Open Indiana Update.

Open Indiana Update.

 

Open Indiana has just posted its latest Iso (Os) on torrent.

I downloaded and it booted on my dying old IBM.

For some unknown reason it does not detect the boot loader (some error in the MBR, probably)

I boot it by a live DVD/Cd and then use the Live DVD menu Hard Disk option and boot my OS, Peppermint.

This is what I am going to do with my old horse till it packs up.

I have tested over 200 live CDs on it and the reason for packing up is partly due to that, I believe.

But the real culprit is our Electricity Supply which has done enormous damage to many equipment including computers.

It cannot provide constant voltage or reliable voltage.

Coming back to Open Indian, it has option for Live as well as booting from hard disk (I did not try with Open Indiana / Solaris but by MUKULU Linux).

I too a little time but has pleasing Gnome Desktop.

The partition Editor did not detect my partitions bout detected the SATA hard disk.

Browser was FireFox.

There was no LibreOffice or Abiword.

I could not locate the software store to add software.

It is falling behind Linux but I still have my Open Solaris Free disk in my archive which Sun posted it to me free in my early days with Linux.

I hope the developers / community is well supported (in its endeavours).

OpenSolaris was Sun's open-sourcing of most of the System V (plus much else) Unix based Solaris operating system. It's now the third major family of open-source Unix, after Linux and BSD.

OpenIndiana is a general purpose distribution with X and desktop environment. If you intend to run illumos on the desktop, you want OpenIndiana.