Forwarding to a wider audience. Please remember that this is a very very preliminary setup. Expect problems. This is solely intended for testing and feedback. One known issue is Firefox does not work. But the Konqueror web browser using webkit works nicely (including Flash support).
This 0.8 pre-Alpha consists of a complete KDE 4.2.4 base environment, with some packages from the extragear repo. Amarok2 is not yet done. Among others there is Webkit, Google Gadgets, optimized Python 2.6, Gtk-Qt4 engine, Gcc 4.4 with the Graphite framework, X11 framework built using XCB support, BOOST (which is required for KDE4 anyway), Boost-Python, PyQt4, DJVU document support, XULRunner and so on and also includes a complete GNOME 2.26 environment based off the JDS repository with modifications. All of these with the exception of JDS components are built using Gcc4.4. As matter of direction BeleniX is moving towards being based almost entirely on the Gcc compiler since an opensource toochain is hihgly preferable. With the 4.x series Gcc also includes significant new features and optimization options. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Moinak Ghosh <moin...@belenix.org> Date: Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:27 PM Subject: Repository based direct installer available To: Belenix Discuss <belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org> Hi Folks, ? I have a very preliminary version of an installer available that installs BeleniX 0.8 alpha directly from the repository into a new boot environment. You need to already have either OpenSolaris 2009.xx or BeleniX 0.7.1 installed. The installer will create a new empty boot environment and install into that leaving you current environment untouched. You can then reboot into the newly installed environment. You need to perform the following simple steps: wget http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/install_belenix chmod +x ./install_belenix ./install_belenix Remember that this will download 830+ packages close to 850MB in total size. You can interrupt the download process and continue running later by executing the script again. Once downloaded the packages are cached in /var/tmp/repo_install_cache. If you want to destroy the boot environment and restart from scratch, execute: ./install_belenix -destroy Remember this is a very preliminary release and things may not work properly or crash. This is intended for testing feedback. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
