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BeleniX 0.4.2 has been
released now
This is primarily a
bug-fix release with a few software upgrades and boot time improvements. The
details: the BeleniX FAQ is now online at the Genunix WIKI; fixed the locale
issue in BeleniX's X.Org 6.9.0 build; modified OpenMotif to be more compatible
with Solaris motif; included libusb and libusbugen from the recently released
SFW consolidation source code; fixed some issues with the 'startkde' and 'startxfce'
scripts; included SVR4 packaging tools (as in Solaris) so commands like 'pkgadd'
and 'pkgrm' work; included a modified 'pkg-get' script...
About the BeleniX
BeleniX is a *NIX distribution that is
built using the OpenSolaris source base. It is currently a live CD but is
intended to grow into a complete distribution that can be installed to hard
disk. BeleniX is developed at the India Engineering Centre of Sun Microsystems
in Bangalore, the silicon capital of India.
This is primarily a Bugfix release with a few software
upgrades and boottime improvements. The details are as below:
1. The BeleniX
FAQ is now online at the Genunix WIKI
2. Fix the locale issue in BeleniX's Xorg 6.9 build.
It was due to an improper cpp configuration in host.def
3. Modify openmotif to be more compatible with
Solaris motif. Also included and rebuilt openmotif using Berkeley YACC.
4. Included libusb
and libusbugen from the recently released SFW consolidation source code.
6. Fix some issues with the startkde and
startxfce scripts
7. Harddisk install was broken again in 0.4.1.
This was due to an improper configuration for the boot-archive service. This
resulted in the boot
archive not being generated after install. Though this
issue had a workaround.
8. Included SVR4
Packaging tools (as in Solaris) so commands like pkgadd and pkgrm work.
9. Included a modified pkg-get script. This coupled
with the SVR4 Packaging tools and a Solaris patch now allow Blastwave packages
to
work on BeleniX. See How do I manage packages for details.
10. Upgraded
Firefox and Thunderbird to 1.5 release versions. The latest versions have
some problems if compiled using gcc 3.4.3. Building
using gcc 3.4.2 works fine.
11. Fix hdinstaller to generate mountpoint for
/export/home instead of /home since on OpenSolaris /home is traditionally used
by the
automounter.
12. Update hdinstaller to allocate more space for /usr in
the default auto-layout.
13. Fix hdinstaller to properly mount all additional
mountpoints before performing the file copy.
14. Added the shared-mime-info package from
freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info. The absence of this was
preventing
Evince from
working.
15. Added a default definition of XDG_DATA_DIRS so that
gnome apps like evince can locate mime data and icons.
16. Disabled 4 more services (including a couple of nfs
services) and changed the dependency of the xserver service, simplified some
more
services to improve boottime and reduce resource
requirements.
17. Increased compression segment size to 128KB. This
gives better compression ratio. Also improved preload performance by touching
only one page in a compression segment which is enough to
cache the entire 128KB segment. This reduces double-caching overhead.
Since
only one 8K page is touched, only one in 16 pages is
double cached which is about 6% of the total. Thus this improves effectiveness
of
preloading in systems with less RAM.
18. Thanks to smbios Xorg GUI now works on the Ferrari
4000 laptop.
19. Fixed a panic
on systems with PCI-X hotplugging. This was caused by a couple of missing kernel
modules (pciehpc, gfx_private).
For Download
Click here to Download http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/belenix_download.html
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