RavenXR is a continuation of the FreeSBIE project. It's a Live CD .ISO, and provides:
- Lightweight GUI environment
- disk tools for cloning local devices, and across networks
- Some data recovery tools
At present, priorities are as follows:
- Get existing builds working on 14.2
- Begin updating build prosess to use ZFS pools and newer disk cloning to increase build speeds
- Incorporate new compressed filesystems for the .ISO
FreeSBIE 2 is quite easy and familiar for an average (Free)BSD user. It is Makefile-based, and it has a default configuration file overridable by the user. The quick way to make an ISO image consists of four steps:
- make sure you have mkisofs from the ‘cdrtools’ package (otherwise: pkg_add -rv cdrtools)
- run `make pkgselect’ to select which packages to include in your image (optional, if you don’t want packages or if package selection is done in freesbie.conf)
- modify conf/freesbie.conf and in some cases conf/freesbie.defaults.conf
- run `make iso’ and go watch a movie, or spend some time with a loved one.
This will create a simple ISO image with a vanilla FreeBSD-based system plus the packages you selected, if any.