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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...it's world domination that I am hoping for 
LOL! I hear you and definitely hope the same!
I disagree wish the niche statement though, at least in the server room. In my contracting days I never worked in a medium sized to large sized business that did not have at least one Solaris server running.
Man, there where times where the admins had no idea how to administer the Sun box! Often, the Sun systems was a component of a solution that was bought, installed and then left to run until it either broke down, where the company would call in tech support, or was replaced by a new solution.
Talk about getting more bang for your buck! ;-)
Member since:2007-09-03
To be realistic Im not expecting something that big already in the beginning. But with the time yes... for sure.
I hope that they will make it easy to install like Ubuntu it's and also the package management so good like in Debian. Installation in Solaris was kinda complicated.
And I have no doubt that with the time it will mature to be a good product. Ian did it with open source, in way that he didnt have so many resources, and now with a wealthy company backing his ideas along with the open source fellows I believe/hope/wish that will be a good system.
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2007-03-28
Is Ian trying to do another distribution? Well - I think Debian is very well Linux distro, but is Solaris going to find its niche? Time will tell...