#tribblix — Public Fediverse posts

Let’s Try Tribblix, the Solaris-Derived x86-64 Operating System https://lowendbox.com/blog/lets-try-tribblix-the-solaris-derived-x86-64-operating-system/ #Editorial&News #openindiana #opensolaris #tribblix #illumos

Today, the Linuxulator did its job, and it did it very well.
A client is experimenting with moving from Docker to FreeBSD and jails, and they seem very happy with it so far.
The issue is that part of their build process - as so often happens - relies on Node dependencies that only compile on Linux, macOS, etc., but not on FreeBSD, due to a missing binary that isn't provided for it. Currently, they build on their local machines and push the output to the server, but sometimes they need to make quick changes on the fly.

So, I set up a Linux jail (Ubuntu) using BastilleBSD, installed the dependencies, set up a bind mount, and granted them access to the jail. The result: now they can compile right from there too, improving their overall workflow.

The Linuxulator - and even more so, illumos's lx zones - are truly remarkable pieces of technology.

#FreeBSD #Linux #RunBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #Tribblix #Linux #IT #SysAdmin

Today, the Linuxulator did its job, and it did it very well.
A client is experimenting with moving from Docker to FreeBSD and jails, and they seem very happy with it so far.
The issue is that part of their build process - as so often happens - relies on Node dependencies that only compile on Linux, macOS, etc., but not on FreeBSD, due to a missing binary that isn't provided for it. Currently, they build on their local machines and push the output to the server, but sometimes they need to make quick changes on the fly.

So, I set up a Linux jail (Ubuntu) using BastilleBSD, installed the dependencies, set up a bind mount, and granted them access to the jail. The result: now they can compile right from there too, improving their overall workflow.

The Linuxulator - and even more so, illumos's lx zones - are truly remarkable pieces of technology.

#FreeBSD #Linux #RunBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #Tribblix #Linux #IT #SysAdmin

#sun day "project" can we enter the #bhyve #zone
Yes we can #Tribblix
Next stop is #ppt 🤣

Let's try something more modern..

I bought a Supermicro X11 with CPU and Memory.

So i can finally make bhyve zones

#tribblix #smartos #omnios

And no, the AMD cooler was only for smoke test, 6000rpm 😵‍💫

Tribblix: Because nothing screams "cutting-edge" like desperately clinging to 32-bit hardware 💾 and praying your #SPARC doesn't spontaneously combust. 🔥 Peter Tribble has managed to redefine the word "retro" by delivering an #OS that not only lacks modern features but also boasts a distinguished lack of support—talk about living in the past! ⏳
http://tribblix.org/ #Tribblix #Retro #32Bit #HardwareBurnout #HackerNews #ngated

Tribblix: Because nothing screams "cutting-edge" like desperately clinging to 32-bit hardware 💾 and praying your #SPARC doesn't spontaneously combust. 🔥 Peter Tribble has managed to redefine the word "retro" by delivering an #OS that not only lacks modern features but also boasts a distinguished lack of support—talk about living in the past! ⏳
http://tribblix.org/ #Tribblix #Retro #32Bit #HardwareBurnout #HackerNews #ngated

Tribblix: the retro illumos distribution

http://tribblix.org/

#HackerNews #Tribblix #illumos #retro #distribution #open #source #UNIX #operating #system

Tribblix: the retro illumos distribution

http://tribblix.org/

#HackerNews #Tribblix #illumos #retro #distribution #open #source #UNIX #operating #system

@rtn maybe #Tribblix @ptribble ? :-)

@rtn maybe #Tribblix @ptribble ? :-)

nwadm on wan interface only?
or should I disable nwamd all together and use ipadm dhcp?
I am still on my router firewall project 🤭🤭
Reason i ask is because i don't have a friggin clue since i went in head first trying to build a fw / router with Tribblix
And got wierd results when my rj45 was connected to incoming internet

#opensolaris / #OmniOS / #tribblix

nwadm on wan interface only?
or should I disable nwamd all together and use ipadm dhcp?
I am still on my router firewall project 🤭🤭
Reason i ask is because i don't have a friggin clue since i went in head first trying to build a fw / router with Tribblix
And got wierd results when my rj45 was connected to incoming internet

#opensolaris / #OmniOS / #tribblix

Well looks like i'm running into a similar issue to this bug report from 7 years ago. Doesn't look like #illumos based anything will work for me :( Such disappointment!

#omnios #illumos #tribblix #smartos

https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/bugs/Td7f99727c138dbeb-M460a4ec6ca51d0f910b7091e/illumos-gate-bug-11049-xhci-runtime-reset-required-in-xhci

Well looks like i'm running into a similar issue to this bug report from 7 years ago. Doesn't look like #illumos based anything will work for me :( Such disappointment!

