Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Oct 2007 20:41 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Project Indiana, Sun Microsystems' Linux-like OpenSolaris effort, will begin shipping to developers before the end of October, the company announced Oct. 15 at its open-source summit press event here. The developer release will include Image Packaging System, a new package manager slated for inclusion in the next version of Solaris, but won't be back-ported to Solaris 10, the most recent version to ship, said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief operating systems platform strategist, in an address to the media. All of the technology developed under Project Indiana will be delivered through OpenSolaris going forward, he said. The full release is expected in March. More here.
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I'm interested but I think that driver support is still lacking.
I installed SolarisExpressDeveloperEdition 9/07 on my DellInspiron6400 and the driver for my network card was not detected.
I'd have to install a third-part driver located somewhere at some website, which is a no-sense because the network card doesn't work so I could not download it...
So yes Gnome 2.20, compiz, eye-candy, etc, but I'd prefer also better driver support.