Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 22:25 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
"A week ago we reported that a second preview release of Project Indiana, Sun's attempt at creating an operating system for the desktop based upon OpenSolaris and led by Ian Murdock, was on track to be released in the near future. Thursday afternoon that became true with the test image surfacing for Developer Preview 2 of Project Indiana, or what will formally be called OpenSolaris. Officially, this new release is known as the OpenSolaris Developer Preview 1/08 edition. The general availability release of Project Indiana is expected in March, but today we have up a tour of this new Indiana release."
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The difference is the quality of the integration and the superiority of the underlying operating system. Even if all the operating systems used the same GUI, if the underlying operating system is crap, the experience for the end user will be consistent with the inferiority of the underlying core.
In the case of Solaris, its wonderfully scalable, snappy, reliable, great technologies like ZFS which are lightening fast filesystems - yes, there are issues which need addressing within Solaris, but I do feel that the foundation of Solaris is alot more stable and well respected than the alternatives given the well engineered basis for it.