Illumos
Illumos (stylized as illumos) is a partly free and open-source Unix operating system. It is based on OpenSolaris, which was based on System V Release 4 (SVR4) and the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Illumos comprises a kernel, device drivers, system libraries, and utility software for system administration. This core is now the base for many different open-sourced Illumos distributions, in a similar way in which the Linux kernel is used in different Linux distributions.
| Developer | Illumos Foundation |
|---|---|
| Written in | C |
| OS family | Unix (SVR4) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source with binary blobs |
| Initial release | 2010 |
| Repository | |
| Available in | English |
| Platforms | IA-32, x86-64, SPARC, ARM (under development), DEC Alpha |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| License | CDDL, BSD, MIT |
| Preceded by | OpenSolaris |
| Official website | illumos |
The maintainers write illumos in lowercase since some computer fonts do not clearly distinguish a lowercase L from an uppercase i: Il (see homoglyph). The project name is a combination of words illuminare from Latin for to light and OS for Operating System.
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