It’s been more than five years since the launch of Illumos as the concerted, community-based effort around the OpenSolaris code-base. This truly-open Solaris stack continues to be at the heart of OpenIndiana, SmartOS, Dyson, and other operating systems.
Daniel McDonald, one of those involved with Illumos via his work on OmniOS, presented this past weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM 2016 about the state of Illumos.
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