Illumos

Illumos
DeveloperIllumos Foundation
Written inC
OS familyUnix (SVR4)[1]
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source with binary blobs
Initial release2010 (2010)
Repository
Available inEnglish
PlatformsIA-32, x86-64, SPARC, ARM (under development),[2] DEC Alpha
Kernel typeMonolithic
LicenseCDDL, BSD, MIT
Preceded byOpenSolaris
Official websiteillumos.org

Illumos (stylized as "illumos") is a partly free and open-source Unix operating system.[3] It has been developed since 2010 and is based on OpenSolaris, after the discontinuation of that product by Oracle. It comprises a kernel, device drivers, system libraries, and utility software for system administration. Its core has become the base for many different open-sourced Illumos distributions,[4] in a way similar to how the Linux kernel is used in different Linux distributions.[5]

  1. ^ "Open Brand". www.opengroup.org.
  2. ^ Clulow, Joshua (25 October 2012). "Raspberry Pi Bring-Up". illumos Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 July 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Building illumos". illumos.org. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Distributions".
  5. ^ Blankenhorn, Dana. "What Illumos is and is not". ZDNet.

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