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OpenIndiana is a community supported illumos-based operating system
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By default, the windowing GUI system is based on the popular MATE system. OpenIndiana supports a wide range of popular software, including the main open source Internet server software, databases, Internet client software, development languages and tools and more.
OpenIndiana also has a powerful package manager, IPS, for updating and installing new software.
OpenIndiana obtains its name from Project Indiana, an open source effort by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) to produce OpenSolaris, a community developed Unix-like distribution based on Sun Solaris. Project Indiana was led by Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian Linux Distribution.