OpenSolaris 2008.05 Project Indiana

Published on May 9th, 2008 in Other

OpenSolaris 2008.05, also called Project Indiana has been released more than a week ago and shows where Solaris’ future is headed to. It comes on a 650MB ISO image, containing a live cd. So you can even test it on real hardware before installing it. If you’re not familiar with OpenSolaris yet, I suggest you install it inside a virtual machine like VMWare or Sun’s own Virtual Box. This release includes such nice features :

• Image Packaging System (IPS)
• ZFS as the default filesystem
• DTrace

Due to the small size of the ISO image (OpenSolaris Community Editions are DVD-sized ISOs), there’s some stuff missing, like the XEN hypervisor. To install it, check this post for a thorough guide on how to install it.

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