Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution
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·August 9, 2025hulitu
> lightweight window managers are preferred over heavy desktop environments, the primary desktop option is Xfce, and MATE and Enlightenment are also available, plus many others
I would expected CDE as a first class citizen and maybe OpenLook.
And it says that it it maily for 32bit SPARC and 32bit X86 and later that "Important: 32-bit hardware support now completely removed.".
ch_123
They have an overlay for both:
cheaprentalyeti
I've been looking for a linux distribution that has olwm available but have had little luck. The closest I can find is a theme for icewm.
CTOSian
me as well, olvwm was last time in Debian Jessie, now only on NetBSD as package
pabs3
Looks like Debian removed olvwm/olwm because they were incompatible with 64-bit and unmaintained.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xview https://tracker.debian.org/news/1000764/removed-32p14-282-fr... https://bugs.debian.org/911787
jeffWrld
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The Illumos' family is an interesting one. I wish it was easier to get it installed on modern hardware. Any of my attempts with distros like OpenIndiana, Tribblix and OmniOS didn't go further than the boot menu.
I wonder how far a compatibility layer for Linux drivers could go to help other UNIX kernels' usability. Maybe the Oxide folks know more of what would be involved in such an effort.