- BeleniX becomes more and more popular LiveCD distribution based on OpenSolaris.
It is mentioned in a Server Watch magazine article.
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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.
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Chris Beal, Pete Dennis, and Martin Man attended EuroOSCON and presented
about OpenSolaris.
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Jiri Sasek and Petr Sumbera visited
The SNIA's 2006 Storage Developer Conference
and presented Sun's Samba solution there.
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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.
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RPE India (Moinak Ghosh, Saurabh Vyas, and Prabodh Goel) joined Software Freedom Day 2006 celebrations in Bangalore.
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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.
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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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