[FSUG-Bangalore] BeleniX 0.7.1 update release available

[S h i v]

Hello All,

The first update to the 0.7 release is now available. Give it a try
and provide us the feedback.

Download location : http://www.belenix.org/download
(torrent is not yet available. will be available soon)

Bugs/Feature Requests may be logged at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=216118

This update brings in the latest development OpenSolaris build 93,
updates to KDE 3.5.9, firefox 3.0.1, ability to create zones among
other changes, bugfixes. This release includes the latest Caiman
installer due to which upgrades from this release will become possible
going forward.

Complete list of changes:

   * 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 (http://blogs.sun.com/sham/entry/belenix_0_7_can_boot).
   * 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
     http://www.belenix.org/content/How-do-I-create-Zones-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. However,
     this is not yet an IPS repository.
   * 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)


Website: www.belenix.org
Discussion List : belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org
Developer List: belenix-dev at opensolaris.org
IRC : #belenix @ freenode.net

best regards
Shiv