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Aside: The rise of illumos
• A new community rose from the ashes of OpenSolaris,
and exercised open sourceʼs most important right: the
right to fork
• Dubbed “illumos” (from illuminare, Latin for illuminate)
and made available in August, 2010
• Essentially all of the Solaris diaspora landed in illumos,
including the core of key technologies like ZFS, DTrace,
zones and networking virtualization
• Two years later, illumos is thriving with an established
track record of innovation, a healthy community, and
multiple distributions (e.g., OmniOS, Joyentʼs SmartOS)
• See http://illumos.org and http://smartos.org — or
search for “fork yeah illumos” for the full story