The release of the free distribution kit OpenIndiana 2022.10 has been published, which replaced the binary distribution kit OpenSolaris, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides the user with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. Direct development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which develops the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, as well as a basic set of user system utilities and libraries. Three types of iso images have been generated for download - a server edition with console applications (1 GB), a minimum assembly (435 MB) and an assembly with the MATE graphical environment (2 GB).
Major changes:
- Added initial support for mounting installation media via NFS.
- Updated NVIDIA proprietary drivers.
- The LibreOffice office suite has been updated to release 7.2.7 and now ships in 64-bit builds.
- Updated Firefox and Thunderbird to the latest ESR branches.
- The MATE user environment has been updated to version 1.26.
- Removed old versions of Perl, instead offering 64-bit packages with Perl 5.34 and 5.36 (default) branches.
- The process of removing older versions of Python 2.7 and 3.5 has begun, but is not yet complete. The IPS package manager has been migrated to use Python 3.9.
- Updated GCC 10 branch and added packages with GCC 11 and Clang 13.
Source: opennet.ru