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NomadBSD

NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data...

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What is NomadBSD?

NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD icon FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD®'s hardware compatibility. For a list of installed software packages see the MANIFEST file.

Requirements

The images for 64-bit and 32-bit computers fit on a 4GB USB flash drive. The 64-bit Mac® image requires 5GB. A system with a 1.2GHz CPU and 1G of RAM should be able to run NomadBSD decently. Booting is possible via BIOS and UEFI.