illumos

illumos illumos is a free and open-source Unix operating system It derives from OpenSolaris, which in turn derives from SVR4 UNIX and 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 OpenSolaris distributions,3 in a similar way in which the Linux kernel is used in different Linux distributions The maintainers write illumos in lowercase since some computer fonts do not clearly distinguish a lowercase L from an uppercase i see homoglyph The name is derived from the Latin illuminare meaning "to enlighten," and "OS" for operating system Contents 1 Overview 2 Development 3 Features 4 Relatives 5 Current distributions 6 References 7 External links Overview The OpenIndiana operating system is based on illumos illumos was announced via webinar4 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 implementatioillumos, illumos distribution, illumos download, illumos kernel, illumos operating system, illumos github illumos