MilaX 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. What originally started as an experiment to see how much Solaris software could fit in miniCD eventually became a full-fledged OpenSolaris distribution. 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. Available for both x86 and SPARC platforms. MilaX is free to use, modify and distribute.
The current version of MilaX is 0.3.1 (based on Nevada b89), released June 10, 2008.
MilaX currently includes the following software: Beaver, Gtk-Terminal, Vim, Netsurf, Sylpheed, Midnight Commander, emelFM, XMMS, Xpdf, VNC viewer, Rdesktop, Nmap, gFTP, gPicview, Conky, XChat, Xpad and other utilities.
A range of other utilities as well as all software required to make use of all the OpenSolaris specifics like dtrace, zfs, brandz and so on.
MilaX server (non-GUI) version includes Apache, PHP, Samba and NFS servers, GCC, GMake, Midnight Commander, Pine, Mutt, Elinks, Lynx and other utilities.
MilaX is released under the CDDL license version 1.
Version 0.3 requires at least 256MB RAM and a Pentium or Celeron to boot into a IceWM desktop. 128MB RAM is sufficient for booting into Command-Line mode. Version 0.3.1 demands more operative memory.
Login to system as alex with pass: alex . Access for root - through su with pass: root . To manually start the X-Windows system use startx command. Switching X Keyboard Layout in runtime: Alt-Shift.
You can write Live-USB on SD-card or USB memory stick with this (thanks to Anil Gulecha and Bernd Schemmer) script .
You can install MilaX to hard disk through a ZFS-boot installation (like Indiana).
Also available MilaX Sparc server (non-GUI) version, based on snv91 (released July 15, 2008).

All discussions, bug reports and feature requests please to distribution-discuss@opensolaris.org .