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OmniOS, one of the illumos distributions also had a release today: https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151032/doc/R...

To get ROS and a few more robot related software tools and libraries as nice binary packages robotpkg might also be of interest: http://robotpkg.openrobots.org

Probably someone from the unleashed project can give a better answer, but my understanding is mostly unhappiness about the illumos contribution process. The illumos RTI (request to…

The new OpenSolaris is called illumos. And the CDDL is actually fine. Give it a try :)

https://github.com/bluemaex/homebridge-dmxuniverse

Oh yes, the wikis definitly do need some love. Documentation is beeing worked on as far as I know. A lot more of activity is going on in irc on freenode, so if you start playing wi…

In my case illumos provided two things: - zones allowed for a much higher deployment density and better utilisation of our hardware than other virtualization technology would have.…

Oracle has been slowly killing Solaris for some time. At the same time the community has already saved it - this is what illumos is about. It exists and is open source.

There seems to be a lot of odd nostalgia for Solaris in the comments here and on twitter. I think that's missing the point of the article. Yes, Oracle Solaris is dead. But illumos …

Whatever reasons apple had for not using ZFS at that time wasn't some "IP shadow" as the CDDL includes a patent grant. OpenZFS is open source and there is nothing murky or scary ab…

ZFS is supported by both Linux and FreeBSD (not yet on NetBSD).

Linux distributions are very similar to each other. Having package management as the main thing that sets them apart. In illumos land these different distributions exist because th…

The Oracle docs are not really the reference documentation for the open-source stuff, since illumos and Oracle Solaris have diverged quite a bit by now. Some things are implemented…

Oracle Solaris might be dying, and Linux sure has a large market share, but illumos as the open source continuation of OpenSolaris is doing very well. If you enjoyed ZFS, Zones, DT…

interesting! The demo video shows "configure" (which is usually not parallelized) also progressing much faster than the local system. I wonder how one would deal with "trusting tru…

it is in germany.