NetBSD Live! 2007 contains a specially constructed version of NetBSD 4.0_BETA while sporting a modified kernel based on NetBSD-CURRENT. An adapted version of the GRUB boot loader is used to boot this live CD that will not install anything to your hard disk. You can choose between a minimally modified GENERIC kernel (including sound), an adapted Laptop kernel, and a kernel for modern ACPI-enabled PC systems supporting NetBSD's power-off functionality. All three kernels exclusively boot from the cd0 device and cannot be used to boot from the hard drive.

NetBSD Live! 2007 contains the following software packages in addition to the base operating system files:

• The X Window System XFree86.
• KDE 3.5.4 (base package, graphics, PIM, games, admin tools, etc.) with the KDM Display Manager. Multiple language sets (German, English, French, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese) are supported.
• Joe and KVim text editors.
• GNOME Office Pack (Abiword word processor, Dia 0.9.4 flow charting and diagramming application, Inkscape 0.4.2 vector graphic application)
• The GIMP 2.2
• Firefox Web browser
• Bash 3 (Shell).
• XMMS media player
• GNU Midnight Commander File Manager
• Access to additional filesystems through ext2fs-Tools (Linux Ext2), MTools (FAT), HFS-Tools (Macintosh HFS), and NTFSProgs (Windows NTFS).
• LBreakout 2, LTris, and XSkat
• and much more.

The package database has not been removed, but will not be copied to the RAM-Disk /var partition in order to save memory space. A link to the real database directory will be installed so that a glance at /var/db/pkg will be able to determine the list of installed packages.