To: | nwclugadmin@harper.cc.il.us |
Subject: | NetBSD live CD |
Date: | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:14:39 -0500 (EST) |
From: | "Haidut" <haidut@metawire.org>
Hello,
I am one of the developers of Arudius - a live CD Linux distro
targeting information security professionals. The
CD has a large collection of security tools and a very small footprint
(210MB) so it fits on a mini-CD, thus it
can load its tools completely into RAM and run them very fast. In
addition to this security-related Linux
distribution, we also developed a NetBSD live CD focusing on the
non-security community. It is called NeWBIE (or
simply Newbie). This acronym is pronounced just like the word "newbie"
and stands for
(Ne)tBSD (W)are (B)urned (I)n (E)conomy, a naming convention similar to
the one used for the well-known FreeSBIE
CD. Newbie caters to the desktop-user (i.e. with applications for web
browsing, chat, multimedia, document editing,
etc) but will also serve as a core for creating a NetBSD-based live CD
for network security auditing just like
Arudius (see the website). We are also in the process of developing a
DragonflyBSD version of NeWBIE.
The goal of both CDs is to promote the usage of Linux/BSD and hopefully
serve as useful tools for people who
need that kind of software.
We would appreciate it if you try out the CDs and give us some feedback
on how we can improve them (i.e
configuration, install additional software, etc). If you find any of
the CDs to be useful, please mention them on
your site or post a link to the homepage -
http://arudius.sourceforge.net
Thank you very much for your attention and if you have any questions
feel free to send an email to haidut@gmail.com
best regards,
Haidut
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