providing incremental updates and package facets, making such splitting an unnecessary burden. In the course of the first two years of its existence, the Hipster project has migrated and updated over 1500 packages: it maintains a collection of selected software packages while relying on third-party repositories like SFE for add-ons. For extended selection, the pkgsrc system supported by Joyent readily provides 20000+ packages for illumos systems.

Relation to other operating systems

The project

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