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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
A complete list of changes is below:
- Based on ON Build 93 that has new drivers (like ATIgfx) among other stuff.
- Included the rum driver.
- Nvidia driver updated to 173.14.05.
- OSS updated to 4.0-1016.
- Updated Fully Open X bits.
- KDE updated to 3.5.9 and some upstream patches removed
- Firefox 3.0.1
- /sbin/sh is now ksh93.
- Sham's RAM based Boot integrated. In Grub screen select more options to see that boot option.
Install from RAM is possible and is *fast*. See Sham's Blog for details.
- Caiman Installer updated to current version. Grub boot entries for Windows partitions are now automatically added. Detecting Linux partitions is a work in progress.
- Added PowerTOP.
- Added XVM PV drivers to support booting inside domU.
- Qt 3.x is now built in both 32Bit and 64Bit versions.
- Gtk-Qt3 is fixed to build with proper Solaris build flags so the nagging warning about /proc/.../cmdline does not appear.
- Updated man pages to new release.
- OpenMotif updated to fix some brokenness.
- Ability to create zones via ZFS snapshots. See How do I create Zones in BeleniX ?.
- Added Single-User Console boot option when booting from harddisk.
- Many bugfixes. Fixed Usbdump in livecd mode.
- More packages available via get-pkgs utility including various multimedia stuff. New pkg.belenix.org repository now online. This is Not yet an IPS repository however.
- OpenSolaris G11N packages now available in the repository.
- Setting is applied during install to trim ZFS ARC to 50% of RAM if there is 1GB RAM or less.
