> 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.".

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ptribble 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

There are over 30 desktop options (including quite a few of the older window managers, which is a bit of a blast from the past).

I do include CDE and Open Look (the window manager and toolkit, at least). In both cases the add-on tools that were present in Solaris (like the whole of the DeskSet suite) aren't available, because they were never released in source form.

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ch_123 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They have an overlay for both:

http://www.tribblix.org/overlay-cde.html

http://www.tribblix.org/overlay-openlook.html

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cheaprentalyeti 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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CTOSian 7 days ago | parent [-]

me as well, olvwm was last time in Debian Jessie, now only on NetBSD as package

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pabs3 7 days ago | parent [-]

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

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ptribble 7 days ago | parent [-]

It's never going to be maintained...

But there is a 64-bit port (which I ought to bring in to Tribblix)

https://github.com/ggodd/xview-64bit

	▲	romforth 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Feel free to check out https://github.com/olvwm/xview/ as well. I wanted to run olvwm on Linux (when it went out of support on Ubuntu 16.04) and I'd managed to get this running on Ubuntu 20.04 (and more recently on Gentoo, as documented at https://ces.mataroa.blog/blog/gentoo-olvwm-bye-ubuntu/). A survey of available olwvm implementations available on github at the time I created the repo is in the README of https://github.com/olvwm/xview/ Currently this works on an ancient 32-bit laptop (running NixOS 22.05 as documented in https://ces.mataroa.blog/blog/distro_hoppingmd/) as well.
	▲	hualapais 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I know this is a bit late, but I second the recommendation for an updated openlook and XView on Tribblix. In addition, ol/xv as a default desktop environment would be an strong differentiator for the distribution, IMHO. Along those same lines, Tribblix could more aggressively tout the historical justification for its SVR4 packaging, highlighting its retro-ness. And thank you so much for tribblix; I was about to give up on illumos after repeated trouble installing OpenIndiana on my laptop (Tribblix worked out of the box on the hardware). I’ve since picked up a copy of “Solaris Internals” and have spent some time appreciating Solaris. Kudos.