On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:17:24PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am a bit delayed in my work on the upcoming 0.6 > release. In the meantime BeleniX 0.5.1now comes in > a LiveDVD form. > > It's about 920MB in size and contains the following > additional stuff in addition to the CD version: > > 1) OpenOffice.ORG 2.1 > 2) JDK 1.6 (DLJ License version) > 3) Netbeans 5.5 with Java EE Application Server 9.0 U1 bundle > *) Visual Web Pack > *) Profiler > *) C/C++ Pack > 4) SUN Java System Appserver (Glassfish) included with Netbeans. > 5) All the OpenSolaris Developer and Administration docs available from: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/ > 6) Desktop shortcuts for all of the above. > > Regards, > Moinak. >
Well done Moinak and the rest of the Belenix crew. It has sure been a lot of hard work and the progress has been good. Over the last one year, the things have surely changed for the better. But one thing I am still to appreciate. What is the exact objective of belenix ? One thing for sure, there are limits to how much you can really bloat a "live" distro. There are severe strains put on system resources. As it is, a DVD based live distro puts almost 75% of users today who have plain CD based systems (not DVD) a bit handicapped. Besides a minimum of 512 mb memory would be the baseline, and with more stuff coming in, even 1 gig of memory would fall shortly. For an usable "live distro" these things need a closer look. Probably a swappable boot and applications CD where apps could run from the CD (from CD or pen) once the base system is booted and placed on ramdisk, would be the way to go. The other way to go would be a primary hard disk installation - the way GNU/Solaris (Nexenta) is doing ... for a larger user base, smaller memories and commonly used h/w must be kept in mind. Bish
