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		rbanffy 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution Does Illumos have a desktop environment?

ptribble 6 months ago [–]

That's like asking if Linux has a desktop environment. Strictly, no, but Linux distributions do.

So OpenIndiana has MATE and a couple of other options; Tribblix has about 30 desktop options; OmniOS you can install a desktop stack from pkgsrc.

rbanffy 6 months ago | [–]

So, is Illumos just a kernel?

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