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Have OpenIndiana/illumos/whatevertheycallitnow diverged substantially from Solaris now? In particular, have they gained their own triple names (as opposed to reusing xxx-yyy-solaris* stuff)?
Mainly just want to know if "if thing works on Solaris then thing will work too on OpenIndiana" is still a reasonable assumption to make :cirnothinking:
@joel #openindiana ships python 3.7, 3.9, 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14 - pkg set-mediator allows you to select the one you want to have in the default system location
We just provide #BSD like #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #midnightbsd and several other ones, but also #opensolaris with #tribblix #omnios #openindiana. So, we’re also pretty niche and that’s totally fine ;)
I had to give @BoxyBSD a try and it is really amazing! Just got an #illumos box running there for free and it works without any issues. So, not only #BSD based systems, but also #opensolaris is supported at @gyptazy's amazing service. Thank you very much for this service. Btw, you could add real home directories for the created user ;)
Maybe more people will have a look at #solaris like #openindiana or #tribblix or #omnios.
sudo dd if=OI-hipster-gui-20251026.usb of=/dev/sda bs=10M status=progress
Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.
He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.
He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.
I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?
#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix
OpenIndiana 25.06 | A GhostBSD Users perspective 👀 / Robonuggie
https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/linux-kernel-enabling-ms-c-ext-11-09-25/
I was going through my Miniflux feed items this morning when I saw a Phoronix headline: The Linux Kernel Looks To “Bite The Bullet” In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions. “I’m done with Linux now!” But where to go? At first I was thinking BSD but then I decided that BSD is too normie for me. About to wipe my EndeavourOS from my workstation and go with OpenIndiana.
(Note: I have no opinion on the changes to the Linux kernel, but I do want to give OpenIndiana a spin at some point.)
Long time I did not post on #sun #sparc #openindiana but Klaus and @ptribble et al have been working on updating the OI/SPARC64 port so I had to update my T4-2 which was smooth. Sure, still lots and lots of rough edges, no X, my „beloved“ OpenGL fucked up, etc but hey for development useful. And we would really need some folks that could help porting *BSD drivers to #illumos. We need a python expert that can help with 3.14 which fails miserable.
Ok. I made a few configuration tweaks where at least the system still boots like before:
- USB Controller: I switched this to a USB 3 controller. It also confirms my hypothesis that the live CD was slow because I was using a USB 2 controller.
- Hard drive interface: VirtIO appears to work after switching from SATA to VirtIO. You will get warnings only on the first startup after the switch, but it seems like #OpenIndiana will automatically figure it out. At least, the VM still boots.
I'm actually quite happy that I got #OpenIndiana to boot in KVM. So far, it's going quite well!
The one thing about startup, however, is that, on the LiveCD, the bootloader takes a bit of time to load. After installing it, however, it's pretty fast. I'm pretty sure this is just my configuration considering I'm using a USB 2 controller (I'm certain it'd be faster with a USB 3 controller).
Anyways, let's explore around a bit! :D
Once again, I'm attempting to install the latest version of #OpenIndiana in KVM. I'm installing OpenIndiana 2025.10 specifically, and so far it's going out well!
The only issue so far is regarding the mouse situation. The docs suggested removing the default USB tablet device in your VM config, which I assume is unsupported. However, I'll try it again with a USB tablet and see how it works.
