OpenIndiana is a community supported operating system, based on the illumos kernel and userland. It is open source, free to use, and suitable for servers and desktops. OpenIndiana and illumos provide a platform offering: Download the latest images of OpenIndiana for Desktop or Server Read More ...
OpenIndiana is a distribution developed and maintained exclusively by a small community of volunteers passionate about UNIX-like systems. There is no company running the project nor funding it, unlike most major Linux distributions. The development of OpenIndiana Hipster results from individual contributions coordinated in a fairly informal way: most people Read More ...
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 the oi-userland with GCC and consists in the Read More ...
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We’ve identified security issue in bind DNS server startup scripts. Users who use the BIND DNS server should upgrade to the very latest version, service/network/dns/[email protected] 9.14.3, not only to obtain the latest version of BIND, but to also include an additional OpenIndiana-specific privilege reduction for BIND processes. Before this version Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2019.04. The noticeable changes: Firefox was updated to 60.6.3 ESR Virtualbox packages were added (including guest additions) Mate was updated to 1.22 IPS has received updates from OmniOS CE and Oracle IPS repos, including automatic boot environment naming Some OI-specific applications have Read More …
Our infrastructure was too long without attention. As a result, confluence was compromised. Confluence runs on w01.openindiana.everycity.co.uk, together with main site and exim/mailman. We know, confluence was compromised (expected date of infection – Apr 17). The malware was detected at 8th May about 21:00 UTC. It looked as one described Read More …
With merge of PR #4800 Apache 2.4 has become 64-bit-only. This is a big breaking change, because we’ve reworked Apache directory layout and configuration to facilitate IPS switch to Python 3.5. Python 3.5 is 64-bit-only, and we had an unpleasant choice either rewrite depot and sysrepo configuration to always use Read More …
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 …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2018.10. The noticeable changes: Mate desktop was updated to 1.20. Python 3.5 was added, a lot of Python modules are now delivered for 3.5 Python version in addition to 2.7 and 3.4. Image Packaging System has received a lot of updates from 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 …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2018.04. The noticeable changes: Userland software is rebuilt with GCC 6. KPTI was enabled to mitigate recent security issues in Intel CPUs. Support of Gnome 2 desktop was removed. Linked images now support zoneproxy service. Mate desktop applications are delivered as 64-bit-only. 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 …
