BeleniX
Innovating on OpenSolaris
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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).
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Belenix - Roadmap
Warning: This page is under construction !
BeleniX is intended to become an full distribution with an Install/Packaging mechanism that can be installed onto the harddisk. It is planned for BeleniX to have two personalities. One being a full OpenSolaris distro that retains as much compatibility to official Solaris as possible. The other being a GNU/OpenSolaris distro that runs a complete GNU/OSS software stack (including most of the system daemons) on top of the OpenSolaris Kernel.
We need participation from the community in taking this forward. Please visit the "Project Page" (http://sarovar.org/projects/belenix) if you are interested.
Priorities for 0.4.2 release
- Enhancements to ddcxinfo to include the detailed timing parsing from the read-edid utility. The current ddcxinfo utility fails to handle some laptop displays because they only supply the detailed timing values.
- Improvements to the installer.
- Fix aperture to not print the dirty stack trace in the short term and migrate aperture to use devmap in the longer term.
- ISO Remastering tool
Priorities for 0.4.1 release
- Move to the latest OpenSolaris build. BeleniX is still using b27.
- Fix bugs in 0.4
- Note: The Gentoo Alternate platform support is now a longer term goal. There are a lot of other priorities to look at in the short term.
- Release version 0.4.1 (Targeted for mid March 2006)
Priorities for 0.4 release
- Look at Pkgsrc as a possible packaging mechanism.
- Need a compressed filesystem implementation for OpenSolaris. This will allow more software to be included on the CD. This can be something similar to cramfs for Linux or support for compressed CDs created using mkzftree.
- Include BeleniX as a Gentoo Alternate platform and start Installer and Portage customizations. This will allow leveraging off the huge Gentoo repository.
- Installer enhancements to support both Solaris compatible and Gentoo compatible environments.
- Enhancements to OpenSolaris multiboot to fully support ddcxinfo/ddcprobe functionality.
- Release version 0.4 (Targeted for end of Feb 2006)
Priorities for 0.3 release
- Support for 64 bit kernel and libraries. OpenSolaris already supports AMD64 and this needs to be included.
- The Xorg server depends on a driver called aperture to perform memory mapping for DMA with the video adapter. It presently uses an obsolete kernel API (hat_getkpfnum). This needs to be fixed.
- Come up with a Perl-Curses utility to easily manage the services or daemons running in BeleniX. This will be a frontend to the SMF utilities.
- A Perl script that allows partitioning and installing the LiveCD to hard disk as at present installing BeleniX onto hard disk is somewhat involved and tedious manual process.
- Test sound support on various machines
- Come up with a way to force GTK/GLIB to use GNU libiconv at least till OpenSolaris localization packages are not available. The present workaround is to include "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/foss/lib/libiconv_plug.so" in /etc/profile and the Xserver startup script.
- Release version 0.3 (Targeted for end November/early December 2005)
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
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