OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
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OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
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Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#2I can’t figure out what this is from anything on the site. I suppose I need to know what Illumos is? My best guess is that it is an OS?
Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#3I can’t figure out what this is from anything on the site. I suppose I need to know what Illumos is? My best guess is that it is an OS?
Solaris, basically. Illumos was derived from the old OpenSolaris project. I don't know how much it's diverged, as I don't really follow this much. But that's more or less what it is.
Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#4As a Hoosier... I had to check the relevance... and learned it's basically a fork^3 of Solaris, a Sun operating system.
OpenIndiana[3] Note: I guessed here at [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos
Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#5Wow. Illumos / Solaris is still kicking, eh?
Really too bad Solaris didn’t stick around and was so horribly mismanaged by Sun.
Solaris and Vax/VMS is where I started my career decades ago, and still brings back memories.
Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#6As a Hoosier... I had to check the relevance... and learned it's basically a fork^3 of Solaris, a Sun operating system. OpenIndiana[3] Note: I guessed here at [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris
From: https://docs.openindiana.org/misc/openindiana/#what-is-the-o...
> Why is it called OpenIndiana?
> OpenIndiana obtains its name from Project Indiana, an open source effort by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) to produce OpenSolaris, a community developed Unix-like distribution based on Sun Solaris. Project Indiana was led by Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian Linux Distribution.
(I never understood the naming either)
But here's an ArsTechnica article from 2007 talking more about those origins from back when Sun was still trying to win back marketshare from Linux. It had long since lost that war, but was still trying to stay relevant.
https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/07/understanding-...
Illumos based OS's have been kicking around a lot longer than I anticipated.
Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#7I have to say, that I really loved OpenSolaris. I really have to try OpenIndiana. Can anyone tell me about their package manager?
Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#8As a Hoosier... I had to check the relevance... and learned it's basically a fork^3 of Solaris, a Sun operating system. OpenIndiana[3] Note: I guessed here at [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris
There is OmniOS[1] as well, fits next to OpenIndiana.
Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#9Look to figure out what is it:
https://docs.openindiana.org/misc/openindiana/
To be short, it is opensource implementation of SUN Solaris OS. I don't know if it is already developed much.
Re: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution
#10Wow. Illumos / Solaris is still kicking, eh? Really too bad Solaris didn’t stick around and was so horribly mismanaged by Sun. Solaris and Vax/VMS is where I started my career decades ago, and still brings back memories.
It (Solaris) was also the origin of ZFS, if I'm not mistaken.