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OpenIndiana Snapshot 2025.10 Available
In the last half year the following notable Changes have been made:
- Introduction of several Rust based utilities with the Packaged directly from crates.io
- Utilities like lsd, mergiraf, ripgrep, fd and other fancy tools
- Helix Editor and IDE. (Note: there may be issues in getting LSP servers but the rust one is available)
- Multiple Prolog Interpreters/VM’s.
- SunRay Maintenance work and improvements. (It’s still a popular way to run Desktops for Families)
- CVE Fixes for OpenSSH and OpenSSL (people usually get those via updates but important to mention that we keep an eye out for them)
- A huge number of automated Python and Perl package updates.
- Availability of Python 3.14 3.13, 3.12 and also 3.9
- Availability of Distributed storage offerings Seaweedfs, garage and minio
- SPARC support for Zabbix-server
- Librewolf 144
- Firefox 144
- Thunderbird 144
- Fish 4.0 (the one rewritten in Rust)
- Libreoffice 25.8.2
- Librecad 2.2
Update
Some media coverage now:
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The New Stack ☛ Unix: OpenSolaris Lives on in This OpenIndiana Fork
OpenIndiana, based on OpenSolaris, is a Unix operating system, so if you’re coming from Linux and you expect to experience a very Linux-like operating system, you might be in for a surprise.
Sun Microsystems initially released OpenSolaris in 2005 as an open source version of its Solaris Unix operating system. Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 and shuttered the project shortly thereafter.
If you know Linux well, you should be able to pick up on this OS pretty easily. To do that, you’ll want to understand the differences between the two: [...]