PicoBSD

PicoBSD is a one floppy disk version of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. In its different variations, PicoBSD allows you to have secure dialup access, small diskless router or even a dial-in server, all on only one standard 1.44MB floppy. It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU with 8MB of RAM (no hard disk required). Now that floppy disks are finally not standard equipment on every new computer, PicoBSD's use may move from being primarily floppy based to being used more often on systems with at least a small amount of flash storage and perhaps no hard drive. With flexibility that FreeBSD gives, and full source code available, one can build a small installation performing various tasks, including (but not limited to):

• Diskless workstation\n*Portable dial-up access solution\n*Custom demo-disk\n*Embedded controller (flash or EEPROM)\n*Firewall\n*Communication server\n*Replacement for commercial router\n*Diskless home-automation system\n*And many others

External links

\n*http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html\n*http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ Category:BSD