chandanlog(3C): BeleniX 4.0 LiveCD with a lot more software bundled

24 Feb 2006 BeleniX 4.0 LiveCD with a lot more software bundled

Moinak has announced 0.4 release of BeleniX, an OpenSolaris LiveCD distribution with great improvements in boot-up speed. He has also packed about 1.5 Gig of software in a single CD image! It now opens up KDE on starting. OpenOffice and JDS are missing, hopefully these would in on the CD in upcoming releases. Boot took around 5 minutes on my Ferrari notebook.

More on BeleniX homepages: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/belenix_home.html , http://belenix.sarovar.org

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Any idea why KDE isn't available as an option by default in S10? My Ultra 20 (at the office) came with S10 FCS which had the old boot loader, JDS 2 & SOffice 7 - all of which can make you feel like a dinosaur. After quite a fight, i upgraded it to update 15 with JDS 3 and installed KDE - which IMHO is more contemporary than Gnome.

Posted by Bharath Ravi Kumar on February 24, 2006 at 09:28 PM PST #

KDE is on companion CD or can be downloaded from http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/ or blastwave .., I find GNOME to be faster and more usable than KDE.

Posted by Chandan on February 24, 2006 at 10:01 PM PST #

Wish the BeleniX team would get the rights to redistribute StarOffice and Sun Studio! That would be really cool.

Posted by Joe G on March 25, 2006 at 03:24 AM PST #