Comparison of OpenSolaris distributions

Technical variations of Solaris distributions include support for different hardware devices and systems or software package configurations. Organizational differences may be motivated by historical reasons. Other criteria include security, including how quickly security upgrades are available; ease of package management; and number of packages available.

These tables compare each noteworthy distribution's latest stable release on wide-ranging objective criteria. It does not cover each operating system's subjective merits, branches marked as unstable or beta, nor compare Solaris distributions with other operating systems.

General

Basic general information about the distributions: creator or producer, release date and latest version, and so forth.

Distribution Developer First public release Based on Latest release date Status Purpose Cost
BeleniX ? ? OpenSolaris, GNU 0.7.1 / July 19, 2008 Discontinued ? Gratis
Nexenta OS Nexenta Systems 2005 OpenSolaris, GNU, Ubuntu 3.1.3.5 (October 31, 2012 (2012-10-31)) [±] Discontinued ? Gratis
NexentaStor Nexenta Systems ? Nexenta OS 5.3.0, May 2020[1] Active “Enterprise Grade Unified Block & File Storage”[2] Commercial
OmniOSce OmniTI 2012[3] illumos, GNU r151036c, Nov 2020[4] Active “Produce a self-hosting, minimalist Illumos-based release suitable for production deployment”[5] Gratis
OpenIndiana illumos Foundation et al. 2010 illumos, OpenSolaris, GNU Hipster 2020.10 (October 31, 2020 (2020-10-31)) [±][6] Active “Ensure the continued availability of an openly developed distribution based on OpenSolaris”[7] Gratis
SmartOS Joyent ? illumos, GNU 20201203T165910Z, Dec 2020[8] Active Cloud computing (“converged container and virtual machine hypervisor”[9]) Gratis
v9os Alexander Eremin ? illumos 2018-10-01[10] Active “Server-only, IPS-based minimal SPARC distribution of illumos”[11] Gratis
Distribution Developer First public release Based on Latest release date Status Purpose Cost

Technical
Distribution Supported architectures Install-time desktop environment selection
BeleniX x86, x86-64 KDE, Xfce
Nexenta OS x86, x86-64 GNOME
NexentaStor x86(-64?) ?
OmniOS x86, x86-64 none
OpenIndiana x86, x86-64 MATE
SmartOS x86-64[12] none
v9os SPARC none
Distribution Supported architectures Install-time desktop environment selection

Package management and installation

Information on features in the distributions. Package numbers are only approximate.

Distribution Approximate number of packages Package format/tools Default installer Graphical installation procedure
BeleniX ? RPM ? ?
Nexenta OS ? APT ? ?
NexentaStor ? ? ? ?
OmniOS 1032[13] IPS Kayak No
OpenIndiana 4600[14] IPS Caiman Yes
SmartOS ? pkgsrc/pkgin N/A (live system) N/A
v9os ? IPS ? No
Distribution Approximate number of packages Package format/tools Default installer Graphical installation procedure

See also

References
  1. "Nexenta Documentation". 1 May 2020.
  2. "NexentaStor". 27 November 2013.
  3. "OmniOS Release Notes". Archived from the original on 4 May 2013.
  4. "OmniOS v11 r151036 Release Notes". Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  5. "OmniOS Approach".
  6. "2020.10 Release notes". Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  7. "About OpenIndiana". Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  8. "Download SmartOS". Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  9. "SmartOS - Joyent". www.joyent.com.
  10. "v9os". sourceforge.net.
  11. "v9os". Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  12. "Hardware Requirements - SmartOS Documentation - SmartOS Wiki". wiki.smartos.org.
  13. "OmniOS Package Repository". OmniTI. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  14. "OpenIndiana Package Repositories". OpenIndiana. Retrieved 8 May 2020.


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