Frenzy Live CD

Frenzy is a Live CD based on the FreeBSD 5.2.1 operating system, and it serves as a system administrator toolkit.

Frenzy contains software for:

￭ hardware tests ￭ file system check ￭ security check ￭ network setup ￭ network analysis

Frenzy is so light that it can run easily on a Pentium processor, or higher with 32MB RAM. Frenzy uses compressed file system (geom_ugz), so it has around 600MB of software in the 200MB ISO image. At boot time it automatically detects and mounts UFS, FAT16/32, NTFS, EXT2FS HDD partitions, and it also can mount FreeBSD swap space as Frenzy swap, if it founds one. You can also create a swap file on mounted partitions.

Let's take a look at some of the included software:

￭ C and nasm compilers, Perl and Python interpreters ￭ File managers: deco, mc, xnc ￭ Text editors (among them joe, ViM and AbiWord) ￭ Viewers and convertors of text files, logfile analyzers ￭ Archivers, system and file utilities ￭ File recovery utilities ￭ Tools for HDD ￭ Hardware information and setup ￭ Benchmarks and hardware testing utilities ￭ Antiviruses (clamav, drweb) and rootkit detection utilities ￭ Password and crypto tools ￭ Network tools (LAN, modem, dial-up, VPN, Wireless) ￭ Web-browsers, main and news clients, ICQ and IRC clients ￭ Network calculation tools ￭ Traffic monitors ￭ Proxy, redirect ￭ Remote control (telnet, ssh, RDP, VNC) ￭ MySQL and PostgreSQL clients ￭ Samba server and clients ￭ Tools for DNS, LDAP, SNMP, DHCP, ICMP, ARP, IP packets ￭ Port scanners, network scanners, service detection tools ￭ Security scanners, sniffers, intrusion detection tools ￭ Picture viewer (gqview), DjVu, CHM, PDF-viewers ￭ Video player (MPlayer)

Today was released the first RC version of the 1.0 release, which you can download and give it a test.

We have tested Frenzy and here are some screenshots: