Information Density: OpenIndiana – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

May 5, 2026 Snapshot 2026.04 Available Regular snapshots have been updated. As always visit the Downloads page to get them or simply update. For Notable changes... ... Click to Read more Oct 28, 2025 Snapshot 2025.10 Available Regular snapshots have been updated. As always visit the Downloads page to get them or simply update. For Notable changes... ... Click to Read more Apr 2, 2025 Snapshots 2025.04 Snapshots have been updated. ... Click to Read more Oct 26, 2024 Snapshots 2024.10 Snapshots have been updated a while ago. Did you notice? We are rolling release. ... Click to Read more Apr 28, 2024 Release 2024.04 Our first regular release this year is out, this is mainly a update snapshot but it does add new hardware support. ... Click to Read more Nov 11, 2023 Announcing the #OpenIndiana CoWorking Sessions. This Weekend Sunday: 18:00 CET we will have the first co-working session. Check this article for the link how to get there and bring your topics so we can work on them. ... Click to Read more Oct 28, 2023 Release 2023.10 The closing of this year brings with it our newest Release. We are happy to announce OpenIndiana 2023.10 ... Click to Read more May 4, 2023 Security Release 2023.05 Sometimes you release late and sometimes in quick succession. This time, unfortunately because of a security issue. UPGRADE NOW!!! ... Click to Read more Apr 21, 2023 Release of 2023.04 It is my great pleasure to announce the Release of OpenIndiana 2023.04. If you want to know what all has changed in the almost 2000 Commits since last release, click here. ... Click to Read more Mar 23, 2023 New Website A keen eye may have noticed that things look a bit different. We have a new Website and a different logo. It's not a new Logo, just one that was hidden on the old website for a long time. ... Click to Read more Dec 4, 2022 OpenIndiana Hipster 2022.10 is here As you may already have noticed, we have released new ISO and USB images for OpenIndiana Hipster some days ago. As usual, we have received many updates via illumos-gate, e.g. the latest Intel and AMD CPU microcode updates, the latest time zone changes and lots of enhancements for BHyVe and the internal SMB server. ... Click to Read more Aug 26, 2022 perl-5.22 and -5.24 have been obsoleted Our perl versions were outdated for quite some time. Finally the old versions have been replaced with 5.34 and 5.36. ... Click to Read more Jun 8, 2022 lighttpd 1.4.64 update With merge of PR #8390 we updated lighttpd to the latest version 1.4.64 which removed support for the deprecated option server.set-v6only ... Click to Read more Dec 5, 2021 OpenIndiana 2021.12 SPARC pre-release A new prerelease version of OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.12 for SPARC is available for testing. Note that this is not an official release of the OpenIndiana project. With your help, it could become one! ... Click to Read more Dec 5, 2021 OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 is here Another 6 months have passed, and we are proud to announce the release of our 2021.10 snapshot. The images are available at the usual place. ... Click to Read more May 1, 2021 OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 is here After another 6 months have passed, we are proud to announce the release of our 2021.04 snapshot. The images are available at the usual place. As usual we have automatically received all updates that have been integrated into illumos-gate. This release’s most notably changes are ... Click to Read more

