22/04/2016 – The OpenIndiana project, which is a continuation of OpenSolaris, has released a new version of the community-maintained operating system. The new release offers a number of improvements to package management and includes several package updates to such desktop applications as Firefox, Thunderbird and VLC. “New nlipkg zone brand was introduced, which behaves like old ipkg brand (i.e. it doesn’t check child and parent images for consistency). It’s possible to convert ipkg zone to nlipkg one. To do so, install system/zones/brand/nlipkg, change zone’s brand to nlipkg and remove /var/pkg/linked inside zone. Closed sysidtool which could be used to set initial system parameters on first boot and initialize zone’s configuration was replaced with sysding. All other packages from closed admin incorporation were also removed…“
ReleaseNotes
Packages
Hipster Branch
illumos project
Hardware Compatibility List:
Laptops and Netbooks
Servers
Components
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How to Upgrade from OpenSolaris
How to Upgrade OpenIndiana
How to Install OpenIndiana
illumos HLb
Mailing Lists
Frequently Asked Questions
OpenIndiana Bug Tracker
OpenIndiana Wiki
How does OpenIndiana compare to BSD or GNU/Linux?
IPS Guide (Image Packaging System Guide)
illumos project the OpenIndiana’s source tree
illumos Developer’s Guide
Does OpenIndiana provide a SPARC release?
Download:
Getting illumos Distributions
OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.04 Live DVD 64bit/i386
OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.04 Live USB 64bit/i386
OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.04 Text install CD 64bit/i386
OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.04 Text Install USB 64bit/i386
OpenIndiana Legacy Build 151a8 Desktop DVD 64bit/i386
OpenIndiana Legacy Build 151a8 Desktop USB 64bit/i386
OpenIndiana Legacy Build 151a8 Server CD 64bit/i386
OpenIndiana Legacy Build 151a8 Server USB 64bit/i386
OpenSolaris Build 134 Text Install SPARC
OpenIndiana Legacy Build 151a8 unofficial Text Install SPARC
Note: Hipster Branch = unstable branch and Legacy = stable branch.
Happy OpenIndiana 😀
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