[ug-bosug] BeleniX 0.6 Released

Sanjeev Bagewadi Sanjeev.Bagewadi at Sun.COM
Tue May 22 19:25:18 PDT 2007


Congratulations !!

Cheers,
Sanjeev.


Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> 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.
> 
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Sanjeev Bagewadi
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