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I could find the wiki page which is telling about opensolaris os is containing official site link which does not contain opensolaris download thread etc. Moreover, there is no more opensolaris official site as said here ; The http://opensolaris.org redirects to https://solaris.java.net/ only.

So my question is ... does the opensolaris still exist? Where to download the latest version from a safe download center?

jaypal singh
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user592704
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  • According to the [wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris), OpenSolaris **was** on open source computer operating system... and in 2010 Oracle decided to discontinue. Some folks have forked it under the name [OpenIndiana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana). – msound Apr 27 '14 at 04:05
  • I heard it is no longer developed by oracle; But I am interested in the latest opensolaris release; it should be somewhere anyway though it is old or how you call it... I could see links where opensolaris can be downloaded which are not related to oracle official site but I cannot be sure the links provide the original opensolaris os? So I am asking is there some safe download center(s) for opensolaris which may be still be sponsored by oracle or oracle's partners or something this way so I can be sure it is the original os distribution? – user592704 Apr 28 '14 at 17:13
  • Why not just use the official Solaris ? You are free to use it for the purpose of "developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your applications", otherwise you'll have to pay. – peterh May 22 '14 at 06:09

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There are a number of illumos(opensolaris) based distros. omnios, opensxce, openindiana. I like openindiana because it is the closest to opensolaris. I am not sure how things have changed, but i use it now cleanly with nvidia.

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No, OpenSolaris no longer exists. The final release of the OpenSolaris distro was 5 years ago, OpenSolaris 2009.06, and bug fixes & security fixes are no longer available for it.

After the Oracle acquisition, OpenSolaris forked - Oracle continued developing the code and released new versions under a closed-source license as Solaris 11, while the illumos community took the open source code base and developed it further themselves, generating a variety of different distros. Which you use depends on what you want/need from an OS, but there is no single distro that is an exact match for what OpenSolaris was.

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  • But Solaris 11 etc it is "not-free" for commercial use :P So the illumos "opensolaris" is more handy as I may get it (correct me if I am wrong here pls); Well actually I am not really familiar with illumos distros but I may say I am interested in OS with which I can use as "windows xp pro" for example :S Can you advise what unix based os should I look for? – user592704 Apr 28 '14 at 17:05
  • Sorry, that doesn't seem to really help - if "use as windows xp pro" means you can use ten year old hardware and run old windows apps, then I don't know of any current free Unix-like OS to do that. – alanc Apr 28 '14 at 23:50
  • As I can remember the latest solaris was 2009.06 or so; So it is 5 years :) I am not about to run windows apps but I mean OS functionality... Something simple as a) internet ppp support; b) latest jre support; c) 64-bit support d) nVidia support etc a common client machine stuff btw I heard linux has problems with nVidia so I am interested to know does solaris has the same "nVidia" problems? – user592704 Apr 29 '14 at 16:43