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Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by Guestmodinfo »

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.

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by unixhero »

Guestmodinfo wrote: post #3

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.

No

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by solarengineer »

Guestmodinfo wrote: post #3

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.

You can try via a usb bootable and see if the hardware is recognised

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

Guestmodinfo wrote: post #3

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.

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.

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

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

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by 2b3a51 »

solarengineer wrote: post #5
Guestmodinfo wrote: post #3

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.

You can try via a usb bootable and see if the hardware is recognised

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.

Edit: I've just downloaded the basic (Tribblix 0m40) iso, dd'ed [see below] it to a smallish USB stick and booted an old Thinkpad. Boot succeeded and I was able to log in to the minimal live session. Haven't done more than that yet.

    # dd if=tribblix-0m40.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by ptribble »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #7

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…

One of the reasons for creating Tribblix in the first place was that there really wasn't any documentation on how OpenSolaris (as was) was built. I wanted to understand that, so had to work it out essentially from scratch. I soon worked out that there were ways to do it better, and Tribblix is still here something like 15 years later.
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