Christopher Mosetick

Linux & Unix Distributions

Ubuntu, Armbian, Linux Mint OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana

Many years ago I was an early adopter and tester of the Ubuntu Linux Desktop distribution, and later Ubuntu Server. At the time I was still relatively new to Unix-like operating systems, so my contributions were modest – mostly Ubuntu Forums participation and wiki page edits around PPA packaging and developer environment setup.

As I became more interested in file systems – and especially ZFS – I became an early user of OpenIndiana in production environments. OpenIndiana offered native, stable ZFS integration long before the ZFS on Linux project reached a similar level of maturity.

OpenIndiana emerged as a fork of OpenSolaris after Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle and the OpenSolaris source contributions slowed. The internal Sun codename for OpenSolaris was Indiana, which gave the fork its name.1

  1. At Sun Microsystems, the internal code name for the OpenSolaris operating system was Indiana. The community team that forked the codebase went with OpenIndiana since the internal name was already widely known. ↩︎