All, after the success of FreeSBIE GMV, today I release a new ISO image: FreeSBIE LVC. This is the second of a series of four ISO images: GMV, LVC, EW, and CE, with CE being hopefully FreeSBIE 2.0. As said, LVC goes public today, while EW is planned for the end of October and CE for the middle of November. This means that FreeSBIE LVC *can* be considered FreeSBIE 2.0 PREBETA (while GMV could not). The codename for this image is LVC, which stands for "Lee Van Cleef", who played in "A few dollars more" and "The good, the bad and the ugly". Complete information about this actor at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001812/ . Similarly to GMV, LVC is based on the HEAD branch of FreeBSD, so on FreeBSD 7-CURRENT and, to be precise, as it was on 2006.10.10.12.00.00. Ports are approximately from the same date. EW and CE, on the other hand, will be based on the RELENG_6_2 branch, both for sources and for ports. After having released GMV, I received lots of feedback and suggestions. I would like to thank everybody for their support: having fun and feeling appreciated is what make me going on with this work. All the suggestions had been included in LVC, but this does not mean that LVC is perfect. Remember, is "PREBETA". I say it once again: please, test LVC and send me feedback, bug reports, suggestions, insults, whatever. Please specify [FreeSBIE LVC] in the subject of the mail. Additional software and fixes are not the only news in FreeSBIE LVC. FreeSBIE now has *cheatcodes*! What are cheatcodes? They are a way to specify FreeSBIE options such as language, windowmanager, ramdisks'sizes, etc, at boot time. When you'll boot FreeSBIE, you'll see a new menu. Follow the instructions and you'll see what cheatcodes are about. =) More cheatcodes will be added in EW and in CE. FreeSBIE LVC can be downloaded from the following locations: {ftp, http}://mirror.tomato.it/ftp/pub/Freesbie/BETA/FreeSBIE-LVC-20061010.iso (100Mbps) http://drizzt.bsdnet.eu/freesbie/FreeSBIE-LVC-20061010.iso (80MBps) ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/freesbie-lvc/FreeSBIE-LVC-20061010.iso http://core.drizzt.bsdnet.eu/freesbie/FreeSBIE-LVC-20061010.iso (24Mbps) http://people.freebsd.org/~matteo/GMV/FreeSBIE-LVC-20061010.iso (slow, when possible don't use this mirror, please) Additional mirrors are much appreciated. If you decide to mirror FreeSBIE LVC, please send me a mail with the address where it will be available for download, so I can add it to the list of mirrors. If you like BitTorrent: http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-LVC-20061010.iso.torrent The MD5 sum for the ISO image is: MD5 (FreeSBIE-LVC-20061010.iso) = ea7fa4b50f5ea3f741c9fcedf4944e3a A list of installed software follows. Please note that this is only the list of the "main" packages and does not include their dependencies. abiword editors/abiword abiword-plugins editors/abiword-plugins aircrack-ng net-mgmt/aircrack-ng aMule net-p2p/amule2 arpwatch net-mgmt/arpwatch bacula-client sysutils/bacula-client bash shells/bash beep-media-player-esound multimedia/beep-media-player buffer misc/buffer cabextract archivers/cabextract cdrtools sysutils/cdrtools chillispot net-mgmt/chillispot chkrootkit security/chkrootkit clamav security/clamav cpdup sysutils/cpdup cpuburn sysutils/cpuburn crack security/crack cups print/cups curl ftp/curl e2fsprogs sysutils/e2fsprogs ekiga net/ekiga elinks www/elinks eject sysutils/eject emacs editors/emacs etherape net-mgmt/etherape ettercap-gtk2 net-mgmt/ettercap evince graphics/evince fetchmail mail/fetchmail firefox www/firefox firewalk security/firewalk fluxbox x11-wm/fluxbox fping net/fping freeradius net/freeradius gaim net-im/gaim gdesklets deskutils/gdesklets gftp ftp/gftp gimp graphics/gimp gnuchess games/gnuchess gnupg security/gnupg gphoto2 graphics/gphoto2 gqview graphics/gqview grdesktop net/grdesktop gtkpod audio/gtkpod gv print/gv hping net/hping hydra security/hydra ike-scan security/ike-scan inkscape graphics/inkscape irssi irc/irssi john security/john kismet net-mgmt/kismet lighttpd www/lighttpd mplayer-fonts multimedia/mplayer-fonts mplayer multimedia/mplayer mutt mail/mutt nagios net-mgmt/nagios nagios-plugins net-mgmt/nagios-plugins nano editors/nano ngrep net/ngrep nikto security/nikto nmap security/nmap nmapfe security/nmapfe ntfsprogs sysutils/ntfsprogs ntop net/ntop obexapp comms/obexapp openvpn security/openvpn outguess security/outguess pine mail/pine4 playmidi audio/playmidi progsreiserfs sysutils/progsreiserfs pwd_unmkdb sysutils/pwd_unmkdb p0f net-mgmt/p0f rainbowcrack security/rainbowcrack rkhunter security/rkhunter rox x11-fm/rox-filer rsync net/rsync samba net/samba3 screen sysutils/screen scapy net/scapy scite-gtk2 editors/scite snort security/snort sudo security/sudo thunderbird mail/thunderbird tightvnc net/tightvnc unicornscan security/unicornscan unrar archivers/unrar unzip archivers/unzip vim-gtk2 editors/vim wget ftp/wget wipe security/wipe wireshark net/wireshark xbindkeys x11/xbindkeys xbindkeys_config x11/xbindkeys_config xchat irc/xchat xfce x11-wm/xfce4 xfce4-battery-plugin sysutils/xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-mixer audio/xfce4-mixer xfce4-netload-plugin sysutils/xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-systemload-plugin sysutils/xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-xkb-plugin deskutils/xfce4-xkb-plugin xfsprogs sysutils/xfsprogs xorg-clients x11/xorg-clients xorg-fonts-100dpi x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-encodings x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-cyrillic xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps xorg-fonts-truetype x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype xorg-server x11-servers/xorg-server xpdf graphics/xpdf xsane graphics/xsane zebra net/zebra zip archivers/zip zsh shells/zsh As said, any suggestion for other software to include is much appreciated. Have fun with FreeSBIE LVC! -- Matteo Riondato FreeBSD Committer (http://www.freebsd.org) G.U.F.I. Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org) FreeSBIE Developer (http://www.freesbie.org)