MilaX (ex Damn Small Solaris) 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. MilaX also it is possible to use as 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.


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Here are some key features of "MilaX":

· Beaver
· Vim
· Midnight Commander
· emelFM
· XMMS
· Xpdf
· VNC viewer
· Rdesktop
· AxyFTP
· Irssi
· fbxkb
· Torsmo
· Except for that you can take advantage of all basic OpenSolaris opportunities: dtrace, zfs, brandz and e.t.c.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Based on OpenSolaris snv128a.
· JWM as WM, system monitor – conky, keyboard layout switcher – SCIM.
· Now with fastest browser Midori – Twitter, Facebook and other sites is working well.
· Fast start: boot LiveCD (LiveUSB), configure network (Menu ->Setup->Net Setup),
· run zfsinstall (~pfexec zfsinstall), reboot and enjoy.
Two add-ons are available for this version:
· DSS05_SVR4pkg.sh (SVR4 pkg system)
· DSS05_IPSpkg.sh (Python2.4 + IPS pkg system)
How install:
· (alex@milax)$ wget http://milax.org/files/addons/DSS05_SVR4pkg.sh
· (alex@milax)$ chmod +x DSS05_SVR4pkg.sh
· (alex@milax)$ pfexec ./DSS05_SVR4pkg.sh
· Self Extracting MilaX Add-on
· SVR4 pkgadd
· Installing add-on…
· Extracting…
· Finished
· (alex@milax)$ pfexec pkgadd
· pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in
· (alex@milax)$