My First Time Looking At OpenIndiana 

OpenIndiana is a rolling release, so there won't be a "next version". Also, people don't use illumos distros like OpenIndiana for their MATE desktops, rather for cool under-the-hood features like ZFS, containers ( aka zones, invented long before Linux containers) and DTrace, which all originated in OpenSolaris.

I used Solaris many years ago. Back then it used the CDE desktop environment. The hardware was Sun UltraSparc II terminals being used for mapping electrcity lines.

Nice review of mate. Now I am looking forward for the review of open-indiana,

Openindiana is gonna get real popular. The folks at valve were demonstrating Steam on various BSD and recently Oi. UNIX based OSs are gonna become desktop OS oriented in the next 2-3 years.

Thanks for the look DT!

Keep up the great work my friend!...tuning in from time to time...been a bit busy recently...love your new camera and graphics!

I love the classic GNOME look. It says "Linux" to me. Yet, for whatever reason, I never use MATE.

Hey, new viewer here (started watching a few days ago). Just wanted to say I really like your content. You analyze all the aspects of each distro, you demonstrate very little bias, which I really appreciate since it's really hard to find an opinion that isn't severely biased, and scrolling through your videos I saw numerous obscure distros that I hadn't even heard of, including this one. Keep it up! I hope more people within the Linux community subscribe to your channel!

I've always been very curious about OpenIndiana. Great video.

The memory is mostly used for the filesystem page cache. Don't worry about it...most those pages are not dirty and can be reasssigned very quickly.

That password is so strong and inspired by "DT" I cannot think of any stronger password in my life. Yes, it's sarcasm

Video quality looks a lot better! the yellow tint is gone, and it looks sharper/less pixelated. nice work!

Hey DistroTube/Derek loving the video's I recently started watching last week, the way you review distro's is nice and very unbiased, recenlty started following you on mastodon aswell keep up the good work, there is distro's in here i have never heard of lol, i am an Arch user myself using deepin but i am always on the look for new things to try and play with on my laptop!

loved the video DT :)

Have you thought about checking FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc and their derivatives? I think it would be interesting to hear your thoughts as compared to Linux.

I always install gparted on my systems. It probably goes to show how little i know of the console (i do try) but I use gparted for managing other drives, external hard drives, even usbs.

Camera's definitely made a huge difference DT. Video looks great. For some reason I thought OpenIndiana used a Qt-based DE. Was surprised to see MATE. Maybe it was one of the BSDs then.

Cool to see another channel mentioning this OI distro. Did you ever make a follow up video? I predict OI will become more relevant. It has been a sleeper but secure. Hardwar esupport is a little bit limited, but doable. I think now that ubuntu has zfs as standard and debian has btrfs as standard (by which I mean easier to setup a bunch of Hard-Drives for upon first install, like say 6 or 8), those people installing will start to wonder why to bother using ubuntu for zfs if they want something that is not BSD (as per ZFS license). By that I mean, if they want linux FOSS, the Debian btrfs does all that for them instead of ZFS. So the result will be people looking at other OS choices for ZFS and they will see BSD is perhaps oo restrictive for them (although of course handy such as the BSD to linux compatability layer for BSD-jails). Something like TrueOS makes BSD-jails easier but really those are often used by people planning a server deployment in that specific secure way. So something like OpenIndiana would be great way to use ZFS without needing BSD (or using linux when such linux users might go full btfrs instead when on linux). Having 6sata ports or more (especially if booting off something else like a nvme or usb) is very commonplace on chipsets these days (and RAM is bigger now) and also 8core CPUs are commonplace more than ever, so blake2sp used with zfs (or btrfs for that matter) will be a logical progression for many people to use and start thinking about what filesystem, zfs or btrfs they'd like for their 6 or more sata ports. With that, they'll look at debian for btrfs or open-indiana for zfs. I reckon that is what will occur.

The “hipster” branch is the rolling development edition.

What about Openzimbabwe?

What is the window manager you are using on your desktop ? And the tweaks pls

Glade comes with all the newer official Solaris distros as well, I've never seen it in a Linux distro, but I'm assuming you can get it for Linux as well.

What is the base OS under which OpenIndiana is running ?

I noticed an improved picture: it seems you got rid of the yellowish hue prevalent in your previous videos. Better lighting, or a more sensitive camera? I needed to scroll down just a bit to find the answer to this - congrats on the new camera!

I like the CD ripper some of us in 2018 still have a large collection of CD´s and we can still rip it. I think it´s great.

This is an old video. But, one nice thing is .... it looks like it uses ZFS as it's filesystem.

What happened with the new OS for your PC? Weren't you gonna change it? I remember W10 won ^_^

I know this was a long time ago, but the new version has the same installer. The geographical map has field below the map that are not visible on the small virtual machine screen! So nothing wrong with the actual software installer, but more with the noobie installer :) I had the same reaction. I click on Adelaide Australia and could not find out if my selection would stick until I noticed the top of the first option below the map :) hahaha

Hey dt, What is your daily driver right now?

It's a wonderful video

I like the snoop utility..

time slider is an automation process to run any process at a specified time

I love the desktop theming. But no matter how carefully I've installed this thing - it doesn't play nice with a dual boot environment. It always takes ownership of the entire disk. Be forewarned. Better to just give it a small disk of its OWN.

Next version will be called OpenSouthDakota.

The Unix svr4 open surce

time slider is a backup utility not unlike time machine on osx

How many linux distro are in the world?

The desktop is a wonderful look. I like OpenIndiana. But - that Distro - doesn't play well in a dual boot approach. No matter how stinking careful I am, I don't end up with a boot choice. I just end up with Open Indiana.

Seems like OpenIndiana is not meant for everyday desktop use. Mate makes it useable but.....

I still own a copy of OpenSolaris, I think it was 04.2008! A few years old. But not much has changed, and that's really a good thing. Unfortunately OpenSolaris can be a little slow, and that's because of the 'heritage attached' to the OS itself. The code base is older then Windows I do believe after all. It's basically SunOS with a few newer window dressings. But, if you've got a massive amount of servers and data to move around, this was at one point a great system to use. But the OS pretty much stays the same, very conservative. I tend to kinda like that, one of the things I like about Mint, It just kinda stays pretty much the same, only OpenSolaris is more extreme. I think it would drive an Arch lover nuts. As a plus not much comes along with the installer. You get to pick what you want. I like that.

Waiting? For Slowlaris to boot. How unusual... ;)

Last! 😜

But, did you ever run OpenIndiana before?

Is the Bryan Lunduke in the lower tier patrons the real Bryan Lunduke?

It's kind of funny to me how you pronounce MATE as if it's croatian male name(e. g. Mate Rimac) and not like english word mate(friend, buddy). :))

I had the same issue in 2020 with 32-bit crap and had to go into my bios to enable virtualization. I had just bought an Omen 15 Laptop and had not went through the bios settings yet. Of course now that I fixed it all is good. Great video even in 2020 Derek. Keep up the great work. : = )

I still buy, collect & rip CDs

zfs snapshot

Heads up, refugees from the SJW attack of Linux inbound. Unix bout to get real popular! I can see it now. Project Looking Glass is just over the horizon!!! I've always dreamed of using Solaris as a home desktop environment (windows alternative) for media and games etc... make it so!

lol look at that desktop! thats stupid!!!! unless you have really low resources on your machine. and if you really a pro go for command line with no desktop!!! seriously whats this desktop?!