OpenIndiana

OpenIndiana is a UNIXoides operating system for the platforms PC ( x86/x86-64 ) and SPARC. It has its origin in Solaris. The development is under the auspices of the Illumos Foundation, in which in addition to volunteers and companies involved.

Formation

After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, the development of Indiana ( a former OpenSolaris distribution) has been renamed Solaris Express. Former users and volunteer developers who had organized themselves into a community in order to influence the future of OpenSolaris have, then the Illumos project founded with the goal of developing the most recently published code of OpenSolaris on. Open end user is provided with Indiana based on Illumos a complete operating system.

Partial cleavage

You can view Illumos and thus OpenIndiana as fork of OpenSolaris and Solaris. Initially, the term " spork " brought into play - a combination of " spoon " and "fork", since it had not fully renounced the announcement of Illumos Solaris, but new ( provided by Oracle) code also wanted to record again. Since November 2010, however, many deliberate deviations from Oracle Solaris were introduced in Illumos, so that the designation part spin-off is no longer true.