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  yjftsjthsd-h
  Notable for still maintaining some level of SPARC support.On a personal level I'm impressed and fascinated by the fact that apparently one man created and has maintained an illumos distro for many years;* making an OS distro at all is hard* making an illumos distro is harder (less precedent to work from, and IMHO Sun didn't do a great job documenting things if you weren't inside Sun)* making a different distro is harder; this isn't an OpenIndiana rehash, AFAIK it's mostly novel* and of course maintaining it for so long is a huge undertaking
• Altern4tiveAcc
  Has anyone managed to boot it on bare metal using an AM5 motherboard?I tried booting various Illumos distros through USB sticks on two different AM5 computers, and it got stuck very early on. I assume due to some incompatibility with USB 3.0. Meanwhile, a friend of mine booted on a Thinkpad just fine from a DVD.
• shrubble
  It installed perfectly on my V210 UltraSPARC machine and also on an Intel i5-8400T ( from memory) HP desktop. Very nice distribution!
• solarengineer
  Very good work by Peter Tribble
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  ruslan
  Cannot find what are the min HW requirements ? What min RAM/HDD/CPU to get simple X11 environment ? Will it run on 486DX2-66 ?
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  Guestmodinfo
  It is comparable to slackware as I says on the website and for many yas i have wanted to use slackware. So i want to install it on my pentium laptop that I got in 2020. I want to run zoom on it with screen sharing. Can I do that? I can use antix linux on that laptop frthe same purpose.
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  prmoustache
  What does "retro" mean in this case. I failed to find what was really different compares to other illumos based OS.
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  hulitu
  > desktop - an Xfce-based desktop with common toolsI would have expected OpenLook. Xfce is ugly.
• shevy-java
  Finally TempleOS has a companion - like a brother.Retro will never die.