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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Innovation and differentiation takes work
Software developers glob together into groups that do what they are good at. The kernel people stick to the kernel, the gui people stick to the gui, and the big picture distro building people stick to the big picture.
So the big picture people just use what the gui people make, and right now the body of gui people support only two or three major desktop environments.
The big picture people just take and use one of these products almost exactly out of the box, and why? Because they don't know how to do anything else. They aren't really gui people.
A really great big picture project will have really great gui or kernel specialists working for them to do the innovation and differentiation that other projects lack.