The latest bi-weekly branch of SmartOS is up ( #smartos ).
https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/T0a07457f15530c89-M9bf49c9e1e3a079b240da3dd
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20260319T000507Z
The latest bi-weekly branch of SmartOS is up ( #smartos ).
https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/T0a07457f15530c89-M9bf49c9e1e3a079b240da3dd
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20260319T000507Z
The latest bi-weekly branch of SmartOS is up ( #smartos ).
https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/T681e3ca5d07fa865-Mf9ede544db16a377f8190d58
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20260306T044811Z
The latest bi-weekly branch of SmartOS is up ( #smartos ).
https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/T9db0d60a14ac3843-M0c430feb1fc5335197be257a
https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20260219T015737Z
People waxing lyrical about using 'original vi', both nowadays in 2026 and back in 2006, haven't a clue what that is.
There's only one family of operating systems where 'vi' will actually run the original vi program by Joy, Horton, et al.: #Illumos and its derivatives #Tribblix, #OmniOS, and #SmartOS.
*Everyone else* uses one of the ground-up clones.
On #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #NetBSD, it's Bostic's early 1990s #nvi, which was derived from Kirkendall's elvis, a clone written some time around 1990.
On Linux-based operating systems, vi either is Bostic nvi, or is one of the derivatives of STEVIE (the middle-1980s vi clone for the Atari ST that inspired Kirkendall to write elvis in the first place): Moolenaar's VIM or NeoVIM.
On none of those will you get original Joy+Horton vi in base, or indeed packaged/in ports.
Yes, Heirloom vi exists, which is Ritter's 2002 fork of 1985 Joy+Horton vi. But it's not even available in Arch Linux nowadays.

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This week's bi-weekly #SmartOS release may be of interest to more conservative #Triton operators. Upstream and outside software brought a lot of improvements into the 20260205 SmartOS release.
Cf. https://smartdatacenter.topicbox.com/groups/sdc-discuss/Ta941c3e60a10c46e-M38b21a070179cf7ced962925