It is with great joy that on this 1st of April. I can announce that #OpenIndiana has joined the #Alphabet family. Following long and fruitfull talks we have come to a settlement of 1 Billion Dollars.
If you still wish to donate to the Project head over to https://opencollective.com/openindiana
@sun @p @dj@ak.parcero.casa @ins0mniak @lanodan @zaitcev The software that does that is called SunRay and is still installable on modern #OpenIndiana system with modern software maintained by people in their free time support the project here https://opencollective.org/openindiana
#illumos ships tip(1) in -gate, so all of its distros ( #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana etc.) have it.
Not sure if I can reach any #illumos #omnios #openindiana people here, but here goes: does anyone know if there is a well maintained GCP image that could be used to run some flavour of illumos? PostgreSQL uses Cirrus CI with Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, Windows, macOS images. illumos is a missing target!
@matthew My interests in Sun started when i got my first #sunmicrosystems computer. Finding out about #opensolaris and #Illumos was eye-opening to put it mildly.
I ran a "NAS" machine some time with #omnios until i had a disk crash and motherboard failure #openindiana saved me that time
i can recommend
Mastodon (of course)
unitedbsd.com
smartos.org
tribblix.org
www.openindiana.org
illumos.org
omnios.org
https://youtube.com/@stephensmachineroom?si=1LF6ybvu83c_dmDp
https://youtu.be/dxZExLeJz2I?si=mzs6FuXrIW49RSyA
Hope you find something useful 
Looks like your codebase is nicely portable :) https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/20902
#Poll: are you "dog-fooding" #BSD?
Unlike previous polls (
) I have tried really hard to make sure the options make sense. Select the lowest item in the list that is true for you:
Of the ten options, the first four are for those that don't use BSD regularly (let's say at least once per week).
The fifth option ("VPN/server") is for someone who uses BSD on a server they manage, but don't have physical access to.
The sixth ("at work") through eighth ("secondary laptop/desktop") is for those who regularly use some variant of BSD, but not as a primary daily driver.
The ninth and tenth options are for "dog-fooding"
Oh, right, and I'm sorry, but it really must need be said: MacOS, iOS, and other Apple products do not count. Sorry again. I will count any FOSS BSD-like OSes like #OpenIndiana, though.
I will also count retro commercial Unixes, if you're actually daily-driving them. ;)
And with that we are 25!
Signups are still open for those reading this thread via digest or very delayed. But we will definetly move forward with the Formation. I will writeup a next step info over the next two three days once I can sit down again and start the Process.
We have two people to go for our Goal for Initial Members to form the Association. Signup now!
Edit: One to go!
Und morgen abend ist völlig überraschend schon wieder der dritte Dienstag im Monat... #FRAOSUG-Dienstag! Wir treffen uns um 19 Uhr zu zwanglosem Austausch über alle möglichen IT-Themen, mit einem leichten Schwerpunkt auf #illumos-basierten OSen wie #SmartOS, #OmniOS und #OpenIndiana -- es gibt auch News über den Versuch, einen "Förderverein" für OpenIndiana aufzubauen. Wir treffen uns hier: https://public.senfcall.de/fraosug20250218 Jeder ist willkommen, mitzudiskutieren!
We are forming a Association! For #OpenIndiana and larger #illumos project funding.
https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2025-February/027258.html
And a small followup with Clarifications
https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2025-February/027271.html
Let people know! We are looking for 25 Initial Members. We are at 12. No coding required. Membership fee will be at about 30 Euros per year. The rest is all Donations.
Join now to help vote on issues and the Formation!
Where do you get the #UnixWare?
Is it just repackaged #FreeBSD or #OpenIndiana nowadays?
During our last FRAOSUG meeting, klausz has uploaded the latest boot image for OpenIndiana on SPARC: Get it here https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/SPARC/ and check it out on your SPARC machine! #fraosug #openindiana #sparc
@joany NetBSD. There is OpenIndiana but it really wants a bigger box. Also, the *ahem* subobtimal IDE disks in the Ultra5 aren't supported in OpenIndiana. https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/ #netbsd #openindiana
Just asking for a friend 
But someone claimed that a #sun T4-2 with #openindiana #sparc cannot play #amiga mods 
Even louder than the fans
#Openindiana in the media.
Unfortunately behind paywall and with one error, we are not part of the illumos foundation. illumos distros have their own Legal organizations. But we do meet for beers and talks :) but good to see the coverage.
Thanks to Christian Rentrop for the Article and coverge via @golem #golemde
Happy New Year #sparc #openindiana aficionados. How about OI/SPARC64 on a #sun T4-2 and 128, CPU's and 256GB RAM? The project is still not dead .. so stay tuned .. #solaris 11.4.42 CBE would also need an update soon :-)
