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 …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2017.10. The noticeable changes: Xorg server was updated to 1.19.5. Mate was updated to 1.18. Text installer now can perform basic OpenIndiana installation to existing ZFS pool (for example, in parallel to another OpenIndiana installation). Cluster suite was updated. ABI compatibility for 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 …
Молимо обраитте пажњу да су исправке илумос лоадера откриле додатне проблеме, доводећи до немогућности подизања после унапређења Опениндиана хипстер на инсталацијама са МБР дисковима.. Проблем са подизањем је решен унапређивањем на ОИ хипстер снимак пакет ‘osnet-incorporation 0.5.11-2017.0.0.16205’ (2017-02-25_1202) са ‘system/boot/loader 1.1-2017.0.0.16205’ (2017-02-25_1228) и надаље и реинсталацијом подизућих блокова диска. Ево 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 …
Two illumos security issues, https://www.illumos.org/issues/7488 and https://www.illumos.org/issues/7483 got CVE-2016-6560 and CVE-2016-6561. First one is an issue in kernel bcopy code, second is related to in-kernel SMB server. Both can lead to system crash. Both issues were fixed about ten days ago. Check that your systems are updated at least to Read More …
The work on porting FreeBSD loader to illumos-gate has been recently integrated and loader bits are present in OpenIndiana package repository now. This concerns all OpenIndiana Hipster users. Briefly, when you update to the latest OpenIndiana Hipster AND do beadm activate, grub will be replaced with loader. Loader fixes a Read More …
A lot of users reported about SSH update issues after removal of Sun SSH from illumos-gate. It had to be transparent for users and silently update SSH to OpenSSH, but due to IPS issue, things has gone wrong, and IPS can crash on this update (Issue 7320). Long-term fix was 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 interesting time removing Gnome 2 applications from Mate Read More …
So, after half a year we have a new ISO: OI-hipster-gui-20160421.iso OI-hipster-gui-20160421.usb OI-hipster-text-20160421.iso 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