Open Source BSD Live CD Distros
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Browse free open source Live CD distros and projects for BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Live CD distros by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Redo Rescue: Backup and Recovery
Backup and Recovery Made Easy
Redo Rescue Backup and Recovery can backup and restore an entire system in minutes with a point-and-click interface anyone can use. Bare metal restore to a new, blank drive and be up and running in minutes. Supports saving to and restoring from local disks or shared network drives. Selectively restore partitions and remap them to different locations on the target drive. Additional tools included for partition editing, web browsing, and more. Runs from live CD/USB; no installation needed. Website: http://redorescue.com Forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/redobackup/discussion/ GitHub: https://github.com/redorescue/redorescue Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redo_Backup_and_Recovery -
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Thinstation is a thin client linux distro using std. x86 hw. It can boot from network, pxe, syslinux, CD, floppy or flash-disk and connect to servers using VNC, RDP, XDM, SSH, Telnet, tn5250, tarentella, 2X, NX, Thinlinc, VMWare VDI or ICA.
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OS-uninstaller
Remove any operating system in 1 click !
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Old Linux Distribution Archive
Collection of old Linux distribution media and packages
This project seeks to collect Linux distributions that are no longer updated or maintained, so that the intellectually curious can check them out (hopefully in a virtual machine). -
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Enchantment OS
Linux simplified. A consumer-friendly distro, based on Debian Stable
UPDATE: 20260731: Announcing Release Candidate RC.1 of Enchantment OS 26 Version Beta.3b is advanced to RC.1 Enchantment OS is a Free/Open Source (FOSS) Linux distribution, tailored for ease of use, reliability and performance. It makes stable, secure Linux software goodness more accessible to nongeeky consumers and small business owners. Based on interviews and user trials with more than 200 real-world consumers fom California to Florida, Enchantment OS has more of the features and apps that consumers and small business owners need and less of the shiny nerdy stuff that they don't. Enchantment OS offers surprising performance on old and new PC hardware-- even when booted and run from USB flash drives. It features a familiar desktop layout, with a prominent app Menu button and intuitive window borders, with "File, Edit, View, Help" pull-downs. Enchantment OS is accompanied by an easy-to-read full-color paperback user book -
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Katana packages security / ethical hacking distributions (like Backtrack, Ophcrack, & UBCD) together with portable Windows applications (like Metasploit, NMAP, Cain & Able, & Wireshark) to run off a single USB flash drive.
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Debian 13 Mate
Debian Trixie with the Mate desktop environment
EFI SUPPORT: Download the efi iso if you need efi support here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/debian-mate/files/current/ This is debian 13 mate. Built with debian tools, packages, and currently based on the stable branch (Trixie). Here I try not to use software from outside of the debian repositories. For all intents and purposes, this is just debian paired with the mate desktop environment with a lot of hardware support taken care of. Debian mate doesn't force you into new conformancy. We use the mate desktop environment here; no gnome 4 or unity for anyone. With a start menu and a taskbar, you're good to go. This is just another decent desktop use operating system, but better. Take a good long stare at my packages (check readme.txt). -
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Cub Linux
Chromium + Ubuntu = Cub Linux
The best of Chromium and Ubuntu. Cub Linux is a project to replicate the Chromium OS experience on an Ubuntu Linux base system. Cub Linux is free to download and use forever. -
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AmiPUP
Puppy Linux derivative
AmiPUP is a very small, lightweight “live boot” Linux system built on the Puppy Linux distro. AmiPUP works with almost any x86 computer that can boot from CD or USB (USB booting doesn't work with Macs). At boot, AmiPUP loads EVERYTHING into ram, so all applications load blazing fast! Changes can be saved to the USB or multi-session CD boot device (or not at all). The host system is never touched! -
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DreamStudio by Volocian Studios
Free yourself
Volocian believes first and foremost that financial status shouldn’t be a barrier to entry in multimedia content creation. Whether you want to design a product or website, record a band, remix a song, or produce a feature length movie with professional post production graphics and effects, Volocian™ wants to help, even if you’re using borrowed hardware with no previous experience. We provide affordable products and services for any budget, including cost-free solutions for education and demo purposes, while everything we do is designed with ease of use and flexibility in mind, to suit everyone from novice hobbyists to expert professionals. Wherever possible, Volocian™ relies on free, open source, and cross-platform software to prevent vendor lock-in, planned obsolescence, and software as a service licensing. While we remain pragmatic about the use of proprietary software, as we’re aware of the feature limitations of some open source solutions, free solutions are preferred. -
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MOFO Linux
A live Linux environment for computing without censorship barriers.
