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- Finally TempleOS has a companion - like a brother.
Retro will never die.
by shevy-java - This is a full Solaris UNIX distro. Pretty far from TempleOS.by LeFantome
- I'm tempted to try this on my Ultra 10! Looks like I need to upgrade the RAM first...by icedchai
- Cannot find what are the min HW requirements ? What min RAM/HDD/CPU to get simple X11 environment ? Will it run on 486DX2-66 ?by ruslan
- It says 32-bit support completely removed, so I doubt it.by Narishma
- > desktop - an Xfce-based desktop with common tools
I would have expected OpenLook. Xfce is ugly.
by hulitu - I would expect CDE (or NsCDE).by ruslan
- What's so ugly about it? The window decorations? The gtk-theme(which can be changed easily anyway), the file-manager, the panel(s)?
- Oh, Open Look is there too. Although I always found Open Look, like SunView before it, to be pretty unpleasant to use.by ptribble
- 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.by Guestmodinfo
- Noby unixhero
- You can try via a usb bootable and see if the hardware is recognised
- 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.
by LeFantome - Should work fine if you can run Zoom through Firefox.
- 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.by yjftsjthsd-h
- What does "retro" mean in this case. I failed to find what was really different compares to other illumos based OS.by prmoustache
- 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.by ptribble
- I can't seem to find a list of supported hardware (or at least hardware which is supposed to work). Will it run on a UltraSPARC T2 server? I've got one collecting dust in the basement.by boricj
- Very good work by Peter Tribble
- It installed perfectly on my V210 UltraSPARC machine and also on an Intel i5-8400T ( from memory) HP desktop. Very nice distribution!by shrubble
- 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.
- 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
by yjftsjthsd-h - 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.by ptribble