Welcome!

All,

you may remember that FreeSBIE 2.0 was released on January 15th. It turned out it had some annoying bugs, one of which was especially serious, as it prevents USB mice from working. This fact led us, the FreeSBIE Staff, to develop a bugfix release, 2.0.1. All the bugs that have been pointed out were solved and this release has been more thoroughfully tested, to offer a better FreeSBIE experience to our users.

FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RELEASE (codename Black Mamba)is based on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, both in terms of sources and of packages. It contains more than 450 pieces and 1.3 gigabytes of software, all in a single CD-ROM of 672 megabytes.

The ISO image can be downloaded from FreeSBIE official mirrors, a list of which is available at https://damnsmallbsd.org/FreeSBIE/mirrors

MD5 checksum for the ISO image is:
MD5 (FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso) = b2f680d27c21bbfaf4fb90dce090a118

BitTorrent lovers can get it from
http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso.torrent

Screenshots are available at https://damnsmallbsd.org/FreeSBIE/screenshots
(look for 2.0 screenshots, as nothing important has been changed since 2.0-RELEASE)

Release Notes, Manual and FAQ can be found at https://damnsmallbsd.org/FreeSBIE/manual

Feel free to send feedback and bug reports!

Enjoy FreeSBIE and spread FreeBSD!

Thank you all.

A new ISO image is available, FreeSBIE 2.0.1-RC2. It is the second release candidate for FreeSBIE 2.0.1, and hopefully the last before the release. I’d like to thank all the testers who reported bugs.
You can get it from our BitTorrent server: http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RC2.iso.torrent
If I don’t get any additional bug report in the next 7 days, I’ll release this image as FreeSBIE 2.0.1, so if you’re interested in FreeSBIE, please give RC2 a try.
Thanks in advance.

All,
as you may have noticed, there was a serious bug in FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE: devd didn’t get started at boot due to a bug in the backup plugin and USB mice didn’t get any moused on their port.

I solved this and other bugs (see recent commits) and would like you to test a new image which will be released (when ready) as 2.0.1 . As you’re subscribed to this list, I think you’re interested in FreeSBIE, so I ask for your help. It is available only on BitTorrent: http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RC.iso.torrent

Please test it and report any bug or issue you find.

Thanks in advance.

All,

today is a good day, as we, the FreeSBIE team, reached our goal: it’s the day we release FreeSBIE 2.0.

Development cycle started on August 2006 and, after many months and a series of four ISO images, an official stable FreeSBIE image is available. It went under many changes, many experiments, many bugfixes, many features’ additions, but it was worth the work and the time we spent on it. We must express our thanks to everyone involved in the release process.
FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE (codename Clint Eastwood) is based on the fresh FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, both in terms of sources and of packages. It contains more than 450 pieces and 1,3 gigabytes of software, all in a single CD-ROM of 668 megabytes.

The ISO image can be download from FreeSBIE official mirrors, a list of which is available at https://DamnSmallBSD.org/FreeSBIE/mirrors

MD5 checksum for the ISO image is:

MD5 (FreeSBIE-2.0-RELEASE.iso) = bb98890aa8ce4fd9d35b5842baa34fdb

For you BitTorrent lovers:

http://torrent.freesbie.org/FreeSBIE-2.0-RELEASE.iso.torrent

Screenshots are available at https://DamnSmallBSD.ORG/FreeSBIE/screenshots

Release Notes, Manual and FAQ can be found at https://DamnSmallBSD.org/FreeSBIE/manual/

Feel free to send feedback and bug reports!

Enjoy FreeSBIE and spread FreeBSD!

Thank you all.

Hi folks,

I just finished the first writing of the FreeSBIE 2.0 Release Notes and I would be happy if you could read them to find mistakes, unclear statements, missing parts, and so on.

They're available at https://DamnSmallBSD.ORG/FreeSBIE/20relnotes.

Send patches (SGML or plain text) to me or to the freesbie@gufi.org ML

Thanks.

As a side note, some FreeSBIE 2.0(-RC2) screenshots are available at: http://users.gufi.org/~rionda/20screen/.

All,

if you followed the development of FreeSBIE 2.0 a bit, you should remember that, back in Semptember, I said that FreeSBIE 2.0 would have been the last of a series of four ISO images. Three images were already published: FreeSBIE GMV back in August, FreeSBIE LVC in October, FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA in November. Well, circustamces make me release a fourth ISO image which is *not* FreeSBIE 2.0, but FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 (Release Candidate 1). This is due to the number of bugs which had been fixed after 2.0-BETA was released. If no major bugs are found, FreeSBIE 2.0 is going to be released not too long after FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE has been released. Hopefully you will be able to put a FreeSBIE 2.0 CD-ROM under your Christmas tree. :)

FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 is based on the RELENG_6_2 branch of the FreeBSD source tree and on the RELEASE_6_2_0 branch of the ports tree.

Testing the ISO image, finding bugs and reporting them back to me or to the freesbie at gufi.org mailing list are the foci for those who want to give this ISO image a try, and I hope many of you will. There is still a lot of free space on the ISO image, so feel free to suggest additional software to include.

FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1 can be downloaded from our mirrors:

ftp://ftp.freesbie.org/pub/Freesbie/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp2.freesbie.org/pub/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp.gr.freesbie.org/pub/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp.be.freesbie.org/pub/freesbie/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp2.ie.freesbie.org/pub/freesbie/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp.fr.freesbie.org/freesbie/2.0-RC1/

ftp://ftp8.de.freesbie.org/unix/FreeSBIE/2.0-RC1

MD5 checksum for the ISO image is:

MD5 (FreeSBIE-2.0-RC1-20061123.iso) = 9dfced489f6fd083f10b14e23c25079

Thank you in advance for testing FreeSBIE 2.0-RC1

So, gears are warming up for the release of FreeSBIE 2.0, more than a year and half after FreeSBIE 1.1 had been released. Yesterday FreeSBIE 2.0-BETA, codename EW was released. Read the full announcement.