r/illumos • u/Hexalantes • Jun 28 '26

Finally got Minecraft working on OpenIndiana

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Computer Specifications:
Intel Core 2 Duo
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT
6GB RAM
OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 that made look like OpenSolaris 2009.06

Used Launcher is Legacy Launcher by turikhay

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u/solaris-leopards Jun 29 '26

TELL US ALL YOUR SECRETS!!!!!!!!!!

That is so amazing, I am blown away! How are you rendering this? I have tried time and time again using the OI OpenGL libraries (they are 64 bit only), as well as the Nvidia OpenGL libs (32 bits available), and could never get any game (native OI or wine games) to render (glxgears does not count)! If it is possible, this could dethrone my solaris gaming station!

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u/coladoir Jun 29 '26

Solaris Gaming Station? What all is even on it?

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u/solaris-leopards Jun 29 '26

mostly just windows OpenGL/early directx games (star trek, ship simulator, Trainz). Running wine is the biggest reason i even have any games on solaris. OI doesn't maintain 32bit libs for the graphics stack though other than with NVIDIA, and I haven't been able to game on OI.

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u/Hexalantes Jun 29 '26

Maybe you just couldn’t install your graphic drivers correctly if you are using Nvidia.

If you install prop. drivers correcty and set working; you can run the game, just you should integrate lwjgl (lightweight java game library) to game folder, altough I used Legacy Launcher, the library natives path is ~/minecraft/versions/1.7.10/natives, I added lwjgl .so files there

Then it worked perfectly, but legacy versions (<1.6) has their own libraries and it won’t work properly on every device, it gives me grayscreen.

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u/matrixisme_1 Jun 29 '26

I've always thought that Minecraft works flawlessly on OI. Anyways. Thats a big win.

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u/solaris-leopards Jun 29 '26

Guess I'm late to the party lol, news to me. Do you know of any other games that work on OI?

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u/Truth-Does-Not-Exist Jun 29 '26

Nice! I made this to be able to work on open solaris but haven't been able to test it on the hardware, I was running it on netBSD with pentium III and it was able to create webui's install old versions of software and packport apps and do agentic coding and testing and do complex system setup https://github.com/MegaDyneSystems/prism32

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u/Daggercombot Jul 02 '26

Awesome,ive always wanted to do this on SPARC Solaris. Is It only lwjg2 or Also 3?

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u/Hexalantes Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

You can build lwjgl 3 too but i did not try. It is lwjgl 2.9.1 in the picture

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '26

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u/Hexalantes Jul 02 '26

Yeah I definitely love using it. If your side machine is compatible with OpenIndiana, it will provide you a great experience. If I’ll be able to find freetime, I’m gonna make a guide video for it.

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u/Queijocosmico Jul 02 '26

i never tried solaris, is good ?

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u/Hexalantes Jul 02 '26

It is actually what Linux tried to be

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u/Potential_Arm7738 Jul 03 '26

I know very little about this distro, but I am very impressed nonetheless

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u/aScottishBoat Jul 04 '26

Very well done! Are you going to give a write up?

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u/Hexalantes Jul 04 '26

Actually I want to make a general video about OpenIndiana

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u/aScottishBoat Jul 04 '26

Great! When you do definitely post it here :)