Derivatives
- Illumos, a fully open source fork of the project, started in 2010 by a community of Sun OpenSolaris engineers and the NexentaOS support. Note that OpenSolaris was not 100% open source: Some drivers and some libraries were property of other companies that Sun (now Oracle) licensed and was not able to release.
- OpenIndiana, a project under the illumos umbrella aiming "... to become the defacto OpenSolaris distribution installed on production servers where security and bug fixes are required free of charge."
- Belenix, Live CD
- EON ZFS Storage, a NAS implementation targeted at embedded systems
- Jaris OS, Live DVD and also installable. Pronounced according to the IPA but in English as Yah-Rees. This distribution has been heavily modified to fully support a version of Wine called Madoris that can install and run Windows programs at native speed. Jaris stands for "Japanese Solaris". Madoris is a combination of the Japanese word for Windows "mado" and Solaris.
- marTux, Live CD/DVD, first distribution for SPARC
- MilaX, small Live CD/Live USB
- napp-it, free Browser managed internet/ san/ nas/ project, based on nexenta3 or eon/opensolaris
- Nexenta OS, Ubuntu userland with solaris derived kernel
- NexentaStor, optimized for storage workloads, based on Nexenta
- SchilliX, Live CD
- StormOS, a lightweight desktop OS based on Nexenta and Xfce.
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