 Today, I'm going to be taking a look at the recently released OpenIndiana 2022.10. OpenIndiana is rather unique, especially for my channel, because it's actually not a Linux distribution. This is actually a Unix operating system. Well, it's not Unix, because of course the word Unix is trademark, the term Unix. But OpenIndiana is basically our free and open source continuation of the old Solaris project. Solaris became Open Solaris, and then when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems around 2010, the Open Solaris project, basically some guys forked it, the community forked it, and created OpenIndiana because they were worried that Oracle would eventually kill off Open Solaris, which is exactly what happened. And this was also around the time when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems. This was also when a lot of the OpenOffice guys forked OpenOffice and created the LibreOffice for the same reason, because they were worried Oracle would kill OpenOffice, and essentially that is kind of what has happened over the years. So anyway, I'm going to take a quick look at OpenIndiana 2022.10 inside a virtual machine. Today I'm going to be installing OpenIndiana inside VirtualBox. I typically use VertManager for all of my VMs, but that's for Linux-y reasons, because VertManager, KVM, QEMU, it's better for Linux virtual machines, but because this is not a Linux operating system, this is a Solaris-based operating system, I chose to use VirtualBox today because VirtualBox has Solaris actually listed and the options when you create a VM. So I'm going to go ahead and choose one here on the Boot menu, which is Boot Multi-User. Next up it says, choose your language. Now there are in alphabetical order, so it's very easy to spot English here in the list. It's number seven, so that's what I'm going to choose. So we're inside the live environment, which of course is the Monte desktop environment, and we've got two different install icons. We've got Install OpenIndiana. We've also got Install OpeningIndiana using a text installer. So I guess this is an older, like, in-curses-based installation. And if you want to do that, that's fine. You probably are going to have to manually partition your drives, though that's probably why they have G-parted here. So you need to use G-parted or a terminal application like FDisk or something to manually partition the drive to use the in-curses installer. But I'm going to use this installer, which I'm hoping is a simple graphical installation program. It is. It says, thanks for choosing to install OpenIndiana. I'm just going to click Next. No need to read that. Looks like it's going to automatically partition our drive. So the entire disk will be erased. I created a 25 gig virtual hard drive in this virtual machine. So I'm just going to click Next on that. We need to choose our time zone. I am somewhere in the US here. And Inver is too far over. What about Chicago? I know it's usually somewhere here, and that's the central time zone. That's exactly what I need. So I'm going to click Next. That strain is a little confusing. It's very hard to hit those precise dots on the map there. Language, English is a little fault, so I'm just going to leave that as is. Now let's create our root password. So the root password needs to be a strong and complicated password. Now let's create our home user. He's going to be called DT. His login name is going to be DT. Let's create a strong and complicated password for the DT user and confirm that strong and complicated password. The computer name, the host name, OpenIndiana is a little fault. I'll leave that. That's fine. I'm going to click Next. Here is a summary of everything that we have chosen thus far. All that looks good. I'm going to click Install. And away it goes. The portion of the installation typically takes about 5 to 10 minutes on my machine. So I'm going to pause the recording. I'll be back once OpenIndiana has finished installing. And the installation has completed. That installation, that actually took quite a while. That took about 15 to 20 minutes for that installation to complete. So a little longer than my typical Linux installations, but not terribly long. Now I'm going to go ahead and reboot the machine to complete the installation. Rebooting, it's loading some services with SMF. SMF is kind of your a knit system. SMF stands for Service Management Facility, I believe. Think of it kind of like how SystemD manages services. That's what SMF and OpenIndiana is. Says it's loading NVIDIA kernel mode setting driver for Unix platforms. Looks like this is some post installation stuff. I guess on the first reboot, it's got to run through some stuff here. And we come to our login manager. Let me go ahead and log in. So this is OpenIndiana. This is a very generic vanilla looking Mata desktop. And one thing I do want to say before continuing with the video is OpenIndiana is really not meant to be a desktop operating system, per se. And it's mainly a desktop computer user. I don't work in IT. I don't work with servers. That's not my game. I'm not interested in that game. A lot of what people would want me to take a look at with OpenIndiana is IT related. And I can't do that. So I'm only going to look at OpenIndiana as a desktop operating system. But I will say as someone that's been around for a while and I know a little bit about OpenIndiana and OpenSolaris before that and Solaris before all of that is some of the reasons why people, especially in server and enterprise, like things like OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana is because especially many years ago, it had a really cool file system that Linux just didn't have. It wasn't available on your Linux servers, for example. And that was ZFS. Now ZFS, the licensing issues look like they've been