Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, has been updated with the release of Milestone 40.
This version has some major component updates. Perl in now 5.42 instead of 5.34, and the default Python is now 3.13. The GCC suite is now version 14.2.0, go is version 1.26, Xfce has been updated to version 4.18, node is v22, with v24 added and v20 removed.
↫ Tribblix M40 release notes
There’s a more detailed changelog, as well as the downloads page to get started. If you’re already running Tribblix, you can update in-place, of course.
It still doesn’t work properly on any of my hardware except my Haswell-era Dell Optiplex 9020 USFF. On that machine it works great and it’s a neat “throwback” OS, but as a daily driver it’s not great compared to OpenBSD, to say nothing of modern Linux. Still, it’s nice to have something that isn’t a Linux or BSD or Haiku to play around with. I’ve been testing each release on my newer hardware and hopefully one day it will run on something made in the past ten years.