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sashk
This reminds me about SmartOS[1].

[1]: https://www.joyent.com/smartos

DominoTree
Probably because they're both based on OpenSolaris
equalunique
The SmartOS and OmniOS folks work together from time to time. For example, I believe Bhyve was first ported from FreeBSD to OmniOS before it eventually came to SmartOS.
ptribble
Other way round. Like LX, into SmartOS first, then brought across into OmniOSce. But yes, OmniOSce picks up a lot of SmartOS features, whereas some of the other distros are vanilla illumos.

https://omniosce.org/info/bhyve

osiaq
Enterprise server OS doesn't need name like that. The most popular derrives from Deborah and Ian
bonyt
Since it's hidden at the bottom:

> illumos based server OS with ZFS, DTrace, Crossbow, SMF, Bhyve, KVM and Linux zone support.

ofrzeta
It's the successor of OmniOS by OmniTI which is based on OpenSolaris [1]. Tobi Oetiker (of RRDTool) and other have adopted the project. See the "About" page which is unfortunately hidden in the Site menu: https://omniosce.org/about/about.html