A couple of months back there was a story on SlashDot about a (the only?) FreeBSD LiveCD distribution called . I had downloaded it promptly back then. But never got to burning a CD and trying it out. The major problem was that it needs a reboot and being a linux user, I simply refuse to do that (as a part of "my uptime is better than yours" routine.. currently 3 days because they took down the system on Sunday. At one point of time it was more than a month on 2.6.4 kernel.. cool, isnt it?).
For some reason, today I was browsing and read about the new Gentoo 2004.2 LiveCDs. This made me think about the freesbie ISOs peacefully sitting in ~/downloads. And I have been using VMWare for some time now on my desktop. Didnt take much time to put 2 things together and in a couple of minutes (literally) I had FreeSBIE running in VMWare. Worked like a charm with full X support. This has all the things I like and use.
- My desktop environment ()
- My favourite filer ()
- My favourite mail client ()
- and Firefox (it was called Phoenix when FreeSBIE was released)
