[indiana-discuss] Articles on Indiana Developer Preview 2 01/08

[Ken Mays]

Michael makes some good points but he wasn't updated on some of the tools and packages available for Preview 2 like IPSTool.


Ref: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=986
'With this original preview release we had ran into an array of hardware compatibility issues, even on systems that were trouble-free running Linux since the early 2.6 kernel days, and Indiana didn't even like to mount a few of our flash drives. This first preview release, however, was by far the most consumer-friendly Solaris desktop distribution we had ever tried -- with Nexenta OS and BeleniX being the main competition...

So what do we think of OpenSolaris Developer Preview 1/08? Well, it looks like a basic GNOME desktop found in many Linux distributions, but Sun engineers (and the OpenSolaris community) have done a great job at making Solaris a more viable operating system for the desktop but frankly they still have a ways to go in accomplishing their goals and until then we cannot see its mainstream adoption. Project Indiana still lacks a charisma or really anything to make it very exciting to a simple desktop user. Sure, D-Trace, ZFS, and the other Solaris technologies are great for a technologist, but a normal desktop user just won't care -- Project Indiana has yet to even include a word processor. We are looking forward to the OpenSolaris release in March, but we don't expect any major changes until the OpenSolaris "Jericho" release that is coming six months later.
 - Michael Larabel'
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