On 04/06/2011, George Wood <gw...@woodsite.net> wrote: > > The answer is, of course, '42'. > > The freesbie website on www.freesbie.org seems to have died. > > The us download mirror is still up on > > http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/FreeSBIE/ > > most releases of FreeSBIE are there. However, FreeSBIE has not been > maintained or updated in several years. > > PC-BSD is another FreeBSD offshoot with a bootable dvd. get it at > www.pcbsd.org. > > It needs a pc with a bootable dvd drive and a gb or so of ram. There > is also a bootable usb flash drive image, which needs a bootable usb > port. > > The dve (or flash drive) can be used both to run PCBSD in live-mode, > diorecttlty from the dvd, AND to will install pc-bsd; be careful at > the boot menu to choose 'boot in live mode' (option 3, I think) > unless you want to install it to the hard disk. (you will have > several other opportunities to abort the installation if you start it > accidentally). > > I do occasionally use a FreeSBIE disk; it doesn't need quite as much > ram as the pcbsd (running in live mode), and it does not require a > dvd. But it also doesn't have as rich an environment. > > I'm not a member of the FreeSBIE development group. I'm just on the > mailing list. I keep hopeing someone will resurrect it, or some > similar small-footprint bootable image. > > Don't panic! > > George D. Wood, Ph.D. > gw...@woodsite.net > > On Jun 4th, Bret Busby (>BB>) wrote: > >>BB> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 03:49:53 +0800 >>BB> From: Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> >>BB> Reply-To: FreeSBIE e FreeBSD <freesbie@gufi.org> >>BB> To: freesbie@gufi.org >>BB> Subject: Query as to whether FreeSBIE is stiill available >>BB> >>BB> Hello. >>BB> >>BB> I have recently found of the existence of FreeSBIE. >>BB> >>BB> In trying to download a copy of FreeSBIE, with, I understand, version >>BB> 2.0.1 being the latest current stable version, using the links on the >>BB> web page at http://www.freesbie.org/downloads.php, I found the >>BB> following links to be broken. >>BB> >>BB> Under the heading FTP sites: >>BB> >>BB> # ftp.freesbie.org >>BB> # ftp2.freesbie.org >>BB> # ftp.ca.freesbie.org >>BB> >>BB> Under the heading HTTP sites: >>BB> >>BB> * ftp.freesbie.org >>BB> >>BB> So, is FreeSBIE still available, or, has it been abandoned? >>BB> >>BB> >From what I have read, no messages, and, no updates, appear to have >>BB> been posted, for about a year, and I am wondering whether the project >>BB> has been abandoned. >>BB> >>BB> Thank you in anticipation, for your response. >>BB> >>BB> -- >>BB> Bret Busby >>BB> Armadale >>BB> West Australia >>BB> .............. >>BB> >>BB> "So once you do know what the question actually is, >>BB> you'll know what the answer means." >>BB> - Deep Thought, >>BB> Chapter 28 of Book 1 of >>BB> "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: >>BB> A Trilogy In Four Parts", >>BB> written by Douglas Adams, >>BB> published by Pan Books, 1992 >>BB> >>BB> .................................................... >>BB> _______________________________________________ >>BB> Freesbie mailing list >>BB> Freesbie@gufi.org >>BB> http://mailman.gufi.org/mailman/listinfo/freesbie >>BB> > >
Hello. Thank you for your response. I had downloaded a copy of the i386 version of the PCBSD 8.2, to try on some of the 32 bit computers here, and a copy of the 64 bit version, to try on some of the 64 bit computers. However, I tried to run the i386 version in the Live mode, on my HP/Compaq NX5000, which, from the FLCL web site, would be compatible other than the WiFi, in which I am not interested, anyway. But the PCBSD 8.2, I found to be problematic; it took three attempts to get past the boot menu (the one with the options, where a user chooses to install or to boot into Live mode), and, when it did manage to go past that boot menu, it hung at the X-Windows stage; where it is supposed to display the X-Windows screen. So, for that computer, anyway, I would apparently have to try the FreesBIE version, which, whilst I am aware that it (FreesBIE 2.0.1, I think, is the latest current stable version) is based on FreeBSD 6.2 (from memory) rather than being based on FreeBSD 8.2, on which I understand PCBSD 8.2 to be based, I understand to use windows managers (Fluxbox and XFCE, I think) that are much less resource demanding than KDE, that PCBSD apparently uses. I had posted a query to the PCBSD mailing list, asking about the progress of PCBSD 9, which I understand will allow a user to run GNOME (with which I am more familiar with its use, having used it for some years on various versions of Linux0 rather than KDE, as I understand that GNOME has a much lesser requirement of resources to run it, than does KDE. I am waiting for a response to that query. So I shall try the USA hosting site for the FreeSBIE downloads, to try to get a useable download of FreeSBIE 2.0.1. That hosting site is, I think, not included in the list of hosting sites for the downloads, on the web page at http://www.freesbie.org/downloads.php . -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... _______________________________________________ Freesbie mailing list Freesbie@gufi.org http://mailman.gufi.org/mailman/listinfo/freesbie
