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: [email protected]:/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 …
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 …
I would like to ask all the community members and developers to complete a short OpenIndiana survey form located at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1k2LNzxQxGdUZ7joL_tI3Aid_fzTGPxSDEAp83PbCmus. This will give us answers to several questions and the information will help us improve OpenIndiana. Completing this form should not take more than 15 minutes and will help Read More …
It is actually the sixth version of the demo made available for public, and this time the focus is on UEFI boot. As demo, the software is not intended to be installed, even if with little effort this can be done. We are providing text mode cd iso and usb Read More …
I just merged PR, which brings REQUIRED_PACKAGES feature from userland-gate. This allows specifying and installing build time dependencies. It introduces following targets: gmake REQUIRED_PACKAGES – this target will modify component Makefile, so it contains autogenerated REQUIRED_PACKAGES. REQUIRED_PACKAGES is not 100% and manual check has to be done in some cases. Read More …
The Go programming language version 1.6.2 was added to oi-userland, based on solaris-userland’s component and porting efforts, and is now available for download from the Hipster repository. The current package contains a vanilla installation which means that no additional Go package is provided: these can be contributed or added if Read More …
Please take note: The Hipster package repository URL has been changed. The new location is http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster. To update this publisher on installed systems, use the following command: pkg set-publisher -G http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-2015 \ -g http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster openindiana.org
We are glad to announce that Firefox 44.0 has just appeared in OI Hipster repository. It includes several serious security fixes, so do not hesitate to update.