On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:31:45 Robert Hartzell wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > <serious-flame> > > > > I very seldom complain publicly about vendors such as Sun Microsystems, > > so this is a bit unusual. Just to note, in 1983, Sun was the first Unix > > system that I had ever used, and I continuously used it until about 1998, > > when I switched to Linux. Their OS was quite stable and worked with a > > lot of high end equipment. I enjoyed working with it, but found that > > Linux OS was very nice and worked with much cheaper and more available > > hardware (the reason for my switch to Linux). > > > > Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that they > > somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not significantly > > improved their user interface -- a big disappointment for me. I ended up > > with a default system that had a Java user interface and a /home/kern > > that was read-only (can you imagine that by default your home directory > > is read-only?). I finally gave up. > > What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently > using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0
That surprised me too. It was a full Java user interface, and all I did was about 6 months ago install an OpenSolaris. It is possible that they gave me the choice between two user interfaces and I made the bad choice. I'll try installing it again in the next month or so and see what new surprises I come up with. > > Are you using the automounter to mount /export/home/kern to /home/kern? > if autofs is turned on (default) you can't write to /home because thats > where the user directories are mounted It very likely was mounted by the automounter, but I used what I considered to be all the default options, and that is what I got. Very surprising. I corrected it by calling a Solaris expert was not at all surprised and who showed me the commands to remount home rw -- something I could have done, but I just could not imagine any default installation would do that. > > > I would have been happy to leave things there, but Sun has not stopped > > making my life difficult. First they bought MySQL, which is heavily used > > by Bacula users. Their latest source prerelease for Solaris, which two > > of our regression testers were using was simply broken and did not work. > > Great, Sun buys MySQL and breaks it! I can understand why the MySQL > > developers are leaving and MariaDB was created -- what a pity. > > This was due to a compiler bug: > http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49091 > a simple fix is to use mysql5 instead of the default mysql51 > "pkg install SUNWmysql5" Yes, we did drop back to MySQL 5. What surprised me was not that there are bugs, but that it was released. Kern > > > For the last several users I have been using VirtualBox. It has worked > > perfectly. Recently, my RHEL 64 when applying upgrades upgraded from > > RHEL 5.3 to 5.4, then shortly later, the VM hard disk image destroyed > > itself. The first time in 2 or 3 years that I had any problem. OK, that > > kind of thing can happen. > > > > So, I upgraded from VirtualBox version 2.2 to version 3.1 on my Xeon > > machine. In doing so, the new Virtual box has destroyed *all* the VM > > images that I had (8-10). I don't know if you have ever setup and > > configured a VM, but it is not a trivial amount of work. > > > > As far as I am concerned Sun OpenSource software venture stinks. I think > > with all the noise about Oracle buying them, and their blunders in > > implementation of OpenSolaris, MySQL, and VirtualBox, they have little > > chance of surviving in the Open Source software market. Perhaps their > > high-end hardware offerings will fare better. > > > > </serious-flame> > > > > Kern > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >----- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users