Jggimi's OpenBSD LiveCD: June 2008 Archives

I've used Josh Grosse's jggimi live CD version of OpenBSD to test hardware compatibility recently, but now there's a new live CD project based on OpenBSD called BSDanywhere.

From the BSDanywhere site:

What is BSDanywhere?

BSDanywhere is a bootable Live-CD image based on OpenBSD. It consists of the entire OpenBSD base system (without compiler) plus graphical desktop, an unrepresentative collection of software, automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices as well as other peripherals.

BSDanywhere can be used as a productive Unix system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system or hardware testing platform. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk, so your already installed data will be left alone.

BSDanywhere packs in a lot more software than jggimi's live CD. All of BSDanywhere's packages are listed on its Web site, but a few that are notable for their inclusion (to me at least) are:

abiword-2.4.6p3 free cross-platform WYSIWYG word processor
audacious-1.3.2p1 GTK+-2 media player based on BMP and XMMS
clamav-0.92.1 virus scanner
e-20071211p3 the enlightened window manager
gimp-2.4.3p0 GNU Image Manipulation Program
mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12 redesign of Mozilla's browser component
mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.12 redesign of Mozilla's mail component
mutt-1.5.17p0-sasl-sidebar-compressed tty-based e-mail client, development version
tor-0.1.2.19 anonymity service using onion routing

While BSDanywhere is currently in beta, I plan on downloading and burning a copy very soon.