OpenIndiana is more of a downstream distro than a fork of illumos, much like how Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro. Whereas illumos itself is a fork of OpenSolaris.

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rbanffy 2 days ago | parent [-]

Does Illumos have a desktop environment?

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ptribble 2 days ago | parent [-]

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 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		So, is Illumos just a kernel?