The release of the Tribblix 38 distribution has been published, based on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues the development of the OpenSolaris kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries and a basic set of system utilities. The project tries to preserve the classic retro style of Solaris while using modern versions of the programs. The kernel and command line tools are borrowed from Illumos, and everything else is rebuilt using its own build system. SVR4 packages are used to distribute programs. Xfce, MATE and Enlightenment are offered as graphical environments. Ready assemblies are generated for x86_64 systems.
Among the changes in the new version:
- In the ‘zap install’ command, installation of dependencies is enabled by default.
- In the ‘zap create-user’ command, access rights 0700 for home directories are set (to override, use the flag “-M)”.
- UFS quota support has been discontinued.
- The Go toolkit has been updated to version 1.25.
- Leveraging the new Python 3.12.12 release. Many modules for the Python language have been updated.
- Synchronization with pkgsrc 20240116 has been completed.
- Program versions have been updated, for example, gnupg 2.4.8, qemu 8.1.5, wireshark 3.6.24, MariaDB 10.11.14, LibreCAD 2.2.1.2, tor 0.4.8.19, valkey 7.2.11, nsd 4.13.0, unbound 1.24.1, cups 2.4.14, cmake 3.31.8, rust 1.89.0, OpenSSL 3.0.18, wine 5.0.5, Node.JS 22.21.1, etcd 3.6.4, PostgreSQL 18.0, ruby 3.4.7, Pale Moon 33.9.1, PHP 8.4.13, openjdk 25.0.1.
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