Netbsd live

[preacher]

Anyone tried it? Does it have any sort of gui?

[choasforages]

it might, im going to have to download that.

[preacher]

Well I couldnt help myself so I downloaded it and tried it out. So far it works great and reminds me a great deal of slackware. It does indeed come with xfree86, and kde 3. The small size of the download file threw me off a bit. It was only like 229mb, but once uncompressed was a full 700mb iso.  Whoever it was that was looking for a small distro of nix to download should check this out. This live CD had better results for me than SuSE Live, and ran faster. The only thing that didnt work was sound. After hearing a long time about the stability and speed of nettbsd, and after finally using it, I am considering switching my server to it.

[Doogee]

yeah that was me lookin for the small distro. ermm got a link for me buddy? also i guess theres some way to install it to the hard disk innit?

[preacher]

I downloaded it from a link found at linuxiso.org. Go here http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=16
It is the second item under i386. Im guessing that you use windows. If so, then you might have trouble uncompressing it. I dont believe Winzip can do files with .bz2. However a program called Power Archiver will work just fine. http://www.powerarchiver.com

[choasforages]

the normal netbsd install disk will install it, i still havn't burned the netbsd live cd. then agian, i already have a machine running netbsd. a base netbsd install comes with almost nothing, like it hase XFree86 and gcc and someother stuff. you have to download the packages. as for sound, you will probably have to recompile the kernel./*hehehe, most of the *BSD's use a text file for kernel conf, no complicated ass gui*/ if you install it on a machine, make sure you read the NetBSD guide, and atleast get the ports installed./*let me see rpm do what netbsd ports can do....*/

[5amYan]

the port tree rocks!
Unsure about netBSD but there are 8500 ish ports inthe FreeBSD tree.

The BSDs can also network (ftp) install from a floppy.  THo if you are looking for a small distro cuz of a slow connection it still has to download the base files...