What is Illumarine?
illumos-Based
Illumarine is a desktop-focused operating system based on the illumos (OpenSolaris) family of operating systems
User Oriented
We aim to make Illumarine as easy to use as humanly possible. We do this through ports of existing software, and making our own.
Community Driven
No corporate entity decides what happens to Illumarine. We are fully independent, and 100% built by the community.
About Illumarine
Illumarine is a different take on illumos at its core. Barry (the creator of Illumarine) wanted to take their two main daily driver operating systems (OpenIndiana and Linux) and merge the best of the two very different worlds together. Noticing how Linux is becomming more and more popular, plus the many current faults of the ecosystem, Barry started working on Illumarine.
Originally as a joke within a Linux distro's community, Barry decided to take the project seriously, and ultimately aims to build something that is easy to work with as Linux, while keeping a more sane, lighter operating system altogether.