There are things to randomly pop up again here and make fall back into nostalgia. Such as this - https://www.osnews.com/story/146337/openindiana-hipster-2026-10-released/ : "[...] OpenIndiana is a rolling-release illumos distribution, but they do release snapshots twice a year to serve as a base for installations, which they call Hipster. The project’s just released OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10, and it brings a number of welcome changes. [...]" Interesting. I've been into OpenSolaris back when it popped up quite enthusiastically, used it on my daily working laptop, albeit for not very long, and also - https://vault.z428.eu/?tag=opensolaris - then and now used to write about this experience. Maybe worth taking a closer look yet again; never completely lost interest in this even after things cooled down considerably when Oracle took over and subsequently made disappear Sun Microsystems as a technology unit of its own. Almost two decades, looking at the archive timestimes. Good good where did time go? (Also referring to the osnews.com article rather than the official project announcement up there, because reading osnews.com back then used to be one of my regular morning routines.) #linkdump #technology #opensolaris