MOFO Linux is a USB pluggable live Linux environment you boot on PC hardware. It gives you the power to unblock any media, at your discretion, clearing the way for you to read, write, watch, listen to, debate, or collaborate anywhere - beyond the reach of Big Brother. In other words, you jump the barrier, find media, and interact with people. MOFO Linux is designed for easy usage on home PCs, laptop computers, or workstations, whether installed in internet cafes anywhere the world or on the most modest of home desktop machines. It is a collection of office, multimedia, web browsing, file sharing, and internet messaging applications assisted by a collection of anonymity and anti-censorship tools. MOFO Linux contains Encrypted DNS over HTTPS, OpenVPN, Tor, Freenet, I2P, and other software tools which provide anonymous and / or secure access to the internet and circumvention of state censorship restrictions. -
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MultiBootUSB-Live
Portable System for installing many Linux Distros on to a Pen drive
This project provides a Live DVD for the multibootusb program, for installing multiple Linux Distros on to a single Pen drive and able to boot from it. This is a portable system, which does not require any installation. Video Below. This system can be started through the DVD Drive OR VirtualBox (See Below). This .iso file can also be written on to a small dedicated pen drive ( ~ 1 GB ) through this DVD's multibootusb program and further used for writing linux images on to other pen drives ( not on the same ! ) thereby making everything portable. Note: Click "+ Other Locations" on the file manager for opening local disks, while browsing for images to write through this dvd's multibootusb program. Also note that the pen drive needs to be in fat32 format for proper booting. if in other formats, for eg. ntfs, you can use the GParted program that is in this dvd, to reformat it to fat32 ( will cleanup all data ). Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjQRkISnHQ4 before format. See Wiki -
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Metamorphose Linux
Metamorphose Linux
O Metamorphose é um sistema operacional baseado em Linux onde seu maior objetivo de ser simples, completo e com um visual agradável para usuários iniciantes ou avançados. Conta com uma das maiores compatibilidades de hardware e software da atualidade, se comparado a outras distribuições Linux. -
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DruidBSD is a FreeBSD micro-distribution that supports CD/DVD, USB, and HD booting into a Live BSD Distribution.
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FreeBSD GNOME LiveCD
FreeBSD GNOME LiveCD built using the latest development ports
Latest stable version - GNOME 3.26 - working Latest unstable version - GNOME 3.27 - working This project provides live systems built using the latest FreeBSD release and the latest GNOME ports from the FreeBSD GNOME project. Scripts used to build the LiveCDs are also available for downloading. The scripts are largely based on this article: https://wiki.freebsd.org/AndriyGapon/AvgLiveCD Note: This is not a general-purpose LiveCD! I track the development version instead of the stable version. If you want to do things other than previewing the latest (possibly unstable) GNOME release, please download the scripts to make your own LiveCDs. If any bug is found, please download the debug version LiveCD to find the cause and report it to the FreeBSD GNOME project or GNOME bugzilla. Starting from GNOME 3.12, most portability patches are merged upstream, so you can also directly use JHBuild on FreeBSD to check whether an issue is already fixed in the upstream. -
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Live CD With Zerofree Utility i686 32Bit
A Custom Puppy Linux Live CD With Zerofree Utility i686 32 Bit
After Booting with this Live CD, just click on the CDROM icon on the Desktop, to open its folder contents, then Right Click the zerofree.sh file and Choose the "Run in Terminal" option and then follow the instructions shown on the terminal. As you may be aware, Booting with a Live CD, requires that you need to change the Boot Order on your System / Guest BIOS, quickly on startup, by pressing either F2 OR F12 OR F10 OR an equivalent key and then change the Boot Order to boot from the CDROM first. Some Hints: Puppy Linux Live CDs show some dialogs / settings window on first startup / first shutdown. Feel free to dismiss / close them, if you do not want to make any changes, to the live cd's operation, next time, on the same system. This will not affect the zerofree's work in any way. Apart from this, using the Internet Browser, built in, would require a Free Memory of 1 GB or more, for better Performance ( as it is generally a memory intensive activity ) -
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LazarusProject software
Free software for Russian users
Цель проекта - популяризация свободного программного обеспечения среди русскоязычных пользователей. На сайте вы можете найти ремиксы популярных дистрибутивов GNU/Linux. Исходный код не модифицировался и может быть скачан с сайтов исходных дистрибутивов. -------------- The aim of the project - promotion of free software among Russian-speaking users. On this site you can find remixes of popular distros GNU / Linux. Source code is not modified and can be downloaded from the original distributions websites. -
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SunshineOS
SunshineOS customized Debian Distro with Kali Linux Tools
SunshineOS customized Debian Distro with Kali Linux Tools -
