The document summarizes the current state of the OpenIndiana Hipster project. It discusses the project's tasks like migrating to new compilers and build systems. Recent updates to the 2015.03 ISO are outlined, including desktop software, development tools, and server software updates. Current issues include some consolidations still needing to migrate to the new build system and outdated Perl and Python versions. The main challenges are a lack of developers and collaboration between the different Illumos distributions.

1. The current state of
OpenIndiana Hipster project
Alexander Pyhalov
Southern Federal University
IT department
2015

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Who are we?
● illumos – development of os-net codebase
(OpenSolaris kernel, libraries and basic utilities)
● illumos distributions (deliver the rest of OS)
– DilOS
– OmniOS
– OpenIndiana
– SmartOS
– ...

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OpenIndiana Hipster project
● Current tasks
– migration to the GNU Compilers Collection
– migration to the One Build System (oi-userland)
● preserving legacy build systems for Solaris-
specific software
– Caiman (slim_source)
– IPS (pkg5)

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Userland build system
● make-rules – main hidden magic is here
● transforms – specific manifests generation rules
● tools – scripts and tools used during building process
● components – main work area
– components live here (e.g. components/cmake)
● component structure
– Makefile (describes, how to build package)
– *.p5m (package manifests)
– files/*
– patches/*.patch (yes, they are often necessary)

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What was done recently?
● OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.03 ISO
– Updating desktop components
● Gnome 2.32, Xorg 1.12.4, other desktop software
● major updates of desktop libraries – pango, cairo, gtk,...
– Development tools
● Ruby 1.9, 2.2
● math libraries update
● mercurial, subversion, binutils
– Server software
● PostgreSQL, ISC DHCP, Bind9, NTP
– Installer
● support installation to EFI-labeled disks

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What does it mean?
● We can rebuild almost whole JDS (desktop consolidation)
● We can rebuild a large part of XNV (X consolidation)
● We received a lot of security fixes
● We received one more desktop environment
(enlightenment)
● We've broken DRM support for intel video adapters
– working on it

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Some statistics (Oct 2014- Apr 2015)
● 418 commits
● 342916 lines of code added
● 139737 lines of code removed

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Current issues
● Several consolidations are out of oi-userland
– XNV (in transition), g11n, inputmethod
● Perl and Python used by system services are
too old (5.16, 2.6.9)
● Desktop illumos issues (drivers, wi-fi issues,
etc)

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The main issues
● Lack of developers
– only 6 people contributed to the project since
October
– almost no regular contributors
– a bit alleviated by work of illumos and Solaris
programmers
● Lack of collaboration
– we have at least 4 distinct illumos distributions
backed by 1-2 people (besides 2 major)

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Resources
● http://wiki.openindiana.org/
– http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Hipster
● http://www.illumos.org
● Mailing lists:
– oi-dev@openindiana.org
– discuss@openindiana.org
– discuss@lists.illumos.org
– develoer@lists.illumos.org
● #oi-dev, #illumos, #openindiana
freenode.net IRC channels

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Thank you!
Questions???