BeleniX

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**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.

The name is a reference to the Celtic god of light, Belenus. This is reflected in the distribution's logo.

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. There is a DVD edition too, since release 0.5.1, February 2007. Can also be used in a USB Flash drive.

BeleniX was the second OpenSolaris distribution to appear on the scene after SchilliX. It was the first to provide an auto-configuring Xorg based GUI. BeleniX also introduced some missing technologies in OpenSolaris like readahead and I/O Scheduling in the ISO9660 filesystem (hsfs), transparent compression via loopback device (lofi).