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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by CharlesColeman on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:10PM (#21518209)
> Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris.

What's the relation?

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Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana by blancNoir on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:57PM (#21519158)
"OpenIndiana obtains its name from Project Indiana, an open source effort by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) to produce OpenSolaris, a community developed Unix-like distribution based on Sun Solaris. Project Indiana was led by Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian Linux Distribution."[0]

[0] https://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/#why-is-it-cal...

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