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+<title>Welcome to OpenIndiana</title>
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+<body>
+<div id="content">
+<h1><img src="../images/oi-logo.png" width=300 height=80
+alt="OpenIndidana Logo"></h1>
+<h2>Welcome to OpenIndiana – A Community Distribution of Oracle
+OpenSolaris</h2>
+<p>OpenIndiana is a distribution of OpenSolaris, constructed by the
+community, for the community. Our primary goal is to be a binary
+and package compatible drop-in replacement for the official Oracle
+OpenSolaris distribution.</p>
+<p>This project was created to address the longstanding issue that
+the OpenSolaris distribution is constructed entirely by Sun/Oracle,
+not by the community. Depending on a single commercial entity has
+led to several issues, notably that bug fixes and security updates
+are only available via a paid for support subscription, that
+community participation has been limited in steering the direction
+of the operating system, and that commercial decisions within
+Sun/Oracle have led to delays with the latest release.</p>
+<p>We believe that this distribution is a necessary next step in
+the evolution of the OpenSolaris legacy, one that the wider
+community has been desperately waiting for. By engaging the
+community, we can deliver true transparency, deliver regular
+security updates and bug fixes, and bring peace of mind to our
+users by providing a certain future for the operating system.</p>
+<h2>Independence and Cooperation</h2>
+<p>OpenIndiana is about gaining independence and security, whilst
+cooperating and sharing our efforts with Oracle to benefit the
+greater OpenSolaris community. We intend to foster a friendly, open
+and active environment for developers to join us and get involved,
+to develop the operating system in new directions and take it to
+levels that were simply not possible under Sun/Oracle's
+stewardship.</p>
+<p>Together with the Illumos project we will work hard in order to
+replace the remaining closed source binaries with open-sourced
+equivalents, making the OpenIndiana distribution a true open source
+operating system. We hope that this will speed adoption and
+acceptance within the open source community.</p>
+<p>We are committed to make developing the OpenSolaris operating system
+easier than ever, by fully documenting the build process and
+enhancing it to the point that anyone can quickly and easily get
+involved and compile the operating system from scratch.</p>
+<p>Lastly, we intend to enhance the OpenSolaris operating system's
+ease of use, such that Linux users can make the transition with as
+little pain as possible. Key examples of how we intend to do this
+include making far more free and open source software available for
+our distribution, as well as keeping this software up to date. We
+also believe OpenSolaris excels as a server platform, with
+enterprise features found in no other operating system, such as the
+ZFS filesystem, Zones, the Service Management Framework, the Fault
+Management system, the COMSTAR iSCSI/FCoE framework, and the
+Crossbow virtualised network stack. We intend to make it easier
+than ever to install OpenSolaris on servers, by providing
+additional installation options on the live CD, and enhancing the
+Automated Installer for automated network installs.</p>
+<h2>About Us</h2>
+OpenIndiana is part of the Illumos Foundation, built by volunteers and
+enthusiasts from around the world. Currently build servers, hosting
+and bandwidth is donated by EveryCity hosting in the UK.
+<h2>Getting Involved</h2>
+<p>Our success as a distribution depends upon the success of our
+community, which is why we would like to invite all those
+interested in the future of OpenSolaris to participate and get
+involved!</p>
+<p>We have many resources from which you can get started, including
+our Wiki, Mailing Lists and IRC Channel. We have development
+servers available which can be booked, publicly available IPS
+development repositories for updating to the latest builds, and
+mercurial repositories for checking out the latest source code.</p>
+<p>Further, we have a list of vacancies on our website which we are
+actively seeking to fill, see our website for the details.</p>
+<h2>Links</h2>
+<dl>
+<dt>Website:</dt>
+<dd><a href="http://openindiana.org/" title=
+"OpenIndiana Website">http://openindiana.org/</a></dd>
+<dt>Wiki:</dt>
+<dd><a href="http://wiki.openindiana.org/" title=
+"OpenIndiana Wiki">http://wiki.openindiana.org</a></dd>
+<dt>Mailing Lists:</dt>
+<dd><a href="http://openindiana.org/mailman/" title=
+"OpenIndiana Mailing Lists">http://openindiana.org/mailman/</a></dd>
+<dt>IRC Channel:</dt>
+<dd>#openindiana on irc.freenode.net</dd>
+</dl>
+<h2>License</h2>
+<a href="file:///etc/notices/LICENSE" title="OpenIndiana Licensing
+Information">OpenIndiana Licensing Information</a>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
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