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Re:NomadBSD by musicale on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @11:13PM (#22114546)
The main differentiating feature vs. (free,net,open,whatever)BSD seems to be that it boots from a pluggable external device like a USB flash drive and doesn't perturb the system it's booting on.

Seems like something that should just be added to FreeBSD.

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Re:NomadBSD by g82918 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @11:17PM (#22114573)
So adding that is hard. I mentioned that a bit by alluding to TAILS, storage on USB is interesting since most users just yank it at some point. FSCK and making sure writes complete in nontrivial. Feature detection on boot is interesting as well. Those two points are not things you regularly want. I would prefer my modules compiled into the kernel in Linux terminology.
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Re:NomadBSD by 1MachineElf on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:24AM (#22118876)
FreeBSD has that with mfsBSD, but it's extremely minimal compared to this NomadBSD project, albeit still quite useful.
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Re:NomadBSD by anthk on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:27AM (#22114884)
OpenBSD has that with Fuguita.
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