OpenIndiana 2019.10 Released

OpenIndiana

OpenIndiana

I’m hardly getting any chance to work on Sun/Oracle hardware and Solaris anymore, but still like tracking the releases. OpenIndiana is a free Solaris implementation based on the Illumos project, and OpenIndiana 2019.10 just got released.

Improvements in OpenIndiana 2019.10

• Latest improvements from the Illumos project (namely illumos-gate)
• Lots of documentation updated and moved from old wiki to https://docs.openindiana.org
• Python dependent tools (including IPS) upgraded to support Python 3
  • IPS ships Python 3.5 tools and libraries
• Bash updated; sudo updated; vim updated – these are like my top 3 commands! 🙂
• Development toolchain is refreshed
• Server software packages updated
• nginx 1.16.1
• BIND 9.14
• Samba 4.11 (plus lots of improvements for SMBv3 from Illumos)

More information can be found here: OpenIndiana 2019.10 Release Notes.

Installing OpenIndiana 2019.10

This section is a placeholder: I plan on downloading OpenIndiana ISO image and installing it inside a virtual machine.

Will update this post with links to the OpenIndiana install notes and first screenshots shortly.

See Also

• Solaris blog
• Solaris OS
• OpenIndiana 2020.04 release
• How To Confirm Solaris 11 version
• How To Show a Process Tree in Unix/Linux
• VirtualBox