Sustaining in Open Source Era Open RPE

Tuesday Oct 03, 2006

  • BeleniX becomes more and more popular LiveCD distribution based on OpenSolaris. It is mentioned in a Server Watch magazine article.
  • Belenix 0.5 has been released! The new version features:
    • The significant feature of this release is support for read-only mounting and accessing both Ext2FS and NTFS partitions on either Primary or Logical Partitions.
    • Updated to a recent pre-build48 snapshot of OpenSolaris.
    • The utilities from NTFSprogs provide read-write access to NTFS Primary partitions as well.
    • The Partition Table Viewer utility has been integrated. Execute "prtpart -help" for a detailed guide.
    • A small GUI written in Tcl/Tk is available to access and mount harddisk partitions at the click of a mouse.
    • Xfce has been upgaded to 4.4 Beta2. This now supports a new-look with desktop icons and a new file manager called Thunar.
    • Firefox and Thunderbird have been upgraded to 1.5.0.7, and various other driver updates.
    • The Installer has been enhanced and Experimental support has been added to create a ZFS Filesystem on a non-root slice.
    Read the blogs of Moinak Ghosh, creator of BeleniX.
  • Chris Beal, Pete Dennis, and Martin Man attended EuroOSCON and presented about OpenSolaris.
  • Jiri Sasek and Petr Sumbera visited The SNIA's 2006 Storage Developer Conference and presented Sun's Samba solution there.
  • Solaris Developer website is going to contain a weekly quiz and initial 160 questions and answers were needed. The OP/N1 RPE engineers from Bangalore have put together 140 questions, and a few other questions came out from the people in OP/N1 RPE EMEA.
  • RPE India (Moinak Ghosh, Saurabh Vyas, and Prabodh Goel) joined Software Freedom Day 2006 celebrations in Bangalore.
  • BOSUG meeting held on 23 Sep 2006. Major attraction was the demo of BeleniX booting from USB by Anil Gulecha, a student from a Bangalore college. Now the system boots to an xfce desktop in under 30 seconds.
  • Video recording from Sun Grid Engine Presentation at CZOSUG #7 by Lubos Kosco and Martin Man was released. Many thanks to Audiovisual Centre Silicon Hill!

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