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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 LeFantome »

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.

Debian no longer supports Pentium, so neither does Antix.

There are still Linux distros that will work on it. Adelie should. I think Arch32 as well. And Tinycore.

I am not as sure about Slackware but I believe the single-core (non-SMP) kernel runs on Pentium.

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by LeFantome »

ruslan wrote: post #20
hulitu wrote: post #11

> desktop - an Xfce-based desktop with common tools I would have expected OpenLook. Xfce is ugly.

I would expect CDE (or NsCDE).

It is not designed to be “retro”, like a toy. While it prefers many older, simpler technologies, it is designed to be used.

XFCE is much more functional than CDE.

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

ptribble wrote: post #10
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.

That tracks:) On which note... Any chance you wrote it down? Because I'm also quite interested in knowing how to do that, and as you note the documentation is...

Re: Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

ruslan wrote: post #20
hulitu wrote: post #11

> desktop - an Xfce-based desktop with common tools I would have expected OpenLook. Xfce is ugly.

I would expect CDE (or NsCDE).

I'm pretty sure CDE is available, it's just (sensibly IMO) not the default. Listed in https://www.tribblix.org/Use/5.desktop.html & https://www.tribblix.org/overlay-cde.html
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