Re: [osol-discuss] porting simple programs, Words and Vulsearch
Hi David, I don't think you need to worry about people not welcoming you because you are Catholic. I am an Orthodox Christian and have no qualms with letting the community here know about it. So yeah...welcome! As a short term solution have you thought about running these windows applications on top of Wine? Che Kristo On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 16:45, David Billiot wrote: > When I used to use Windows there were these two programs that I used to use > a lot. One is called Words written by a guy named William Whittaker and the > other is a program called Vulsearch. Both are open source; Words in the > sense that Mr. Whittaker has released the source and doesn't care what you > use the program for and Vulsearch is actually GPL. So considering that both > of these are open source and pretty simple they could probably be ported > over to Solaris. > > Now before I go any further I already know what some of you are thinking. > You go to the Vulsearch site and see that it is a Catholic program for > reading the Vulgate Bible. I can see you all reeling back in disgust. I > know I am not really welcome here but I'm not going to stop being who I am > so just know that your hate mail will go into the trash unread. The worst > you can do is just have me banned again which as you can probably tell won't > stop me from being who I am either but at least you won't have to deal with > me anymore. > > Anyway like I was saying, Words basically has no license with the idea that > it needs no license and Vulsearch is GPL. I myself am not a big fan of the > GPL but we take what we can get. The source code for both of these programs > is available so they should be portable to Solaris. > > Let me take a moment to address an objection I have heard before. Both of > these programs work great under Wine so some may ask why port them if they > already work perfectly under Wine on Solaris. Well the answer is simple, > Solaris is not just another way to run Windows programs. Programs like > iSilo that have not been ported and can not be ported to Solaris I run under > Wine. I currently run Words and Vulsearch with Wine but a native port would > be better. > > Let me address another objection. Some may ask why anyone in the > OpenSolaris community should waste their time on a terminal program that is > nothing but a Latin - English dictionary or a program used to search and > read the Vulgate. I would point out that someone in the community already > used their time to make a game about Dealing Drugs. Please don't tell me > that the Open Solaris community is open to Drug Dealers but not people who > can read Latin. Of course since I put it that way I will probably be banned > again. > > The source for Vulsearch is well beyond my programming abilities but I did > already take a shot at the Words program. Someone else already ported it to > Linux and FreeBSD and wrote their steps down so I figured I could do the > same thing. I needed an ADA compiler and got the GCC4 from Blastwave. I > tried several time to compile the different parts of the program using > gnatmake but to no avail. The program will compile and run but is broken. > English to Latin works fine amazingly but the Latin to English won't work, > which is a shame because that is what most people will want the program for. > > I have downloaded an Ada plugin for Netbeans and will try to compile the > program again but I don't really think I know enough about Netbeans to get > it to work. > > Before the last time when I was banned there was someone in the community > who said something about changing the language for the program from Ada to > something else but I can't remember what and now that the website has > changed, I can't find the conversation. > > So if anyone would like to help with this and try to get either Words or > Vulsearch ported and maybe even added to the contrib repository then lets > work on it. I am not a programmer but I have been learning a lot since I > started using Open Solaris. Let me know what I have to do and I will try to > get it done. People with just objections and hateful comments about us > "evil Christians" take a hike someplace where they are giving out Darwin > awards cause I don't feel like hearing it. > -- > 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] Error upgrading from snv_125 to snv_127
Thank you. The fix was to add dev=`echo $dev | sed 's/mirror.*/mirror/'` after line 238) to /usr/lib/lu/lulib --ron -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Bootable Sparc DVD?
