So I thought I would give a brief update on what's happening with my Tribblix distribution.
At the end of April I pushed out an update - 0m15. This was available for both x86/x64, and for SPARC. Of itself, this was a fairly small update, which fixed an illumos CVE and some issues with the 0m14 update. The 0m14 update was pretty major - updates to Xfce and enlightenment, and openssl 1.0.2, along with a lot of new and updated packages. I've been using Tribblix as my primary desktop and development system for some months now. A major missing gap was recently closed up by getting LibreOffice running - and it runs pretty well. My personal circumstances have changed. It's been clear for a while that my views on what needed to be done to be successful were incompatible with those of my employer, so we parted company at the end of April. I'm currently working part time (with an omnios customer, as it happens), which also allows me time to catch up on many other things (which include working on Tribblix and building LibreOffice). A note on SPARC: Tribblix is available for SPARC, and the aim is to maintain that. I have a Sun Blade 2000 and T5140 hardware to build and test software. It's not quite self-hosting yet (my illumos build system is an OpenSXCE/Tribblix hybrid). I wouldn't like to think of SPARC support as deficient, but it will be of necessity be more limited than x86 - I see more limited use cases, some modern runtimes (eg Node, go) won't run on SPARC, and the user base is regrettably small. In terms of technology, beyond fleshing out the desktop toolset, I've been working on zones. I've got a scheme where I can take the ISO for another illumos distro and create a functional zone from it. Quick, dirty, but works. Another trick is to start a zone with nothing running but init - think the single-app way that Docker tends to be used. Generally, the whole zones framework is far more flexible and capable of far more than the standard types of zones we're used to. I'm starting to file some of the bugs I've discovered along the way. Hopefully I'll get my build farm back together (the electricity bill might be another matter) in order to be able to create and test fixes as well. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
