Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution(tribblix.org)

28 points by naturalmovement 3 hours ago | 7 comments

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 34 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 | |

solarengineer 2 hours ago |

Very good work by Peter Tribble