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BeleniX is a *NIX distribution that is built using the OpenSolaris source base.
It is currently a live CD but is intended to grow into a complete distribution that can be installed to hard disk. BeleniX is developed at the India Engineering Centre of Sun Microsystems in Bangalore, the silicon capital of India.
Changes for BeleniX 0.4.3:
- Upgraded to the OpenSolaris build 38.
- Developed a new file sorting algorithm to process the DTrace output. This has resulted in boot time reductions of upto 20 seconds. The algorithm tries to identify contention regions using a sliding window mechanism and arranges file data to be placed closes to those regions. More details at Moinak's Blog
- Changed the dependency of Xserver to now wait for sshd to complete loading. As both Xserver and sshd do some heavy I/O at startup they were competing for CDROM access (as per the DTrace output). This change has reduced boot time by upto 20 seconds as Xorg configuration now completes much faster.
- Disabled the check for udfs mounts during boot as udfs heuristics tends to read a big amount of data from the device.
- Updated the sort list to reflect initial files being loaded and added preload to load the initial dialog executable and associated libncurses binaries. #3 and #4 together has reduced boot time by about 5 seconds.
- Fixed some installer bugs.
- Fixed a warning about missing gld_debug debug variable during boot: Bug #523
- Fixed a sound issue when running SuperTux for the first time. Often there will be no sound in this case: Bug #527
- Fixed a problem in the /usr/lib/lu/lucreatezone script that prevented zones from being created: Bug #511
- Fixed a minor nit with the DTrace guide where the widgets did not auto- resize if the window was resized. Since this is intended to be a dialog window the main window has now been made non-resizable: Bug #526
- A new Grub Boot option to boot with Debug and Verbose mode enabled.
- Rebuilt the Xserver with ThreadedX enabled. This solves a few problems including the ability to run Java 1.5. So now if BeleniX is installed to harddisk and the patchlibC step documented in Question #1 of the BeleniX FAQ is performed, the JDK 1.5 can be installed and will execute just fine.
