MaheshaBSD

MaheshaBSD is a BSD Unix-based operating system created and maintained by Juraj Sipos from Slovakia. MaheshaBSD Server is free for personal use, the server version is commercial.

First version of MaheshaBSD was publicly available in 2010. MaheshaBSD-1.0 is FreeBSD LiveCD distribution based on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. MaheshaBSD-2.0 is a Live CD modular toolkit based on FreeBSD 9.0 (i386) - it can be easily put on a USB memory stick; users can surf the Internet anonymously (Tor), watch videos, use Clamav Antivirus, TestDisk, PhotoRec, watch videos (also DivX), play MP3 or ogg files. MaheshaBSD also speaks (espeak). Its X environment is based on IceWM. Some of the features of MaheshaBSD Server include: Portability – with a straightforward FTP/WWW/WordPress server (with PHP) running off a USB flash drive it is easy to operate a server anywhere in the world.

The goals of the project are

List of MaheshaBSD flavors

Presently five versions of MaheshaBSD are available:

1) MaheshaBSD (FreeBSD) - a general purpose LiveCD FreeBSD distribution based on FreeBSD 8.0 and 9.0-RELEASE.

2) MaheshaBSD Server (FreeBSD) - the same thing as MaheshaBSD, but this is the server version of it with WordPress, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, etc. This edition is only available as USB image (FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE).

3) MaheshaNetBSD (NetBSD) - a general purpose and free NetBSD 6.0 USB distribution.

4) MaheshaDragonFlyBSD (DragonFlyBSD) - a general purpose and free DragonFlyBSD USB distribution. It is based on DragonFlyBSD 3.2.1.

5) MaheshaOpenBSD Server (OpenBSD) based on OpenBSD 5.2.

External links

Project's homepage MaheshaBSD homepage

An article about MaheshaBSD in BSD Mag published in July 2013 - MaheshaOpenBSD – OpenBSD In A Serpent World

An article about MaheshaBSD Server Second edition published in BSD Mag - MaheshaBSD Server: MySQL and WordPress in FreeBSD

MaheshaBSD on Distrowatch - MaheshaBSD on Distrowatch

An article about building a bootable USB stick with FreeBSD in BSD Mag How to quickly make a bootable USB stick with FreeBSD

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