#omnios #illumos #tribblix #smartos

https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/bugs/Td7f99727c138dbeb-M460a4ec6ca51d0f910b7091e/illumos-gate-bug-11049-xhci-runtime-reset-required-in-xhci

@ptribble @joany In case of curiosity,

#smartos #illumos #tribblix #omnios

@ptribble @joany In case of curiosity,

#smartos #illumos #tribblix #omnios

@ptribble @joany well i gave them a shot and all crap out , could be the USB part is like a red herring but the only close success i got was single user mode with #tribblix but that went into a loop too. :(

@ptribble @joany well i gave them a shot and all crap out , could be the USB part is like a red herring but the only close success i got was single user mode with #tribblix but that went into a loop too. :(

@BRicker I don't think it's really diverged much. #SunMicrosystems begat #OpenSolaris. Then Oracle unbegat it and the community begat #IllumOS by forking the last free release. There are then a bunch of distributions like #OmniOS and #Tribblix.

@BRicker I don't think it's really diverged much. #SunMicrosystems begat #OpenSolaris. Then Oracle unbegat it and the community begat #IllumOS by forking the last free release. There are then a bunch of distributions like #OmniOS and #Tribblix.

@alanc @Radio_Azureus

I had to write that FGA in part because *everyone* forgot about the SAF. (-:

#Illumos #OmniOS #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix #ServiceAccessFacility

@alanc @Radio_Azureus

I had to write that FGA in part because *everyone* forgot about the SAF. (-:

#Illumos #OmniOS #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix #ServiceAccessFacility

@Radio_Azureus

#Illumos (and thus #OmniOS, #SmartOS, #Tribblix, et al.) has #ifconfig as well.

Indeed, some of its tooling, such as for service management, has been stable since the late 1980s; whereas the BSDs went through some churn in this area in the 1990s and early 2000s.

https://illumos.org/man/8/ifconfig

@Radio_Azureus

#Illumos (and thus #OmniOS, #SmartOS, #Tribblix, et al.) has #ifconfig as well.

Indeed, some of its tooling, such as for service management, has been stable since the late 1980s; whereas the BSDs went through some churn in this area in the 1990s and early 2000s.

https://illumos.org/man/8/ifconfig

Round 4? of my long long router project
Testing a Oracle/Sun branded network card.
nxge is the driver name (Oh shiny sun stuff on ebay)

Notice that my Realtek on a fresh 38.1 tribblix install did not renew dhcp lease 😵‍💫

#noob #tribblix #ishouldcollectcans #illumos

We just provide #BSD like #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #midnightbsd and several other ones, but also #opensolaris with #tribblix #omnios #openindiana. So, we’re also pretty niche and that’s totally fine ;)

#runbsd #opensource #ipv6

@d4gli @Paul @gyptazy

We just provide #BSD like #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #midnightbsd and several other ones, but also #opensolaris with #tribblix #omnios #openindiana. So, we’re also pretty niche and that’s totally fine ;)

#runbsd #opensource #ipv6

@d4gli @Paul @gyptazy

Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.

He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.

He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.

I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?

#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix

Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.

He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.

He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.

I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?

#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix

Having a play with OmniOS, as a possible S11.4 server replacement. I am investigating bhyve

Following the OminOS example (debian guest) I get stuck at zoneadm install, it just fails to start

Connecting to the console shows "ZONE Halted" and the root/tmp/init.log shows "vm_create: No such file or directory"

So, I am missing something. I can't find any packages ownong vm_create (pk search), nor cn I find reference to this on the web. So, starting here .....
#omnios #illumos #tribblix #bhyve

XFile vs CDE dtfile - which is your favourite?

#CDE #Tribblix #RetroComputing #UNIX

Tribblix with Bhyve Wifi bridge on a Thinkpad X260 w/ Intel 8260

Not so much a tutorial, but a pointer to resources on setting up Tribblix with a Bhyve VM running FreeBSD to act as a wifi bridge for laptops with unsupported 802.11xx cards (with thanks to @zolaris for the link!)

https://cryogenix.org/library/operating-systems/tribblix-with-bhyve-wifi-bridge-on-a-thinkpad-x260-w-intel-8260

#Tribblix #Illumos #RetroComputing #UNIX #FreeBSD

CDE (proper CDE) and sysinfo.pl on Tribblix 0m37

Tribblix: http://www.tribblix.org/
sysinfo.pl: https://codeberg.org/int16h/sysinfo-pl

#RetroComputing #Tribblix #UNIX