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BeleniX 0.2 Available
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Oct 29, 2005 9:05 AM
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Hi,
Release 0.2 of BeleniX is now available for download from the
following locations:
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site
http://belenix.sarovar.org/
The primary feature of this release is support for Xorg and booting into
the XFce4
desktop. Also a very simple brain-dead Perl script has been provided
that enables
Zone creation and installation. I have also revamped the website.
The Xserver startup service attempts to augment X -configure using the
ddcxinfo-knoppix
utility ported to OpenSolaris. This queries the Monitor's EDID data if
available to
generate modeline information.
Please visit the website for other details.
Regards,
Moinak.
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
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Oct 29, 2005 2:51 PM
in response to: moinakg
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Cool. Came up perfect with a ATI 9700 graphics card, configed the net with no problems.
Although it's dog slow and not very useful for normal usage which maybe due to debug
turned on. I did notice one thing. uname -a reports BeliniX0.1. Forget to change the rev?
---Bob
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Re: Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
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Oct 29, 2005 7:08 PM
in response to: palowoda
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The reason for slowness is that it is booting off CD and the GUI apps
read a large
number of files from the CD, so it takes about 6mins on my 16x drive for
XFce4 to
come up. Also it takes quite a while to start FireFox.
However, I also have /usr/foss and /usr/X11 dumped on the hard disk. So
if I go to
command-line mode mount the /usr/foss, /usr/X11 from hard disk and then
start X, it
takes about 10secs to start the XFce desktop (discounting the bootup
time of course).
So something like cramfs will really help here. Then all of /usr can be
in a compressed file
on the CD. This should allow faster access and allow having more stuff
on the CD.
KnoppiX takes less time to start the KDE desktop and has 2GB of stuff on
a CD by
way of cramfs.
One small thing that can be done is to have a way of keeping the CD
drive spinning so
that subsequent access does not have to wait for for it to spin-up.
Regards,
Moinak.
Bob Palowoda wrote:
>Cool. Came up perfect with a ATI 9700 graphics card, configed the net with no problems.
>Although it's dog slow and not very useful for normal usage which maybe due to debug
>turned on. I did notice one thing. uname -a reports BeliniX0.1. Forget to change the rev?
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>---Bob
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Re: Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
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Oct 31, 2005 4:29 AM
in response to: moinakg
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> However, I also have /usr/foss and /usr/X11 dumped on
> the hard disk. So
You are aware that "/usr/foss" should actually be /opt/foss, correct?
Otherwise, your BeleniX distro just broke the SVR4 compliance, at the very least, the consistency is broken.
Please consider moving /usr/foss to /opt/.
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Re: Re: Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Nov 1, 2005 11:12 PM
in response to: ux-admin
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UNIX admin wrote:
>>However, I also have /usr/foss and /usr/X11 dumped on
>>the hard disk. So
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>You are aware that "/usr/foss" should actually be /opt/foss, correct?
>Otherwise, your BeleniX distro just broke the SVR4 compliance, at the very least, the consistency is broken.
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>Please consider moving /usr/foss to /opt/.
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Yes we are considering doing this in a subsequent release.
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
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Oct 29, 2005 4:38 PM
in response to: moinakg
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I'm looking, but I'm not finding the .2 link anywhere. I downloaded
what I thought it was but it turned out to be .1
On 10/29/05, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak dot Ghosh at sun dot com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Release 0.2 of BeleniX is now available for download from the
> following locations:
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> http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site
> http://belenix.sarovar.org/
>
> The primary feature of this release is support for Xorg and booting into
> the XFce4
> desktop. Also a very simple brain-dead Perl script has been provided
> that enables
> Zone creation and installation. I have also revamped the website.
>
> The Xserver startup service attempts to augment X -configure using the
> ddcxinfo-knoppix
> utility ported to OpenSolaris. This queries the Monitor's EDID data if
> available to
> generate modeline information.
>
> Please visit the website for other details.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Oct 29, 2005 6:05 PM
in response to: stonent
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On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 16:38, Jason W wrote:
> I'm looking, but I'm not finding the .2 link anywhere. I downloaded
> what I thought it was but it turned out to be .1
I downloaded:
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/binfiles/belenix.iso.bz2
If you get XFace desktop, then that is the latest one.
Initial release did not have X.
-Chandan
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Oct 29, 2005 6:14 PM
in response to: stonent
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--- Jason W <stonent at gmail dot com> wrote:
> I'm looking, but I'm not finding the .2 link
> anywhere. I downloaded
> what I thought it was but it turned out to be .1
Here is what I get:
http://belenix.sarovar.org/binfiles/belenix.iso.bz2
Did a 'bzip2 -d' and I get:
$ ls -al bele*
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin all 666288128 Oct 29
14:08 belenix.iso
in which the old belenix 0.1 about 98MB bzipped but
the .2 file was about 220MB bzipped.
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Oct 29, 2005 6:51 PM
in response to: stonent
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The current ISO available is .2 . It is a silly oversight on my part to
not bump the
version number. I will fix that soon.
Regard,
Moinak.
Jason W wrote:
>I'm looking, but I'm not finding the .2 link anywhere. I downloaded
>what I thought it was but it turned out to be .1
>
>On 10/29/05, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak dot Ghosh at sun dot com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>> Release 0.2 of BeleniX is now available for download from the
>>following locations:
>>
>>http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site
>>http://belenix.sarovar.org/
>>
>>The primary feature of this release is support for Xorg and booting into
>>the XFce4
>>desktop. Also a very simple brain-dead Perl script has been provided
>>that enables
>>Zone creation and installation. I have also revamped the website.
