I thought it worth giving a quick update on progress in Tribblix. A new release, Milestone 19 aka 0m19, is now available for download.
http://www.tribblix.org/download.html The major milestone this time around is the new loader, which seems to work just fine (as it should, but it's nice to confirm this in practice). There's a long list of new and updated packages - just keeping up with the ongoing deluge of releases in all the open source projects out there is a job in itself. A background project is to gradually enable 64-bit builds of packages where relevant. This means shipping both 32 and 64-bit binaries and libraries, not necessarily enabling isaexec. The main intent is to have 64-bit versions of everything building successfully so that when they're needed they're already available. Meanwhile, Tribblix should work just fine on older hardware - either old 32-bit x86 systems, or generally somewhat more resource constrained than the multi-gigabyte RAM requirements you might see elsewhere. I'm working on getting the SPARC version up to date too. I'm hoping to get a Milestone 18 release out shortly. Progress on SPARC is slower than I would like for several reasons: the systems are just plain slow (my SunBlade 2000 that I use for building packages takes forever compared to my regular Core i7 desktop, and the T5140 takes about as long to run POST as my normal machine does to do an illumos build); the hardware is noisy and power-hungry so it doesn't spend that much time turned on (although it's been handy on some of the colder winter days); I'm still working on getting the baseline packages solid (libxml2 is about the last one left that I still have to regenerate); and I still need to make Tribblix on SPARC self-hosting (I currently build illumos for SPARC on a T5140 that's a cobbled together by hand mix of OpenSXCE, Tribblix, illumos, and hand-installed bodges) - the reason I can't jump straight to the same level for SPARC as I'm using for x86 is that illumos no longer builds on that old box (and it's not the loader, it's changes in some of the native build stuff). It's basically that old limitation, time. -- -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
