Posted on Thursday, September 20 2007 @ 1:01 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Following this morning's mobility speak by Intel, Ian Murdock
took the stage in one of the small rooms at the Moscone Center West to
talk about the OpenSolaris Binary Distribution that is currently known
as Project Indiana. We captured all of the slides Ian had shown, and
while most of the information he shared was just reiterated from his
past talks, there was some interesting details worth sharing. Among the
advantages of Project Indiana is that it will use Sun's ZFS as the
default file-system, and Project Indiana will be taking full advantage
of its abilities to create snapshots and perform rollbacks if something
with the system's software goes wrong. With Sun's past work with the
GNOME project, GNOME will be the desktop environment in Project Indiana
said Ian Murdock. He had gone on to reiterate several other basic points
such as the single CD installation with network-based package management
(likely powered by apt). Project Indiana will also be easier to acquire,
as it will be available through mirrors that do not need registration
and will be distributed via Bit Torrent. Another goal of Ian's is also
to modernize the command line.
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