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[20120925] MaheshaNetBSD Live USB
I haven't seen too much progress on the NetBSD-Live-CD front recently, but who uses CDs these days, anyways? Right, a Live USB-stick image is much cooler, and MaheshaNetBSD Live USB is just that!

Juraj Sipos started his project originally on FreeBSD (and still continues that), but there's a variant based on NetBSD 5.1.2 now, too. The system comes up read-write, so you can make changes to it - as Juraj writes on the webpage: ``With this USB image I can now use NetBSD the same way as if it was installed on a hard drive.''

Oh, and for those impatient to try, the root password is "netbsd5".

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[20090208] NetBSD/amd64 based live CD (and i386, too): Jibbed 5 RC1
Zafer Aydogan wrote me that his NetBSD-based "Jibbed" live-CD has reached status of a first release candidate. As a very special thing, there is a version of the CD for 64bit machines which is based on NetBSD/amd64. The CD itself follows the netbsd-5 branch, uses X.org, recent Firefox (3.0.6) and thanks to vnd compression, it's only 400MB in size.

See the Jibbed homepage for more information including screenshots, download links, and a FAQ.

Be sure to mail your experiences back to Zafer to make the CD even better!

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[20090111] jibbed 5 beta - NetBSD 5.0_BETA based live CD
Zafer Aydogan wrote me that jibbed 5 beta is available now. Jibbed is a NetBSD-based Live CD, and the version number indicates that it's based on the NetBSD 5.0_BETA release. From the website: ``It features select packages from pkgsrc, as well as autoconfiguration for networking and graphics cards. A new feature is the ability to run memtest from the boot prompt.

This version contains the xfce4 window manager and uses Xorg (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 RAM.

As you might have noticed, I've changed the version numbering - again. Jibbed will from now on carry the version number from the NetBSD release it has been build from.

Feel free to download jibbed 5 beta.''

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[20080826] Jibbed LiveCD V0.15.72 released
Zafer Aydogan has released Version 0.15.72 of his Jibbed NetBSD LiveCD. News are that the it's a CD again, instead of a DVD. Kernel sources are from NetBSD-current with kernel version 4.99.72 (as or August 19th), the CD also has Firefox 3, Roy Marples' dhcpcd 4.0rc3, WAPBL (journaling for FFS), top 3.8beta1, OpenSSH with HPN-Patch, Postfix 2.5.2, Bind 9, and may more.

Right now the CD is a bit slow as compressed VND images are currently broken - anyone who can fix this is more than welcome to do so.

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[20080606] Jibbed LiveCD 0.14.64 released
Zafer Aydogan wrote me that he has released a new version of his Jibbed NetBSD LiveCD. News in version 0.14.64 include sources as of netBSD 4.99.64, a change from XFree to modular X.org, Xfce4 as Window Manager as well as Roy Marple's new DHCP client daemon. Further changes include automatic detection of the graphics card, and loading of the required drivers (if available).

The ISO is currently more than 1GB, as there's a bug in NetBSD's handling of compressed vnc(4) images, which leads to kernel panics.

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[20080209] Article: The NetBSD live CD -- why haven't I heard of this before?
This article is about the 2007 NetBSD Live CD by Joerg Braun. Apparently the author missed it when it was announced, and he's very happy with it now, and describes how to get networking going, illustrating the various steps where Linux-users may encounter problems. Nothing new for old-time NetBSD veterans, but probably a good read for new NetBSD users.

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[20070828] New version of the Jihbed LiveCD
Zafer Aydogan sent me mail to let me (and thus you :) know that he has released a new version of his NetBSD-based Jihbed Live CD. A list of changes is avialable in the changelog, notable changes include several bugfixes plus some minor changes in the selection of packages installed on the CD. Enjoy!

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[20070623] Jihbed Live CD updated
Zafer Aydogan dropped me mail that he has updated his Jihbed Live CD. The latest version is built from NetBSD-current (4.99.20), it also includes updated packages from pkgsrc and pkgsrc-wip.

Zafer made the CD with pkgsrc/sysutils/mklivecd. It features a GUI based on icewm, and is intended both for getting to know NetBSD for new users as well as disaster recovery.

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[20070406] Jihbed - a(nother) NetBSD Live CD
Quoting from the website: ``What is Jihbed? A live system on CD. It is an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD, without any hard disk or installation required.'' Those wondering what the word "jihbed" actually means will find an answer in the NetBSD wiki.

