For a while now I've been working on a new distribution based on OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana/Illumos.
The aim is to produce something that's traditionally styled but has much more up to date components than Solaris 10 (or the current derivatives, come to that). Packaging is SVR4 (underneath, anyway); the primary desktop will be Xfce. I've now got to the point where I can produce an ISO that will boot to a login prompt, and that can install a functional (and easily customized) system to a hard drive. At the moment that's all it does - it's absolutely by no means complete or finished, but it's a foundation I can build on. If you're happy with twm or wmaker, it's almost usable. For reasons that aren't entirely due to vanity it's called Tribblix. (Anyone else remember that name from a Go Game at one of the OpenSolaris summits?) And the website with some details and an ISO for download is here: http://www.tribblix.org/ I'm running this successfully under VirtualBox and on a desktop PC from 4 years ago, both in 64-bit mode. 32-bit is untested. This is just a proof of concept; a demonstration to prove that it can be done. I'll be fleshing it out with more and newer packages, and generally fixing the problems I've uncovered. I'll also release all the scripts used to build it - once I've removed all the temporary hacks I'm too embarrassed to show in public. -- -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