Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

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gr4vityWall · 28s ago

The Illumos' family is an interesting one. I wish it was easier to get it installed on modern hardware. Any of my attempts with distros like OpenIndiana, Tribblix and OmniOS didn't go further than the boot menu.

I wonder how far a compatibility layer for Linux drivers could go to help other UNIX kernels' usability.

hulitu · 2h ago

> lightweight window managers are preferred over heavy desktop environments, the primary desktop option is Xfce, and MATE and Enlightenment are also available, plus many others

I would expected CDE as a first class citizen and maybe OpenLook.

And it says that it it maily for 32bit SPARC and 32bit X86 and later that "Important: 32-bit hardware support now completely removed.".

ch_123 · 1h ago

They have an overlay for both:

http://www.tribblix.org/overlay-cde.html

http://www.tribblix.org/overlay-openlook.html

cheaprentalyeti · 1h ago

I've been looking for a linux distribution that has olwm available but have had little luck. The closest I can find is a theme for icewm.

CTOSian · 1h ago

me as well, olvwm was last time in Debian Jessie, now only on NetBSD as package

pabs3 · 1h ago

Looks like Debian removed olvwm/olwm because they were incompatible with 64-bit and unmaintained.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xview https://tracker.debian.org/news/1000764/removed-32p14-282-fr... https://bugs.debian.org/911787

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Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution

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