☀️ OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust - Phoronix
｢ The key takeaway is with the future IPS "pkg6" is porting the code over to Rust in the name of better performance than the C/Python implementation, better safety due to the Rust guarantees, modernizing the codebase, and API improvements ｣
☀️ OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust - Phoronix
｢ The key takeaway is with the future IPS "pkg6" is porting the code over to Rust in the name of better performance than the C/Python implementation, better safety due to the Rust guarantees, modernizing the codebase, and API improvements ｣
OpenIndiana 25.06 | A GhostBSD Users perspective 👀 / Robonuggie
sudo dd if=OI-hipster-gui-20251026.usb of=/dev/sda bs=10M status=progress
sudo dd if=OI-hipster-gui-20251026.usb of=/dev/sda bs=10M status=progress
Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.
He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.
He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.
I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?
#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix
OpenIndiana 25.06 | A GhostBSD Users perspective 👀 / Robonuggie
#OpenIndiana Snapshot 2025.10 was uploaded to the ISO mirror. With this snapshot we also took the opportunity to summarize the Changes since last snapshot.
In the last half year the following notable Changes have been made:
- Introduction of several Rust based utilities with the Packaged directly from crates.io
- Utilities like lsd, mergiraf, ripgrep, fd and other fancy tools
- Helix Editor and IDE. (Note: there may be issues in getting LSP servers but the rust one is available)
- Multiple Prolog Interpreters/VM's.
- SunRay Maintenance work and improvements. (It's still a popular way to run Desktops for Families)
- CVE Fixes for OpenSSH and OpenSSL (people usually get those via updates but important to mention that we keep an eye out for them)
- A huge number of automated Python and Perl package updates.
- Availability of Python 3.14 3.13, 3.12 and also 3.9
- Availability of Distributed storage offerings Seaweedfs, garage and minio
- SPARC support for Zabbix-server
- Librewolf 144
- Firefox 144
- Thunderbird 144
- Fish 4.0 (the one rewritten in Rust)
- Libreoffice 25.8.2
- Librecad 2.2
The full changelog can be found here.
https://openindiana.org/announcements/openindiana-hipster-2025-10-announcement/
I would also like to take the opportunity to thank all people that have donated to: https://opencollective.com/openindiana
#OpenIndiana Snapshot 2025.10 was uploaded to the ISO mirror. With this snapshot we also took the opportunity to summarize the Changes since last snapshot.
In the last half year the following notable Changes have been made:
- Introduction of several Rust based utilities with the Packaged directly from crates.io
- Utilities like lsd, mergiraf, ripgrep, fd and other fancy tools
- Helix Editor and IDE. (Note: there may be issues in getting LSP servers but the rust one is available)
- Multiple Prolog Interpreters/VM's.
- SunRay Maintenance work and improvements. (It's still a popular way to run Desktops for Families)
- CVE Fixes for OpenSSH and OpenSSL (people usually get those via updates but important to mention that we keep an eye out for them)
- A huge number of automated Python and Perl package updates.
- Availability of Python 3.14 3.13, 3.12 and also 3.9
- Availability of Distributed storage offerings Seaweedfs, garage and minio
- SPARC support for Zabbix-server
- Librewolf 144
- Firefox 144
- Thunderbird 144
- Fish 4.0 (the one rewritten in Rust)
- Libreoffice 25.8.2
- Librecad 2.2
The full changelog can be found here.
https://openindiana.org/announcements/openindiana-hipster-2025-10-announcement/
I would also like to take the opportunity to thank all people that have donated to: https://opencollective.com/openindiana
📀 OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download / Phoronix
Shoutout to the Random (probably Swedish) Person updating the Swedish .po translation files. for #OpenIndiana software
Shoutout to the Random (probably Swedish) Person updating the Swedish .po translation files. for #OpenIndiana software
@Toasterson Are you there and discussing that proposal?
@dexter @Toasterson Yes to both #OpenIndiana
The #eurobhyvecom will be streamed here https://youtube.com/live/623VvrCDf7o
#EuroBSDCon #bhyve #FreeBSD #illumos #OmniOS #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix
One of my plans for the next few weeks is to take a nice "dip" back into #OpenIndiana, which I haven't tried in a while. I currently have installations of both #SmartOS and #OmniOS, each with its own specific target. I also want to try installing #Tribblix on a PC that's not exactly new, but still perfectly functional.
One of my plans for the next few weeks is to take a nice "dip" back into #OpenIndiana, which I haven't tried in a while. I currently have installations of both #SmartOS and #OmniOS, each with its own specific target. I also want to try installing #Tribblix on a PC that's not exactly new, but still perfectly functional.
My humble Thinkpad X240 running OpenIndiana.
A special thank to @vermaden@bsd.cafe for his wonderful opensolaris fluxbox theme.
#openindiana #illumos
A good introduction on #openindiana and #illumos features.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqHbjPQ0124
(repost from mastodon.bsd.cafe, it fits still better here)
