illumos is the fully open community fork of the OpenSolaris operating system.

Our goal is to foster open development of technologies for the 21st century while building on a twenty-year heritage, free from the oversight of a single corporate entity and resulting challenges, and adapted to survive and thrive under a community model. The source code developed by the project forms the foundation of distributions including OpenIndiana, illumian, and SmartOS, which are also participating under the illumos umbrella. Please see Bryan Cantrill's recent LISA keynote, "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos".

illumos is a community project with a number of commercial supporters. We welcome applications from students considering operating system development as a career.

Please visit our GSoC 2012 page.