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Re:OpenIndiana Illumos Distro by bri3d on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:56PM (#38849350)
Their distribution is called Helios and is based on OmniOS. I think they were supposed to make it more suitable for consumer use / home install at some point - the package repository is public if you want to try to cobble it together on your own.
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Re:OpenIndiana Illumos Distro by g-b-r on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:25AM (#38851048)
Actually several docs in their repositories point to https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios which... doesn't exist??

It does seem derived (rather than based) from OmniOS indeed, so little to do with OpenIndiana (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341193)

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Re:OpenIndiana Illumos Distro by steveklabnik on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:38AM (#38851402)
It's still private. I believe this is a case of "just gotta open it," but that takes some work (and I am not sure, I don't know all the details yet, I could be wrong). I have it on my to-do list to try and investigate this and get it done sometime soon, we'll see.
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Re:OpenIndiana Illumos Distro by g-b-r on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @02:50AM (#38851722)
Hmm ok thanks!!

Yes I think a lot of people are very curious to get a peek, especially if they can't afford an actual oxide ;)

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