(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)
Gitea 1.25.0 removes deprecated auth, streams archives, adds 3D previews:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/gitea-1-25-0-removes-deprecated-auth-streams-archives-adds-3d-previews/
Qt Creator 18 Released With Experimental Support For Development Containers:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-18-Released
Rust 1.91 adds Tier 1 support for ARM64 Windows platform, raw pointer warnings, and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/rust-1-91-adds-tier-1-support-for-arm64-windows-platform-raw-pointer-warnings-and-more/
Gradle 9.2.0 brings Windows ARM support and stable Daemon toolchain:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/gradle-9-2-0-brings-windows-arm-support-and-stable-daemon-toolchain/
Pi-hole 6.2 released with security upgrades, Alpine Linux support, and DNS enhancements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/pi-hole-6-2-released-with-security-upgrades-alpine-linux-support-and-dns-enhancements/
Immich 2.2 released with OCR search, web layout boost, mobile workflow updates, and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/immich-2-2-released-with-ocr-search-web-layout-boost-mobile-workflow-updates-and-more/
Jellyfin 0.19 for Android TV brings voice search, inactivity popup & enhanced music player:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/jellyfin-0-19-for-android-tv-brings-voice-search-inactivity-popup-and-enhanced-music-player/
Good News! Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud:
https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-ministry-kicks-out-microsoft/
FFmpeg Receives $100K in Funding from India's FLOSS/fund Initiative:
https://news.itsfoss.com/ffmpeg-receives-100k-funding/
FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 4 Released With Newer Linux WiFi Drivers & Updated OpenZFS:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Beta-4
FreeBSD Celebrates The Milestone Of Reproducible Builds & No Root Needed:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Goes-Reproducible
OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenIndiana-2025.10
Genode-Powered Sculpt OS 25.10 Brings Performance Improvements & Better Drivers:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sculpt-OS-25.10-Released
#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #Gitea #QtCreator #QtCreator18 #Rust #Gradle #PiHole #Immich #Jellyfin #FFmpeg #FreeBSD #OS #BSD #FreeBSD15 #OpenIndiana #SculptOS #ProgrammingLanguage #SelfHosting #MediaServer #AdBlocker #Development #Programming #Coding #IDE #CodeEditor #VersionControl #version_control #FosseryTech
Spooky News: BorgBackup 1.4.2 was just released!
Some fixes, some new features, support for latest Python and msgpack releases.
Details:
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.2
#borgbackup #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #openindiana #macOS #backup #Python
OpenIndiana ha annunciato la disponibilità della snapshot 2025.10 portando con sé una serie di miglioramenti significativi per gli utenti del sistema operativo basato su Solaris. #Solaris #Openindiana
Sadly, it is a common failing of manual pages to parrot the SUS and its wording for implementation-defined behaviour rather than document the concrete operating system at hand:
Whilst the #Illumos manual page leaves the loophole open, the actual kernel code does not make same-session checks and never returns EPERM from getpgid().
#OpenIndiana Snapshot 2025.10 was uploaded to the ISO mirror. With this snapshot we also took the opportunity to summarize the Changes since last snapshot.
In the last half year the following notable Changes have been made:
- Introduction of several Rust based utilities with the Packaged directly from crates.io
- Utilities like lsd, mergiraf, ripgrep, fd and other fancy tools
- Helix Editor and IDE. (Note: there may be issues in getting LSP servers but the rust one is available)
- Multiple Prolog Interpreters/VM's.
- SunRay Maintenance work and improvements. (It's still a popular way to run Desktops for Families)
- CVE Fixes for OpenSSH and OpenSSL (people usually get those via updates but important to mention that we keep an eye out for them)
- A huge number of automated Python and Perl package updates.
- Availability of Python 3.14 3.13, 3.12 and also 3.9
- Availability of Distributed storage offerings Seaweedfs, garage and minio
- SPARC support for Zabbix-server
- Librewolf 144
- Firefox 144
- Thunderbird 144
- Fish 4.0 (the one rewritten in Rust)
- Libreoffice 25.8.2
- Librecad 2.2
The full changelog can be found here.
https://openindiana.org/announcements/openindiana-hipster-2025-10-announcement/
I would also like to take the opportunity to thank all people that have donated to: https://opencollective.com/openindiana
📀 OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download / Phoronix
Packaging maintenance related Post. We are looking for somebody to step up and maintain the #OpenIndiana #saltProject Package. It's big enough to need a dedicated maintainer. If you are using Salt on OpenIndiana or illumos this is a call for you!
