[ug-bosug] BeleniX 0.5 Released

Sriram Narayanan sriramnrn at gmail.com
Sat Sep 23 03:12:18 PDT 2006


Oh... this is nice news !!

May I collect a copy at the meet today ?

I'm getting slow speeds at genunix, and the mirror at
ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/belenix/binfiles/ doesn't have 0.5 yet.

-- Sriram

On 9/23/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    A new release of BeleniX is now available with the following
> salient features:
>
> 1) The significant feature of this release is support for read-only
>    mounting and accessing both Ext2FS and NTFS partitions on either
>    Primary or Logical Partitions.
>
> 2) Updated to a recent pre-build48 snapshot of OpenSolaris.
>
> 3) The utilities from *NTFSprogs* provide read-write access to NTFS
>    Primary partitions as well.
>
> 4) The Partition Table Viewer utility has been integrated. Execute
>    "prtpart -help" for a detailed guide.
>
> 5) A small GUI written in Tcl/Tk is available to access and mount
>    harddisk partitions at the click of a mouse.
>
> 6)* Xfce has been upgaded to 4.4 Beta2. *This now sports a new-look with
>     desktop icons and a new file manager called Thunar.
>
> 7) Firefox and Thunderbird have been upgraded to 1.5.0.7, and
>    various other driver updates.
>
> 8) The *Installer* has been enhanced and Experimental support has
>    been added to create a *ZFS Filesysem* on a non-root slice.
>
>
> Check the website for more details.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
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