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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

A complete list of changes is below:

• Based on ON Build 93 that has new drivers (like ATIgfx) among other stuff.
• Included the rum driver.
• Nvidia driver updated to 173.14.05.
• OSS updated to 4.0-1016.
• Updated Fully Open X bits.
• KDE updated to 3.5.9 and some upstream patches removed
• Firefox 3.0.1
• /sbin/sh is now ksh93.
• Sham's RAM based Boot integrated. In Grub screen select more options to see that boot option.
  Install from RAM is possible and is *fast*. See Sham's Blog for details.
• Caiman Installer updated to current version. Grub boot entries for Windows partitions are now automatically added. Detecting Linux partitions is a work in progress.
• Added PowerTOP.
• Added XVM PV drivers to support booting inside domU.
• Qt 3.x is now built in both 32Bit and 64Bit versions.
• Gtk-Qt3 is fixed to build with proper Solaris build flags so the nagging warning about /proc/.../cmdline does not appear.
• Updated man pages to new release.
• OpenMotif updated to fix some brokenness.
• Ability to create zones via ZFS snapshots. See How do I create Zones in BeleniX ?.
• Added Single-User Console boot option when booting from harddisk.
• Many bugfixes. Fixed Usbdump in livecd mode.
• More packages available via get-pkgs utility including various multimedia stuff. New pkg.belenix.org repository now online. This is Not yet an IPS repository however.
• OpenSolaris G11N packages now available in the repository.
• Setting is applied during install to trim ZFS ARC to 50% of RAM if there is 1GB RAM or less.