OpenIndiana Hipster
OpenIndiana is a Illumos distribution and more or less the successor of OpenSolaris Unix. It comes in a desktop edition with a Mate GUI, browser, email and Office apps, a textedition similar to OmniOS bloody and a minimal distribution. Usually you install the desktop or text edition. Minimal lacks essential tools.
While OpenIndiana Hipster is ongoing Illumos (every pgk update gives you newest Illumos so quite a Illumos reference installation) there are annual snapshots that gives a tested startpoint for beginners. This is the main difference to OmniOS where stability with dedicated stable repositories is the main concern.
During setup, select your keyboard but keep language=en when using napp-it.
OpenIndiana is a Illumos distribution and more or less the successor of OpenSolaris Unix. It comes in a desktop edition with a Mate GUI, browser, email and Office apps, a textedition similar to OmniOS bloody and a minimal distribution. Usually you install the desktop or text edition. Minimal lacks essential tools.
While OpenIndiana Hipster is ongoing Illumos (every pgk update gives you newest Illumos so quite a Illumos reference installation) there are annual snapshots that gives a tested startpoint for beginners. This is the main difference to OmniOS where stability with dedicated stable repositories is the main concern.
During setup, select your keyboard but keep language=en when using napp-it.
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