There are two versions of SharePoint Server 2010 beta available to the public:

SharePoint Server 2010 (Enterprise Client Access License features)

For organizations looking to expand their business collaboration platform to enable advanced scenarios. Use the Enterprise capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external line-of-business applications, web services, and Microsoft Office client applications; make better decisions with rich data visualization, dashboards, and advanced analytics; and build robust forms and workflow-based solutions.

SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise

For organizations looking to create customer-facing public internet sites and private extranets using the full enterprise capabilities of SharePoint. This provides full SharePoint Enterprise functionality and no other technical limits.

Download either of them from here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee388573.aspx

Keep in mind that you need a 64 bit environment to install SharePoint 2010 on. Check out my earlier post for the link to hardware requirements or choices for running it in a virtual environment.

So where do you currently go to look for pointers on various SharePoint content…? There are so many sites which claim to provide links to “good” SharePoint content that it’s hard to keep count. Why not have a central place where users can recommend various content on functionality related to SharePoint Products and Technologies and then other users can recommend that content if they find it useful… Kinda like how digg.com currently does it.

Well, this concept is now a reality! SharePointPedia.com was launched a few days ago and it contains community driven content recommendations. It doesn’t have much out there yet, but it’s growing steadily. You can be a part of it as well and submit or recommend content. It’s as simple as signing up on the site. Here’s a snapshot of how it currently looks: