BeleniX is the result of the free time hackery of several folks and is a community effort. Any feedback, bugs, assistance in docs and fixes are welcome.

BeleniX

Innovating on OpenSolaris

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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).

Mirrors

This site is hosted in the following mirrors

GenUnix.ORG

Sarovar.ORG

Silicon Hill

Help !

Sarovar.org has been serving the OSS community for the last 3 years and is now quite stretched for bandwidth and server resources. So the folks are looking for contributions. Please contact: {folks at sarovar dot org} if you wish to contribute.

Downloads for BeleniX

The BeleniX 0.5.1 ISO image can be found here. Note that these ISO images are not bzipped since the data is already compressed on the CDROM. There is no gain in compressing the ISO again.

(Default Username: root, Password: belenix)


Other files released as part of this project can be found here:



USB Installer for BeleniX (Updated Revision)NEW
Download Here
Usage Instructions

  • Requires a 1GB USB thumb drive.
  • Extract the tarball to a temporary directory and cd into it
  • Insert the USB thumb drive. Run the script as:
    ./usbdump "path to belenix 0.5.1 ISO image"
  • Now follow the instructions on the screen.


BeleniX Remastering Toolkit
This will be updated shortly for the 0.5 release Download Here
HOWTO (Html Version)

Install Instructions

  • Change to "root" user
  • Execute the commands:
    cd /
    gunzip -c livecdtools.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
  • Installs into /opt/livecdtools. User guide: /opt/livecdtools/doc/BeleniX-Remaster-HOWTO.txt



BeleniX Download Mirrors:

Bittorents for Version 0.5:

Software

SunFreeware.com provides a large collection prebuilt OpenSource software for OpenSolaris.


NetBSD Pkgsrc framework is also ported and supported officially on Solaris/ OpenSolaris and provides several thousand software packages.


BlastWave.org is a large repository of Free and Open Source software for Solaris/OpenSolaris.


KDE on Solaris contains a full native optimised build of KDE using the SUN Studio Compiler for Solaris x86 and Sparc.

OpenSolaris Distros

Blogs of Interest