OpenIndiana 2016.10: the new version of free UNIX is here

Open Indiana 2016.10 "Hipster" It is now available if we want to download and test it on our computer. This new release has updated its components, in addition to new functions, the migration to FreeBSD Loader, Intel KMS (Kernel Mode Setting), implemented from Python 2.7 by default, they have eliminated Sun SSH and have included a new version of the desktop environment that carries this operating system, MATE 1.14. eye! Don't confuse OpenIndiana with a Linux distribution, it doesn't have a Linux kernel.

Following the upgrades and packages updated included, we can also find the web browser Mozilla Firefox 49.0.2, Mozilla Thunderbird 45.4.0 as a mail manager, Mesa 12.0.3 3D as a graphic library, the printing system has been updated to version CUPS 1.7.5, the vector graphics editing software Inkscape 0.91 and Mutt 1.7.1 as mail client, and a long etc. Many of these projects and the desktop environment itself will be familiar to you because surely you already use them in Linux ...

The launch has been announced by Alesander pyhalov And although in this blog we focus on Linux, we never forget other fantastic projects related to the world of free and open source software, such as FreeBSD, and other BSDs, OpenIndiana, etc. So from here we encourage you to try the other alternatives that exist to operating systems based on the Linux krenel.

Well, for those who do not know what it is about the OpenIndiana projectIt is a free UNIX-like operating system, as well as free, which arises as a fork or fork of OpenSolaris after the purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle (similar to what happened with OpenOffice and LibreOffice). Its development continued and now it has become a great solution for servers and other equipment due to its security, stability and power measures. The person in charge of its sponsorship and development runs under the Illumos Foundation ...