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Debris Linux was a minimalist, desktop-oriented distribution and live CD based on Ubuntu. It includes the GNOME desktop and a small set of popular desktop applications, such as GNOME Office, Firefox web browser, Pidgin instant messenger, and ufw firewall manager. Debris Linux ships with a custom kernel, a custom system installer called DebI, and a script that makes it easy to save and restore any customisations made while in live mode.
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| 2022-12-04 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2022.10 |
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OpenIndiana is a continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system. The project's latest version is OpenIndiana 2022.10. The new release features a number of package changes, including upgrades to Perl and Python. The release announcement reads: "We have merged more than 2500 PR’s with fixes, updates and new packages since our last release roughly one year ago. Some notable highlights are: Initial support to mount install media via NFS has been added. A fix to use NFSv3 instead NFSv4 is underway. We have updated the NVIDIA drivers to the latest production branch version and updated older versions. LibreOffice has been updated to 7.2.7 and is now a 64 bit application. Firefox and Thunderbird have been updated to the latest ESR releases. MATE desktop has been updated to the latest 1.26 version. We have removed our old Perl versions and replaced them with 5.34 and 5.36 which are 64-bit only. Version 5.36 is now our default. Our Python versions are undergoing a similar process which is not yet finished. We began to remove versions 2.7 and 3.5 and are updating (or removing if an update is not possible or the package is superfluous). IPS has been updated already to use Python 3.9 which increased its speed slitghtly. We have updated gcc-10 to its latest version and added gcc-11. We also added clang-13 and removed older versions." Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20221123.iso (2,029MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-gui-20221123.usb (2,475MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-minimal-20221123.iso (435MB, SHA256, signature), 20221123/OI-hipster-minimal-20221123.usb (563MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-05-01 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2021.04 |
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OpenIndiana is a continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system. The project's latest release is 2021.04 which includes updates for key desktop applications, development tools, and hardware drivers. "We have updated firefox and Thunderbird to newer ESR versions (78.10.0 resp. 78.9.1). This was overdue and has been requested by many users. Finally we have more than one NVIDIA driver version available with nvidia-390.141 being the default. Changing the driver to another version is documented. At the moment we have the following versions in our repository: nvidia-460.67, nvidia-390.141, nvidia-340.108. Our gcc-7, gcc-8, gcc-9, and gcc-10 compilers have been patched to use the illumos libc SSP implementation for -fstack-protector. We have added openssl-1.1.1 and many packages have been updated to make use of the newer and supported version of openssl. Alas this process isn't finished yet as many packages don't use it out-of-the box and a few even don't work with its new interface. Work has been started to update our Python versions and the related packages. As a consequence we now have python-37 and python-39 packages. This is also an ongoing process that hasn't been finished yet." Further information is provided in the release announcement. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20210430.iso (1,801MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-text-20210430.iso (802MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-minimal-20210430.iso (479MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2020-11-01 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2020.10 |
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Andreas Wacknitz has announced the release of OpenIndiana 2020.10, the latest version of the project's community effort to keep alive the OpenSolaris distribution and its many popular technologies, such as ZFS, DTrace or Zones. This version updates the MATE desktop environment to version 1.24: "After almost 6 months of development, we have released the new OpenIndiana 'Hipster' snapshot 2020.10 right on time on October 31st, 2020. Some of the noticeable changes are: after BHyVe has been upstreamed into illumos-gate, we automatically got it and we were able to supply this with a bhyve branded zone for OpenIndiana; FreeRDP and Remmina have been added; the Squeak Virtual Machine (v4, v5 and v5 Cog) have been added and so it's possible to run older and newer versions of Squeak Smalltalk and also Cuis Smalltalk on OpenIndiana; MATE, our main desktop environment, has been updated to 1.24; GCC 10 has been added; a buch of other packages have also been updated." See the release announcement and the release notes for further information. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20201031.iso (1,598MB, SHA256), OI-hipster-minimal-20201031.iso (345MB, SHA256). |
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| 2020-05-05 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2020.04 |
