nixCraft Poll

• Your Favorite Open Source CMS

  • Joomla (26%, 544 Votes)
  • Drupal (24%, 502 Votes)
  • WordPress (15%, 314 Votes)
  • Other (12%, 258 Votes)
  • MediaWiki (6%, 117 Votes)
  • Plone (5%, 106 Votes)
  • PHP-Nuke (5%, 97 Votes)
  • Typo (4%, 80 Votes)
  • Mambo (3%, 54 Votes)
  • eZ Publish (1%, 25 Votes)

  Total Voters: 2,097

   Loading ...

• Polls Archive

• nixCraft welcomes readers' articles and guest blogging posts. We're interested in articles on programming, security, database, Linux and anything else related to technology.

Topics

• Solaris
• UNIX
• Ubuntu Linux
• See all topics...

Will OpenSolaris repeat the Linux success again?

Project Indiana is a new project to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution. This distribution will focus on providing a single CD install with the basic core operating system and desktop environment, with the opportunity of installing additional software off network repositories just like Ubuntu Linux.

This is a new project from Sun. The main aim is make OpenSolaris an easy to use UNIX:

The distribution will showcase much of the work continuing in the OpenSolaris community and the best of breed open source software available within other open source communities. Moverover, the distribution will include work that closes the familiarity gap with existing GNU/Linux users eg. install and packaging.

Project Indiana will be a leading edge distribution with an expected adoption of OpenSolaris enthusiasts and developers on single user systems and basic server setups. It will also encourage new users coming to the platform for the first time.

According to Ian Murdock’s Weblog:

Like Linux, OpenSolaris is a kernel. Except that it’s more than a kernel. Or, rather, more than a kernel but not quite a complete operating system. Are you confused yet?

Ian is 100% right and suggests ways to improve OpenSolaris. In short Sun's new project trying to turn OpenSolaris into a practical distributions, you can download OpenSolaris just like Ubuntu and use it like a pro. Now the million dollar question ~ Can OpenSolaris make Sun shine again?

Read more: Sun's Project Indiana: turning OpenSolaris into a practical platform

Want to stay up to date with the latest Linux tips, news and announcements? Subscribe to our free e-mail newsletter or RSS feed to get all updates. You can Email this page to a friend.

• Download of the day: Project Indiana OpenSolaris Developer Preview ISO
• OpenSolaris UNIX OS Officially Launched
• OpenSolaris shipping free DVDs all around the world
• The Sun Java Desktop System is available free for OpenSolaris
• OpenSolaris Hardware Compatibility List ( HCL )

Leave a Reply

We encourage your comments, and suggestions. But please stay on topic, be polite, and avoid spam. Thank you very much for stopping by our site!

Tags: core_operating_system, desktop_environment, linux_users, OpenSolaris, open_source_communities, open_source_software

Search

Advertisements

Would you like to...

• Print this page
• Email this page

more ~/options

• About us
• Testimonials
• Contact us

Archives

• Select Month July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004

nixCraft RSS Feeds

Copyright © 2004-2008 nixCraft. All rights reserved - TOS/Disclaimer - Privacy policy - Sitemap - Powered by Open source software.