Hi All, The preview release of Indiana was announced yesterday (see Glynn's announcement mail below). The release and the multiple things around it that are being discussed will have considerable influence on the way community will evolve.
The controversies surrounding it apart I believe this will be a nice piece of technology. Go ahead and give it a try (am downloading it right now). For those who are not familiar with the branding/naming discussions related to Indiana, I humbly request that you refer to the release as "Indiana preview release" and not "OpenSolaris Developer preview" when communicating (till you get to know the issues better). For those who are familiar with the issues, please use the conventions you believe in. thanks for understanding. warm regards Shiv ps: For those who didn't get the context about the naming, please look at the archives of indiana-discuss, ogb-discuss, trademark-policy-dev (links available at http://mail.opensolaris.org) Ian's announcement mail is available at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=196 -> Subject "Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Glynn Foster <glynn.fos...@sun.com> Date: Nov 1, 2007 9:02 AM Subject: [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana milestone reached! To: Open Solaris <opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org>, OpenSolaris Announce <opensolaris-announce at opensolaris.org>, Indiana Discuss <indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org>, advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org 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
