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OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download

([Operating Systems] 3 Hours Ago OpenIndiana 2025.10)


OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs were published on Sunday as the newest half-year update to this Illumos (OpenSolaris) derived platform.

[1]OpenIndiana continues to be the most prominent distribution born out of the forked OpenSolaris code and with desktop support albeit hasn't quite had the traction as from some years ago.

There hasn't been any release announcement yet for OpenSolaris 2025.10 on [2]OpenIndiana.org but in recent releases anyhow the they have been minimally informative.

[3]

I tried out the OpenIndiana Hispter 2025.10 USB image on an AMD Strix Point laptop. Unfortunately, it only got as far as beginning to boot the Illumos kernel before it was restarting. Unfortunately, the Illumos/OpenIndiana hardware support has been lagging behind in recent years compared to Linux and even the BSDs.

The OpenIndiana 2025.10 images are available for download from [4]dlc.openindiana.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/OpenIndiana

[2] https://openindiana.org/

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=openindiana_202510_lrg

[4] https://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20251026/


A programmer from a very large computer company went to a software
conference and then returned to report to his manager, saying: "What sort
of programmers work for other companies? They behaved badly and were
unconcerned with appearances. Their hair was long and unkempt and their
clothes were wrinkled and old. They crashed out hospitality suites and they
made rude noises during my presentation."
The manager said: "I should have never sent you to the conference.
Those programmers live beyond the physical world. They consider life absurd,
an accidental coincidence. They come and go without knowing limitations.
Without a care, they live only for their programs. Why should they bother
with social conventions?"
"They are alive within the Tao."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"