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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 Altern4tiveAcc »

Has anyone managed to boot it on bare metal using an AM5 motherboard?

I tried booting various Illumos distros through USB sticks on two different AM5 computers, and it got stuck very early on. I assume due to some incompatibility with USB 3.0. Meanwhile, a friend of mine booted on a Thinkpad just fine from a DVD.

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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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.

Should work fine if you can run Zoom through Firefox.

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by ptribble »

prmoustache wrote: post #15

What does "retro" mean in this case. I failed to find what was really different compares to other illumos based OS.

It's a bit of an in-joke, as if illumos itself isn't retro enough. But it relates to the use of older (smaller, faster, lighter weight, more reliable and well tested) technologies in certain places, the most obvious being the use of traditional SVR4 packaging as opposed to IPS.

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by 2b3a51 »

2b3a51 wrote: post #8
solarengineer wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'…

Edit timeout reached so replying to my own post.

Installed on the Thinkpad T60 using the 'kitchen-sink' option to the install script following the instructions on the tribblix Web site. Left the USB stick in and rebooted and it did some first run stuff (you have to leave the usb stick plugged in at this stage).

Edit: To use a wired connection (e1000 driver on Tribblix) you need to have the network cable plugged in when you boot the usb stick. If you don't, then networking does not get configured.

The xfce desktop installation is quite nice, with emacs, vim and helix editors and Abiword/Gnumeric. Palemoon and Netsurf are available as graphical Web browsers.

Sometimes it is good to try something that works on a different basis to what you are used to - the contrast illuminates (lol) what you usually use.

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