<s>
OpenIndiana	B-Application
is	O
a	O
free	B-License
and	I-License
open-source	I-License
illumos	B-Application
distribution	O
descended	O
from	O
UNIX	B-Operating_System
System	I-Operating_System
V	I-Operating_System
Release	O
4	O
via	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Forked	B-Application
from	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
after	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
was	O
discontinued	O
by	O
Oracle	B-Application
Corporation	I-Application
,	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
takes	O
its	O
name	O
from	O
Project	O
Indiana	O
,	O
the	O
internal	O
codename	O
for	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
at	O
Sun	O
Microsystems	O
before	O
Oracle	B-Application
’s	O
acquisition	O
of	O
Sun	O
in	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Created	O
by	O
a	O
development	O
team	O
led	O
by	O
Alasdair	O
Lumsden	O
,	O
the	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
project	O
is	O
now	O
stewarded	O
by	O
the	O
illumos	B-Application
Foundation	O
,	O
which	O
develops	O
and	O
maintains	O
the	O
illumos	B-Application
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
aims	O
to	O
make	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
"	O
the	O
de	O
facto	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
distribution	O
installed	O
on	O
production	O
servers	O
where	O
security	O
and	O
bug	O
fixes	O
are	O
provided	O
free	O
of	O
charge.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Project	O
Indiana	O
was	O
originally	O
conceived	O
by	O
Sun	O
Microsystems	O
,	O
to	O
construct	O
a	O
binary	O
distribution	O
around	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
source	O
code	O
base	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Project	O
Indiana	O
was	O
led	O
by	O
Ian	O
Murdock	O
,	O
founder	O
of	O
the	O
Debian	O
Linux	B-Application
distribution	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenIndiana	B-Application
was	O
conceived	O
after	O
negotiations	O
of	O
a	O
takeover	O
of	O
Sun	O
Microsystems	O
by	O
Oracle	B-Application
were	O
proceeding	O
,	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
ensure	O
continued	O
availability	O
and	O
further	O
development	O
of	O
an	O
OpenSolaris-based	O
OS	O
,	O
as	O
it	O
is	O
widely	O
used	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Uncertainty	O
among	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
development	O
community	O
led	O
some	O
developers	O
to	O
form	O
tentative	O
plans	O
for	O
a	O
fork	B-Application
of	O
the	O
existing	O
codebase	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
plans	O
came	O
to	O
fruition	O
following	O
the	O
announcement	O
of	O
discontinuation	O
of	O
support	O
for	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
project	O
by	O
Oracle	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
formal	O
announcement	O
of	O
the	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
project	O
was	O
made	O
on	O
September	O
14	O
,	O
2010	O
,	O
at	O
the	O
JISC	O
Centre	O
in	O
London	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
was	O
made	O
available	O
publicly	O
at	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
,	O
despite	O
being	O
untested	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
reason	O
for	O
the	O
untested	O
release	O
was	O
that	O
the	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
team	O
set	O
a	O
launch	O
date	O
ahead	O
of	O
Oracle	B-Application
OpenWorld	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
beat	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Solaris	B-Application
11	I-Application
Express	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
announcement	O
of	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
was	O
met	O
with	O
a	O
mainly	O
positive	O
response	O
;	O
over	O
350	O
people	O
viewed	O
the	O
online	O
announcement	O
,	O
the	O
ISO	O
image	O
was	O
downloaded	O
over	O
2000	O
times	O
,	O
the	O
Twitter	B-Application
account	I-Application
obtained	O
over	O
500	O
followers	O
,	O
and	O
numerous	O
notable	O
IT	O
press	O
websites	O
wrote	O
about	O
the	O
release	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Not	O
all	O
reporting	O
was	O
positive	O
,	O
though	O
,	O
as	O
some	O
online	O
articles	O
questioned	O
the	O
relevance	O
of	O
Solaris	B-Application
given	O
the	O
market	O
penetration	O
of	O
Linux	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
article	O
was	O
critical	O
of	O
the	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
launch	O
,	O
citing	O
a	O
lack	O
of	O
professionalism	O
with	O
regard	O
to	O
releasing	O
an	O
untested	O
build	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
project	O
's	O
lack	O
of	O
commitment	O
to	O
a	O
release	O
schedule	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
initial	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
release	O
was	O
advertised	O
as	O
experimental	O
and	O
directly	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
latest	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
development	O
build	O
,	O
preliminary	O
to	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
2010	O
release	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
binary	O
distribution	O
moved	O
to	O
SolarisExpress	O
and	O
the	O
real-time	O
feed	O
of	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
updates	O
discontinued	O
,	O
concerns	O
abounded	O
over	O
what	O
would	O
happen	O
to	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
if	O
Oracle	B-Application
decided	O
to	O
stop	O
feeding	O
source	O
code	O
back	O
into	O
the	O
community	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
team	O
mitigated	O
these	O
concerns	O
when	O
they	O
announced	O
their	O
intention	O
to	O
move	O
the	O
source	O
code	O
feed	O
to	O
the	O
illumos	B-Application
Foundation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Concerns	O
were	O
raised	O
about	O
possible	O
discontinuation	O
of	O
free	O
access	O
to	O
the	O
Oracle-owned	O
compiler	O
being	O
used	O
to	O
produce	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
response	O
,	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
was	O
modified	O
to	O
be	O
able	O
to	O
compile	O
under	O
the	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
GNU	B-Application
Compiler	I-Application
Collection	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
lack	O
of	O
a	O
comprehensive	O
centralized	O
HCL	O
follows	O
from	O
the	O
fact	O
that	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
HCL	O
was	O
hosted	O
on	O
Oracle	B-Application