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Advanced DHCP Server Live CD (With GUI)
The Free & Popular opendhcp application for Physical & Virtual Machine
Instructions: 1. Write this .iso file to a Pen Drive, with the Free multibootusb software ( links below ) 2. Boot from the Pen Drive, after changing the BIOS Boot Order quickly on system startup 3. First startup will show some info dialogs. These can be cancelled without making any changes 4. Click on the opendhcp folder link on Desktop 5. Right click the set_eth0_static_ipaddress.sh file and choose Open as Text option. Edit the file to meet your network needs. To know about multiple interface names, click the Connect icon on desktop. 6. Similarly, edit the opendhcp.ini file to match your needs 7. Shutdown & choose the Save option. This will help in copying from RAM to USB Disk 8. Restart & click the lease status desktop icon, to see your changes go live 9. Follow this model to install more services / servers. Check README file append_to_etc_scripts.txt to see how services are automatically started. 10. Click installer icon on desktop, update it for setups -
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BBQLinux
An Arch based Linux distribution for Android developers
BBQLinux is a user-friendly Linux distribution made for Android developers. It has everything on board to build AOSP or AOSP-based Distributions like CyanogenMod. BBQLinux is based on Arch Linux and is using a Rolling Release Development Model which means it’s getting continually updated and upgraded. It will never be necessary to re-install a later release of BBQLinux. BBQLinux is fully compatible with Arch Linux and is using the same package repos. -
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Clu-Linux-Live
Various Processing and Data Rescue Tools over Wired or Wireless Networ
This Linux Live CD provides Various Processing Command Line Utilities (Clu) and Data Rescue Tools which can be used on a Wired or Wireless Network. On Startup it prompts the user to change password, mount all filesystems available locally, start wireless network ( if wifi interface present ), start network services (samba/ssh/sftp) and present user with a console for executing various utilities i.e Text, Image, Audio, Video, Downloading etc. on their FileSystems that are mounted. Googling on Linux ( or bash ) Command Line Utility for doing xyz task, will help the user to get examples of the same. For Data Rescue, File Managers / FileZilla can be used on networked machines to access the Live CD Machine for copying data files and folders. Refer Video / Screenshot for connection parameters and downloading option. Also Pen Drives and External USB Hard Drives can be connected before startup on the live cd machine to take backups using mcfm or clonezilla. See Wiki as well -
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Live CD With Zerofree Utility x86 32Bit
A Custom Puppy Linux Live CD With Zerofree Utility x86 32Bit
After Booting with this Live CD, just click on the MOUNT Application icon on the top of the Desktop, then click the Mount Button that is besides the CDROM entry only, to open its folder contents, then Right Click the zerofree.sh file and Choose the "Window" -> "Terminal Here" option and then type ./zerofree.sh and press Enter Key on the Terminal and follow the instructions shown on the terminal. As you may be aware, Booting with a Live CD, requires that you need to change the Boot Order on your System / Guest BIOS, quickly on startup, by pressing either F2 OR F12 OR F10 OR an equivalent key and then change the Boot Order to boot from the CDROM first. Some Hints: Puppy Linux Live CDs show some dialogs / settings window on first startup / first shutdown. Feel free to dismiss / close them, if you do not want to make any changes, to the live cd's operation, next time, on the same system. This will not affect the zerofree's work in any way. -
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Zamunda.SE OS
Open-source operating system
Zamunda.SE OS is a free operating system based on Linux Kernel -
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Quick-Save-Live
Quick Safety and Rescue System
This Linux Live CD provides a Quick Way to Save Files from the Hard Drives to an External Drive for Safety and Rescue Purposes. This GUI System gets started in less than 28 seconds and is able to auto mount all drives including external ones, but excluding encrypted drives, for user access. On Startup, this system provides a dual pane file manager for copying files and folders between the panels, by way of a simple drag and drop facility. Following are the limitations of this system : 1. It does not support ENCRYPTED DRIVES at the moment. Do not use it. 2. If the external drive has a ownership aware filesystem, like for eg. ext2/3/4, then the copy happens as ROOT without any interruption. You may change it later using sudo privileges and the chown -R command. Note: To Shutdown the System properly, Click Exit Button on the Bottom of Desktop and Click OK to popup dialog. it is SAFE to REMOVE external drives, AFTER SHUTTING down the system. Check Screenshots. See Wiki. -
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justbuntu-os
justbuntu x64 (GPLv2) Latest version: a8
justbuntu x64 (GPLv2) by justin brown 2014 Latest version: a8 justbuntu strives for simplicity, elegance, and ease of use. justbuntu is an out-of-the-box working operating system perfect for the first time user and seasoned pro alike. No tweaking necessary. You can install or run justbuntu live. The choice is yours. justbuntu was built using the ubuntu minimal install cd for a clean environment with all the essential software for daily use.
