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 ...
“Eye candy”
As you may already have noticed we have released new ISO and USB images for OpenIndiana Hipster some days ago. As usual we have received many updates via illumos-gate, eg. the latest Intel and AMD CPU microcode updates, the latest time zone changes and lots of enhancements for BHyVe and Read More …
Directly after our last lighttpd announcement where we wrote about the (in our view) deprecated option server.set-v6only we have been contacted by a lighttpd developer who corrected us. To cite him:server.set-v6only still exists as an option, though I have removed someof the documentation. server.v4mapped should be used, instead.
Our perl versions were outdated for quite some time. Finally the old versions have been replaced with 5.34 and 5.36.
With merge of PR #8390 we updated lighttpd to the latest version 1.4.64 which removed support for the deprecated option server.set-v6only.This option’s default was true in upstream since our update to version 1.4.46 but we disabled it with a patch to prevent breaking existing lighttpd installations.The new update doesn’t allow Read More …
Another 6 months have passed and we are proud to announce the release of our 2021.10 snapshot. The images are available at the usual place. As usual we have automatically received all updates that have been integrated into illumos-gate. The new images are interesting for people with newer hardware that Read More …
After another 6 months have passed we are proud to announce the release of our 2021.04 snapshot. The images are available at the usual place. As usual we have automatically received all updates that have been integrated into illumos-gate. This release’s most notably changes are We have updated firefox and Read More …
Pango, the GNOME core text and font handling libraries, has been updated. Since pango-1.44 the support for old bitmap fonts (PCF, BDF) has been dropped. Thus, applications using pango don’t support bitmap fonts anymore. For more details visit https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386
After almost 6 months of development we have released the new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2020.10 right on time on October 31st, 2020. Some of the noticeable changes are: After BHyVe has been upstreamed into illumos-gate we automatically got it. With the help of the OmniOSce people we were able to Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2020.04. The noticeable changes: All remaining OI-specific applications have been ported from Python 2.7 to 3.5, including Caiman (slim_source) installer. Installation images now don’t ship Python 2.7, however some software can still depend on it. GCC 7 is used as the main Read More …
We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2019.10. The noticeable changes: IPS was switched to Python 3 and updated to August 2019 OmniOS CE version. More OI-specific applications have been ported from Python 2.7 to Python 3.5 DDU binary blobs were rewritten, driver database was update A lot of Read More …
