Due to these reasons BeleniX also includes a lot of third-party drivers that may not be found in the official OpenSolaris distribution from Sun.

The BeleniX dev team includes other OpenSolaris based distros such as MilaX, Nexenta OS, and SchilliX.

The Live CD format makes OpenSolaris more easily approachable, and boots within two to three minutes from a CD-ROM.

It also aims to encourage innovation by bringing in new features and usability enhancements and increasing community participation.

Over the years a number of critical innovations sprung out of the BeleniX project which were later incorporated into the OpenSolaris distributions from Sun.

Some of the important innovations include: Project Indiana has leveraged all these technologies and has served as a starting point for it.

[7] Taking this and other technologies developed for Indiana in account, the future focus for BeleniX has been set to evolve and grow as a source-level Indiana derivate with focus on the KDE desktop, and to make a fully featured and functional OpenSolaris distribution based on KDE.

[8] Check the LiveCD Features Timeline[9] in References to see a chronological account of BeleniX development till the release of the OpenSolaris distribution by Sun in 2008.