FreeSBIE <http://www.freesbie.org/> is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD operating system developed mainly by a group of Italian people, and supported by the Italian FreeBSD Users Group, known as GUFI <http://www.gufi.org/>. The first release (1.0) came to life on April 15th, 2004, with 1.1 following on December 6th.

But FreeSBIE is not only an ISO file you can download from one of our mirrors, it consists of a toolkit to provide any user with the ability to create its very own, fully customized, LiveCD. As a small project, made of about 5 people, FreeSBIE was awarded a prize for best user interaction in an Italian Open source projects contest.

The idea behind the talk is to instruct the audience about the engineering behind a FreeSBIE LiveCD and its toolkit, and the background needed to create their own release.

speakers: Massimiliano Stucchi, Matteo Riondato

location: SITE B0138