OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 4, 2015 @09:16AM from the Open-all-the-states dept.

An anonymous reader writes: It's been five years since Oracle killed off OpenSolaris while the community of developers are letting it live on with the new OpenIndiana "Hipster" 15.10 release. OpenIndiana 15.10 improves its Python-based text installer as it looks to drop its GUI installer, switches out the Oracle JDK/JRE for OpenJDK, and updates its vast package set. However, there are still a number of outdated packages on the system like Firefox 24 and X.Org Server 1.14 while the default office suite is a broken OpenOffice build, due to various obstacles in maintaining open-source software support for Solaris while being challenged by limited contributors. Download links are available via the OpenIndiana.org release notes. There's also a page for getting involved if wishing to improve the state of open-source Solaris.

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Re:What target platform? by unixisc · 2015-10-04 15:10 · Score: 1, Troll

The list of things that you gave all have very specialized niche usages. Like vxWorks or Contiki or Minix. But OpenIndiana is different. It offers an alternative to people who used OpenSolaris on Intel. Which was my question. Had this been available on SPARC, there would have been a sizeable potential market for this. But it's not. And Solaris on Intel has ceased to be a player for quite a while - even Oracle uses something they take from Red Hat instead of something Sun had developed in-house.