illumos
Sign in to saveIllumos (stylized as "illumos") is a partly free and open-source Unix operating system. It has been developed since 2010 and is based on OpenSolaris, after the discontinuation of that product by Oracle. It comprises a kernel, device drivers, system libraries, and utility software for system administration. Its core has become the base for many different open-sourced Illumos distributions, in a way similar to how the Linux kernel is used in different Linux distributions.
Key facts
- OS.name
- Illumos
- OS.logo
- Illumos logo.svg
- OS.developer
- Illumos Foundation
- OS.family
- Unix (SVR4)
- OS.working state
- Current
- OS.source model
- Open source with binary blobs
- OS.programmed in
- C
- OS.language
- English
- OS.supported platforms
- IA-32, x86-64, SPARC, ARM (under development), DEC Alpha
- OS.kernel type
- Monolithic
- OS.license
- CDDL, BSD, MIT
- OS.preceded by
- OpenSolaris
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- Features
- Distributions
- Illumos Foundation
- Notes
- References
- External links
Illumos (stylized as "illumos") is a partly free and open-source Unix operating system. It has been developed since 2010 and is based on OpenSolaris, after the discontinuation of that product by Oracle. It comprises a kernel, device drivers, system libraries, and utility software for system administration. Its core has become the base for many different open-sourced Illumos distributions, in a way similar to how the Linux kernel is used in different Linux distributions.
== Name == The maintainers write illumos in lowercase, since some computer fonts do not clearly distinguish a lowercase L from an uppercase i: Il (see homoglyph). The project name is a combination of words illuminare from the Latin for to light, and OS for Operating System.