MilaX is an OpenSolaris Live CD distro designed to fit on a business-card sized miniCD. x86 and SPARC versions are downloadable in bootable ISO 9660 and USB disk images. The Live CD can also be used to install the operating system to a hard disk through with ZFS-boot support. MilaX can be successfully loaded in Vmware, Qemu and VirtualBox. Still small, it features light applications such as JWM, Beaver, Urxvt, Vim, Sylpheed, Midnight Commander, Midori, XMMS, ePDFView, VNC viewer, Rdesktop, Conky. By installing the SVR4 and IPS add-ons, you can basically convert MilaX into OpenSolaris. MilaX booted into JWM Desktop in about ~14 seconds on SSD drive. Articles * Using the MilaX LiveCD for failsafe booting * Adding a LiveCD Distribution to an existing Solaris installation * Adding xVM DomU support to a Solaris LiveCD Distribution * How to access a Solaris partition from Windows or Linux * * Converting the MilaX LiveCD for SPARC to a WANBOOT image
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