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Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

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Post by wannacboatmovie »

Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead?

I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me.

Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

wannacboatmovie wrote: post #2

Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me. Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

> Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead?

Commit history says it's alive.

> Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

I mean, this is it I'd think. There are other illumos distros, but this is the one most shaped like Solaris.

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

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Post by jasoneckert »

wannacboatmovie wrote: post #2

Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me. Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

I don't think any mainstream OS ever dies - instead, they often enter the hobbyist realm. Amiga OS and VMS are still actively developed this purpose (just not something you'd use in production). I imagine it's the same for OpenIndiana as Solaris had a large user base back in the day.

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

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Post by alberth »

wannacboatmovie wrote: post #2

Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me. Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

Oxide Computer uses it, I think

https://oxide.computer/

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

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Post by bri3d »

alberth wrote: post #6
wannacboatmovie wrote: post #2

Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me. Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

Oxide Computer uses it, I think https://oxide.computer/

Their distribution is called Helios and is based on OmniOS. I think they were supposed to make it more suitable for consumer use / home install at some point - the package repository is public if you want to try to cobble it together on your own.

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

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Post by spicykraken »

wannacboatmovie wrote: post #2

Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead? I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me. Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)

SmartOS is still going strong with bi-weekly releases: https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...

Re: OpenIndiana Illumos Distro

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

gtirloni wrote: post #8

I haven't followed OpenSolaris stuff for long time but I suppose they don't depend on proprietary binary blobs from Sun anymore.

Unfortunately, there are still some proprietary blobs:

https://illumos.org/docs/about/faq/#is-illumos-free-software...

https://illumos.org/docs/developers/build/#getting-the-close...

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