On 4/1/24 01:11, Peter Tribble wrote:
Next-generation AI-enabled Tribblix
Which surely would have been renamed TribblAIx to get the AI marketing boost,
if it wasn't for those pesky trademark lawyers at Big Blue...
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On 6/9/23 09:13, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
Note that this assumes that the filesystem containing /var/adm/wtmpx is not
mounted noatime.
It also assumes that filesystem isn't caching access time updates in memory
and not writing them to disk. This should only be a problem when the system
doesn't
On 8/3/21 8:41 AM, (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Shawn saw what the people at Sun were doing via the OpenSolaris community,
like it, contributed to it, and then got hired by Sun to work on it. (I
worked with Shawn for many years at both Sun and Oracle.)
May it be that he
On 8/2/21 10:58 PM, mayur...@kathe.in wrote:
On Monday, August 02, 2021 10:42 PM IST, Alan Coopersmith
wrote:
On 8/1/21 11:06 PM, mayur...@kathe.in wrote:
Where did IPS come from?
Sun engineers who had worked with customers and release engineering to deal with
the many problems
added to two different delete lists for the patching
and OS upgrade tools, while IPS simply compares the old and new package
manifests, and automatically removes files in the old one that aren't in
the new one.
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On 7/27/21 5:14 AM, Andy Stormont wrote:
- As I mention above, we’re still clinging on to 32-bit with much of the
userspace being 32-bit only. Making the utilities and daemons that are
currently 32-bit only 64-bit is not a huge change, but adding an option to
disable building of the 32-bit
arguing that omnios shouldn't "fix" the default shell they get from
illumos now and OpenSolaris before that.
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On 7/26/21 10:23 AM, mayur...@kathe.in wrote:
On Monday, July 26, 2021 10:14 PM IST, Alan Coopersmith
wrote:
We did consider removing ksh93 during the years it was unmaintained after
the original team parted ways with AT before the community picked up
maintenance again, but did not end up
are backport patches for earlier gcc versions.
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w how multiple XKB layouts worked, so what you
have is more a result of our ignorance than a careful design decision.
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On 10/16/2017 6:07 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:> An important decision
would be not to remove programs or features if even just
a single person mentions a veto. Also no code should be added that did not get
a code review, or if even just a single person mentions a veto.
Giving everyone the
On 10/13/2017 12:28 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:> I agree, it should be
done "right"; I'm just arguing that it should be done :). As I
mentioned, given the implementer, I think it probably was done "right"
in Solaris, although I'm not sure what level of observability can be
taken from that
On 10/13/2017 12:32 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
True… I don’t have access to any official Solaris versions prior to
Solaris 10. AFAICT Oracle has stopped giving free licenses to Solaris away.
Oracle offers free-of-charge licenses for development and educational
purposes under the terms listed
rg/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getcwd.html
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On 09/15/17 02:18 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
FreeBSD doesn't have this problem. They have different teams, interested in
different areas, but still share single code base.
Except for the folks who have different ideas and work on NetBSD, OpenBSD,
DragonFly, etc. instead.
On 11/ 8/16 08:48 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
My question is: beside opening the source to non-profit people, how much are we
protected against
people forking and maybe redistributing and packaging it as their own product?
Do we have any chance to protect us from this, but still be considered
;very lately" to you, and over a quarter century for the rest of us.
I would be interested to understand why people these days still use tcsh. Could
you explain?
Quarter century of muscle memory, and not taken the time yet to upgrade to zsh.
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On 08/27/16 11:16 AM, Alex Smith wrote:
I must be the only one who still uses tcsh occasionally, especially on older OS
platforms.
You are not alone.
alanc@also:/tmp [1:18pm - 13] ps -ef | grep alanc | grep -c tcsh
28
alanc@also:/tmp [1:18pm - 14] ls -l /bin/csh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
On 08/27/16 04:14 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
First of all, old solaris sh (ksh88-?) was already documented as a Bourne shell.
The old Solaris sh was actually the historical Bourne shell, not ksh88.
ksh88 was /usr/bin/ksh on Solaris 10 and older, and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh for
those who preferred POSIX
On 08/22/16 12:57 AM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote:
If you need to port graphics bits from FreeBSD, or OpenBSD, or from
somewhere else, just start working on it! Kernel development isn't a
dark art, or a secret club with handshakes and lodge hats; it requires
tenacity, and dogged persistence, but
On 05/11/16 01:58 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
Look @ /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/osol_install/transfer_mod.py and
search for set-publisher, you will find one call with "-O", that is not even a
mentioned option for pkg on the manual (but probably accepted secretly!).
-O was an option in
an X server, I don't believe there is any power management
support for them (except possibly in nvidia's closed-source driver).
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the console user to access audio devices,
by chowning the files listed in /etc/logindevperm to that user upon login.
See logindevperm(4) usr/src/lib/libdevinfo/devinfo_devperm.c.
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the good way, then what's wrong with IPS again?
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artifacts of
the way Sun was organized long ago - others actually do make some sense.
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sanity for developers.
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Technologies
(FAST) conference.
And there seems to be a little time left to get on the agenda for the
2012 FOSDEM, which is one of the biggest Open Source conferences in
Europe, each February in Brussels: http://fosdem.org/
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multi-megabyte minimum memory needs.
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did not
want to weaken the protection of the Solaris trademark by allowing others to
use derivative names).
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On 05/28/11 09:54 AM, Richard Lowe wrote:
The rationale included the words SPARC V9 ABI, if I recall
correctly. It's not changing.
Yes: 4097659 64-bit FD_SETSIZE isn't V9 ABI compliant
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And if learning C is a goal, there's plenty of code that isn't lint clean that
needs to be cleaned up, helping you learn those rules as you go.
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somewhat
contentious as his goals and those of illumos are not necessarily
closely matched.
star could be a nice replacement for tar, pax. Isnt it ? I never understood
why Sun never considered integrating star into Solaris.
Sun considered it multiple times.
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I don't see cpp called out there, but didn't check to see if it was
included in the tools bundle with sccs make.
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