>>
>>The Xserver startup service attempts to augment X -configure using the
>>ddcxinfo-knoppix
>>utility ported to OpenSolaris. This queries the Monitor's EDID data if
>>available to
>>generate modeline information.
>>
>>Please visit the website for other details.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Moinak.
>>
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Oct 29, 2005 7:48 PM
in response to: moinakg
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Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site
This URL is broken and redirecting to 127.0.0.1. I'm downloading from
sarovar.org, but that one is going pretty slowly.
> HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:42:04 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29
> Location: http://127.0.0.1/distributions/belenix_site/
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
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> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <TITLE>301 Moved Permanently</TITLE>
> </HEAD><BODY>
> Moved Permanently
> The document has moved HREF="http://127.0.0.1/distributions/belenix_site/">here.
> <HR>
> <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.33 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</ADDRESS>
> </BODY></HTML>
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Oct 29, 2005 8:05 PM
in response to: James Lick
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On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:48, James Lick wrote:
> > http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site
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> This URL is broken and redirecting to 127.0.0.1. I'm downloading from
> sarovar.org, but that one is going pretty slowly.
Try adding a slash at the end of URL
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/
It seems to be an Apache misconfiguration on geunix.org
I guess ServerName variable should not be 127.0.0.1 in httpd.conf file.
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Oct 29, 2005 8:07 PM
in response to: James Lick
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James Lick wrote:
> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
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>> http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site
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> This URL is broken and redirecting to 127.0.0.1. I'm downloading from
> sarovar.org, but that one is going pretty slowly.
Ah, the correct address turns out to be:
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/
(notice the extra / on the end)
Someone really should tell genunix.org that it isn't 127.0.0.1 so
redirections work though.
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Oct 29, 2005 8:42 PM
in response to: James Lick
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James Lick wrote:
> James Lick wrote:
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>> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
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>> This URL is broken and redirecting to 127.0.0.1. I'm downloading
>> from sarovar.org, but that one is going pretty slowly.
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> Ah, the correct address turns out to be:
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> http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/
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> (notice the extra / on the end)
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> Someone really should tell genunix.org that it isn't 127.0.0.1 so
> redirections work though.
>
Al Hopper on this list is one of the contacts for genunix.org. He
should see this email soon
enough :)
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Re: BeleniX 0.2 Available
Posted:
Oct 30, 2005 8:55 AM
in response to: moinakg
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> James Lick wrote:
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> > James Lick wrote:
> >
> >> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> >>
> >> This URL is broken and redirecting to 127.0.0.1. I'm downloading
> >> from sarovar.org, but that one is going pretty slowly.
> >
> >
> > Ah, the correct address turns out to be:
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> > http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/
> >
> > (notice the extra / on the end)
> >
> > Someone really should tell genunix.org that it isn't 127.0.0.1 so
> > redirections work though.
> >
> Al Hopper on this list is one of the contacts for genunix.org. He
> should see this email soon
> enough :)
Not soon enough! :(
Its fixed.
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About BeleniX 0.2
Posted:
Oct 30, 2005 9:13 AM
in response to: moinakg
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(This is something I was writing up about Belenix, but
feel free to use it...)
Belenix 0.2 shows an incredible approach to what can
be done using OpenSolaris and a little elbow grease.
I sat done and loaded up a copy of Belenix 0.2. Things
were a little slow with the "DEBUG ON" feature
enabled, yet within 10-15 minutes I had XfCE 4.2.0 up
on my screen with Firebox 1.5b2 and SuperTux 0.1.3 to
play around with. Belenix came with Xorg 6.9 (CVS)
which detect and utilized my Nvidia card rather well
through the test without any crashes during my
windowing sessions.
Being a LiveCD, you just have to be used to your apps
being pulled from the drive. Since I used other
LiveCDs, this wasn't as bad as it may seen to
newcomers.
OpenSolaris build 20 comes with Belenix 0.2 which
seems stable through my rigorous testing of loading
various apps at the same time and a period of game
play.
On the short note, the Belenix team has pulled it off
in showing OpenSolaris as a Live CD product.
Hopefully, I like to see OpenOffice come the next
release of the CD...
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Re: About BeleniX 0.2
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Oct 31, 2005 8:05 AM
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>(This is something I was writing up about Belenix, but
>feel free to use it...)
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>Belenix 0.2 shows an incredible approach to what can
>be done using OpenSolaris and a little elbow grease.
>
[snipped...]
>
>On the short note, the Belenix team has pulled it off
>in showing OpenSolaris as a Live CD product.
>Hopefully, I like to see OpenOffice come the next
>release of the CD...
This goes to show the stability and robustness of
SunOS/OpenSolaris.
As you said BeleniX is elbow grease to make OpenSolaris
usable and demonstrate it's features.
Regards,
Moinak.
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>~Ken Mays
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Re: About BeleniX 0.2
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Oct 31, 2005 8:19 AM
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>>(This is something I was writing up about Belenix, but
>>feel free to use it...)
>> ...
>>On the short note, the Belenix team has pulled it off
>>in showing OpenSolaris as a Live CD product.
>>Hopefully, I like to see OpenOffice come the next
>>release of the CD...
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> This goes to show the stability and robustness of
> SunOS/OpenSolaris.
>
> As you said BeleniX is elbow grease to make OpenSolaris
> usable and demonstrate it's features.
Just so that this is not misinterpreted. I meant "to make
OpenSolaris usable by itself. An attempt to make it self-
hosting."
Regards,
Moinak.
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>Regards,
>Moinak.
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>>~Ken Mays
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