
FreeSBIE is a Live CD—an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD without any installation process and without any hard disk. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system. Its name is a pun on frisbee. Currently, FreeSBIE uses Xfce and Fluxbox.
CD boot time depends on the seek time of the CD-ROM drive. The operating system may also exhibit a delay when opening programs, as they must be read off the disc each time they are loaded.
The latest version is FreeSBIE 2.0.1 which is a complete rewrite of the so-called toolkit.[dated info] The first version of FreeSBIE 2 was developed during the summer of 2005, thanks to the Google Summer of Code.
The goals of the FreeSBIE project are:
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