(Pardon the chatter.) > First, I want to congratulate the Indiana project members for a > fantastic job. > It took me 35 minutes to download the preview, 3 minutes to burn a > CD and > just a few more minutes to boot the LiveCD.
This sounds nice. The Solaris Express Developer did almost as well, particularly since the one-to-six-weeks shipping time for the DVD was more like three days. Well, excluding the time it took me to make sure I can dual-boot and such things. :-/ > Network auto-magic did its job and > I was able to surf the web and connect to my e-mail at work within > 10-15 minutes. That is, it installed and booted just fine, but since the Rhine II drivers are not on the DVD, I have no network access from it. :- ( (More on that in another thread.) Maybe I'll wipe the Solaris Express install and see if Indiana is any easier to bring up my on- board Rhine II ethernet hardware with, before I go out to a nearby denka, or maybe all the way out to Pasokon Koubo, to hunt for a nic that Sun supports. > Now for a few things I noticed: > > 1. My clock (local time) says 14:25 and GMT is 21:25 (I'm in US > Pacific timezone, > GMT-0700). But a "date" command displays Sat Nov 3 07:25:41 PDT > 2007. > So some piece of code knows that this is PDT but the time is off by > 7 hours. > Am I just confused or is something wrong? Motherboard is Asus A8N- > SLI Premium > if it matters. I noticed the same thing in the Solaris Express Developers Edition. I attributed it to the disagreement between the Linux/FOSS world and the M$world interpretation of just what it means to set your time zone. My understanding is that M$oftware likes to set the hardware to the local time zone, and then double-offset the OS's time calculations. (Back up to get to GMT, then add back in to get the difference between the local time zone and the target time zone, and that kind of thing.) FOSS software tends instead to set the hardware to GMT so that you don't have to de-relativize your time twice, although, in truth, either way gets you there, if you get all the right exceptions in the code. > 2. If I select System/Adrminstration/Time and Date, the same > incorrect time is > shown, with timezone listed as PST8PDT. Clicking on the Help > button brings > up a window which says "Loading..." but then the window disappears > before > it displays any help. I think I noticed that with Express, too. I was more interested in the drivers problems (not to mention not having any network connection via which to report bugs), so I just left it as it was. Joel Rees (waiting for a 3+GHz ARM processor to come out, to test Steve's willingness to switch again.) _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
