[ug-bosug] eWeek reviews BeleniX!

[Jim Grisanzio]

Excellent! Very nice. :)

Jim

Joe G (Joseph George) wrote On 10/25/06 13:42,:
> If you have not read it already, here it is.
> 
> <snip>
> *Belenix*
> 
> Belenix is an OpenSolaris distribution put together by developers in 
> Bangalore, India, and led by Sun employee Moinak Ghosh. Belenix is a 
> LiveCD-based distribution with aspirations of becoming a more complete 
> distribution for regular installation on hard drives.
> 
> We tried out the Belenix 0.5 LiveCD in a VMware virtual machine with 1GB 
> of RAM. At boot-up, the system offered to fire up either an Xfce desktop 
> environment or KDE (K Desktop Environment). KDE for Belenix, which will 
> be familiar to anyone who has used KDE, comes with a full range of 
> desktop-type applications and helpfully contains links to various 
> getting-started resources, such as a guide to Solaris' DTrace feature.
> 
> The Belenix project page at www.belenix.org contains decent 
> documentation and some good general OpenSolaris information. We were 
> interested to read that the project's long-term road map includes plans 
> for Belenix to become a Gentoo-alternate platform. This would make 
> Gentoo's large software catalog available to Belenix. For now, once 
> installed on a hard drive, Belenix supports installation of Solaris 
> packages and software installation via NetBSD's Packages Collection, or 
> pkgsrc, tool.
> </snip>
> 
> The complete article (a review of all OpenSolaris distros) is available 
> from:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2035539,00.asp
> 
> BeleniX also figures in the slideshow. Check this out:
> http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25947&a=191985&po=1,00.asp 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Joe
> 
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