[OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana.org download page hipster links need to be updated

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 20.07.25 um 21:43 schrieb serenissi via openindiana-discuss:
> On 20/7/25 22:25, Andreas Wacknitz via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>
>> Am 20.07.25 um 20:30 schrieb Atiq Rahman:
>>> Hi,
>>> On the download page: https://openindiana.org/downloads/ under section
>>> "Download the current Hipster snapshot of OpenIndiana."
>>>
>>> download links are pointing to 2025.04 while the latest is 2025.06, It
>>> would be nice to have them updated.
>>>
>>> Also, when is 2025.07 coming?
>>>
>>> Best!
>>>
>>> Atiq
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>> Thanks for the information about the outdated links.
>>
>> Usually we release installation images twice a year (April and October).
>> This year we needed to release the 2025.06 versions because the gui 
>> installer image released in April  wasn't usable.
>>
>> From time to time I upload test images into the test folder below 
>> https://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/
>> which can be used like the official images. The test folder gets 
>> cleaned up sometimes, though.
>>
>> A remark: as OpenIndiana Hipster is a rolling release you typically 
>> don't need to download the newer images.
>> They are only useful if support for newer hardware has been added 
>> (mostly by illumos-gate).
>> Once you have installed OpenIndiana you can simply run pfexec pkg 
>> update (-v) to get the latest bits installed.
>> Typically these bits are even newer than the latest installation 
>> images as we have frequent updates of packages.
>>
>> And a final remark: The number of people contributing to OI Hipster 
>> is very low. We appreciate any helping hand.
>
> I'm quite new to OI and illumos in general, just playing with it a 
> bit. I'll be happy to help if somebody can give me some pointers for 
> what to do or about OI stuffs in general.
>
> PS: I come from GNU/Linux world if that's relevant. I'm yet to install 
> illumos on hardware.
In this case you should make yourself familiar with OpenIndiana, e.g. by 
starting to read its documentation:
https://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/
illumos based operating systems have some things inherited from Solaris 
that you cannot find elsewhere,
eg. the modular debugger (mdb). A glimpse of that you can find in the 
illumos books: https://illumos.org/books/

When you are willing to contribute to OI you can start building packages 
on you own system. An introduction can be found at 
https://docs.openindiana.org/dev/userland/

Feel free to use the mailing list or IRC to ask for help and further 
information.

Andreas