About

What?

illumos News is a blog that provides updates and insights about the illumos open-source operating system, illumos distributions and related technologies.

When?

Once a week, on Mondays at 00:00 UTC

Where?

The website has an RSS feed at /feed and is also available on ActivityPub as @news@news.illumos.am

Who?

The website is run by Antranig Vartanian and is not affiliated with the illumos project.

Why?

illumos is awesome!

How?

The website is powered by WordPress, which connects to MariaDB for database management. The applications are hosted within a pkgsrc branded Zone inside OmniOS. Physically, the server resides at hackerspace.am, so please anticipate downtime when the electricity is out 🙂