FreeSBIE

{{Short description|Operating system}}

{{Infobox OS

|name = FreeSBIE

|screenshot = 250px

|caption = FreeSBIE 2.0 with Xfce environment

|developer =

|family = FreeBSD

|source model = Open source

|latest release version = 2.0.1

|latest release date = {{release date|2007|02|02}} |kernel type = Monolithic

|licence = Mostly BSD

|working state = Unmaintained

|website = {{URL|http://www.freesbie.org}}

}}

FreeSBIE is a live CD, an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD with no installation process or hard disk.{{sfn|Lucas|2007|p=630}} It is based on the FreeBSD operating system. Its name is a pun on frisbee. Currently, FreeSBIE uses Xfce and Fluxbox.

FreeSBIE 1.0 was based on FreeBSD 5.2.1 and released on February 27, 2004. The first version of FreeSBIE 2 was developed during the summer of 2005, thanks to the Google Summer of Code. FreeSBIE 2.0.1, which is a complete rewrite of the so-called toolkit, is based on FreeBSD 6.2 and was released on February 10, 2007. According to DistroWatch the FreeSBIE project is discontinued.{{cite web |url=http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freesbie |title=FreeSBIE - FreeBSD Live CD |publisher=DistroWatch.org |accessdate=2011-12-21}}