OpenIndiana aims to be binary and package compatible with the upcoming Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express, and most of the operating system is built from source code that Oracle continues to make available. So in some ways, our relationship is similar to the way the CentOS project tracks Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
However there are differences, for example we intend to use illumos in place of the official OS/Net consolidation which is no longer open source, and we also intend to provide improvements on top.
What is the relationship between OpenIndiana and illumos?
OpenIndiana provides a complete, ready-to-use operating system (distribution) similar to the former OpenSolaris distribution.
Benchmark results from the above thread: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/pdf0...
From http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Frequently+Asked+Questions/:
Is OpenIndiana a "fork"?
Kind of.
OpenIndiana aims to be binary and package compatible with the upcoming Solaris 11 and Solaris 11 Express, and most of the operating system is built from source code that Oracle continues to make available. So in some ways, our relationship is similar to the way the CentOS project tracks Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
However there are differences, for example we intend to use illumos in place of the official OS/Net consolidation which is no longer open source, and we also intend to provide improvements on top.
What is the relationship between OpenIndiana and illumos?
OpenIndiana provides a complete, ready-to-use operating system (distribution) similar to the former OpenSolaris distribution.