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Theoretical astrophysicist who ended up in computing, which got a bit out of hand and resulted in Tribblix, my personal illumos distribution.

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With a little effort I was able to build viola, one of the very earliest graphical web browsers, on Tribblix. So old it doesn't send a Host header and certainly can't handle https. So the number of sites it can talk to is extremely limited.

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There was even a Motif version. The fact that a 30-year old browser can still be coerced into building, linking, and running on a modern system is pretty remarkable.

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The idea that Hashicorp is worth about the same as Oracle paid for Sun is truly a magical fantasy valuation.

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New Tribblix SPARC m30 release now available for install and upgrade.

http://www.tribblix.org/download.html#sparc

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Trying to figure out what to write about illumos is difficult, because for me personally, the entire experience has been pretty terrible from start to finish.

That said, I really don't want to shit on a project that appears to be struggling with commercial support, and frankly, I'm not exactly playing to its strengths.

As I'm using it, its basically still just SVR4 UNIX, and I'm ignoring the advancements based in ZFS, Dtrace, etc.

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Joyent have been out of the picture for a while. That side (SmartOS/Triton, pkgsrc) is now funded by MNX.

And there's Oxide, who are probably the biggest commercial player right now.

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Next-generation AI-enabled Tribblix

http://www.tribblix.org/r42.html

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I suspect The Trainline's geoip detection is ever so slightly off

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I'm sure AI could be good for many things, but much of what I'm seeing is a lot more Automated Ignorance and a lot less Artificial Intelligence

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So the hay fever symptoms I've had for the past week might indeed be hay fever:

https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/23/will-climate-change-make-the-effects-of-pollen-worse/

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I was starting to wonder if NetSurf was still under development, but after quite a long hiatus a new release came out at the end of last year.

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/

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And if you're running Solaris 11 on SPARC and want a more recent version of Java, then I have some builds for that too.

https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/sparc-solaris/

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When something is advertised as cross-platform and written in Java:

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Tribblix m29 for SPARC now available

http://www.tribblix.org/download.html

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Well, I missed out on the fact that Tribblix made it into print, in Linux Format of all places

https://linuxformat.com/archives?issue=279

Sadly I don't have a copy.

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List of OpenJDK ports and maintainers:

https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/hotspot/ports

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A new release - Tribblix m33.

ISO images now available for download here:

http://www.tribblix.org/download.html

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Having a bit of a clearout, and found an old copy of Opera for Solaris. It still runs on Tribblix, but as it's over 13 years old virtually no sites using https will work (and I dare say that "modern" websites wouldn't work even if I could connect). Well-written simple websites that allow http work just fine, of course. Still a bit of a blast from the past.

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Found an interesting article on network installing various systems: Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: Linux, illumos and more

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2021/02/20/multi-os-pxe-booting-from-freebsd-12-linux-illumos-and-more-pt-4-2/

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And yet again, getting around Cambridge is proving a nightmare due to chronic congestion.

It's astonishing that so many businesses who are suffering due to staff and customers being unable to get to them easily are against any measures to improve the situation.

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There are almost 1400 software packages in Tribblix (in addition to the 500-odd packages in illumos itself). If each piece of software just did 1 release a year, then that's about 4 updates a day, a constant stream of updates.

In practice releases are more frequent on average. I seem to be averaging 10 commits a day to the main build repo. Fortunately most are trivial version bumps, which keeps the effort low.

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@jamesog For most it's just one edit, 1 command to make the package. I could probably automate a little more in a minority of cases, but it's my insistence on manual testing and sanity checking that currently dominates the time budget.

It's highly scripted rather than fully automated, and in practice improving script performance has given me some fairly big wins.

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"PonyOS is not a Linux distribution - it's also not a BSD, or a Hurd, or a Minix, or a Solaris!"

No kidding.

https://ponyos.org/

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When zfs was young

https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2023/10/when-zfs-was-young.html

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SMF - part of the Solaris 10 legacy

https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2023/10/smf-part-of-solaris-10-legacy.html

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I've recently mostly been using mvi (Minimum Viable Illumos) to create application archives for zones. But I just went back and fixed things so you can create lightweight application ISOs that can boot in bhyve too.

https://github.com/ptribble/mvi

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