Re: [osol-discuss] Reflections from the GSoC Mentor's summit
Besides the GSoC, the programming contest in China(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/contest/) also provides a platform for students to get involved in OpenSolaris community. The contest/GSoC is just the beginning. What's more important is to foster student interests around the community. To get to this point, we need more mentor volunteers/project proposals from the community. Regards, -Alfred Darren Reed wrote: On Saturday, I walked over to the googleplex to attend the Google Summer of Code mentor summit. This is for all of the mentors from GSoC projects to get together and reflect on what worked, what didn't work, etc. Most of the sessions were people talking about what they worked on (which wasn't that interesting) but the standout was the security software session, led by the author of nmap. Some of the highlights in hearing about how other projects got involved with students: - GSoC led to the students becoming more involed with the projects by doing support (bug fixing, answering questions) after their GSoC project was completed and integrated; - some students have come back in successive years, building familiarity with the project, code, and becoming more of a regular contributor; - effort is required to weed out bad submitters but even when you think you've done this successfully, things can still turn out bad; - students will put participation in GSoC (for good or bad) on their resume. While I'm not sure what will be happening next year, it is likely to run again. This year I believe there were 6 to 8 submissions for GSoC projects on OpenSolaris, of which 4 were accepted. Next year we, opensolaris, should be thinking about how we can drive greater interest through GSoC, get more submissions and hopefully increase the number of acceptances to 6-8. Cheers, Darren ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Parallels vs Fusion?
What is the better Virt engine for Solaris? Vmware's fusion does seem a tad faster than parallels. So I'd go for fusion. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] HAL error: No batteries found
Hi Phi, thanks for your help. The following command shows the batteries: # lshal -l | grep battery udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_0' info.category = 'battery' (string) info.solaris.driver = 'battery' (string) solaris.devfs_path = '/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_0' (string) udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_ac0_0' info.solaris.driver = 'battery' (string) solaris.devfs_path = '/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ac0' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_ac0_0' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_0' (string) udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_battery1_0' battery.present = false (bool) info.category = 'battery' (string) info.solaris.driver = 'battery' (string) solaris.devfs_path = '/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:battery1' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_battery1_0' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_0' (string) udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_battery0_0' battery.present = false (bool) info.category = 'battery' (string) info.solaris.driver = 'battery' (string) solaris.devfs_path = '/pseudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:battery0' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_battery0_0' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/battery_0_0' (string) The system is SXDE 07/09 and the computer is HP Compaq nx6325. By the way. How to restart the applet? Regards Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] HAL error: No batteries found
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 04:28 -0700, Roman Morokutti wrote: Hi Phi, thanks for your help. The following command shows the batteries: By the way. How to restart the applet? Hi Roman, To restart the applet, you just need to remove it from the panel and then add it again. You can also kill battstat-applet-2 process and add the applet into the panel again. Regards, Jedy Regards Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] HAL error: No batteries found
Hi Jedy, there should be also a command for this, shouldn´t it? ;-) But thanks for your help. Regards Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Parallels vs Fusion?
On 10/22/07, Claus Guttesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the better Virt engine for Solaris? Vmware's fusion does seem a tad faster than parallels. So I'd go for fusion. -- regards Claus Thanks! When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Planning a system configuration for OpenSolaris
Al, After doing some more research, I think that I need the LSI SAS3041[b]E[/b]-R (as opposed to the LSI SAS3041[b]X[/b]-R). The LSI SAS3041E-R lists a driver for both Solaris x86 and Solaris SPARC while the LSI SAS3041X-R lists a driver only for Solaris SPARC. --Mike Jr (1) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Planning a system configuration for OpenSolaris
And I think I am getting the hang of this whole SATA thing. I now plan to drop the IDE drive in favor of a SATA drive. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Parallels vs Fusion?
Brandorr wrote: What is the better Virt engine for Solaris? I wasn't able to get snv_73 to work successfully with Fusion on my MacBook. It installed fine but never got anywhere past GRUB. It seems to work fine under Parallels though. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.whacked.net ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] [SVOSUG] OSS Integration into OpenSolaris, this Thurs. 10/25
This Thursday, Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group is proud to announce, Dev Mazumdar of 4-Front Technologies speaking on the opensound integration into OpenSolaris. Find out the details from Dev himself, and find out what type of audio support OSS will add to OpenSolaris. It was not long ago we had very little audio on Solaris, and today we have pretty good support. But there is still a lot of nice features that we're missing. Join us and find out for yourself just what some of those capabilities are, the schedule to putback, what has been done, and what still needs to be done. Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qhl=enq=4030+George+Sellon+Circle,+Santa+Clara,$ Santa Clara Campus Map: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/aland/scasj_dirmap.pdf Hope to see you there! When: Thursday, October 25, 2007 Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs) What: OSS Integration into OpenSolaris Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm If you can't be there in person, please feel free to call-in. Call-in Info Toll Free: 866-545-5227 Intnl/pay: 865-673-6950 Conference: 809-64-14 -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Parallels vs Fusion?
