Saturday January 07, 2006
Saturday January 07, 2006
If I look back and see the progress BeleniX made, its simply amazing.
Thanks to Moinak for the initiative. BeleniX was started to evangelize OpenSolaris and we were able to evangelize OpenSolaris in a much betterway.
BeleniX seems to have attracted more people to our user group at Bangalore.
Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group (BOSUG) alias is the most viewed
and the second most active alias of all other user groups.
One can see the feature differences between BeleniX 0.1 and 0.2 and 0.2 to 0.3.
Someone in a user-group alias correctly said,
"BeleniX is moving at a very fast pace. Every 4 weeks we are seeing a release"
Now if compression goes well, then BeleniX makes a huge leap ahead.
This would make a huge difference as booting from livecd will be faster
and also we can sqeeze-in more apps.
Each time Moinak says we have more space, we think what can be added to the CD.
Now with compression (using zlib) we get nearly 60-70% more space.
Which can allow us to squeeze-in more than 1.5 GB. An extra space of 800MB!
Now again the big question what can we add?
Other things that are due are
enhancements to hdinstaller like allowing partition resizing, auto updating grub entries,
preserving existing Solaris slices so that BeleniX can co-exist with Solaris and OpenSolaris based distros,
network configuration, adding support to create zfs slices, pkg selection tool and some bug fixes.
pkgsrc part is also done. Will be included in 0.4
Surya and Saurabh, from my team (Solaris Sustaining) implemented reiserfs read-only support.
They are planning to release that under CDDL. So hopefully we can get that as well.
Hopefully we will see support for ntfs as well.
So 0.4 might be one more big release. more driver support...more apps.
Sometime back in a discussion, just after BeleniX 0.2 released,
I told Moinak, "BeleniX will have as much popularity as
Knoppix now has in Linux world.". Might be an impossible
task that day, but now its quite possible.
Moinak had to agree it now.
Thanks to Moinak for the initiative. BeleniX was started to evangelize OpenSolaris and we were able to evangelize OpenSolaris in a much betterway.
BeleniX seems to have attracted more people to our user group at Bangalore.
Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group (BOSUG) alias is the most viewed
and the second most active alias of all other user groups.
One can see the feature differences between BeleniX 0.1 and 0.2 and 0.2 to 0.3.
Someone in a user-group alias correctly said,
"BeleniX is moving at a very fast pace. Every 4 weeks we are seeing a release"
Now if compression goes well, then BeleniX makes a huge leap ahead.
This would make a huge difference as booting from livecd will be faster
and also we can sqeeze-in more apps.
Each time Moinak says we have more space, we think what can be added to the CD.
Now with compression (using zlib) we get nearly 60-70% more space.
Which can allow us to squeeze-in more than 1.5 GB. An extra space of 800MB!
Now again the big question what can we add?
Other things that are due are
enhancements to hdinstaller like allowing partition resizing, auto updating grub entries,
preserving existing Solaris slices so that BeleniX can co-exist with Solaris and OpenSolaris based distros,
network configuration, adding support to create zfs slices, pkg selection tool and some bug fixes.
pkgsrc part is also done. Will be included in 0.4
Surya and Saurabh, from my team (Solaris Sustaining) implemented reiserfs read-only support.
They are planning to release that under CDDL. So hopefully we can get that as well.
Hopefully we will see support for ntfs as well.
So 0.4 might be one more big release. more driver support...more apps.
Sometime back in a discussion, just after BeleniX 0.2 released,
I told Moinak, "BeleniX will have as much popularity as
Knoppix now has in Linux world.". Might be an impossible
task that day, but now its quite possible.
Moinak had to agree it now.
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