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OpenIndiana is a community project which maintains a continuation of OpenSolaris. The project's latest release, OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.04, migrates from Python 2 to Python 3 and upgrades the compiler to the GNU Compiler Collection 7. The release announcement reports: "We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2020.04. The noticeable changes: all remaining OpenIndiana-specific applications have been ported from Python 2.7 to 3.5, including Caiman (slim_source) installer; installation images no longer ship Python 2.7, however some software can still depend on it; GCC 7 is now used as the main system compiler; LibreOffice 6.4 has been added. PKG has been updated to use rapidjson instead of simplejson for json processing which reduced memory consumption on operations with large package catalogues; many packages have been updated; VirtualBox has been updated to version 6.1.6 - there are some issues with direct and VNC consoles with non-EFI guests; VLC has been updated to 3.0.1; ntfsprogs has been updated to 2017.3.23AR.5; 32-bit versions of basic X.Org tools have been dropped; hplip has been updated to 3.19.12...." Further details can be found in the release notes. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20200504.iso (1,597MB, SHA256), OI-hipster-minimal-20200504.iso (377MB, SHA256). |
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| 2019-11-07 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2019.10 |
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OpenIndiana is a continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system. OpenIndiana is part of the Illumos Foundation, and provides a true open-source community alternative to Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express, with an open development model and full community participation. The project's latest release, OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10, migrates some tools from Python 2 to version 3 along with several package updates: "During this development cycle we've worked on updating IPS, migrating remaining OpenIndiana-specific applications to Python 3, rewriting some DDU closed binary blobs. Desktop software and libraries: VirtualBox was updated to 6.0.14. Xorg fonts, tools and libraries were updated. FreeType was updated to 2.10.1. GTK 3 was updated to 3.24.12. LightDM was updated to 1.30. mpg123, x265, and mpack packages were added, x264 was updated. Powerline, the nice status line, was added and integrated with Bash, tmux, and Vim. Supplementary x11-init service was added to create necessary directories with root permissions prior to X11 applications startup." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and release notes. Download: OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso (1,640MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso (723MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso (431MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2019-05-12 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2019.04 |
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Alexander Pyhalov has announced the release of OpenIndiana 2019.04, the latest stable build of the project's open-source operating system, originally forked from the discontinued OpenSolaris project. This version integrates VirtualBox packages into the operating system and updates many packages, including the MATE desktop and the Firefox browser: "We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2019.04. The noticeable changes: Firefox was updated to 60.6.3 ESR; VirtualBox packages were added (including guest additions); MATE was updated to 1.22; IPS has received updates from OmniOS CE and Oracle IPS repositories, including automatic boot environment naming; some OpenIndiana-specific applications have been ported from Python 2.7 and GTK 2 to Python 3.5 and GTK 3. Known issues: Firefox can fail to spawn child processes on first launch, after restart it runs fine; in some scenarios Firefox hangs or crashes - in many cases enlarging the swap helps." See the release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20190511.iso (1,619MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-gui-20190511.usb (1,983MB, SHA256, signature). Text-only and minimal ISO and USB images are also available. |
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| 2018-10-24 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2018.10 |
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Alexander Pyhalov has announced the release of OpenIndiana 2018.10, a new snapshot of the project's open-source operating system built from the ashes of Oracle's defunct OpenSolaris. This version updates the MATE desktop and most other applications to newer versions and provides various improvements to the Illumos kernel: "We have released a new OpenIndiana 'Hipster' snapshot 2018.10. The noticeable changes: MATE desktop was updated to 1.20; Python 3.5 was added, a lot of Python modules are now delivered for 3.5 Python version in addition to 2.7 and 3.4; Image Packaging System (IPS) has received a lot of updates from OmniOS CE IPS and Solaris IPS; KVM zone brand now allows you to manage your KVM VMs as Illumos zones; several new compilers were added, including GCC 8 (with patches necessary to build Illumos) and Rust 1.29; many components were migrated to 64-bit only, most newly-added software defaults to 64-bit; due to recent security fixes compatibilty with some Solaris applications is broken, the most important one is VirtualBox." See the release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20181023.iso (1,586MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-gui-20181023.usb (1,943MB, SHA256, signature). Text-only and minimal ISO and USB images are also available. |
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| 2018-04-28 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2018.04 |
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Alexander Pyhalov has announced the release of a new version of OpenIndiana, an open source operating system which is a continuation of OpenSolaris. The new version, OpenIndiana 2018.04, features a rebuilt userland using version 6 of the GNU Compiler Collection. The GNOME 2 desktop has been removed in favour of MATE. The release announcement reads: "We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2018.04. The noticeable changes: Userland software is rebuilt with GCC 6. KPTI was enabled to mitigate recent security issues in Intel CPUs. Support of GNOME 2 desktop was removed. Linked images now support zoneproxy service. MATE desktop applications are delivered as 64-bit-only. Upower support was integrated. IIIM was removed." Further information can be found in the project's release notes. The operating system is available in three editions: Graphical (GUI), Text and Minimal. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20180427.iso (1,551MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-text-20180427.iso (664MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-minimal-20180427.iso (391MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2017-10-31 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2017.10 |
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OpenIndiana is an open source operating system based on the Illumos project and a member of the Solaris family. The project has released a new version, OpenIndiana 2017.10, which features updates to the display server and the MATE desktop environment. The new version also supports binary compatibility with Solaris 10u10. The release announcement reads: "We have released a new OpenIndiana Hipster snapshot 2017.10. The noticeable changes: Xorg server was updated to 1.19.5. MATE was updated to 1.18. Text installer now can perform basic OpenIndiana installation to existing ZFS pool (for example, in parallel to another OpenIndiana installation). Cluster suite was updated. ABI compatibility for Solaris 10u10 binaries was added. We've started to remove GNOME 2 applications and libraries. Be warned if (by some strange reason) you still haven't switched to MATE." Additional information can be found in the project's release notes. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20171031.iso (1,504MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), OI-hipster-text-20171031.iso (688MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2017-05-03 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2017.04 |
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OpenIndiana is an open source operating system based on Illumos which continues the tradition of OpenSolaris. The OpenIndiana project has published a new release, version 2017.04. The new version includes support for USB 3.0, the MATE 1.16 desktop and an updated Xorg server. "The most notable change for this snapshot is related to hardware support. OI now fully supports USB 3.0 devices. Intel video drivers were significantly improved by Gordon Ross. The list of supported hardware has significantly extended. Xorg was updated to 1.18.4 version, so if you use any third-party modules - they might need recompilation or update (notably, the VirtualBox Guest Additions). MATE was updated to 1.16 version. We started shipping GTK+3 applications. Several GNOME 2 applications, which don't have MATE analogs, were updated to GNOME 3 versions. A lot of end user applications are delivered now as 64-bit only." Additional information on OpenIndiana 2017.04 can be found in the project's release announcement and the more detailed release notes. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20170502.iso (1,540MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), OI-hipster-text-20170502.iso (639MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2016-11-01 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2016.10 |
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Alexander Pyhalov has announced the release of OpenIndiana 2016.10, an updated version of the UNIX operating system which evolved from the abandoned OpenSolaris project. The most notable changes are the switch from GNOME to MATE for the "GUI" edition, move from GRUB to the FreeBSD bootloader, and no more support for i386 architecture. From the release notes: "Hipster 2016.10 is here. This time we provide three types of pre-built images - GUI images with MATE, traditional server install images and minimal images which we stripped down to be small yet useful. The most notable change for users is migration to FreeBSD Loader. After installing new bits, upon the next beadm activate, the new loader will be installed instead of GRUB. This improvement allowed us to modify the text installer so that it can newly install the operating system on RAIDZ/mirror ZFS pools. Intel KMS (based on Oracle's version) was ported to OpenIndiana by Martin Bochnig. Current implementation has some rough edges and supports only 6th and 7th generation of Intel video adapters, but is clearly a giant step forward for desktop users." Download the "GUI" (with MATE 1.14) live DVD or USB image from here: OI-hipster-gui-20161030.iso (1,487MB, SHA256), OI-hipster-gui-20161030.usb (1,789MB, SHA256). |
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| 2016-04-22 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2016.04 |
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The OpenIndiana project, which is a continuation of OpenSolaris, has released a new version of the community-maintained operating system. The new release offers a number of improvements to package management and includes several package updates to such desktop applications as Firefox, Thunderbird and VLC. "New nlipkg zone brand was introduced, which behaves like old ipkg brand (i.e. it doesn't check child and parent images for consistency). It's possible to convert ipkg zone to nlipkg one. To do so, install system/zones/brand/nlipkg, change zone's brand to nlipkg and remove /var/pkg/linked inside zone. Closed sysidtool which could be used to set initial system parameters on first boot and initialize zone's configuration was replaced with sysding. All other packages from closed admin incorporation were also removed..." This release will be the last OpenIndiana to fully support running on the 32-bit x86 architecture, according to the release notes. Download: OI-hipster-gui-20160421.iso (1,369MB, SHA256, pkglist) |
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| 2015-10-04 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2015.10 |
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Alexander Pyhalov has announced the release of OpenIndiana 2015.10, the latest update of the distribution originally forked from the now-defunct OpenSolaris operating system: "So, after half a year we have a new ISO image. We synced IPS with the Everycity version, which includes Oracle updates and fixes necessary for IPS to work on illumos. Two major changes from previous IPS shipped with OpenIndiana Hipster - now we have Python 2.7 IPS version (in addition to the Python 2.6 one) and the linked image is the default zone type now. IPS knows about the zones and enforces some restrictions - for example, now GZ's publisher list should be subset of NGS's publisher list. Also distribution constructor was updated to use Python 2.7. Other changes include some preparations to support non-GRUB boot loaders. The text installer now creates separate file system for /var. We also included the text installer in the GUI ISO images. The main issue with GUI installer is that it is written in C and there's no one supporting it. The text installer, written in Python, is easier to maintain, so it gets more attention." Read the rest of the release notes for further details. Download: OI-hipster-gui-20151003.iso (1,233MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-03-31 |
NEW • Development Release: OpenIndiana 2015.03 |
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Ken Mays has announced the availability of a new OpenIndiana release, "Hipster" 2015.03. The new version provides updates to the GNOME 2 desktop, Intel video drivers and system libraries. "First of all, most evident changes were made in desktop area. We've updated X.Org server and libraries, which allowed us to incorporate some important security fixes from Oracle x-s12-clone and Debian X.Org. Also we've moved much more closely to GNOME 2.32. Most packages were updated to this level, excluding packages which either have a lot of specific patches (like GDM) or just dropped some significant functionality (like Cheese, which dropped HAL support in version 2.32). Not everything has gone smoothly. We had to drop trusted desktop support during update. I believe nobody seriously used it under OI. The most annoying thing is that updated Xorg and Intel driver require some DRM updates, which are still not ready. So, if you have Intel video card, either pkg freeze X-incorporation and X.Org, or use vesa driver." Further information is available in the project's release notes. Download: OI-hipster-gui-20150330.iso (1,237MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-08-11 |
NEW • Development Release: OpenIndiana oi_151a8 |
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Jon Tibble has announced the release of OpenIndiana oi_151a8, a new pre-stable build of the operating system originally forked from OpenSolaris (after Oracle's decision to discontinue the project). From the release notes: "OpenIndiana oi_151a_prestable8 aka oi_151a8 is a bug and security fix release with some big version bumps and also the first rebuild of the JDS in the pre-stable series. This is an ISO release. This release has changes to ZFS and kernel/libc interactions that mean child zones will not work with global zones upgraded to a8 until they are brought in sync to a8 themselves. Other changes: bump Illumos to hg:14087:9919574e3322 git:7256a34efe; backout sgml util removal for now; include beta vmxnet3s driver; bump Apache to 2.2.25; bump Autoconf to 2.69; bump BIND to 9.6-ESV-R9-P1; bump OpenLDAP to 2.4.35; bump OpenSSL to 0.9.8y; bump PHP to 5.2.17; bump Samba to 3.5.21; bump Wireshark to 1.8.8...." Download from here: oi-dev-151a8-live-x86.iso (843MB, SHA256). |
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| 2011-09-14 |
NEW • Development Release: OpenIndiana oi_151a |
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Alasdair Lumsden has announced the release of OpenIndiana oi_151a, an updated version of the community fork of OpenSolaris, now with support for Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM): "OpenIndiana oi_151a was released on 14th September 2011, exactly one year after our first release, oi_147. Our latest build brings a wide variety of enhancements, including being our first build based on Illumos. Notable changes to the kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana's oi_148 release includes KVM, the open source kernel-based Virtual Machine, as a basic virtualization solution along with the QEMU package. This KVM port includes virtualization extensions for Intel VT. Using KVM, a user or system administrator can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified x86_64-based operating system images for Linux, BSD, or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware." Read the release notes for further details. Download the live DVD image: oi-dev-151a-x86.iso (802MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2010-12-17 |
NEW • Development Release: OpenIndiana oi_148 |
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Albert Lee has announced the availability of a new development build of OpenIndiana, a community fork of Oracle's OpenSolaris: "Project OpenIndiana is pleased to announce the next development release - oi_148. This release has seen a lot of improvements in documentation and processes to enable more people to contribute releasing more development knowledge to the community instead of being locked in a small number of people's heads. Outstanding issues to be aware of: globalisation across the OS is still broken; Brasero is broken due to an updated cdrecord. Fixes and improvements since oi_147: bump consolidation versions to 148 where available with bug and security fix backports; backports from Illumos; bump NVIDIA driver to 256.44; fixed l10n in Firefox and Thunderbird; added PostgreSQL packages; fixed man pages...." Read the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: oi-dev-148-x86-20101216.iso (876MB, MD5).
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