OpenIndiana oi_148
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….
OpenIndiana is a continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system. It was conceived during the period of uncertainty following the Oracle takeover of Sun Microsystems, after several months passed with no binary updates made available to the public. The formation proved timely, as Oracle discontinued OpenSolaris soon after in favour of Solaris 11 Express, a binary distribution with a more closed development model to début later this year. 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.
This VMWare image lets you try it out without installing it or even rebooting your machine, and works in the Free VMWare player.
| Base OS | OpenIndiana |
| Version | oi_148 |
| User Login | vmplanet |
| User Password | vmplanet.net |
| Root Password | vmplanet.net |
| Compressed Size | 798M |
| Uncompressed Size | |
| filename | VMplanet-OpenIndiana-oi_148.7z |
| sha1sum | 3f110f3d718f50c72e80941391c82ed6 |
| md5sum | 4c247943dbde9e192fa7574d267be4c35e170984 |
| Download URL | OpenIndiana VMware Image |
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OpenIndiana is a very competent distro based on Illumos. I do believe that Illumian is where the bulk of development focus will be going now that NexentaOS has been discontinued.
I will look into getting an Illumian image up once I get caught up on migrating the data over from the old site.
Thanks for looking into that. It’s nice to have a place that I can subscribe to and check out the occasional vmware image that catches my eye. The emergence of zfs (odd saying that given its relative age) is particularly exciting.
Interestingly, in my limited exenciepre with SharePoint, it does not meet the primary need of end-users: transforming documents from the formats used by their office applications into PDF in preparation for not-easily-editable distribution.On the other hand, Alfresco offers to use an existing OpenOffice installation to enable transformation between any of the formats that OOo understands (including Microsoft Office legacy formats, such as .doc and .xls) and export to PDF from any of those formats. I think that Alfresco, Daisy, and similar products also offer portlet integration, so that the server’s display area can be a rectangular subpart of your corporate intranet site.All these products, even with their support plans, have lower initial costs than SharePoint. I really think that SharePoint is the product you choose if you have excess money that you don’t know what to do with. In my current work environment, there are several SharePoint portals that are woefully underused. At least one of those, thanks to the permissions system, is effectively useless to most employees, but that is probably due more to the organization than the software itself.As always, my opinions are not those of anyone else.
I’m not sure I understand what sharepoint has to do w/ OpenIndiana…