OpenIndiana: There is still hope

"I remember waiting for the 2010 release, which never came. Oracle purchased Sun and killed the free version of the Solaris operating system, dashing expectation and hope. As a result, the OpenIndiana project was born. Mission statement: continue development and distribution, becoming the new OpenSolaris, available to users worldwide free of charge.

"This is a noble cause, but passion is not enough to make up for usability and security...The latest version of Solaris, 2009.06, was decent enough, but it still lagged a good year or three behind typical, modern Linux distribution. So how is this Indiana, then?"

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