December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
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illumos
The spiritual continuation of the OpenSolaris project, illumos forms the base of a few different distributions that sought to keep the legacy of CDDL-based Solaris alive.
OpenIndiana is perhaps the most user-friendly of these distributions, and still features ongoing enhancements. It can be downloaded and tried out in a VM (which I would encourage, just for a poke around).
When you run it, though, don't be surprised to find references to Solaris and SunOS:
$ uname -aSunOS openindiana 5.11 illumos-42a3762d01 i86pc i386 i86pc
Featuring a small package pool, you're also unlikely to find the trendier software of the day, but it will have the programming languages you're familiar with, and it's undeniably solid.
Both Oracle's Solaris ...