Bug 39870

The FreeBSD LiveCD Tool Set has a main goal, wich is to allow one to generate their own custom FreeBSD Live CDs. FreeBSD LiveCD was
born as a Brazilian FreeBSD User Group (www.fugspbr.org) internal project and technical need. The main subject was to create a tool
that would allow us a safe diagnostic method, under emergency enviroments and specially as a rescue disk where FreeBSD partitions co
uld only be accessed (mounted) externally.

Its begin was in the October 10th of 2001, at the time where FUGSPBR (FreeBSD User Group, SP, Brazil) distributed an ISO image with
a fully functional FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE LiveCD, that would allow one to access a number of partition types (since FreeBSD native to Li
nux and even DOS partitions), build a fully operant Firewall, allow networking flow via NAT, working as router and a number of other
 issues. We experienced a lot of feedback from some users that were trying this pretty first version, and soon many of those users w
ere asking for custom versions of the LiveCD, with mail clients, some extra kernel support (like Bridging and Bandwidth control) and
 stuff. We had even made a LiveCD ISO that could run as a Desktop Enviroment (http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/FreeBSD-LiveCD) - with lots
of graphical applications. This version was a first one that could even be used as a FreeBSD Demonstration Disk. It had great adopti
on on our community, but the desire for even more custom versions was far from the end.

At this point, under those scenario, we decided to publically distribute the set of scripts that we were using to create the LiveCD,
 allowing anyone to create their own custom distribution. Thats when the FreeBSD LiveCD Tool Set was born. Since it's release, in Ja
nuary 2002 we are working hard to improve its functionality, we have set a lot of goals and are getting to everyone quickly. LiveCD
Tool Set 1.2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/livecd/) is the latest version.

Since it was just an idea, and after the first CD, FreeBSD LiveCD has been used under many situations, where the most usual are Resc
ue Disk, Desktop, FreeBSD System demonstration at some computing specific shows, Firewalls, Wireless Bridges, Wired Gateways and, th
e main issue is that, as you can make a fully custom version, you can use a LiveCD under any enviroment you wish.

Since we last released our 1.2 serie, we had a lot of feedback from the world comunity, and we have worked hard to improve some new 
features, and specially to improve the usual ones stability. I am proud to comunicate you that, after a hardworking week, the projec
t team has completly issued English support to the Tool Set, and english now became the project main language.                      
  
It means that, not only the usual routines and functions now asks for user input in english language, but also means that the whole 
set of scripts commentaries are now written in the language. Portuguese language is still supported, however :-).

In addition, we have written a lot of papers about the Tool Set working.  There are technical overviews and usage instructions, and
our website (livecd.sourceforge.net) is now 100% English, lol ;-)

But the most important changes are: now we have a fully functional port, made under FreeBSD Ports style way, allowing anyone to inst
all livecd via ports (with Makefiles, via a ports/-like skeleton) and adding it as package (.tgz can also be found at the website).
We believe it is now our most reliable version. We have tested it hard, under some dozens of different machines, and after our bug-h
unting week, there is absolutly no problem running it under FreeBSD 4.6, this way, we would like you to include LiveCD on the main p
orts tree under sysutils or misc.

Package avaible at:
http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/livecd/LiveCD-1.2.2.tgz
and our "FreeBSD Port" at:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.livecd.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/livecd co LiveCD-Ports