Ok.. :) One vote for Fusion, one fot for Parallels. Hmmm... On 10/22/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandorr wrote: What is the better Virt engine for Solaris? I wasn't able to get snv_73 to work successfully with Fusion on my MacBook. It installed fine but never got anywhere past GRUB. It seems to work fine under Parallels though. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.whacked.net -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] sendmail project at opensolaris.org ?
* Gary Gendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-22 00:51]: Playing devil's advocate... What I'd really like to do is revisit the need for a sendmail service running on non-servers. I understand that currently some mail service is required in order to deal with messages from cron and other services. However, does this make any sense on a laptop where the user is using an MUA like Thunderbird, Evolution, or a Webmail client? As a minimalist by nature, it just seems wrong to waste resources for such a seldomly used service. Instead, wouldn't it make more sense to provide a sendmail alternative that would launch a mail forwarded upon request rather than have something running all the time? To this end, I propose to find a replacement for sendmail that will only be launched when called through sendmail, mailx, etc. interfaces and quit when the email has been sent. Last I considered this, msmtp http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ looked promising. It would be nice to allow the choice of mail services (sendmail, postfix, qmail, nullmailer, direct method above), etc.) rather than be forced into choosing sendmail. Yes, although I think that could be treated separately from the above goal. - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Parallels vs Fusion?
Hi, just some anecdotal remarks, I tinkered a bit with Parallels Nevada_b70. - I got the system beeps to work but no audio/video sound plays. You need to install sound drivers from some third party site but I failed to get it work completely. - Paralles doesn't synchronize the clock with the Mac clock. By sending the Mac to sleep the Solaris clock gets out of sync by the sleep time. I heard that this works fine in Fusion. not even close to 2cent Christof Brandorr wrote: Ok.. :) One vote for Fusion, one fot for Parallels. Hmmm... On 10/22/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandorr wrote: What is the better Virt engine for Solaris? I wasn't able to get snv_73 to work successfully with Fusion on my MacBook. It installed fine but never got anywhere past GRUB. It seems to work fine under Parallels though. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.whacked.net ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Zfs Sata array?
I have bought and use the Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 card. It gets detected right out of the box by the Solaris install CD/DVD. It works really well. I use a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 1 GB RAM, 4 Samsung 500GB discs. As the computer is 32 bit, I achieve something like 20MB/sec transfer rate ZFS. A 64 bit CPU should be much faster as ZFS is 128bit. The card is PCI-X and achieves 3GB/sec with 8 ports. I have inserted it into a plain PCI slot, it works without problems. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] sendmail project at opensolaris.org ?
Stephan, This looks it hits my peeve right on the nose. Thanks for the pointer, I'd never heard of this before. I'll have to try it out on my laptop to see how well it works. Regards, Gary Stephen Hahn wrote: * Gary Gendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-22 00:51]: Playing devil's advocate... What I'd really like to do is revisit the need for a sendmail service running on non-servers. I understand that currently some mail service is required in order to deal with messages from cron and other services. However, does this make any sense on a laptop where the user is using an MUA like Thunderbird, Evolution, or a Webmail client? As a minimalist by nature, it just seems wrong to waste resources for such a seldomly used service. Instead, wouldn't it make more sense to provide a sendmail alternative that would launch a mail forwarded upon request rather than have something running all the time? To this end, I propose to find a replacement for sendmail that will only be launched when called through sendmail, mailx, etc. interfaces and quit when the email has been sent. Last I considered this, msmtp http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ looked promising. It would be nice to allow the choice of mail services (sendmail, postfix, qmail, nullmailer, direct method above), etc.) rather than be forced into choosing sendmail. Yes, although I think that could be treated separately from the above goal. - Stephen begin:vcard fn:Gary Gendel n:Gendel;Gary adr:;;;Hillsborough;NJ;08844;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:908-369-0334 tel;home:908-369-5496 url:http://www.genashor.com version:2.1 end:vcard ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] sendmail project at opensolaris.org ?
Roland Mainz wrote: Just curious: Would be there any interest to create a sendmail and/or mail-related community or project which bundles all the sendmailmail tool activities I thinkSendmail is well documented these days with the third edition of the OReilly BAT-BOOK by Eric Allman himself and Bryan Costales. Any problems people have with Sendmail is basically because they did not have the stammina to read the 1000 + pages. :-) Businesses today are choosing Outlook/Exchange because Outlook is integrated nthe MS desktop environment. The only way we are going to shift mail useage back to unix/linux is by provideing an integrated mailer into the OpenOffice/StarOffice suite. MUA in Staroffice will help the spread of Staroffice significantly and will shift Mail traffic back to Unix boxes. I don't know if it's an integrated client (although any GUI mail client ought to play reasonably nicely with other GUI clients, IMO, esp. in terms of adding or accessing attachments), it's also all the other stuff that MS does over their proprietary MAPI protocol: calendars, to-do lists, some sort of shared folders, etc. There are certainly a bunch of alternative ways to do those things, although to waht degree their servers would support them, I don't know off the top of my head. Typically, you don't get full functionality out of them unless you do things their way, which IMO subverts open standards. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
