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| Developer | Illumos Foundation |
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| Written in | C |
| OS family | Unix (SVR4)[1] |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source with binary blobs |
| Initial release | 2010 |
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| Available in | English |
| Platforms | IA-32, x86-64, SPARC, ARM (under development),[2] DEC Alpha |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| License | CDDL, BSD, MIT |
| Preceded by | OpenSolaris |
| Official website | illumos |
Illumos (stylized as illumos) is a partly[3] free and open-source Unix operating system. It is based on OpenSolaris, which was based on System V Release 4 (SVR4) and the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Illumos comprises a kernel, device drivers, system libraries, and utility software for system administration. This core is now the base for many different open-sourced Illumos distributions,[4] in a similar way in which the Linux kernel is used in different Linux distributions.[5]
The maintainers write illumos in lowercase[6] since some computer fonts do not clearly distinguish a lowercase L from an uppercase i: Il (see homoglyph).[7] The project name is a combination of words illuminare from Latin for to light and OS for Operating System.[8]
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- ^ "Announcement". illumos.org. 15 June 2018.