server	O
infrastructure	O
and	O
the	O
server-side	O
code	O
for	O
the	O
Device	O
Driver	O
Utility	O
submission	O
was	O
not	O
made	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
his	O
resignation	O
,	O
Lumsden	O
wrote	O
,	O
"	O
For	O
many	O
of	O
us	O
this	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
project	O
we	O
had	O
ever	O
contributed	O
to	O
,	O
myself	O
included	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
September	O
2013	O
DistroWatch	O
review	O
stated	O
that	O
the	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
project	O
has	O
"	O
seemingly	O
been	O
in	O
steady	O
decline	O
for	O
the	O
last	O
couple	O
of	O
years.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
same	O
review	O
concluded	O
that	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
had	O
not	O
progressed	O
significantly	O
from	O
the	O
state	O
of	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
five	O
years	O
before	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
May	O
2015	O
DistroWatch	O
review	O
of	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
similarly	O
concluded	O
that	O
little	O
major	O
progress	O
had	O
been	O
made	O
to	O
the	O
system	O
over	O
the	O
years	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
review	O
stated	O
that	O
the	O
package	O
selection	O
and	O
hardware	O
support	O
seemed	O
to	O
lag	O
behind	O
other	O
systems	O
,	O
while	O
many	O
of	O
the	O
system	O
administration	O
features	O
have	O
either	O
replicated	O
or	O
ported	O
to	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
BSD	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Claims	O
about	O
lack	O
of	O
package	O
support	O
may	O
be	O
mitigated	O
by	O
the	O
fact	O
that	O
the	O
3500+	O
software	O
packages	O
provided	O
by	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
Hipster	O
are	O
not	O
split	O
into	O
several	O
packages	O
,	O
which	O
would	O
artificially	O
increase	O
the	O
package	O
count	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
like	O
in	O
Linux	B-Application
distributions	I-Application
)	O
:	O
the	O
Image	B-Application
Packaging	I-Application
System	I-Application
is	O
a	O
file-based	O
package	O
management	O
providing	O
incremental	O
updates	O
and	O
package	O
facets	O
,	O
making	O
such	O
splitting	O
an	O
unnecessary	O
burden	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
extended	O
selection	O
,	O
the	O
pkgsrc	O
system	O
supported	O
by	O
Joyent	O
readily	O
provides	O
20000+	O
packages	O
for	O
illumos	B-Application
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenIndiana	B-Application
is	O
a	O
fork	B-Application
in	O
the	O
technical	O
sense	O
but	O
it	O
is	O
a	O
continuation	O
of	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
in	O
spirit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
intends	O
to	O
deliver	O
a	O
System	B-Operating_System
V	I-Operating_System
family	O
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
which	O
is	O
binary-compatible	O
with	O
the	O
Oracle	B-Application
products	O
Solaris	B-Application
11	I-Application
and	O
Solaris	B-Application
11	I-Application
Express	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
rather	O
than	O
being	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
OS/Net	B-Operating_System
consolidation	I-Operating_System
like	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
was	O
,	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
is	O
based	O
on	O
illumos	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
does	O
use	O
the	O
same	O
Image	B-Application
Packaging	I-Application
System	I-Application
(	O
IPS	B-Application
)	O
package	O
management	O
system	O
as	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
the	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
codebase	O
was	O
initially	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
majority	O
of	O
publicly	O
available	O
code	O
from	O
Oracle	B-Application
,	O
this	O
is	O
not	O
the	O
case	O
since	O
the	O
oi_151a	O
Development	O
Builds	O
which	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
illumos	B-Application
from	O
September	O
2011	O
onwards	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
has	O
effectively	O
moved	O
away	O
from	O
Oracle-owned	O
tools	O
such	O
as	O
Sun	B-Application
Studio	I-Application
:	O
all	O
builds	O
since	O
2013	O
,	O
including	O
the	O
active	O
Hipster	O
branch	O
,	O
use	O
the	O
GNU	B-Application
Compiler	I-Application
Collection	I-Application
(	O
GCC	B-Application
)	O
as	O
sole	O
compiler	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
illumos	B-Application
project	O
itself	O
is	O
built	O
with	O
GCC	B-Application
since	O
June	O
15	O
,	O
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
experimental	O
release	O
of	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
,	O
Build	O
147	O
,	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
September	O
14	O
,	O
2010	O
;	O
the	O
second	O
experimental	O
release	O
,	O
Build	O
148	O
,	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
December	O
17	O
,	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
the	O
first	O
release	O
to	O
be	O
based	O
upon	O
illumos	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
MartUX	O
151a0	O
was	O
released	O
as	O
the	O
first	O
SPARC	B-Architecture
build	O
for	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenSXCE	O
2013.01	O
SPARC	B-Architecture
Build	O
151a	O
,	O
formerly	O
MartUX	O
,	O
was	O
released	O
through	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
on	O
February	O
1	O
,	O
2013	O
,	O
as	O
the	O
second	O
and	O
possibly	O
last	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
SPARC	B-Architecture
build	O
,	O
with	O
subsequent	O
releases	O
based	O
upon	O
DilOS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
the	O
development	O
model	O
inherited	O
from	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
project	O
was	O
unsuitable	O
for	O
a	O
community	O
project	O
,	O
the	O
Hipster	O
initiative	O
was	O
created	O
late	O
2013	O
to	O
reboot	O
and	O
modernize	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hipster	O
project	O
is	O
a	O
fast	O
development	O
branch	O
of	O
OpenIndiana	B-Application
based	O
on	O
a	O
rolling-release	O
model	O
and	O
a	O
horizontal	O
contribution	O
scheme	O
through	O
the	O
oi-userland	O
build	O
system	O
and	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
continuous	O
integration	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Every	O
snapshot	O
release	O
is	O
announced	O
via	O
mailing	O
list	O
and	O
Twitter	B-Application
.	O
</s>
