Welcome to OpenIndiana Hipster!
OpenIndiana is an illumos based Unix-like distribution derived from OpenSolaris. Constructed as a general purpose operating system with enterprise class features, OpenIndiana Hipster is developed by the community, and for the community.
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.
Some of the differences between OpenIndiana and OpenSolaris can be characterized as follows:
- Sun's OS/NET consolidation (closed by Oracle) has been replaced with illumos-gate.
- Many of the original OpenSolaris software consolidations have been reorganized into a single oi-userland consolidation.
- Oracle's Sun Studio has been replaced with the open source GNU GCC compiler.
- XVM (XEN) has been replaced with the illumos-kvm port.
OpenIndiana Hipster Enterprise Class Features
Feature | Description |
---|---|
ZFS | File System and Volume Manager |
Dtrace | Dynamic Tracing Framework (System Introspection) |
Crossbow | Network Virtualization and Resource Control |
SMF | Service Management Facility |
FMA | Fault Management Architecture |
COMSTAR | Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target (ISCSI Target Framework) |
KVM | Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (Operating System Virtualization) |
Zones | OS Level Virtualized Application Containers |
Time-Slider | Automated ZFS Snapshots and Rollbacks |
RBAC | Role-Based Access Control |
IPMP | IP Network Multipathing |
DLMP | Data Link Multipathing |
About Us
The OpenIndiana Project is a community of volunteers and UNIX enthusiasts from around the world. Currently build servers, hosting and bandwidth is donated by EveryCity hosting in the UK.
Getting Involved
Our success as a distribution depends upon the success of our community, which is why we would like to invite all those interested in the future of OpenIndiana to participate and get involved!
We have many resources from which you can get started, including our Wiki, Mailing Lists and IRC Channel.
- For developers we have Vagrant development images which can be easily deployed.
- For end users we have publicly available IPS repositories for updating your installation with the latest software and security fixes.
Links
- Website: https://openindiana.org
- Docs: https://docs.openindiana.org/
- Mailing Lists: https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/
- IRC Channel: #openindiana on irc.libera.chat