Oh, the Indiana preview is now available, say the RSS feeds of blogs.sun.com in my Google Reader.
The download page is pretty simple. Wow, I just clicked on the ISO image link, and it started downloading immediately, instead of the usual Sun rigamarole with five logins and checkbox clickery.
Download speed is around 600kBps...
Boots up nicely in VMware... the first window it opens contains a huge, huge license file, which everyone with a brain knows nobody will read through.
Xorg and Gnome are configured with a DPI value that results the fonts being really tiny.
System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts, set subpixel smoothing on.
System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution, set to 1024x768.
Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal.
Wow, the default shell just works like I expect it to work. What a huge step forward for Solaris.
Sudo doesn't work. Networking doesn't work. "su -" does work, the password is "opensolaris".
Open Firefox. The default font is terrible. Firefox -> Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Fonts and Colors -> Advanced: Serif => "Bitstream Vera Serif", Sans-serif => "Bitstream Vera Sans", Monospace => "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono".
Now to create a VMware virtual disk to install this on.
To be continued... part 2.
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