SchilliX

SchilliX is a live CD with a designed in the form of a distribution based on the OpenSolaris operating system. The initiator of SchilliX is the cdrecord dev Jörg Schilling, from where the name originates.

History

The idea for SchilliX was established in 2003 out of a desire for a live CD with Solaris similar to Knoppix to create. Since Solaris was then closed source, was added in 2003 to contact Sun staff in the fall and held discussions with them on the Sun Network 'conference in December 2003 at the ICC Berlin. In the spring of 2004, drew out that an open source version of Solaris is imminent. Shortly after the start of the OpenSolaris pilot program on September 14, 2004, the participants of each shared open source share of Solaris accessible. Work on SchilliX could start and the end of January 2005, the first internal prerelease version of SchilliX was bootable.

The first external release of SchilliX was even released on 17 June 2005, just three days after the start of the OpenSolaris project as the first OpenSolaris distribution of the developers Jörg Schillig, Fabian Otto, Thomas Blaesing and Tobias Kirschstein. As a license for SchilliX serves, as well as in OpenSolaris itself, the CDDL.

SUN itself brought only after the OpenSolaris Solaris Express Distribuation: Community Release GUI KDE and Gnome on the market, which required not supplied free SunStudio to compile.

Objectives

Initially, the focus was placed on the acceleration of the loading operations at SchilliX, whereby the distribution decreed to published March 2, 2006 Version 0.5.1 has no graphical user interface. Must also in the current issue X.Org server to be started manually, but is part of the distribution. The system can also be installed on a hard disk or a USB stick.

After the release of version 0.7.1 in late August 2010, the project announced that, in future to sit on the OpenSolaris fork Illumos as a base because of the factual setting of OpenSolaris by Oracle. A corresponding version 0.7.1i was shortly after presented on September 6. It uses a forward- DVD as a data carrier and is compressed as a download version with LZMA2.

Which is based on Illumos SchilliX - 0.7.2 version is the first based on OpenSolaris distribution, which requires no further closed-source tools more next to the SunStudio compiler and Java. This was achieved through the development of an open source K & R C preprocessor, which is by rpcgen, DTrace and the assembler needs to function. For OpenSolaris can now be referred to as self- hosting.

Since December 2010, the SchilliX project maintains a subproject SchilliX -ON as your own OpenSolaris Fork. The objectives of this sub- project are as close as possible to the Solaris and POSIX interfaces, achieving 100 % Open Source in the OpenSolaris -based and independence from corporate interests. With published on August 27, 2012 Version 0.8, the first version based on SchilliX -ON appeared.