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Illumos
Illumos logo.svg
Developer Illumos Foundation
Written in C
OS family Unix (SVR4) [1]
Working stateCurrent
Source model Open source with binary blobs
Initial release2010;14 years ago (2010)
Repository
Available in English
Platforms IA-32, x86-64, SPARC, ARM (under development), [2] DEC Alpha
Kernel type Monolithic
License CDDL, BSD, MIT
Preceded by OpenSolaris
Official website illumos.org

Illumos (stylized as illumos) is a partly [3] free and open-source Unix operating system. It is based on OpenSolaris, which was based on System V Release 4 (SVR4) and the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Illumos comprises a kernel, device drivers, system libraries, and utility software for system administration. This core is now the base for many different open-sourced Illumos distributions, [4] in a similar way in which the Linux kernel is used in different Linux distributions. [5]

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The maintainers write illumos in lowercase [6] since some computer fonts do not clearly distinguish a lowercase L from an uppercase i: Il (see homoglyph). [7] The project name is a combination of words illuminare from Latin for to light and OS for Operating System. [8]

Overview

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The OpenIndiana operating system is based on Illumos.

Illumos was announced via webinar [9] on Thursday, 3 August 2010, as a community effort of some core Solaris engineers to create a truly open source Solaris by swapping closed source bits of OpenSolaris with open implementations. [10] [11]

The original plan explicitly stated that Illumos would not be a distribution or a fork. However, after Oracle announced discontinuing OpenSolaris, plans were made to fork the final version of the Solaris ON kernel allowing Illumos to evolve into a kernel of its own. [12]

As of 2010, efforts focused on libc, the NFS lock manager, the crypto module, and many device drivers to create a Solaris-like OS with no closed, proprietary code. As of 2012, development emphasis includes transitioning from the historical compiler, Studio, to GCC. [13] The "userland" software is now built with GNU make [14] and contains many GNU utilities such as GNU tar.

Illumos is lightly led by founder Garrett D'Amore and other community members/developers such as Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, via a Developers' Council. [15]

The Illumos Foundation has been incorporated in the State of California as a 501(c)6 trade association, with founding board members Jason Hoffman (formerly at Joyent), Evan Powell (Nexenta), and Garrett D'Amore. As of August 2012, the foundation was in the process of formalizing its by-laws and organizational development.

At OpenStorage Summit 2010, the new logo for Illumos was revealed, with official type and branding to follow over. [16]

Development

Its primary development project, illumos-gate, derives from OS/Net (aka ON), [17] which is a Solaris kernel with the bulk of the drivers, core libraries, and basic utilities, similar to what is delivered by a BSD "src" tree. It was originally dependent on OpenSolaris OS/Net, but a fork was made after Oracle silently decided to close the development of Solaris and unofficially killed the OpenSolaris project. [18] [19] [20]

Features

Distributions

Distributions, at illumos.org [21]

Discontinued:

See also

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