OpenSolaris/Illumos-Derived OpenIndiana 2021.10 Released With Better Hardware Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenSolaris/Illumos-Derived OpenIndiana 2021.10 Released With Better Hardware Support

OpenIndiana as the open-source operating system forked from what was Sun's OpenSolaris and now based on Illumos is out with its latest half-year update...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenIndiana-2021.10

[kylew77]

I wish the Illumos kernel projects all the luck and success in the world. The last System V Unix derivative that is open source. I used open Solaris in university but other than running Triblix in a VM haven't touched the Illumos based projects that much. I have heard that their security record isn't that great but I hope they get the manpower to fix security bugs.

[some_canuck]

OI Hipster wasn't a terrible release, but I'm glad they're still working on it. I was worried that Illumos as a whole was going to be abandoned when OpenZFS went Linux-first.