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[20070224] German language articles: Systrace, and Deleting Files Safely
Stefan Schumacher has mentioned two of his recent articles and presentations on regional-de:
  1. "Daten sicher löschen" (deleting files safely) talks about deleting files in a secure way. The article also mentions a NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 based Live CD called "NetBSD/Schrubber", an article and slides for a presentation about the topic that Stefan will give at the Chemnitz Linuxdays 2007.

  2. "Systrace" contains an (also german language) introduction on what Systrace is and how to use it, including an article and presentation slides that Stefan gave at the GUUG Spring Talks 2007 and will give at the Chemnitz Linuxdays 2007.
Mmm, NetBSD advocacy at its best! :-)

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[20061206] How to build a livecd
Every now and then the question of how to build a NetBSD Live CD arises, and Adrien Auzanneau has put some thoughts online in the NetBSD Wiki. Maybe it's useful to people who don't think that pkgsrc/sysutils/mklivecd is the final answer to this question.

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[20061113] NetBSD Live! CD 2007 available (Updated)
NetBSD doesn't have an official Live CD as part of the project, but there are several ones from 3rd parties. Jörg Braun from the german publisher "Computer und Literaturverlag" (C&L) has previously made a NetBSD Live! CD which was available via the C&L FreeX magazine. Jörg has now updated his Live CD to this millennium's state of NetBSD, and released the 2007 Edition of his NetBSD Live! CD. The CD is based on NetBSD 4.0_BETA/i386 and offers a full desktop environment by using a compressed filesystem, which includes KDE, Abiword, Dia, Inkscape, GIMP, Firefox, xmms and many more.

Please note that the CD was assembled the previous weekend, and that some newssites prematurely announced this. As a result, some people may have a file with the wrong checksum - the correct MD5 hash is "22a7496a2bb37910aeb312d053755a2a".

Thanks to Jörg Braun, Rosa Riebl all the folks at C&L for their longtime support of NetBSD, and also to Michael Schneider, Daniel Sieger, Martin Laubach and Florian Stöhr for their help in translating the German-language README file into english.

The CD is made available for everyone at no cost, please note that commercial distribution requires a license from C&L.

Available files include:

Enjoy!

Update: Chris from The Coding Studio let us know that he has a screenshot walkthrough of the Live CD's startup and operation. Show this to everyone who wonders what NetBSD looks like!

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[20060909] OFinst: GUI installer application for NetBSD
As mentioned on EFnet #NetBSD, OFInst (OrangeFlag Installer) is a GUI installer for the NetBSD operating system. Its client/server structure is built on a top of the RWE protocol, with which it can perform advanced remote installations. See the project homepage for more information, including a bunch of interesting screenshots and a NetBSD 4.0_BETA based Live CD for testing the installer.

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[20060731] What you can do with a NetBSD live CD
Found on FlickR: Apparently someone used a NetBSD 1.6 Live(!) CD to setup a router, and got (at least) 179 days uptime with it:



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[20060620] Article: A comparison of BSD live CDs
Mark Weinem wrote me that Andrei Raevsky has written a comparison of BSD live CDs on DistroWatch Weekly. The comparison includes FreeSBIE 1.1, FreeBSD LiveCD 1.2, Frenzy 0.3, AnonymOS 2006, OliveBSD 3.8 and NetBSD Live!.

Maybe it's worth noting that the NetBSD Live!-CD based on 3.99.7 is a completely different one than the original NetBSD Live! CD by Joerg Braun. Also, Newbie and maybe even NetBSD LiveKey should have definitely been included in the comparison!

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[20060523] Presentation: *BSD live CDs
This year, Jan Schauman gave a presentation on "*BSD Live CDs" at BSDcan. The talk starts out with NetBSD live CDs, then widens the focus onto *BSD live CDs to finally analyze Live CDs in general, and determine what common areas as well as special features are available in the various CDs, and how a Live CD can best be integrated into a BSD operating system.

