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<h2>Welcome to OpenIndiana Hipster!</h2>
<p>OpenIndiana is an illumos based Unix-like distribution derived from OpenSolaris.
Constructed as a general purpose operating system with enterprise class features, OpenIndiana Hipster is developed by the community, and for the community.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Some of the differences between OpenIndiana and OpenSolaris can be characterized as follows:</p>
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<li>Sun's OS/NET consolidation (closed by Oracle) has been replaced with illumos-gate.</li><br>
<li>Many of the original OpenSolaris software consolidations have been reorganized into a single oi-userland consolidation.</li><br>
<li>Oracle's Sun Studio has been replaced with the open source GNU GCC compiler.</li><br>
<li>XVM (XEN) has been replaced with the illumos-kvm port.</li><br>
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<h2>OpenIndiana Hipster Enterprise Class Features</h2>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS">ZFS</a></td>
<td>File System and Volume Manager</td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace">Dtrace</a></td>
<td>Dynamic Tracing Framework (System Introspection)</td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris_Network_Virtualization_and_Resource_Control">Crossbow</a></td>
<td>Network Virtualization and Resource Control</td>
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<td><a href="http://illumos.org/man/5/smf">SMF</a></td>
<td>Service Management Facility</td>
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<td><a href="http://illumos.org/man/1M/fmd">FMA</a></td>
<td>Fault Management Architecture</td>
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<td><a href="http://illumos.org/man/1m/itadm">COMSTAR</a></td>
<td>Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target (ISCSI Target Framework)</td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine">KVM</a></td>
<td>Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (Operating System Virtualization)</td>
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<td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers">Zones</a></td>
<td>OS Level Virtualized Application Containers</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3831881/Say-Cheese-OpenSolaris-Time-Slider.htm">Time-Slider</a></td>
<td>Automated ZFS Snapshots and Rollbacks</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/4073-Less-known-Solaris-features-RBAC-and-Privileges-Part-1-Introduction.html">RBAC</a></td>
<td>Role-Based Access Control</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6292-Less-known-Solaris-features-IP-Multipathing-Part-1-Introduction.html">IPMP</a></td>
<td>IP Network Multipathing</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7553-Less-known-Solaris-Features-Data-Link-Multipathing.html">DLMP</a></td>
<td>Data Link Multipathing</td>
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<h2>Release Notes</h2>
<a href="https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Release+Notes">https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Release+Notes</a>
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<h2>About Us</h2>
<p>The OpenIndiana Project is a community of volunteers and UNIX enthusiasts from around the world.
Currently build servers, hosting and bandwidth is donated by EveryCity hosting in the UK.</p>
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<h2>Getting Involved</h2>
<p>Our success as a distribution depends upon the success of our community, which is why we would like to invite all those interested in the future of OpenIndiana to participate and get involved!</p>
<p>We have many resources from which you can get started, including our Wiki, Mailing Lists and IRC Channel.</p>
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<li>For developers we have Vagrant development images which can be easily deployed.</li><br>
<li>For end users we have publicly available IPS repositories for updating your installation with the latest software and security fixes.</li>
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<h2>Links</h2>
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<li>Website: <a href="https://openindiana.org">https://openindiana.org</a></li><br>
<li>Wiki: <a href="https://wiki.openindiana.org">https://wiki.openindiana.org</a></li><br>
<li>Mailing Lists: <a href="http://openindiana.org/mailman">http://openindiana.org/mailman</a></li><br>
<li>IRC Channel: #openindiana on irc.freenode.net</li>
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<h2>License</h2>
<a href="file:///etc/notices/LICENSE" title="OpenIndiana Licensing Information">OpenIndiana Licensing Information</a>
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