[belenix-discuss] [belenix-dev] BeleniX 0.7.1 update release available

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:06 PM, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> About Belenix 0.7.1..
>
> 1. Was there a interim release as the official stable driver release from Nvidia is 173.14.09: http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_173.14.09.html
>
> The latest driver is Nvidia 177.13 at: http://us.download.nvidia.com/solaris/177.13/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-177.13.run
>
> The reason I'd asked for a previous upgrade during the TEST phase was in reviewing the Nvidia GTX 280 card and reports of crashes with Flash animations through FireFox website browsing. The new drivers corrected a few problems we had in testing the Nvidia GTX 280 which is why it was suggested to the Belenix team to update the Nvidia drivers from 173.14.05.....

   The driver 177.13 causes problems with some Nvidia cards. My GeForce 7300
   gives garbled display. I had a report from another person I can't remember of
   problems with this one.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> ~ Ken Mays
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/18/08, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [belenix-dev] BeleniX 0.7.1 update release available
>> To: "Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group" <ug-bosug at opensolaris.org>, "Belenix Discuss" <belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org>, "BeleniX Development" <belenix-dev at opensolaris.org>, "Advocacy Mailing List" <advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org>, distribution-discuss at opensolaris.org, opensolaris-announce at opensolaris.org
>> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 10:31 PM
>> Hello All,
>>
>> The first update to the 0.7 release is now available. Give
>> it a try
>> and provide us the feedback.
>>
>> Download location : http://www.belenix.org/download
>> (torrent is not yet available. will be available soon)
>>
>> Bugs/Feature Requests may be logged at
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=216118
>>
>> This update brings in the latest development OpenSolaris
>> build 93,
>> updates to KDE 3.5.9, firefox 3.0.1, ability to create
>> zones among
>> other changes, bugfixes. This release includes the latest
>> Caiman
>> installer due to which upgrades from this release will
>> become possible
>> going forward.
>>
>> Complete list of changes:
>>
>>     * 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
>> (http://blogs.sun.com/sham/entry/belenix_0_7_can_boot).
>>     * 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
>> http://www.belenix.org/content/How-do-I-create-Zones-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.
>>
>> Pending Issues
>>
>>     * Sendmail cribs while booting off harddisk.
>>     * BeleniX still does not boot on non-SSE CPUs (to be
>> handled in 0.7.2)
>>
>>
>> Website: www.belenix.org
>> Discussion List : belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> IRC : #belenix @ freenode.net
>>
>> best regards
>> Shiv
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