[OpenIndiana-discuss] Tribblix update

DormitionSkete@hotmail.com dormitionskete at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 17 02:51:03 UTC 2012


Any idea of what the minimum systems requirements will be?  Something similar to a "server" install of OI?  Less than the OI desktop?

We have a very old laptop that I'd like to try to eek a few more years of use out of...

Just curious.



On Dec 16, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Gregory S. Youngblood wrote:

> 
> Don't know what the current state is but window maker had wdm that used to work pretty well. Disclaimer, used to maintain it briefly on Linux 10 or so years ago.
> 
> Greg
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> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/16/12 11:48 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Dec 16, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Since Open Group released CDE source, there's always dtlogin. :-)
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, last I heard it only built on Linux and FreeBSD - the source released does NOT correspond to what any particular vendor supplied, let alone provide much clue how they built their variants.
>> 
>> dtlogin was definitely one of the CDE areas that Sun customized/forked a lot
>> from the TOG upstream.
>> 
>> If you've pulled the entire X consolidation, then you have xdm for whatever
>> that's worth.   I've also heard a lot of people talking about lightdm as a
>> good path off of gdm.
>> 
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>> 	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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