FreeSBIE
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FreeSBIE is a LiveCD—an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD without any installation process and without any hard disk. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system. Currently, FreeSBIE uses Xfce and Fluxbox.
CD boot time depends on the seek time of the CD-ROM drive. The operating system may also exhibit a delay when opening programs, as they must be read off the disc each time they are loaded. There is an option to install to a hard disk, which significantly improves performance.
As of October 10, 2006 the latest version is FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 which is a complete rewrite of the so-called toolkit. The first version of FreeSBIE 2 was developed during the summer of 2005, thanks to Google’s Summer of Code.
[edit] 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 one likes
- To make various ISO images available, each one with its different goals and possible uses
