[ug-bosug] Belenix 0.3

[Moinak Ghosh]

USM Bish wrote:

>In spite  of the lull on  this list, things seem  to be moving
>for sure  behind the  scenes, at least  the Belenix  guys have
>been at it ... Just noticed that BeleniX 0.3 has been released
>about two weeks ago. Will d/l it tonight ...
>  
>
   Well I guess the list grabbed a piece of the New Year's vacation pie  ;)

>What  are the  essential additions/  differences from  the Nov
>release ?
>  
>
   The primary feature is a Hard Disk installer (hdinstaller) utility. 
This is not yet
   a GUI. It is a Perl-Curses based utility that can also be navigated 
using the mouse
   if you are running the Xfce desktop.

   Apart from that there are numerous customisations to reduce bootup 
time. The
   most significant reductions happen when you have 512MB RAM or a 
little more.
 
   I have also disabled the insecure services like ftpd, telnetd etc. 
and most of the
   RPC services.

>Well done guys, keep up the good work ...
>  
>
   Thanks.

   BTW my current effort is directed at enhancing the loopback block device
   module called lofi that makes a file behave like a block device. So 
that for
   example you can create a filesystem in a file.

   I am adding on-the-fly decompression support to lofi so that it can 
provide
   random access to a specially formatted compressed file. This will 
allow me
   to compress the contents of the CD to reduce access time and pack in
   more than 1.5 GB of stuff in a 700MB CD.  I have already tested the
   prototype approach in userland and now implementing it in the lofi kernel
   module.

   Much of the fast boot performance in Knoppix for eg. comes from it's use
   of a similar compression-enabled loopback device called cloop.

Regards,
Moinak.

>Bish
>
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