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In an announcement on the Belenix project page, Moinak Ghosh declared the release of version 0.4.4 of the Open Solaris derived operating system.

The significant feature of this release is the development of an I/O scheduler for the HSFS module in OpenSolaris. The I/O scheduler enhances CDROM read performance by using: I/O reordering using the CLOOK algorithm, I/O coalescing, semi-asynchronous readahead that benefits sequential read.This HSFS enhancement reduces LiveCD boot time by upto 24 seconds and improves general CDROM performance by upto 25%. Updated to a recent OpenSolaris source snapshot(20060626, 26 Jun 200) that contains many fixes and improvements to core OpenSolaris. Updated drivers and device support.

The Belenix project was started in september 2005 as an exploration of the possibilities of the new Open Solaris operating system. Noting a distinct lack of information regarding several key areas, the Belenix team has set out to fill these gaps by providing a "bleeding edge" version of Open Solaris. Allowing developers to experiment and explore without affecting the main Open Solaris code base.

The team behind Belenix are based in Bangalore, sometimes referred to as the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent.