Tuesday, November 1, 2016

OpenIndiana 2016.10 Unix OS Migrates to FreeBSD Loader, Adds MATE 1.14 Desktop

OpenIndiana is a free and open-source Unix operating system, based on Illumos and derived from OpenSolaris. The latest version, 2016.10, was announced by Alexander Pyhalov on October 31, 2016.

The OpenIndiana 2016.10 "Hipster" release comes with a large number of updated components, new features and under-the-hood improvements, but the most exciting ones are the migration to FreeBSD Loader, porting of Intel KMS (Kernel Mode Setting), implementation of Python 2.7 by default, removal of Sun SSH, and MATE 1.14 desktop, which is now integrated and installed by default.

"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," read the release announcement. "This improvement allowed us to modify the text installer so that it can newly install the operating system on RAIDZ/mirror ZFS pools.... (read more)

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