See Jan's BSDcan slides and Jan's BSDcan paper for all the details

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[20060514] NetBSD LiveKey 0.1
iMil, of pkg_select (and several other) fame wrote on netbsd-users@ that he has been working on a NetBSD Live setup that's suitable for putting on a USB stick, and running NetBSD from that. Check out his mail or go directly to his netbsd-livekey homepage, which contains pictures of iMil's mp3 player booting NetBSD and documentation on how to build your own key. Maybe we should hand out USB sticks instead of CDs or DVDs soon... :)

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[20060119] NeWBIE
From the arudius webpage: ``This acronym NeWBIE is pronounced just like the word "newbie" and stands for (Ne)tBSD (W)are (B)urned (I)n (E)conomy. Newbie is a NetBSD (v. 3.0) live CD similar in spirit to the well-known FreeSBIE live CD. Newbie currently caters to the desktop-user (i.e. with applications for web browsing, chat, multimedia, document editing, etc) but will also serve as a core for creating a NetBSD version of Arudius (see below) - a network security auditing tool. Why based on NetBSD? Because contrary to the popular opinion, NetBSD is not some obscure *BSD flavor that is only good for powering your toaster, but is a powerful, flexible and highly portable operating system. In many aspects it is better than its more famous cousins. Did you know that NetBSD recently broke and still holds the speed record for network data transfer? And what about speed and scalability? Note the first item of the "News" section:-)''

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[20050916] Xen + Knoppix = Xenoppix
If it has any form of Linux and can boot from CD, that HAS to be Knoppix, right? The only technical term there is for such a device (*puke*). Following that idea, there's now a thing called Xenoppix which is some Knoppx/Linux based system that comes with NetBSD and Plan 9. Still reminds me a lot of the original Xen live CD by the fine Xen folks themselves. Future plans seem to be GNU/Hurd and OpenSolaris. I hope the latter contains a more sane boot system than Sun's Solaris 10. Found on Symlink.

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[20050717] How To Create NetBSD LiveCD
Marcin Jessa has put together instructions on how to create a CD that boots directly from CD using the new 'cdboot', which isn't limited to a 1.44/2.88MB boot floppy any more.

With my yesterday's commit, this could even go to 1-2GB of data using a compressed image on the CD (which would be mounted after booting NetBSD!). I hope to get to importing the userland tool to do the compression soon...

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[20050426] NetBSD/dreamcast Live CD
Rui Paulo has made a LiveCD for NetBSD/dreamcast. So far without X, the CD contains the base system without any packages. See Rui's posting for more information, including mirrors.

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[20050421] Xen 2.0.5 Live CD, with NetBSD, FreeBSD and Debian
The screenshot of Xen running several virtual machines with different operating systems posted earlier was made from a beta version of a Xen Live CD, which is now officially released. See the Xen download page to learn that the ISO is 720MB, or go directly to the SourceForge-based download page.

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[20050409] Xen in action: Live CD screenshot
I've played with a beta-version of the Xen Live CD, and I have added a screenshot to the NetBSD in Action gallery: ``The screenshot shows a Xen "domain0" virtual machine, with four other virtual machines started (see domain overview in the lower right corner): on the left side are two domains running NetBSD, with two xterms showing the console of the VMs, and VNC clients used to access the Xvnc servers running in those VMs, providing a GUI to them. A similar setup is shown on the upper right corner, which has booted Debian Linux, both with console in xterm and a VNC client to access the Xvnc server, too. The last VM runs FreeBSD as console only, with no X(vnc) started.''

Became curious? Check out NetBSD/xen! (The Live CD's URL was requested not to be spread because it is still beta - I'll sure post the URL once it's released!)

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[20041118] NetBSD Live CD runs ACM Programming Contest
After a few days of silence from my side, now there's some worthy news again today, about the ACM Regional Collegiate Programming Contest which was hosted at Stevens Institute of Technology, which is known for using NetBSD heavily. During the contest, a NetBSD-based Live CD was used to provide all contestants the same environment (with gcc/g++, Sun JDK, etc.). See Jan Schaumann's report on the event, which has more links!

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[20040901] NetBSD 2.0(beta) Live! CD with FreeX 5/04
The 5/2004 issue of the german computer mag "FreeX" includes a bootable Live CD based on NetBSD 2.0(beta) that boots right into KDE and contains a number of neat tools like KDE 3.2.2, KOffice, Gimp, Sodipodi etc. FreeX also has a (german language) article about the CD online.

I've used the CD, and it's really useful - includes lots of nice drivers from the upcoming NetBSD 2.0 release, including Atheros drivers which I used for performance and interoperability tests with 54/108MBd WaveLAN tests at the University of Regensburg's Computing Center.

Issue 5/2004 of FreeX, which includes the Live CD, can be ordered online!

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