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title = "OpenIndiana 151a released"
date = "2011-09-14T08:15:00+00:00"
author = "Gibheer"
draft = false
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After the release of [PostgreSQL 9.1](http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1349), today another great open source project released a new version - [OpenIndiana](http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a+Release+Notes).

OpenIndiana is based on a fork of OpenSolaris, named [Illumos](http://illumos.org). It was announced in august 2010. OpenIndiana has evolved since that time and got a stable release 148 and today 151a. That release is very solid and got one thing, which Solaris 11 has and most likely will never have: *KVM*.

So from today you get a Solaris fork with crossbow, resource containers, zones and the kernel virtual machine, converted from linux to Illumos from the developers of [Joyent](http://joyent.com). They built there own distribution, [SmartOS](http://smartos.org), which is a bootable OS for managing a cloud like setup but without the zones.

So if you have a large Infrastructure and want to seperate some programs from each other or have some old infrastructure, try OpenIndiana and it's zones and kvm.
