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OpenSolaris Project: MilaX minimal Live Distribution

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MilaX is a small size Live CD distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive. It is based on Solaris Nevada and includes its basic features. What originally started as an experiment to see how much Solaris software could fit on a miniCD eventually became a full-fledged OpenSolaris distribution.

MilaX can also be used like a Rescue-CD. It can be installed on storage media with small capacities, like bootable business cards, USB flash drives, various memory cards, and Zip drives. Available for both x86 and SPARC platforms.

MilaX is free to use, modify and distribute.

Status

The current version is MilaX Note (0.3.2), based on Nevada b95 and released September 10, 2008.

The LiveCD requires at least 256MB RAM and a Pentium or Celeron to boot into a JWM desktop. 128MB RAM is sufficient for booting into Command-Line mode.

MilaX is fast distro (~20secs from GRUB to fully functional desktop after zfs installation).

MilaX currently includes the following software: Beaver, Gtk-Terminal, Vim, Netsurf, Sylpheed, Midnight Commander, emelFM, XMMS, Epdfview, VNC viewer, Rdesktop, Nmap, gFTP, gPicview, Conky, XChat, Xpad, Transmission and other utilities.

MilaX 0.3.1 Server (non-GUI) version includes Apache, PHP, Samba and NFS servers, GCC, GMake, Midnight Commander, Pine, Mutt, Elinks, Lynx and other utilities.

A range of other utilities as well as all software required to make use of all the OpenSolaris specifics like dtrace, zfs, brandz and so on.

Also available MilaX 0.3.1 Sparc server (non-GUI) version, based on snv91 (released July 15, 2008).

License

MilaX is released under the CDDL license version 1.

Announcements

03 Oct 2008	MilaX 0.3.2 SPARC
10 Sep 2008	MilaX Note (0.3.2) released
15 Jul 2008	MilaX 0.3.1 SPARC
10 Jun 2008	MilaX 0.3.1 released
23 Apr 2008	Milax 0.3 released

Blogs

Alexander R. Eremin - Boot chart for 0.3.2

Dec 26, 1:14 AM

You can compare this chart with charts for 2008.11 and snv101.

Alexander Eremin - Boot charts for 2008.11 and snv101

Dec 24, 6:17 AM

Bootchart is a great tool for performance analysis and visualization of the Linux boot process. Eric Schrock and Dan Price worked on a Bootchart port using DTrace but I can't find any recipes on ...

Alexander Eremin - Installing pkg without pkg

Dec 22, 10:33 PM

Unfortunately I can't install IPS pkg without dependences. Christopher Bergström has written a small shell script for sunstudio installation. Some time I've tested it and have created the ruby ...

Alexander Eremin - Preparing small miniroot with zfs and ssh

Dec 15, 8:05 AM

This is instructions for building smallest OpenSolaris miniroot with ssh and zfs. I use the receptions familiar to funs of minimization according to Jim Connors's framework . But now we will use IPS ...

Alexander Eremin - Creating 90mb LiveCD using Distribution Constructor

Dec 11, 8:38 AM

Continuing a theme, it's possible to create a 90mb iso (minimal working LiveCD without Gnome and X) using the Distribution Constructor - command-line tool for building preconfigured, bootable ...