When I had started my Solaris certification preparations, it was hard to get solaris installed on my x86 systems. Even if I install it successfully after lots of trial and error methods, getting the network card, sound card etc working was a hard job to do. I had even tried the variants of Solaris listed below :
Belenix was also one of them. I would have loved to continue working with it earlier as it comes with KDE. I didn’t get to use any of them as they all had hardware related issues mentioned earlier.
Today it happened to checkout Belenix and Milax once again after a long time. I found that Solaris live cd’s have improved a lot. When it comes to driver support, networking, usability, Live CD performance etc were found to be very impressive.
What is Belenix ?
BeleniX is an OpenSolaris Distribution with a Live CD (runs directly off the CD). It includes all the features of OpenSolaris and adds a whole variety of open source packages. It can be installed to harddisk as well. BeleniX is free to use, modify and distribute.
The BeleniX LiveCD allows you to test drive OpenSolaris in less than 2 minutes. BeleniX can also be installed to USB thumb drive allowing you to carry your operating environment, applications and data in your pocket. The LiveUSB boots even faster than the CD !
Belenix 0.7.1 Released
(New)
License
BeleniX is released under the CDDL license version 1. However all the software in BeleniX are covered by their respective licenses (eg. GPL, LGPL, BSD etc).
More about Belenix:
BeleniX has been developed out of Bangalore, the silicon capital of India, and it was born at the India Engineering Center of SUN Microsystems. But BeleniX is not a SUN project. It grew out of a personal passion of a couple of guys who happened to work for SUN. BeleniX is now a community project with contributors both inside and outside of SUN.
Hey, do you know one more thing? I’m writing this blog post directly from my laptop which is currently running on Belenix LiveCD.
Try out Belenix today and tell me what you feel about it. I’m going to try out Milax.