Project Indiana Details

Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Yousef Ourabi

OSNews reports an eweek article with new details on Sun’s pending initial release of Project Indiana.

Project Indiana is the work of Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, who joined Sun earlier this year (late last year?) — Project Indiana is being branded as a Linux “like” Open Solaris based distribution, with improved package management.

The final release is slated for March of 2008, but an initial developer preview will be released by the end of October, 2007.

The new package management is called “Image Packaging System” or IPS.

The stated goal of Indiana: “to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution that will focus on providing a single CD install” sounds an awful like Ubuntu’s stated goal — which is significant. Ubuntu is based on Debian, Ian Murdocks project. Ubuntu has been the rising star of the open source desktop movement, stealing a bit of thunder from Debian.

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