BeleniX

Belenix logo
OS family:	Unix-like
Latest stable release:	0.5.1 / November 25, 2006
License:	CDDL
Working state:	In production

BeleniX is an operating system distribution that is built using the OpenSolaris source base. It is currently a Live CD but is intended to grow into a complete distribution that can be installed to hard disk. BeleniX was born out of the efforts of coders at the India Engineering Centre of Sun Microsystems in Bangalore, India. However, it is a community-maintained distribution that has grown out of the efforts of many people, both Sun employees and not, and is one of the more significant FOSS efforts based in India. Image File history File links Belenix_logo. ... A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is an open source and Free software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL), version 1. ... OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System technology. ... Gnoppix 0. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Bangalore (Kannada: ; pronunciation: in Kannada and in English) is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ...

The name is a reference to the Celtic god of light, Belenus. This is reflected in the distribution's logo. In Celtic mythology, Belenus (also Belinus, Belenos, Belinos, Belinu, Bellinus, Belus, Bel) was a deity worshipped in Gaul, Britain and Celtic areas of Italy and Austria. ...

BeleniX aims to be an easy to use distribution that gently exposes the power of OpenSolaris. The current Live CD format makes OpenSolaris more easily approachable, and boots within three minutes from a CD-ROM. It also aims to encourage innovation by bringing in new features and usability enhancements and increasing community participation.

External links

• BeleniX Home Page (Mirror)
• BeleniX FAQ on Genunix OpenSolaris Wiki
• BeleniX at DistroWatch