Downloading now. Thank you for your efforts Peter.
-=- Aside from some reading, I really haven't played with LibreOffice. Are there any feature that they have developed that are not in the OpenOffice fork? Or maybe some licensing advantage? At lest at this time, I am not certain what LibreOffice provides that OpenOffice does not, aside from another fork? -=- I'm also interested in the alternate desktops. I had good luck with WindowMaker on Solaris probably 10 or 11 years ago. Jerry On 12/16/12 12:55 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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/ >> >> ------------------------------------------- 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
