ptribble

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by ptribble 3mo ago
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
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by ptribble 3mo ago
Oh, Open Look is there too. Although I always found Open Look, like SunView before it, to be pretty unpleasant to use.
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by ptribble 3mo ago
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 worke
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by ptribble 7mo ago
Why pick on the over-70s though? Most drivers in the UK either can't see or don't bother looking, so we should be demanding higher standards of all drivers.
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by ptribble 8mo ago
Not dead, still going strong under new ownership (MNX).
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by ptribble 8mo ago
SmartOS can, of course, boot from a local zfs pool, but it treats it logically as just another source for the bootable image. See the piadm(8) command.
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by ptribble 1y ago
That's like asking if Linux has a desktop environment. Strictly, no, but Linux distributions do. So OpenIndiana has MATE and a couple of other options; Tribblix has about 30 desktop options; OmniOS you can install a desktop stack from
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by ptribble 1y ago
It has 30 desktop options, including i3 The repo has a list of packages http://pkgs.tribblix.org/
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by ptribble 1y ago
There was nothing about screwing anyone involved in the choice of the license. The license had to be something all the copyright and license holders were prepared to accept (and getting them to accept CDDL was hard enough, not everyone did
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by ptribble 1y ago
That shouldn't be a fundamental problem with current Tribblix - due to this sort of problem the installer got modified so that once the bootloader has pulled the ramdisk off the usb stick it doesn't need it again (although if it c
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by ptribble 1y ago
There are over 30 desktop options (including quite a few of the older window managers, which is a bit of a blast from the past). I do include CDE and Open Look (the window manager and toolkit, at least). In both cases the add-on tools that
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by ptribble 1y ago
It's never going to be maintained... But there is a 64-bit port (which I ought to bring in to Tribblix) https://github.com/ggodd/xview-64bit
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by ptribble 2y ago
Sheesh. Just use a separate schema per tenant.
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by ptribble 5y ago
Pretty much it, yeah. If there's anything useful upstream then it will get pulled in, and there's a still a lot of worthwhile cleanup of SPARC, but the kernel will be essentially frozen.
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by ptribble 5y ago
Tribblix SPARC will continue. While you lose any new features that go into illumos upstream, at least you don't keep getting broken by changes going into illumos upstream. (This isn't a commitment for all time, naturally. At some
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by ptribble 5y ago
Because it's not a stock gcc. It's specially modified to do things quite differently on SPARC. If it was a case of "just" upgrading we would have done it long ago. As one of approximately 2 people who actually build illu
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by ptribble 5y ago
For illumos, the sweet spot is the 10-15 year old Sun gear you can pick up on eBay. Works well, supported, not overly expensive. Newer SPARC systems are really quite good. And pretty cost-effective too. The problem is that the starting pric
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by ptribble 7y ago
Other way round. Like LX, into SmartOS first, then brought across into OmniOSce. But yes, OmniOSce picks up a lot of SmartOS features, whereas some of the other distros are vanilla illumos. https://omniosce.org/info/bhy
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by ptribble 8y ago
I was at the talk, and thought at the time that Rankin missed the main point. Linux didn't beat Sun because it was better, cheaper, or had more ideologically pure licensing. Linux dominated because it was accessible. Anybody could down