[H1] Getting Involved
OpenIndiana is a distribution developed and maintained by a community of volunteers. If you are interested in contributing to the project and to illumos, there are many ways to get involved.
Have a look here to see how to do that.
The project provides resources from which you can get started,
including our documentation,
mailing lists and IRC
channels. Development servers are available, as well as development
package repositories for updating to the latest builds, and also Git repositories
for checking out the latest source code.
[H2] Security Issues
To report a security issue, please send an email security@openindiana.org.
[H2] Code repositories hosted on GitHub:
RepoDescriptionillumos-gateillumos repository containing the core Operating System: kernel, userland, networking,oi-userlandUnified build system for creating packages and local repositoriespkg5Package management systemnimbusGnome GTK2/GTK3 themenwam-managerNetwork connection manager for Gnomeslim_sourceInstaller for Live, Text and Network imagessysdingReplacement for sysidtool, a tool for system configurationtime-sliderGraphical interface for managing ZFS snapshots and backups
Do not forget to visit our parent project at illumos.org! You will find oi-dev mailing list useful
if you want to contribute to OpenIndiana. Feel free to join and get any help you feel you need to work with the project!
[H1] Code of Conduct
[H2] OpenIndiana Code of Conduct
This document provided community guidelines for a safe, respectful, productive, and collaborative place for any person who is willing to contribute to the OpenIndiana community. It applies to all “collaborative space”, which is defined as community communications channels (such as mailing lists, IRC, submitted patches, commit comments, etc.).
[H3] Core principles and expectations:
We are respectful and appreciative towards peoples work, time, and effort.
We are tolerant of the right to have opposing views.
We recognize our public actions determine the public perception of the project.
Participants must ensure their language and actions are free from personal attacks and disparaging personal remarks.
When interpreting the words and actions of others, participants should always assume good intentions.
[H3] What will not be tolerated:
Open hostility, and or abusive language.
Repeated complaining (rehashing) of closed (decided) issues.
Participants who disrupt the collaborative space, or participate in a pattern of behavior which could be considered harassment.
Filibustering – (replying with negative or opposing viewpoints to every post in a mailing list thread).
[H3] Reporting violations:
Violations of the CoC should only be reported to the distribution maintainers via direct messages on IRC, twitter, or via E-mail and will be handled confidentially.
Neither reporters nor reported persons will, or should be, made public.
[H4] Sources
Adopted from the Project-FiFo Code of Conduct.
Further inspiration derived from the FreeBSD Code of Conduct.
[H1] Finding Help
[H2] Reporting issues
Something not working right? Problems can be reported on our issue tracker.
[H2] IRC
Join us on Internet Relay Chat!
Point your favourite IRC client at: #openindiana on irc.libera.chat
[H2] Mailing Lists
Get the latest announcements and discussion topics by signing up on our lists.
Announcements: openindiana-announce
Discussion list for Users: openindiana-discuss
Discussion list for Developers: oi-dev
Click on a link above and enter your email to subscribe to a list.
[H2] Artwork
PictureNameCopyrightLicenseOI birdCopyright 2010 George MilnesLicensed under (2-clause BSD)OI birdCopyright 2010 George MilnesLicensed under (2-clause BSD)OpenIndiana Logo--OpenIndiana small Logo--OpenIndiana Desktop BackgroundCopyright 2023 MagnetarRocketLicensed under (MIT)OpenIndiana Bird T3 T2 SVG/PNGCopyright 2023 MagnetarRocketLicensed under (MIT)OpenIndiana TileBird SVG/PNGCopyright 2023 MagnetarRocketLicensed under (MIT)OpenIndiana Bird v2 T2 SVG/PNGCopyright 2023 MagnetarRocketLicensed under (MIT)OpenIndiana Bird v2 T1Copyright 2023 MagnetarRocketLicensed under (MIT)OpenIndiana Bird SimpleCopyright 2023 MagnetarRocketLicensed under (MIT)

[H1] Packages
Package management on OpenIndiana relies on pkg(5), the Image Packaging System (IPS).
[H2] OpenIndiana repositories
Packages are delivered by one main publisher named ‘openindiana.org’ together with one additional publisher ‘encumbered’ for multimedia codecs and other components which may be subject to software patents.
Hipster
PUBLISHERURIopenindiana.orghttp://pkg.openindiana.org/hipsterhipster-encumberedhttp://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-encumbered
Hipster packages are built from oi-userland: introductory steps for adding or fixing a package can be found in the Docs.
[H2] Third-party repositories
SFE
The Spec Files Extra project (SFE) kindly provides additional software for illumos distributions including OpenIndiana: multimedia software, web stack, LibreOffice 4.
PUBLISHERURIlocalhostoihhttp://sfe.opencsw.org/localhostoih
[H2] Quick start
To list existing publishers on your system:
pkg publisher
To add a publisher to your system (requires privileges):
pkg set-publisher -g http://path/to/repo_uri publisher

[H1] Download
[H2] Getting started
How to Install OpenIndiana
How to Upgrade OpenIndiana
OpenIndiana works on most x86 PCs (SPARC has Beta ISO’s, support Welcome).
From 2017.04 onwards, running on 32-bit systems is not supported anymore and the userland is being migrated progressively to 64-bit only. As usual, 32-bit libraries and core applications are still delivered and maintained for the sake of backward compatibility (but only when running a 64-bit kernel).
To check if your hardware is supported, you can refer to the illumos HCL and the OpenIndiana Community HCL;
alternatively, you can boot a Live install media and run the Device Driver Utility (ddu).
For instructions regarding downloading, preparing and installing the images,
please refer to the OpenIndiana Handbook.
If you want to contribute to the project, find out how you can help.
[H2] Download the current Hipster snapshot of OpenIndiana.
ISOSizeChecksumOpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 Live DVD (64-bit x86)1.90Gsha256OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 Live USB (64-bit x86)2.30Gsha256OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 Text Install DVD (64-bit x86)970.3Msha256OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 Text Install USB (64-bit x86)1.20Gsha256OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 Minimal Install DVD (64-bit x86)470Msha256OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.04 Minimal Install USB (64-bit x86)604Msha256OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 CloudImage (64-bit x86) (update delayed)831Msha256
Please note that these links might be slower, and it is recommended to visit a list with mirror sites
in your region. For more mirrors, our documentation has a list of
alternate download sites.
These installations can be updated regularly using the Hipster repository, and receive security fixes.
Starting with the 2017.04 release, every image is signed with
OpenIndiana Release Engineering GPG key id DBE31887.