BeleniX 0.7.1 Released
The first update to the 0.7 release is now available. This update brings in the latest development OpenSolaris build 93 and updates to KDE 3.5.9 among other changes, bugfixes. Since this release also includes the latest Caiman installer, upgrades from this release will become possible going forward.
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.
Pending Issues
- Sendmail cribs while booting off harddisk.
- BeleniX still does not boot on non-SSE CPUs (to be handled in 0.7.2)
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