OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2

OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 is now available. This is an x86-based live CD install image, containing some new and emerging OpenSolaris technologies and should be considered a developer preview only.

Among the spiffy features contained in this release are: based on Nevada build 79b; pkg(1) improvements, including progress reporting, verification support and incremental catalog update; ksh93 is the default system shell (bash remains the default user shell); introduction of /usr/has/bin (experimental); addition of several new packages, including OpenOffice.org 2.3.1; JRE included by default.

• release announcement
• Download: in-preview2.iso (646MB, MD5).