This seems like an interesting project. Not that I've looked into it, but the idea seems good.
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" Download your free copy: http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Haidut " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <info at brlug.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:14 PM Subject: NetBSD live CD > Hello, > > I am one of the developers of Arudius - a live CD Linux distro targeting > information security professionals. The > CD has a large collection of security tools and a very small footprint > (210MB) so it fits on a mini-CD, thus it > can load its tools completely into RAM and run them very fast. In addition > to this security-related Linux > distribution, we also developed a NetBSD live CD focusing on the > non-security community. It is called NeWBIE (or > simply Newbie). This acronym is pronounced just like the word "newbie" and > stands for > (Ne)tBSD (W)are (B)urned (I)n (E)conomy, a naming convention similar to > the one used for the well-known FreeSBIE > CD. Newbie 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-based live CD for > network security auditing just like > Arudius (see the website). We are also in the process of developing a > DragonflyBSD version of NeWBIE. > The goal of both CDs is to promote the usage of Linux/BSD and hopefully > serve as useful tools for people who > need that kind of software. > We would appreciate it if you try out the CDs and give us some feedback on > how we can improve them (i.e > configuration, install additional software, etc). If you find any of the > CDs to be useful, please mention them on > your site or post a link to the homepage - http://arudius.sourceforge.net > Thank you very much for your attention and if you have any questions feel > free to send an email to haidut at gmail.com > > best regards, > Haidut > >
