAV TUX
February 11th, 2008, 10:11 AM
The best BSD distro I have used is PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/).

Awesome project overall, I still have PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/) on an old computer.

The PBI files (http://ubuntuforums.org/www.pbidir.com) are great.
Changturkey
February 12th, 2008, 01:56 AM
The best BSD distro I have used is PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/).

Awesome project overall, I still have PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/) on an old computer.

The PBI files (http://ubuntuforums.org/www.pbidir.com) are great.

I agree, I am waiting for these guys to switch to a FreeBSD 7.0 base, so that my hardware is better supported.