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BSDanywhere 4.4 released

Contributed by ray on from the anywhere-but-home dept.

From the BSDanywhere 4.4 announce page,

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of BSDanywhere 4.4 - enlightenment at your fingertips.

As always, we release our OpenBSD based images in two flavours: i386 (32bit) and amd64 (64bit). There are no changes compared to the last release candidate:

http://bsdanywhere.org/download/

Here's a quick summary of the not-to-intense changes since 4.3 (remember, all the innovation comes from OpenBSD anyway):

  • Removed packages: gimp, abiword, audacious, mutt, rsnapshot, darkstat. We are really limited in space. That's why we decided to concentrate on the primary focus of BSDanywhere, which is hardware testing and system rescue.
  • Added packages: dnstop, dnstracer
  • We now enabled 'machdep.kbdreset' which permits console CTRL-ALT-DEL to do a nice halt.
  • We no longer skip the 5 second period of the interactive boot command line.
  • We no longer set the X11 keyboard layout because OpenBSD does so natively in 4.4.
  • Last but not least we have great new artwork, provided graciously by Tim Saueressig!

If you like BSDanywhere help us to keep this service up and running by either buying an OpenBSD release set or by donating directly to OpenBSD via PayPal. Thank you very much!

Cheers,
Stephan

Be sure to check this project out! The artwork is worth checking out if you'd like some fancy CD-R labels!

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  1. By Tom M. (88.96.248.182) on

    Great job! :)
    How recent is the version of Enlightenment? The one in ports appears to be well over a year old, sadly. E17 has grown in leaps and bounds since then.

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    1. By Stephan (82.192.243.246) stephan.rickauer@startek.ch on http://bsdanywhere.org

      > Great job! :)
      > How recent is the version of Enlightenment? The one in ports appears to be well over a year old, sadly. E17 has grown in leaps and bounds since then.

      Unfortunately, that's exactly the version we're using ;) As soon as there is a new port we'll integrate it, of course.

  2. By Anonymous Coward (88.195.219.138) on

    Why?

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (91.65.4.220) on

      > Why?

      What?

      Comments

      1. By Anonymous Coward (115.166.22.175) on

        > > Why?
        >
        > What?

        Who?

        Comments

        1. By Anonymous Coward (72.174.27.134) on

          > > > Why?
          > >
          > > What?
          >
          > Who?

          Sometimes How!

    2. By Anonymous Coward (81.224.168.47) on

      > Why?

      Because

    3. By CODOR (CODOR) on

      > Why?

      Why not?

  3. By Piranha (146.131.120.2) on

    Off their site:

    "BSDanywhere is designed for running off CD, simply because most people have CD-ROM drives in servers as well as workstations.

    While making a USB image would be quite simple, we deliberately do not want to offer one because it is out of our domain of providing a test and rescue platform only. A system running off a USB stick is much more comparable to a 'real' operating system like OpenBSD that has full write access to its local disk. Please consider getting OpenBSD and install it on a USB stick instead."

    Not entirely sure if I buy this. Running off a USB stick should be comparable to CDRom (Read only) since most people don't want their USB sticks getting written to shreds.

    I, personally, don't even keep CDRom drives in my severs anymore for the simple fact of PXE installs/USB Installs, etc. There's no reason they can't easily add a script to include a dd/raw write image. That's my view on it..

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    1. By Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd (weerd) on http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/

      > Off their site:
      > "BSDanywhere is designed for running off CD, simply because most people have CD-ROM drives in servers as well as workstations.
      >
      > While making a USB image would be quite simple, we deliberately do not want to offer one because it is out of our domain of providing a test and rescue platform only. A system running off a USB stick is much more comparable to a 'real' operating system like OpenBSD that has full write access to its local disk. Please consider getting OpenBSD and install it on a USB stick instead."
      >
      > Not entirely sure if I buy this. Running off a USB stick should be comparable to CDRom (Read only) since most people don't want their USB sticks getting written to shreds.
      >
      > I, personally, don't even keep CDRom drives in my severs anymore for the simple fact of PXE installs/USB Installs, etc. There's no reason they can't easily add a script to include a dd/raw write image. That's my view on it..

      Of course, I can not speak for "most people" as I've not done any studies to see what "most people" think about this topic, but I personally am very happy to carry a USB stick around as a portable OpenBSD install. Fully Read/Write enabled, just a plain install, works GREAT. Read/Write performance is not stellar (of course), so I don't use it constantly, but I doubt that even if I used it 24/7 for 3 years it would be "written to shreds".

      These USB sticks are perfectly fine for writing to. Maybe not as good as regular disks but certainly good enough for lots and lots of regular use cases.

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