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Moving to blogger
Due to the annoying comment spam and the lack of a captcha capability in b2evo engine, we're moving all the blog engine to blogger.
Old blog will be still available for archive purposes at oldblog.freesbie.org
(active) work in progress
The partial TODO list for the release is:
- configure the autologin and menu stuff
- keep on configuring xfce, torsmo and idesk
- start configuring fluxbox
- configure the BSDInstaller
Desired features for the release are:
- USB backup/restore scripts
- improvement to the video card (e.g.: detect other resolutions than 1024x768 so the user can change it from xfce4 settings to an higher level)
Also feel free to suggest new packages to add to the iso. A non exhaustive list is here, dependencies are not included.
The donations page is finally up. If you like FreeSBIE, consider making a tiny donation to us.
UnionFS started working!
Another nice news is that a guy in University of Versailles is using FreeSBIE to make a live cd containing all the free software useful to the students. Nice idea! I'd like to set up a page on our website containing a list of all the projects that are using FreeSBIE for some reasons.
The guy asked us how to enable the autologin in a live system. There's a nice and efficient way do to it here.
What have I been doing lately
In a recent discussion following the commit of a PC-BSD piece of news on the FreeBSD site, I was really happy to hear rwatson@ say:”We’ve benefitted a lot from FreeSBIE’s involvement in FreeBSD especially.” Thanks Robert, we’re trying to do our best.
Backup Plugin and Network Appliances
I went on holyday in the mountains for 5 days, together with my mountain bike and my laptop. I finally get the backup and restore plugin done and I'm building a test ISO now to see if it work as expected ("I only proved it correct, didn't test it", D. Knuth).
I'm studying how NanoBSD works, to see how we can do the same and make our userbase happy :D
FreeSBIE GMV
I released a new unofficial image. Read the announcement and download the ISO.
Announce: FreeSBIE-2.0.1 Available
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 prevents USB mice from working. This fact led us, the FreeSBIE Staff, to develop a bugfix release, 2.0.1. All the bugs that have been pointed out were solved and this release has been more thoroughfully tested, to offer a better FreeSBIE experience to our users.
FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RELEASE (codename Black Mamba)is based on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, both in terms of sources and of packages. It contains more than 450 pieces and 1.3 gigabytes of software, all in a single CD-ROM of 672 megabytes.
The ISO image can be downloaded from FreeSBIE official mirrors, a list of which is available at http://www.freesbie.org/mirrors.php .
MD5 checksum for the ISO image is:
MD5 (FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso) = b2f680d27c21bbfaf4fb90dce090a118
BitTorrent lovers can get it from
http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso.torrent
Screenshots are available at http://www.freesbie.org/screenshots.html
(look for 2.0 screenshots, as nothing important has been changed since 2.0-RELEASE)
Release Notes, Manual and FAQ can be found at http://www.freesbie.org/share/2.0.1/manual/
Feel free to send feedback and bug reports to staff@freesbie.org .
Enjoy FreeSBIE and spread FreeBSD!
Thank you all.
BSD Release: FreeSBIE 2.0.1
Testers Wanted: FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC2 available
You can get it from our BitTorrent server: http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RC2.iso.torrent
If I don’t get any additional bug report in the next 7 days, I’ll release this image as FreeSBIE 2.0.1, so if you’re interested in FreeSBIE, please give RC2 a try.
Thanks in advance.
Call For Testers: FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC
as you may have noticed, there was a serious bug in FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE: devd didn’t get started at boot due to a bug in the backup plugin and USB mice didn’t get any moused on their port.
I solved this and other bugs (see recent commits) and would like you to test a new image which will be released (when ready) as 2.0.1 . As you’re subscribed to this list, I think you’re interested in FreeSBIE, so I ask for your help. It is available only on BitTorrent: http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RC.iso.torrent
Please test it and report any bug or issue you find.
Thanks in advance.
BSD Release: FreeSBIE 2.0
FreeSBIE-2.0-RELEASE Available!
today is a good day, as we, the FreeSBIE team, reached our goal: it’s the day we release FreeSBIE 2.0.
Development cycle started on August 2006 and, after many months and a series of four ISO images, an official stable FreeSBIE image is available. It went under many changes, many experiments, many bugfixes, many features’ additions, but it was worth the work and the time we spent on it. We must express our thanks to everyone involved in the release process.
FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE (codename Clint Eastwood) is based on the fresh FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, both in terms of sources and of packages. It contains more than 450 pieces and 1,3 gigabytes of software, all in a single CD-ROM of 668 megabytes.
The ISO image can be download from FreeSBIE official mirrors, a list of which is available at http://www.freesbie.org/mirrors.php
MD5 checksum for the ISO image is:
MD5 (FreeSBIE-2.0-RELEASE.iso) = bb98890aa8ce4fd9d35b5842baa34fdb
For you BitTorrent lovers:
http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0-RELEASE.iso.torrent
Screenshots are available at http://www.freesbie.org/screenshots.html
Release Notes, Manual and FAQ can be found at http://www.freesbie.org/share/2.0/manual/
Feel free to send feedback and bug reports to staff@freesbie.org .
Enjoy FreeSBIE and spread FreeBSD!
Thank you all.
RFC: FreeSBIE 2.0 Release Notes Preview
Hi folks,
I just finished the first writing of the FreeSBIE 2.0 Release Notes and I would be happy if you could read them to find mistakes, unclear statements, missing parts, and so on.
They're available at http://users.gufi.org/~rionda/20relnotes/. DocBook source is available at http://users.gufi.org/~rionda/20relnotes/article.sgml.
Send patches (SGML or plain text) to me or to the freesbie@gufi.org ML
Thanks.
As a side note, some FreeSBIE 2.0(-RC2) screenshots are available at: http://users.gufi.org/~rionda/20screen/.
FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 available
All,
if you followed the development of FreeSBIE 2.0 a bit, you should remember that, back in Semptember, I said that FreeSBIE 2.0 would have been the last of a series of four ISO images. Three images were already published: FreeSBIE GMV back in August, FreeSBIE LVC in October, FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA in November. Well, circustamces 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.
Testing the ISO image, finding bugs and reporting them back to me or to the freesbie at gufi.org mailing list are the foci for those who want to give this ISO image a try, and I hope many of you will. There is still a lot of free space on the ISO image, so feel free to suggest additional software to include.
FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 can be downloaded from our mirrors:
ftp://ftp.freesbie.org/pub/Freesbie/2.0-RC1/
ftp://ftp2.freesbie.org/pub/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1/
ftp://ftp.gr.freesbie.org/pub/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1/
ftp://ftp.be.freesbie.org/pub/freesbie/2.0-RC1/
ftp://ftp2.ie.freesbie.org/pub/freesbie/2.0-RC1/
ftp://ftp.fr.freesbie.org/freesbie/2.0-RC1/
ftp://ftp8.de.freesbie.org/unix/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1
MD5 checksum for the ISO image is:
MD5 (FreeSBIE-2.0-RC1-20061123.iso) = 9dfced489f6fd083f10b14e23c25079
Thank you in advance for testing FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1