Good things come to those who wait.
After eight months of work we've now released the final version of BSDanywhere 4.3 - Enlightenment at your fingertips, the OpenBSD Live CD.
It might take some time until the images are propagated to all mirror servers. Have a look at our download page.
There aren't much changes since beta 3, which is Good(TM):
We've just released the third beta of BSDanywhere 4.3 - enlightenment at your fingertips, including lots of bug fixes, new features and foremost, the first amd64 flavour for 64bit PC architectures.
Though the complete Changelog is available, I'd like to dig into some major highlights of the third beta release. Actually, for us it feels like a final release, but that's exactly why one should have a 'last' beta, right? ;)
After being rejected at SourceForge, BerliOS or Dotsrc.org we're now proud to announce that our mailing lists are finally online. Google Groups came to the rescue.
Without mailing lists it's hard if not impossible to share thoughts, ideas and feedback amongst our users. Our old contact form wasn't ideal, but hey, it was a start ;)
Now we invite you to participate in making BSDanywhere even better by sharing your thoughts constructively. See the mailing list page for a subscription form.
We try hard to become more organized ;) Many people have reported issues, like feature requests, minor bugs and comments. So far, this has all been done by email, which turns out to be inefficient.
We are now able to use a Mantis Bug Tracker Installation at StarTek, which hopefully improves and speeds up BSDanywhere development. That said, please report any issues solely using this new bug tracker. If anything doesn't work as expected, please tell us (constructively).
https://www.startek.ch/mantis/
Cheers,
Stephan
Almost one month after the last release we're happy to announce the second beta of BSDanywhere - enlightenment at your fingertips.
Though we have compiled a summarized as well as a detailed changelog I'd like to briefly describe the major changes of this exiting release:
Thanks to Marco Peereboom, and outstanding OpenBSD developer, undeadly's attention has been brought to our project. Thanks a lot!
We are happy that our efforts are welcomed by the OpenBSD community. We know that we can't make everybody happy with our live image, but it looks like it isn't seen as entirely useless as well ;)
Thanks also to Benoit, who provides a French mirror for us. An Austrian one is likely to come soon.
We've just put the first beta release of BSDanywhere online - enlightenment at your fingertips.
This time we had to learn how to populate the E17's bottom panel (the 'bar'), so users are able to launch applications with a click. The 'Applications' menu is still empty, however the 'Favourite Applications' menu is filled since alpha3, I believe.
We are proud to be able to release the third alpha of BSDanywhere, the OpenBSD Live CD at your fingertips.
Lot's of changes went into the configuration of timezone, keyboard layout and network during bootstrap. We have also changed the user's account name into 'live' and left all accounts without a default password. If you want to login via ssh you need to set a password first (OpenSSH sanely defaults to reject password-less accounts).
Alpha 2 has just been released. I focused primarily on the non-X stuff, so E17 is still not customized. Expect this for the next release. Apart from that, privoxy is not yet running and the firefox tor plugin is still missing. It won't get boring the next few days ;)
Stephan
