OpenIndiana 2015.03 Updates Its Solaris/Illumos Environment

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenIndiana 2015.03 Updates Its Solaris/Illumos Environment

The OpenIndiana crew responsible for this community-based OpenSolaris-derived operating system using the Illumos kernel is out with their first update in quite some time...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenIndiana-2015.03-Released

[pouar]

Awfully quiet here.

[dh04000]

Awfully quiet here.

I'm not sure people remember OpenIndiana. That last time it was covered here was when BtrFS was totally* months from replacing EXT4, which was only a stop-gap solution according to developers.

[Luke_Wolf]

I'm not sure people remember OpenIndiana. That last time it was covered here was when BtrFS was totally* months from replacing EXT4, which was only a stop-gap solution according to developers.

Well... the other thing is Solaris really just isn't interesting at this point. Oracle effectively killed it when they bought out Sun Microsystems, and the more interesting OS features from it are slowly being worked into FreeBSD.

[Xaero_Vincent]

It still uses Gnome 2.32. Doesn't sound like much progress to me.

[drSeehas]

X.Org Server 1.12.4 and xf86-video-ati 6.4.16. Wow, I am impressed. :-(