Glynn Foster wrote: > G'day, > > Today we launched the first milestone for Project Indiana - the announcement > is > below. On a personal level, I'd like to thank you *so much* for the work that > has gone into Caiman and IPS - the preview would be absolutely nothing without > your efforts. > > Works like a charm on vmware fusion/Mac...Small, Fast, Nice desktop, easy install... Only issue is root cannot log in in the desktop...You need to be a regular user (created via the installer)... Can't wait to see the Open Solaris WebStack in Indiana...
Ludo > Glynn > > == > > I'm very pleased to announce that the first milestone of Project Indiana is > now > available - called OpenSolaris Developer Preview. > > It's available for download at > > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/indiana/downloads/current/in-preview.iso > > This is an x86-based LiveCD install image, containing some new and emerging > OpenSolaris technologies. This may result in instabilities that lead to system > panics or data corruption. > > Among the features contained in this release are > > o Single CD download, with LiveCD 'try before you install' capabilities > > o Caiman installer, with significantly improved installation experience > > o ZFS as the default filesystem > > o Image packaging system, with capabilities to pull packages from > network repositories > > o GNU utilities in the default $PATH > > o bash as the default shell > > o GNOME 2.20 desktop environment > > For more details about the system requirements along with some basic user > documentation, see - > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/getit/ > > and the release notes > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn/ > > This milestone preview shows the results of many months of engineering work > through the collaboration of several projects on opensolaris.org. I would like > to thank to those people who have been involved, and offer my congratulations > for reaching this successful milestone. > > Report Bugs > =========== > We are very interested in hearing feedback about your experiences with this > release. In particular, if you have issues installing on your hardware we > would > love to know. > > If you would like to provide feedback, see our bug reporting page for details > on > how to do that - > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/reporting_bugs/ > > > About Project Indiana > ===================== > Project Indiana is working towards creating a binary distribution of an > operating system built out of the OpenSolaris source code. The distribution > is a > point of integration for several current projects on OpenSolaris.org, > including > those to make the installation experience easier, to modernize the look and > feel > of OpenSolaris on the desktop, and to introduce a network-based package > management system into Solaris. > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/ > > > Rock on! > > Glynn > On behalf of Project Indiana Team > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > pkg-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ishot-28.png Type: image/png Size: 61884 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20071031/a50303bb/attachment.png>
