I also use it for wardriving and diagnostic work. I would enjoy having more applications for benchmarking and wardriving/security auditing such as Knoppix STD 0.1 has.
There are a few programs which I like that are not on the FreeSBIE1.1 and now I've taken the challenge to setup one of my computers as a FreeSBIE build PC where I can make my own ISO's. Still no luck yet but any day now I should be able to recreate the FreeSBIE with extra applications.
from Michael
Xian wrote:
I'm just interested in to what people use FreeSBIE for? I had a quick look around for this but didn't find much.
I use it mostly at college to run an X session on a home computer via ssh. I really like having a local media player (xmms) and web browser (firefox) as I can have all the speed of these programs running locally while having work well with my desktop at home.
I have a USB pen drive with 2 partitions on it: the first is a large FAT32 so I can use the drive under just about any OS, and the second is a small UFS2. I mount the UFS2 partition union over /root and it means I keep all my settings between reboots.
FreeSBIE also serves as a good rescue disk for my boxen running FreeBSD as the FreeBSD rescue disk doesn't work with a USB keyboard. It's also nice to be able to do a rescue from a desktop environment than just one console terminal.
I'm all in support of having a thing to automagicaly dial out to get an internet connection in the next FreeSBIE release. I wouldn't mind a simple set of questions on the console at boot time, but a GUI thing would work well for those who don't like consoles (thinks of the average MS windows user) and would really help people breand new to *NIXes to get on well with FreeSBIE.
The automagic DHCP thing works very well but for when I'm using the axe driver (I just have to start dhclient manually).
If the program to dial out does have to be written from scratch I would be willing to help.
-- Michael Pope Software Engineer
*/Digitech Corporation/* Ph: +61 3 9642 4032 Fax: +61 3 9602 1889 -- FreeSBIE mailing list (http://www.freesbie.org)