straightened out. Now you've got Canonical and Ubuntu shipping ZFS in its installer. You can actually choose ZFS as part of the automatic installation process. Now, so I think we've got that straight on Linux these days. So that's not as big a plus these days for why you would use something like OpenIndiana versus Linux. The other big thing they talk about is the init system, SMF, the service management facility, how that was so much better than the old init systems and service management tools you had on Linux prior to SystemD. Now, since the rise of SystemD over the last decade or so, SMF, I would say, also is not as big a positive for this. And a lot of ways, you know, what's made OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana stand out from Linux, a lot of that stuff has kind of infiltrated its way into Linux. Either just we straight ripped off that stuff and I ripped off, but like ZFS is already in Linux or, you know, we have tools like SystemD that do so much for us as far as a init and services and things like that and timers and all of that. Just briefly, I do want to go over the default applications that are installed out of the box here. Looks like they're going to default to mainly the Mate suite of applications. So we've got the CharacterMap here, which is very generic. GNOME CharacterMap 3.18.2. So that is an older version. Probably they're using a lot of the older versions of the GNOME applications because by now GNOME has moved to the GNOME 40 series and GTK4 stuff, which I don't know how any of that stuff would work on this OpenIndiana operating system. We have a desktop search utility in Grandpa, which is your archive manager for zip, unzip, things like that. You have the Mate calculator, if I go to help and above. This is Mate calculator 1.26.0. Back to applications and accessories. We have our font viewer, a search tool, Pluma, which is a plain text editor. You can think of this as an old fork of G-Edit and G-Edit. I don't mind. So Pluma is really not bad either. So this is a small and lightweight text editor for the Mate desktop environment. Let me close that up. And also under accessories, we have our screenshot utility. And then we have this collection category, which is our web browser. The default web browser is going to be Firefox, the standard free and open source web browser that's installed on most units like operating systems out of the box and Firefox is taking quite a long time to launch here. I gave this VM six gigs of RAM and two cores of my 24 thread CPU. So I don't know what the problem with Firefox launching was. It seems to be acting OK once it launches. But that very first time trying to launch it, that was kind of slow. Let's go to about Firefox. This is Firefox 102.5 ESR. So that's the extended support release of Firefox. Also under this collection category, we have the Monte Terminal and we have Thunderbird for our email and our calendar application. Let me launch the Monte Terminal and see what version of Monte Terminal. This is one dot twenty six dot oh, and you'll notice those three programs that were in the collection category are also pinned here as quick launchers. Then we have a graphics category, not much to see here. We have the image viewer and we have a color selection tool under the internet category. We've already seen Firefox and Thunderbird. Other than that, we have the Avahi server. We have Pigeon, which is an instant messaging application. Not too many people have the need for instant messaging anymore. But if you wanted to, you could add some kind of account. Pick a protocol here, such as IRC probably would be the one that's most used these days, XMPP is also here. Anyway, you choose an account and, you know, away you go with your instant messaging or your chatting. Also under internet, you have Tiger VNC viewer. So this is, of course, so you can connect to remote machines. So again, especially for server use and enterprise use, that makes sense. Why they include something like that here in open Indiana under the office category, not much here, oddly enough, they don't ship anything like LibreOffice, like a big bloated word processor or anything like that. All you have is your PDF viewer and a dictionary application. Under sound and video, we have Brasero, which is a disk burning utility. It's a CD ripper, which is a CD ripper, right? And then sound. So Brasero is a fine application. This is actually a XFCE application, I believe, isn't it? Pretty sure it is. Now, this is GNOME's disk burning application. XFCE's disk burning application is called XF burn. But I always get those confused. This is Brasero 3.12.3, a very simple program to use for those of you that still burn CDs and DVDs. Also under applications, we have our system tools, which is the Kaja file manager here. So just your standard Monte file manager, not much to see there. Also under system tools, a device driver utility. We have G-parted again and not much else. Let me go ahead and launch G-parted here as root. One thing I did want to check out is what file system did it default to? Did it default to ZFS? It says file system type is Solaris. Now, I don't think Solaris, the file system type, I think that defaults to UFS and not ZFS. I could be wrong on that. I wish I knew that I could probably look it up in the documentation. One thing I will say, the documentation on Opened Indiana's website is not great. It's very light up here in the Monte menu under applications. We've already seen everything. Places is just your bookmarks for the file manager. So if I click on any of the bookmarks, it opens the file manager at those bookmarks. Then we have the system categories here. And this is to change display, keyboard settings, look and feel, of course, your appearance where you could change some themes. If you wanted, for example, a dark