[ug-bosug] BeleniX 0.5.1 LiveDVD!

[Moinak Ghosh]

USM Bish wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:17:24PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>   
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>>   I am a bit delayed in my work on the upcoming 0.6
>> release. In the meantime BeleniX 0.5.1now comes in
>> a LiveDVD form.
>>
>> It's about 920MB in size and contains the following
>> additional stuff in addition to the CD version:
>>
>> 1) OpenOffice.ORG 2.1
>> 2) JDK 1.6 (DLJ License version)
>> 3) Netbeans 5.5 with Java EE Application Server 9.0 U1 bundle
>>   *) Visual Web Pack
>>   *) Profiler
>>   *) C/C++ Pack
>> 4) SUN Java System Appserver (Glassfish) included with Netbeans.
>> 5) All the OpenSolaris Developer and Administration docs available from:
>>   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/
>> 6) Desktop shortcuts for all of the above.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Moinak.
>>
>>     
>
> Well done Moinak and the rest of the Belenix crew. It has sure
> been a lot  of hard work and the progress  has been good. Over
> the  last one  year, the  things have  surely changed  for the
> better.
>
> But one  thing I  am still  to appreciate.  What is  the exact
> objective of belenix ?
>   

   To become a complete distro properly installable to harddisk and usable
   as a regular desktop.

   For this reason the focus for 0.6 is a lot of cleanup adding a login
   manager and packaging.

   The LiveCD will also be improved with a lot of recovery and rescue
   tools.

> One  thing for  sure, there  are limits  to how  much you  can
> really bloat a "live" distro.  There are severe strains put on
> system  resources. As  it is,  a  DVD based  live distro  puts
> almost 75% of users today who have plain CD based systems (not
> DVD) a  bit handicapped.  Besides a minimum  of 512  mb memory
> would be the  baseline, and with more stuff coming  in, even 1
> gig of memory would fall shortly.
>   

   The CD version will always be there. LiveDVD will only be updated
   once in 3 months. The LiveDVD memory requirements are no more
   than for the LiveCD case. It all depends on how many apps you want
   to run concurrently. So the 0.5.1 LiveDVD can boot into Xfce with
   192MB RAM.

> For an usable  "live distro" these things need  a closer look.
> Probably a swappable boot and applications CD where apps could
> run  from the  CD (from  CD or  pen) once  the base  system is
> booted and placed on ramdisk, would be the way to go.
>   

   These things are already present. Going forward we are going to do
   session and state management for the USB pen drive case. Anil is
   working on that. In addition support will be added to enable the use
   of Linux swap without corrupting it.

> The other way to go would  be a primary hard disk installation
> - the way GNU/Solaris (Nexenta) is doing ... for a larger user
> base, smaller memories  and commonly used h/w must  be kept in
> mind.
>   

   Yes that's the direction as above.

Regards,
Moinak.

> Bish
>
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