OpenIndiana
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OpenIndiana login screen
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| Developer | illumos Foundation et al. |
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| Written in | C |
| OS family | Unix (System V Release 4) |
| Working state | In development |
| Source model | Open source |
| Latest release | Hipster 2016.10 / October 30, 2016 |
| Available in | English |
| Update method | Image Packaging System |
| Package manager | Package Manager, pkg
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| Platforms | i386, x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| Userland | Solaris and GNU Core Utilities |
| Default user interface | MATE |
| License | Mostly CDDL, with other licenses |
| Official website | www |
OpenIndiana is a free and open-source, Unix operating system derived from OpenSolaris and based on Illumos. Developers forked OpenSolaris after Oracle Corporation discontinued it, in order to continue development and distribution of the source code. The OpenIndiana project is stewarded by the illumos Foundation, which also stewards the Illumos operating system. OpenIndiana's developers strive to make it "the defacto OpenSolaris distribution installed on production servers where security and bug fixes are required free of charge".
Project Indiana was originally conceived by Sun Microsystems, to construct a binary distribution around the OpenSolaris source code base.
OpenIndiana was conceived after negotiations of a takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle were proceeding, in order to ensure continued availability and further development of an OpenSolaris-based OS, as it is widely used. Uncertainty among the OpenSolaris development community led some developers to form tentative plans for a fork of the existing codebase.
These plans came to fruition following the announcement of discontinuation of support for the OpenSolaris project by Oracle.
The formal announcement of the OpenIndiana project was made on September 14, 2010 at the JISC Centre in London. The first release of the operating system was made available publicly at the same time, despite being untested. The reason for the untested release was that the OpenIndiana team set a launch date ahead of Oracle OpenWorld in order to beat the release of Solaris 11 Express.
The announcement of OpenIndiana was met with a mainly positive response; over 350 people viewed the online announcement, the ISO image was downloaded over 2000 times, the Twitter account obtained over 500 followers, and numerous notable IT press websites wrote about the release. The broadcast bandwidth of the announcement was substantial, noted to top 350Mbit/second. The network package depot server experienced 20x as much traffic interested in their distribution than they originally planned for, resulting in more threads later being provisioned.
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