Hello, about 2.5 years ago OI devs started playing with more recent versions of GCC: the intent was to support illumos by providing a testing environment for new compilers. We added GCC 5.x in Aug 2016, GCC 6.x in Jan 2017, GCC 7.x in April 2017, then GCC 8.x in Read More …
After a preliminary testing phase the latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection has been pushed to our main repository. Package installation Following the usual nomenclature the package FMRI is developer/gcc-8, while runtime libraries for C, C++, FORTRAN, and Objective C are provided in separate packages. Compilers can be installed Read More …
In a joint announcement with SmartOS and OmniOSce, we are pleased to call for testing the illumos KPTI implementation by Alex Wilson, John Levon, and Robert Mustacchi at Joyent; read the full story at https://blog.cooperi.net/a-long-two-months. Our contribution to this testing phase consists of Live Install images (GUI and Minimal Text) Read More …
New packages of lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter are now published as 64-bit binaries.Migrating from 32-bit to 64-bit without a reboot is a not scenario handled by lightdm: if you log out immediately after updating the package, reloading the binary registry will fail and put the service into maintenance. Therefore updating to Read More …
Modulo some minor details, the transition of our userland to GCC 6 is complete. What does it mean in practice? All the packages in the main and encumbered repositories were rebuilt then republished. The component developer/gcc-6 provides now the default oi-userland compiler, GCC 6.4. The previous compiler GCC 4.9 is Read More …
Hi everyone, we are happy to announce that a repository containing all the oi-userland packages built with gcc 6.4.0 is now available for testing. The repository is located at: http://pkg.openindiana.org/gcc-6/ It is synchronized with the latest oi-userland bits and contains some minor updates. While these packages have been tested for Read More …
We just merged a pull-request to provide the Xorg driver for Virtualbox compatible with Xorg 1.19 since the official Guest Additions only supports Xorg up to 1.18 for illumos distributions. The driver was compiled from the VirtualBox 5.2.0 source. The package x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-vboxvideo is now available in the repository. It Read More …
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 covers a large majority of existing audio/video formats, Read More …
We released our last snapshot ISO almost half a year ago. I believe, you want something new. You’ll get it. New ISOs were just uploaded to dlc server. Let’s see what has changed. First of all, most evident changes were made in desktop area. We’ve updated Xorg server and libraries, which allowed Read More …
The URI of the default Hipster “openindiana.org” repository has changed from http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-2014.1/ to http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-2015/.