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OpenIndiana
File:OpenIndiana logonew2 WP.png
OpenIndiana Login Screen
Developeropenindiana.org
Written inC
OS familyUnix, System V Release 4 (SVR4)
Working stateIn Development
Source modelOpen source
Latest releaseHipster 2024.04 (April 28, 2024; 6 months ago (2024-04-28)) [±][1]
Available inEnglish
Update methodImage Packaging System
Package managerPackage Manager, pkg
PlatformsSPARC, i386, x86-64
Kernel typeMonolithic
UserlandGNU and traditional Solaris
Default
user interface		GNOME
LicenseMostly CDDL, with other licenses
Official websitehttp://www.openindiana.org
OpenIndiana Package Manager
OpenIndiana ZFS ZPool Versions

The OpenIndiana project aims to continue development and distribution of the OpenSolaris operating system.[2] The project will operate under the umbrella of the Illumos Foundation.[2] The stated aim of the project is "[...] to become the defacto OpenSolaris distribution installed on production servers where security and bug fixes are required free of charge".[3]

Origins

Project Indiana was originally conceived by Sun Microsystems, to construct a binary distribution around the OpenSolaris source code base.[4]

OpenIndiana was conceived around the time that negotiations between Oracle and Sun Microsystems were proceeding, regarding the takeover of the latter by the former, in order to ensure continued availability and further development of an OS based on OpenSolaris, which 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 full fruition following the announcement of discontinuation of Oracle support for the OpenSolaris project.[5][6][7]

Relation to Solaris, Solaris Express, Illumos

While OpenIndiana is a fork in the technical sense, it is a continuation of OpenSolaris in spirit: the project intends to deliver a System V family operating system which is binary-compatible with the Oracle products Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express. However, rather than being based around the OS/Net consolidation like OpenSolaris was, OpenIndiana will become a distribution built up around Illumos kernel (the first release is still based around OS/Net). The project does use the same IPS package management system as OpenSolaris.[3]

The OpenIndiana codebase is currently based on the majority of publicly available code from Oracle, although future releases will be based upon the Illumos code. The project is also expending efforts to make its codebase independent from Oracle-owned tools such as Sun Studio, although that is not the main focus of the project.[3]

Initial reaction

The formal announcement of the OpenIndiana project was made on September 14, 2010 at the JISC Centre in London.[8] 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 pre-empt the release of Solaris 11 Express.[9]

The announcement of OpenIndiana was met with a mainly positive response; over 350 people[10] viewed the online announcement, the ISO image was downloaded over 2000 times,[10] the Twitter account obtained over 500 followers,[11] and numerous notable IT press websites wrote about the release.[9][12][13][14][15][16] The broadcast bandwidth of the announcement was substantial, noted to top 350Mbit/second.[17] 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.[18]

Not all reporting was positive, and some online articles have questioned the relevance of Solaris given the market penetration of Linux.[19][20] One article was critical of the OpenIndiana launch citing a lack of professionalism with regards to releasing an untested build, and the projects lack of commitment to a release schedule.[21]

Community concerns

With the OpenSolaris binary distribution moved to SolarisExpress and the real-time feed of OpenSolaris updates being discontinued, concerns abound over what would happen in OpenIndiana were expressed in case Oracle stopped feeding source code back into the community were mitigated by the OpenIndiana team expressing the intention to move the source code feed to the Illumos Foundation.[22]

Concern expressed with free access to the Oracle owned compiler being used to produce OpenIndiana possibly being revoked was answered by OpenIndiana with the fact that it currently compiles under open source GNU Compiler Collection and work was ongoing to make the compiled binaries bootable.[23]

Release schedule

The first development release of OpenIndiana, Build 147, was released on September 14, 2010.[24] A provisional release date of 3rd October 2010 has also been set for the next development release, Build 148,[25] as well as a provisional release date for the stable release, codenamed Foreverware, targets either Q1 2011[26] or H1 2011.[27]

OpenIndiana Build 148 were released.[28]

References

  1. ^ "OpenIndiana - Release 2024.04". Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Welcome to Project OpenIndiana!". Project OpenIndiana. 10 September 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  3. ^ a b c Frequently Asked Questions From the OpenIndiana Wiki
  4. ^ http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+indiana
  5. ^ OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express Leaked memo from Oracle
  6. ^ Michael Larabel (September 10, 2010). "OpenIndiana - Another OpenSolaris Fork - Coming Next Week". Phoronix. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
  7. ^ Template:Nl Chris Broesder (14 september 2010). "OpenSolaris leeft voort in nieuwe distro". WebWereld. Retrieved 13 September 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ Announcement
  9. ^ a b Sam Varghese. "OpenSolaris fork to be announced". ITWire. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  10. ^ a b EveryCity Managed Hosting. "EveryCity Sponsors OpenSolaris Fork OpenIndiana". Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  11. ^ "OpenIndiana Twitter Account".
  12. ^ Timothy Prickett Morgan. "OpenSolaris spork ready for download". The Register. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  13. ^ "Illumos Foundation launches OpenIndiana". The H. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  14. ^ Luke Hopewell. "Illumos Foundation resurrects OpenSolaris". ZDNet Australia. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  15. ^ Ted Samson (September 15, 2010). "Illumos aims to clone dying OpenSolaris". InfoWorld. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  16. ^ Template:De icon Oliver Diedrich (15 September 2010). "OpenIndiana statt OpenSolaris". Heise Online. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  17. ^ http://twitter.com/openindiana/status/24510433571
  18. ^ http://twitter.com/openindiana/status/24512194763
  19. ^ "From the Editors: Consulting the Oracle". Software Development Times. Software Development Times. 15 September, 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ Joe Brockmeier. "A Quick Look at OpenIndiana". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  21. ^ Lawrence Latif (15 September 2010). "Open Indiana aims for default free Solaris distribution". The Inquirer. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  22. ^ What if Oracle discontinue providing access to the OpenSolaris source?, Frequently Asked Questions - OpenIndiana - OpenIndiana Wiki
  23. ^ Is OpenIndiana a desktop or a server operating system?, Frequently Asked Questions - OpenIndiana - OpenIndiana Wiki
  24. ^ http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_147
  25. ^ "oi_148". September 18, 2010.
  26. ^ "2010.Q1 - Foreverware". September 18, 2010.
  27. ^ http://twitter.com/openindiana/status/24806464021
  28. ^ http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/148/
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