As a continuation to the progress on compilers in the past months, we added GCC 7.1 to our main repository yesterday: this new compiler is another step in our upgrade path. About 80% of oi-userland had been recompiled with GCC 6.3 to provide a testing environment, and rebuilds have now Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2017.04. The noticeable changes: Support for USB 3.0 devices was integrated. Intel KMS port was reworked and should work on most Intel GPUs. Xorg server was updated to 1.18.4. Mate was updated to 1.16. A lot of end user applications are delivered Read More …
Last year we added GCC 5 to our main repository to allow for broader testing and prepare for future userland compiler migration: changes in the C++ ABI for example call for careful testing. As an increasing number of open source projects requires support for C11 and C++11, adding GCC 5 Read More …
We’ve prepared ISO images with updated DRM drivers. They can be found here. New drivers should support some older hardware, which is currently not supported in OI. There are currently 2 known issues with this code: it still doesn’t restore VGA text mode on Xorg exit; users reported seeing ‘WARNING: Read More …
As part of our documentation revitalization effort, we’re happy to announce a new end user documentation platform based on MkDocs. While still very much a work in progress, the Getting Started with OpenIndiana section of the new Hipster Handbook is nearing completion. However, much work remains to be done, and we cannot do it without Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2016.10. This snapshots contains some notable changes: Intel KMS was integrated and should work on some Intel GPUs. This provides a huge leap forward for desktop users. Mate 1.14 has replaced aging GNOME 2 and is the default desktop environment. The look Read More …
As the time for the next snapshot is coming, we have prepared a repository for testing the X11 candidate branch for Hipster 2016.10: http://pkg.openindiana.org/xorg-testing/ If you are running a recent ATI graphic adapter, be advised that we cannot provide recent drivers due to the lack of KMS support. This testing Read More …
As we believe it is crucial to provide new development tools for testing, the latest release of the GCC 5 series, dated June 3. 2016, is now added the Hipster repository: for now GCC 4.9.4 stays the base compiler. Supported languages in this distribution are: C, C++, Objective C and Read More …
OpenIndiana illumos-gate provides new debug.illumos variant. This allows DEBUG kernel modules to be installed that match the non-DEBUG kernel modules’ functionality. This variant defaults to false. To use it: root@openindiana:/root# beadm listBE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Createdopenindiana – – 9.50M static 2016-06-16 11:37openindiana-1 – – 1.10G static 2016-08-31 15:58openindiana-2 NR Read More …
This is now 7th update on loader demo. This time the demo is focused a bit more about the things on screen and about things connected to the computer. So we have frame buffer in UEFI, manageable from loader prompt with “gop” command and we have Vesa frame buffer for Read More …