I've used Linux a lot for a long time. I still do in one way or another. I also use the BSD side of Mac OS X constantly.However I've never actually run SunOS or Solaris for any great length of time. I've been pondering running OpenIndiana natively on my desktop for a while as an experiment.

Openindiana is an illumos distro based on the old OpenSolaris project established by Sun. Since the merger with Oracle they've been closing down a lot of their OSS projects.

I know most people have heavy in the GNU/Linux camp these days, but I've always enjoyed trying out all the other variants of Unix, (as well as any other OS really) and I haven't really messed around with anything like that in the UNIX family in a while. I deleted my Linux install (I was randomly trying distros so it never had any important data in it) to make room for Windows 8, and playing with it reminded me of what fun it was to try things out natively.

So I guess when I get some time (I miss free time) I am thinking of actually installing OI. I'll of course give it a good test in a VM before I proceed to native. If I do it I will try to document the process here as well.

So has anyone really messed with this particular fork before?