1st Preview of Indiana has released

First milestone of Project Indiana is now available. Its called OpenSolaris Developer Preview.

This is an x86-based LiveCD install image, containing some new and emerging
OpenSolaris technologies. This may result in instabilities that lead to system
panics or data corruption.

"This milestone preview shows the results of many months of engineering work
through the collaboration of several projects on opensolaris.org. I would like
to thank to those people who have been involved, and offer my congratulations
for reaching this successful milestone." the author said.

Features of this release are:

• Single CD download, with LiveCD 'try before you install' capabilities
  
• Caiman installer, with significantly improved installation experience
  
• ZFS as the default filesystem
  
• Image packaging system, with capabilities to pull packages from network repositories
  
• GNU utilities in the default $PATH
  
• bash as the default shell
  
• GNOME 2.20 desktop environment
  

Indiana is a binary distribution of an operating system built out of the OpenSolaris source code. The distribution is a point of integration for several current projects on OpenSolaris.org, including those to make the installation experience easier, to modernise the look and feel of OpenSolaris on the desktop, and to introduce a network-based package management system into Solaris. The resulting distribution is a live CD install image, and is fully permissible to be redistributed by anyone.

Btw, you can try it by downloading here.