OpenIndiana is a community supported operating system, based on the illumos kernel. It is open source, free to use, and suitable for servers and desktops. OpenIndiana and illumos provide a compelling platform offering key technologies: Download Read More ...
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OpenIndiana follows currently a rolling-release model and all the development is focused on Hipster. The 151a development series which was a direct descendant of the OpenSolaris project and compatible with legacy OpenSolaris installations is now unmaintained. Hipster This series is built using Read More ...
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From the illumos developer’s guide: “illumos is a consolidation of software that forms the core of an Operating System. It includes the kernel, device drivers, core system libraries, and utilities. It is the home of many technologies include ZFS, DTrace, Zones, ctf, Read More ...
Hipster is a codename for rapidly moving development branch of OpenIndiana and users might experience occasional breakages or problems. Hipster is using rolling-release model and only publishes installation ISOs once in a while. Every ISO release will be announced via mailing list and Read More ...
Our success as a distribution depends upon the success of our community, which is why we would like to invite all those interested in the future of illumos to participate and get involved! We have many resources from which you can get Read More ...
We are pleased to announce that Mate 1.14 is available in OI now. To facilitate installing, we’ve created pkg:/mate_install meta-package. Unfortunately, when you have both Gnome 2 and Mate installed, both of them try to use the same applications, so you’ll have Read More …
I would like to ask all the community members and developers to complete a short OpenIndiana survey form located at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1k2LNzxQxGdUZ7joL_tI3Aid_fzTGPxSDEAp83PbCmus. This will give us answers to several questions and the information will help us improve OpenIndiana. Completing this form should not Read More …
It is actually the sixth version of the demo made available for public, and this time the focus is on UEFI boot. As demo, the software is not intended to be installed, even if with little effort this can be done. We Read More …
I just merged PR, which brings REQUIRED_PACKAGES feature from userland-gate. This allows specifying and installing build time dependencies. It introduces following targets: gmake REQUIRED_PACKAGES – this target will modify component Makefile, so it contains autogenerated REQUIRED_PACKAGES. REQUIRED_PACKAGES is not 100% and manual Read More …
The Go programming language version 1.6.2 was added to oi-userland, based on solaris-userland’s component and porting efforts, and is now available for download from the Hipster repository. The current package contains a vanilla installation which means that no additional Go package is Read More …
So, after half a year we have new ISO: http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-gui-20160421.iso http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-gui-20160421.usb http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-text-20160421.iso http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-text-20160421.usb Corresponding sha256 cheksums are available at ${link}.sha256sum location. As always, there were a lot of changes since last snapshot. Release notes
Please take note: The Hipster package repository URL has been changed. The new location is http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster. To update this publisher on installed systems, use the following command: pkg set-publisher -G http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-2015 \ -g http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster openindiana.org
We are glad to announce that Firefox 44.0 has just appeared in OI Hipster repository. It includes several serious security fixes, so do not hesitate to update.
The Office Suite LibreOffice has been updated for Hipster to the lastest version of the 4.x series. Binary packages are now available from the SFE project. Install instructions here: http://sfe.opencsw.org/libreoffice-4.4.7.2
The popular VLC media player from the Videolan project has been updated for Hipster to the latest release, version 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax). The list of enabled configuration flags can be inspected here. While the set of codecs supported by this build Read More …