This is great work Peter. I look forward to having a chance to play with your
results in the future.
- Garrett
On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tribblix being a part-time hobby project means that progress tends
> to come in fits and starts, but I am moving along.
>
> Milestone 2 of Tribblix is based directly on Illumos. It was based
> on Illumos before, of course, but by proxy. Now I'm generating the
> packages that come from illumos-gate directly from my build, rather
> than repackaging bits that OI have built. I'm still dependent on OI
> for the remainder of the base OS (things like libxml, for example,
> and the whole of the X11 consolidation comes from OI).
>
> That's the major change in Milestone 2. There are minor fixes, and
> a few new and updated packages.
>
> http://www.tribblix.org/
>
> In parallel, I've been trying to get LibreOffice going. I can now get it
> built and installed. (It's clear that others have trodden this path
> before me, I just lift patches from posts to mailing lists that I can find
> via Google.) Unfortunately, it exits during startup and I need to
> look into that more closely. A first attempt at version 4 indicates
> there's a lot more pain ahead.
>
> I'm keeping a keen eye on other lightweight desktops. E17 builds
> with very little effort, and the full E17 release is just around the
> corner. It would be nice to have LXDE and awesome available as
> well. I'm still looking for a viable graphical login manager.
>
> --
> -Peter Tribble
> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
>
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