PicoBSD

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PicoBSD is a minimal version of the Unix- based FreeBSD operating system , a live system that fits on a floppy disk. PicoBSD is suitable, for example, as a dial-up server or router . It requires at least a 386SX CPU with 8 MB RAM. A hard disk is not required.

The latest PicoBSD versions are based on FreeBSD 3.0. Since the development of PicoBSD stagnated and the requirements for minimal versions changed, a more flexible framework called NanoBSD was created for FreeBSD 5.x , with which it is possible to put together individual minimal versions that boot from a CompactFlash memory card , for example .

PicoBSD is freely available under the BSD license. The main developer was Andrzej Bialecki. The latest version is 0.42. Dinesh Nair had backported the Picobsd build scripts to FreeBSD 2.2.5, so adding some binaries in remote data transfer was due to the smaller binary format in FreeBSD 2.2.5.

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