[ug-bosug] BeleniX 0.6 Released

[Moinak Ghosh]

After quite a gap BeleniX 0.6 is now available. Following is a summary
of the main changes. See http://www.belenix.org/ for more details,
known issues/TODOs.

* Based on OpenSolaris Build 60
* Full Modular Xorg 7.2 based on the Solaris X Consolidation sources
  The full modular sources are available at:
  http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/X-src-20070410-full-modular.tar.bz2

* Compiz 0.5.0 3D Manager integrated into Xfce and KDE. Nvidia driver
  included
  The Compiz port is a result of the work done by Erwann Chenede:
  http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/compiz_0_5_0_packages

* Added the GNU Parted port to OpenSolaris and also added GParted
  with the ability to resize NTFS(Vista & XP via ntfsprogs 1.13.1), FAT,
  EXT2 (e2fsprogs) - this is work in progress, feedback requested.
  The Parted port is available here:
  http://code.google.com/p/solaris-parted

* Compact Bourne Shell (similar to busybox).
* Ksh93 bundled in. This is not yet the default ksh but should become
 the default in 0.6.1.
* Create pseudo devices for logical partitions via a lofi extension.
* Usbdump integrated into the LiveCD.

* Bundled FOSS updates, Xfce 4.4.1, Ktorrent, Koffice 1.6.2 components
  etc.
* Integrated the iSCSI initiator from Network Storage.
* OpenSolaris Manpages
* Ability to check for the presence of a Kernel Crashdump on harddisk
 swap before using it.

Regards,
Moinak.