theme, which might be kind of cool to play with a dark theme, although it's like it messed up the panel there. I'd better go back to the custom theme. Well, actually, going back to the custom theme. Didn't. Yeah, looks like I kind of broke it. Let's go with the black Monte theme. I wonder if I log out and log back in. Would everything be OK? Let me try that. Where do I go to log out and log back in log out DT? Yeah, still, this this theming is all off, unfortunately. So go back to the control center here. Displays, not appearance is what I wanted. Me, just click on these themes until I get something that I can actually read. This this one here, BlueMenta will go with that. Again, this is not meant necessarily for a desktop operating system. You can use it as a desktop operating system, but that's not the primary focus of this. So, you know, if things are a little weird here, that is to be expected, especially from somebody like me checking it out. Let's see if it actually comes with any wallpapers at all. So theme, let's go to background. This is just the standard default Mate wallpaper pack, not much to see here. They do include the one open Indiana branded wallpaper. So I just leave that. Let's open a terminal. I wonder if control T happens to bring up a terminal. No, I didn't think so. It's usually like a Linux key binding. I didn't expect it to work here. Well, that is so bright. I wish they had some better color schemes here that I could choose from. Built in theme, solarized, dark. Yeah, there we go. All right, let me zoom in here. I wonder if a U name will work here. So if I did a U name dash R, you can see kernel version five dot 11. Of course, that's not a Linux kernel, right? Let's just do a U name dash A just to see what kernel we're using. Sign OS, open Indiana five dot 11, Alumos. One thing you'll notice, we didn't have any kind of graphical package manager or anything on this operating system, right? There's no mate software center, GNOME software center, anything like that, right? So I believe the package manager they're using is PKG is the command line package manager. So I believe if I did something like PKG search and then name of application, I don't know, H top, for example, and it actually does return some results there. So I wonder if I could do a PKG install H top here. Insufficient privileges is su installed by chance. Let's see, it is refreshing the catalog. You know, I think doing a sync of the repositories, right? And each top is finally installed. That took about two minutes or so for each top to install. It probably had to do with that syncing of the repository. You know, the basically doing a new cache of the package catalog there, let's run each top. Let's see what kind of system resource usage we're using here. And it's like it's using quite a bit of CPU, much more CPU than I expected. I am not sure what's going on there. That is very unusual. Do I have anything really running up here? Network profile, just looking in the system tray here. Now, probably, well, I actually did log out and log back in. I was about to say maybe I should do a reboot. But yeah, that's pretty high CPU usage. RAM also very high using four and a half gigs of the six gigs of RAM. I use this. Now, that could be due to the file system that it's using. Some file systems use more RAM than others. If that was an extend for file system on Linux, that would be shocking. Now, if they are using ZFS, which can put all the RAM you give it to use, then that makes sense. But I'm a little concerned about that CPU usage. Let's see if I can figure out what is using the CPU. Xorg, the Monte terminal at each top. Yeah, I don't I don't know if that's a accurate reading or not. That doesn't seem right, though. Wonder how many packages are installed if I did a PKG list? Would it spit out everything installed? It will each on its own line so I could pipe that into WC-L. Assuming the word count program is installed. That's WC, right? One thousand one hundred and nineteen packages are installed via PKG. Wonder if I could do a LSBLK to list the block devices. I know Bash complains that LSBLK is not there. It is using the Bash shield, though. That was the next thing I was actually going to run was an echo shield just to verify that we were using Bash, but we already know it's Bash because we got the error message from Bash. One other thing we should mention is SMH, which is, again, your service manager, your system CTO for those of you used to doing things with system D. Let me clear the screen. I don't know too much about this service manager. I do know that everything is called SVC for service, I guess, and all the commands typically begin with SVC ADM, for example, for service admin. And you can see I get some helpful information about the commands I could use with the service admin command. And if I wanted to list all the services that are currently available, I could do SVCS for services, plural, right? And it spits them all out on each on their own line. But I'm not going to spend too much time on that because, honestly, I would have to read a little bit on the man pages for SMF. So that's just a quick and cursory look at Open Indiana, the latest release, 2022.10. Now, I may not be the right kind of person to review an operating system like this, right? Because I'm a desktop computer user, right? I am not a server admin. I don't want to be a server admin. It doesn't interest me at all because I'm never going to be that in life. So, you know, I've had people request me to take a look at this particular operating system. That's why I did it today. But do realize I was coming at this from mainly a desktop computer user, not necessarily as a server administrator. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of the show. 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