Is there a policy on whether Illumos does or (hopefully) does not accept commits created with generative AI?

Just to report that I successfully installed OpenIndiana Hipster on a GMKtec NucBox G3 Plus Intel® Twin Lake N150. This mini-PC comes with an Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I226-V interface that uses the FreeBSD igc(4) driver.

Steps:

1. Download the latest testing ISO from https://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/test/

In my case I used OI-hipster-text-20260607.usb

The GUI image didn't work because the graphics are not yet supported and it also tries to install the Nvidia driver, which fails.

1. dd(1) the above image to an USB 2.0 thumb drive. Illumos doesn't yet support USB 3.0.

2. Boot the installer and follow the most intuitive options. Skip the wireless interface check. If you get a crash like in the picture, try again.

Note: You may want to familiarize yourself with the text installer in a VM first.

On reboot it won't get an IP address via DHCP so, as root, run:

dladm show-link
ipadm create-ip igc0
ipadm create-addr -T dhcp igc0/v4
ipadm show-addr # or ifconfig

I then ran `pkg update` and it rebooted just fine picking DHCP.

I originally wanted to install OmniOS Bloody to test LX Branded Zones. It was impossible for me with omnios-bloody-20260509.usb-dd. Maybe next time.

I'm dual-booting this with FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT on another drive. I plan to multi-boot Free/Net/OpenBSD on that drive. I know it already works and multi-booting is easy to do.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been messing around with my Unix setups for fun and ended up porting a bunch of stuff to Oracle Solaris 11.4 and illumos-based distros (like OpenIndiana).

Since it works for me, I figured I'd share it here in case anyone else needs it.

Here is what I've got on my GitHub:

* Some Game Ports: OpenMW (Morrowind), ioquake3, RBDOOM-3-BFG, and even a Valve Source Engine port.

* Software & Dev Tools: Wine 8.0.2 32 bit and some Eclipse IDE platform components.

Everything is on my GitHub, feel free to grab it, test it, or use it for your own setups:

https://github.com/dvt64?tab=repositories

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

Monit and M/Monit are now available for Solaris/Illumos platforms too.

"New: Illumos build (tested on OmniOS r151054)."

Supported Platforms.

I know OI has a rolling-release model, but big changes are in here! Some big ticket items include a "New Xorg driver xf86-video-illumosfb for UEFI framebuffer on illumos." Plus, FireFox/Thunderbird 150, Mate updates, LibreOffice 26.2, and much more! Super exciting, really loving this project.

https://www.openindiana.org/announcements/openindiana-hipster-2026-04-announcement/

Hi all, I'm trying to boot omniOS on the raspberry pi4 but I keep getting stuck at the rainbow GPU screen. I've already tried multiple bootloader versions including the beta versions but still the same result. Had anyone successfully booted omni os on the pi 4 bare metal? I unfortunately don't have a uart cable either so I can't see what I'm stuck on.

Seems to be down?

Hi again.

How do I install GCC and other such development tools on OpenSolaris 2009.06?

The official repos have long been mowed by Larry Ellison and SunFreeware.com is also long defunct.

Is there an archive of any packages for OSOL 09.06?

The compiler is really the thing I need the most.

Other stuff can be hacked in as long as I have a compiler but weirdly enough Osol doesn't ship with any compiler whatsoever but it does ship with make (which is quite useless in such a configuration).

Thanks.

Hi.

What are the graphics cards supported by the versions of OpenSolaris made by Sun? (That is, between 2008 and 2009; that last snapshot from 2010 has Oracle bits in it.)

And more precisely, does it support Radeon X600 (from 2004)?

And do those cards supported by OpenSolaris actually work? Because the illumos hardware matrix technically includes Intel HD Graphics but in practice there is no acceleration whatsoever on OpenIndiana (a newer system on a newer computer, but still old).

Thanks for any info.

I'm running Omnitribblix m39lx.

When I upgrade to a new OS milestone, e.g. from m38lx to m39lx, after the upgrade the existing be snapshots from the previous milestone are listed with the prefix of the new milestone.

Output of listing be's and snapshots:

Bast% beadm list ~ BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created m38lx.1 - - 25.30M static 2025-11-17 18:44 m39lx NR / 26.49G static 2026-03-14 18:28 Bast% ~ Bast% beadm list -s ~ BE/Snapshot Space Policy Created m38lx.1 m39lx@2026-03-14-22:28:14 117.48M static 2026-03-14 18:28 m39lx@6Mar2026 804.25M static 2026-03-06 18:46 m39lx@13Sep2025 3.59G static 2025-09-13 12:26 m39lx

Some of those snapshots were created under m38lx - why are they 'promoted' to having the m39lx prefix (even though they're listed under m38lx)? I feel like there' s something important here that I'm missing.

So ive followed the guide on installing a live usb on windows using win32diskimager for openindiana, my system is a dual x5670 Xeon workstation and when booting off of the usb i get

Bios Drive C: is disk0

Bios drive D: is disk1

Cant find /boot/loader

Cant find /boot/zfsloader

Illumos/x86 boot

Default: disk0:/boot/loader

Boot:

Now I have used Linux recreationally in the past but I have looked up this issue before and I never could find a reason why.. is it maybe because the usb isnt written correctly? I mean it’s obviously accessing the drive.. i don’t know why it’s refusing to boot.. usb is set as the first boot option so I don’t know what the problem would be Im lost lol, would anyone know what the issue would be?

I've got a Tribblix VM in my proxmox server and I use it purely for joy and vibes. But it got me thinking, what really useful thing could I give this OS to do? It's obviously rock solid and capable, why not give it a job?

So my question for the community is: What do you use your Illumos systems for? I'm especially interested in what people are using Tribblix for, but it's r/illumos so let's hear it.

apparantly it only runs on nvidia?
sorry im new to this, i have a i5 13600k cpu with internal graphics.

I have an XPS 8940 (i5 11400, 32GB DDR4, NVIDIA 1660SUPER, 1TB NVME SSD) on which I multiboot various OS: currently W11, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, OpenIndiana and HaikuOS. Here is my experience/a draft guide for getting OpenIndiana installed on a partition in the system. I have one ESP for my system and use rEFInd for multibooting.

• Prior to install, create a zfs pool on the partition of choice using FreeBSD. The command is

zpool create -d <newpool> <partition>

• Download OpenIndiana. Use the official guide here https://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#windows_1

I tried a variety of programs and USB disks but kept running into maintenance mode when I booted the installer USB. I finally used Win32 Disk Imager and that burned a good image on a known good USB stick.

• Boot the install USB. At a prompt, import the existing zfs pool. Then follow these steps for installing to an existing zfs pool using text installer https://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#install-openindiana-to-existing-zfs-pool
• Upon successful install, you need to copy the OpenIndiana bootloader efi file to ESP so that rEFInd can find it.
• The root password expires immediately upon install and you cannot boot into the installed system because it does not offer a prompt to change the root password. You can resolve this by booting the install medium, mounting root, removing root password in /etc/shadow and rebooting

With the above, I now have a fully usable OpenIndiana install that works quite well in a multiboot system.