[wplug-bsd] NetBSD live CD (fwd)

[Beth Lynn]

Feel free to ignore if this is a repeat.

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:14:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Haidut <haidut at metawire.org>
To: bethlynn at wplug.org
Subject: NetBSD live CD

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 at gmail.com

best regards,
Haidut