14 DAY TRIAL // After half of year of development, Ken Mays announced earlier this week the availability of a new OpenIndiana release, 2015.03, dubbed Hipster. OpenIndiana is the continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system, and this new release introduces several updated packages, an alternative desktop environment, and various under-the-hood improvements.
The OpenIndiana 2015.03 "Hipster" Solaris distribution comes with an updated graphics stack that includes X.Org Server 1.12.4, Mesa 3D graphics library 10.5.1, the latest available video and input X.Org drivers, Nvidia proprietary video driver 340.76, open-source ATI video driver 6.4.16, libX11 1.6.2, libdrm 2.4.59, Cairo 1.14.2, GTK+ 2.24.27, GLib2 2.43.4, and Pango 1.36.8.
We should mention here that the new X.Org Server version includes various security fixes from the upstream Debian X.Org and Oracle x-s12-clone packages. The main desktop environment of OpenIndiana is GNOME 2.32, but Enlightenment 0.19.3 has now been added as an alternative desktop. Support for installing the operating system on EFI systems has also been implemented in the new release of OpenIndiana.
Numerous other core components have been updated to their latest versions
Among many other updated package in the new OpenIndiana release, we can mention FontConfig 2.11.1, rDesktop 1.8.3, Transmission 2.52, XScreensaver 5.32, GNOME Commander 1.4.5, and Emacs 24.3. In addition, the Qt 4.8.6 libraries have been added, and the libmtp and libid3tag libraries have been imported from SFE. The gMTP MP3 and MPC (Media Player Client) software has been added as well.
On the server side of the operating system, we can mention that the ISC DHCP server has been updated to version 4.2.7, the BIND DNS server to version 9.9.6-P2, PostgreSQL 9.4 has been added, rsyslog has been updated to version 7.4.10, NTP has been updated to version 4.2.8p1, and the Apache 2.4, MariaDB 5.5, Samba 3.6, PHP 5.4 and 5.5 packages are also present. Download OpenIndiana 2015.3 “Hipster” right now from Softpedia.