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| BeleniX 0.5 has been released now |
| A new release of BeleniX is available after some delay. This brings in several new features and software upgrades with more upgrades coming soon. As what happens with most deadlines, the plan to implement packaging based on Pkgsrc has been pushed back a little, but it is being definitely worked on. The significant feature of this release: support for read-only mounting and accessing both ext2 and NTFS partitions on either primary or logical partitions; updated to a recent pre-build48 snapshot of OpenSolaris; XFce has been upgraded to 4.4 Beta2. |
About BeleniX 0.5
BeleniX is an OpenSolaris distribution which is currently a LiveCD (runs directly off the CD). It includes all the features of OpenSolaris and adds a whole variety of opensource packages. It can be installed to harddisk as well.BeleniX is free to use modify and distribute.
Some More Detail
The salient points of these release are below:
1. 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. This was based on the original Mount-NTFS work done by Martin Rosenau. That codebase was significantly enhanced and Ext2FS mount support added via libext2fs from e2fsprogs.
2. Updated to a recent pre-build48 snapshot of OpenSolaris. This contains many bugfixes, enhancements and new features.
3. The utilities from NTFSprogs and E2fsprogs are integrated into BeleniX. These were release earlier as SVR4 packages.
4. The utilities from NTFSprogs provide read-write access to NTFS Primary partitions as well.
5. The Partition Table Viewer utility has been integrated. Execute "prtpart -help" for a detailed guide. This utility and the above ones provide useful recovery facilities for harddisk partitions.
6. A small GUI written in Tcl/Tk is available to access and mount harddisk partitions at the click of a mouse. Double-Click on the Desktop Icon titles "Hard Disk Partitions" to start it. Virtual devices numbered from p5 onwards are displayed to allow access to logical partitions.
For Download
Click here to Download http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/belenix_download.html |
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