With the demise of Nevada, when will see a bootable OpenSolaris Sparc DVD? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Error upgrading from snv_125 to snv_127
Check this thread http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=115503&tstart=0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8
Could you recommend some 64bit 133Mhz PCI-X cards (eight drives on a card), preferable with SFF-8087 conns (but straight SATA will do fine) wich work best with Solaris? Some LSI? No RAID. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Error upgrading from snv_125 to snv_127
I upgraded SUNWluu, lur and lucfg from the snv_127 media. When I luactivate the new BE, I get the following: sudo luactivate -n snv_127 System has findroot enabled GRUB ERROR: Unable to determine the configuration of the current boot environment . $ Any ideas? --ron -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8
I think I have read somewhere that the older version works, but there was some slight issue with it. Like, slower read/write speed or so. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184
> > > >Masayuki Murayama wrote: > > > > > > mac version of your nic to make a right patch > > for > > > your nic. Please let me > > > >> know the output of kstat -m rge. > > > > > > mac_ver 1006632960 > > > > I have two ECS motherboards at home on has the > above > > mac version the other has > > > > mac_ver 939524096 > > > > Will your new driver work with this version also? > > 939524096 is 3800. That is 8168B_C, which is > identified correctly > by the original rge. So my rge.mcast3 won't affect > 8168B_C. > > > PS. so far it is working great. > Sorry, I have lost to follow your status, because my > ability on English > is poor. Do you meen rge.mcast3 worked for you? > > regards, > -masa > > > Thanks > > mike Sorry for the misleading post above. Yes all test that I have done with rge.mcast3 have worked without issue. Today I will be pushing it to the wall with a test between three machines all pulling on each other at 1Gbyte transfers. This should be the final test that everything works. Thanks mike -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184
> I have managed to install the patched rge driver > = > *result of modinfo | grep rge > = > 230 ff8318000 d698 66 1 rge (Realtek 1gb > Etherenet 6888015-3) > = > > after cp nsswitch.dns nsswitch.conf > everything seems to work ! > > I'll conduct speedtest soon > > Thanks Thank you for testing. I just update the fix of rge to reduce cpu usage again. The binary and source code is here: (no need to make binary) http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/rge-6888015-6.tar.gz The webrev is here: http://cr.opensolaris.org/~mrym/cr6888015-6/ regards, -masa -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris SXCE 126 in VirtualBox
> W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > >> W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > >>> I am running OpenSolaris in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.06) > >> now Kamic (Ubuntu 9.10) under VBox (fully updated, > >> now to 3.0.10). Here's a brief summary of the > >> problems: > >>> 1. no problem with os08011 liveCD and subsequent > >> installation, > >>> 2. image-updated to snv_121 thru snv_125, failed > >> to boot, not even happy face (also failed to boot > >> from the iso image in a separate VBox vdi), > >>> 3. image-updated to snv_126, finally saw the > happy > >> face, but only booted into text mode. > >>> Those problems were observed with previous > versions > >> of VBox. > >>> Any suggestions that I may try? Thanks. > >> Did you reinstall the guest additions from the > 3.0.10 > >> Virtual Box guest > >> additions iso? Changes in both the OS & > VirtualBox > >> require the guest > >> additions to be updated from previous versions. > >> > >> -- > >> -Alan Coopersmith- > > > > Thanks Alan. > > > > I always installed GA after the first boot, but in > these cases, since I was unable to boot, no GA was > installed. > > > > What kind of things would you try if you couldn't > boot OpenSolaris into graphic mode on a bare metal? > > If I couldn't boot at all? I'd bug the kernel guys. > > If it boots, but stops at the text mode login prompt, > I'd check for errors > in starting gdm or Xorg by running: > > svcs -xv(especially the gdm service) > less /var/log/gdm/:0.log > less /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- > - alan.coopersm...@sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System > em Engineering I am finally able to boot from and then install the snv_127 iso image (downloaded from genunix.org) in VBox 3.0.10. It turns out, I strongly suspect, the problem is related to a bug in the Ubuntu package of VirtualBox. I went back to the snv_126 boot environment, and it also successfully boots into the graphic mode. Strangely, this bug did not seem to affect (at least the installations of) the os0906 LiveCD, Solaris 10u8, and most Linux distros. BTW, the sound is also working now (no sound in os0906)--though only barely. But I am glad that at least something is working. :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
