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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2006-07-16
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the desktop (i.e., Gnome, KDE, etc.) IS the operating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. The window manager, Gnome in this case is merely a tool by which you can access the underlying powerful Solaris OS. The fact that Solaris, UNIX, BSD, and Linux all utilize similar desktops is an advantage in my opinion as users will feel immediately at home on any one of them and can become productive faster.