Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

(tribblix.org)

29 points | by naturalmovement 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • yjftsjthsd-h 1 hour ago
    Notable for still maintaining some level of SPARC support.

    On a personal level I'm impressed and fascinated by the fact that apparently one man created and has maintained an illumos distro for many years;

    * making an OS distro at all is hard

    * making an illumos distro is harder (less precedent to work from, and IMHO Sun didn't do a great job documenting things if you weren't inside Sun)

    * making a different distro is harder; this isn't an OpenIndiana rehash, AFAIK it's mostly novel

    * and of course maintaining it for so long is a huge undertaking

  • Guestmodinfo 2 hours ago
    It is comparable to slackware as I says on the website and for many yas i have wanted to use slackware. So i want to install it on my pentium laptop that I got in 2020. I want to run zoom on it with screen sharing. Can I do that? I can use antix linux on that laptop frthe same purpose.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 1 hour ago
      You can try running it via LX zone (Linux compatibility) but I would consider it a very far stretch. You might be able to make it work via browser but I don't know the situation there.
    • solarengineer 2 hours ago
      You can try via a usb bootable and see if the hardware is recognised
      • 2b3a51 28 minutes ago
        Would that be a question of using dd to write the iso to a USB stick, or are we talking about burning the iso to a DVD, booting and installing to a USB drive?

        PS: Thanks to Peter Tribble for providing this system.

    • unixhero 2 hours ago
      No
  • solarengineer 2 hours ago
    Very good work by Peter Tribble