Well I was recently informed of the latest happenings with Indiana and all of the cool features and projects being wored on in the OpenSolaris campgrounds. Amazing. So many long term software engineers telling the community about their work and projects as we nested amongest the bright minds attending the Sun Tech days event in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ian Murdock appeared on stage and updated people on Indiana and where it is currently going. Alive and kicking, Indiana is still amongest us. He even passed out a few CDs to lucky ontakers and we envisioned something called 'Solaris Next' coming out within our lifetimes. Seriously, take note on the next distro release of Indiana. You have a slick looking but simple installer and a new IPS packaging tool (see IpsPkgTool V01.u) from John Hawk. You may see Nevada build 80 with the latest ZFS patches. GNOME 2.20/2.22 improvements. Xorg 7.2+ fixes with Intel/ATI (Radeon HD)/Nvidia video detection improvements. There are even talks of a disk management GUI for simple RAID management, format, multi-OS install, and more... Ian had some new slides and talked about the issues of too many Linux distro but not enough consistency (think: cross platform package consistency). Indiana sets the base distro across all other OpenSolaris distros from a device driver CERTIFICATION, packaging, and unified reference distro perspective. Brillant!! You don't get that with many Linux distros were you can just 'simply' use the same Linux packages across all distros (think: DEB, RPM, TGZ, etc). This may happen for Linux distros by Y2010, but for now I see Indiana setting the stage for the same software packages being used on all future Indiana-based distros. Also of note: NTFS read technology is available (see: Belenix). Also, Blastwave.org set the record on having software packages on par to most Linux releases. Also, NetBSD has a lot of Solaris software packages. Only certain 'top 10' Linux distros provide up to 3000 open source packages (mostly split packages) on DVD. So, it is not like we don't have the software ported to Solaris already - but more on if we can run and/or build various software packages on Indiana from the current Solaris open source software package providers and distributers (Nexenta, Blastwave, PkgSrc, Belenix, Martux, Schillix, GenUNIX, Sun ISV Partners, etc.). We hope to see Indiana become THE OpenSolaris distro for hackerfest parties, desktop users, and even gaming!! Georgia has over 9.3 million consumers over the 303 billion people that live in America (i.e. USA). That is about 2-3 million college students all located in one state. Ian showed us MILLIONS of users all over the world now embracing OpenSolaris technology since Y2005 versus what life was like in Y2003. Get involved and get on board!! We live in the interesting times of OpenSolaris development.... ~ Ken Mays -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
