[osol-discuss] SXDE painfully slow in Parallels
Hi guys, I'm getting my feet wet with OpenSolaris and I'm trying to run a copy of Solaris Express Developer Edition (the latest -- b70) in a Parallels virtual machine on my Mac Mini. However, it's running painfully slow. The installer need about 7 hours to finish and the boot process hasn't finished yet although it started about 20 minutes ago. It's using the hard disk like crazy although it has 768 MB of RAM. Did I forget to flip any virtual switches? Is there a bug with b70 in Parallels? On the other hand, the Indiana developer preview install took about 40 minutes or so and it booted really fast on the same configuration (Parallels VM with 768 MB of RAM). The *really* strange thing is Indiana did not remember the passwords I set up in the install... Thank you, Andrei Maxim http://andreimaxim.ro ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] "Indiana" review
On 12/3/07, Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I strongly disagree, for two reasons: > > > > 1. if the system engineering has done their job correctly, no > interactive logging in of any kind, by either the root or odrinary users > should take place on the system - ever > > > > 2. RBAC is present only on Solaris and therefore useless in homogenous > environments; sudo would have been a much better choice, especially because > it makes system administration consistent and homogenous. > > > > I do not at all appreciate RBAC. > > > > And I don't like sudo. Too strange thing. > > And in that case we should forget about ZFS (because it is administred > in different way), dtrace (strange, it is not on AIX or HP-UX), FMA, > what else? Time to forget ACLs, they are not managed in the same way > around all OSes... > > RBAC is Solaris way, correct and clean. Not sudo hack. You can use it, > nobody will stop you. But don't stop RBAC just only because you don't > understand RBAC. Write sudo wrapper around RBAC, if you want. > Even for a newcomer in the Solaris world, "UNIX admin"'s views seem extremely biased. Nobody's going to die if there's a /root entry in the file system (God forbid you'd want a custom .vimrc when you're running as root!) or if `uname -a` prints something different from SunOS. Or having a BASH as the default shell. I'm sure that Indiana has a lot of flaws, but channeling so much energy into bikeshedding talks is counterproductive at least. -- Andrei Maxim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express Community Edition download failing
The servers were in maintenance mode until a couple of hours ago. It seems that they are back online right now (I'm downloading SXDE right now). On 11/24/07, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Trying to download the DVD from http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ > > gets me to > https://sdlc5d.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet;jsessionid=x > > (jsessionid obscured; not sure what I'd be giving away by revealing that, > and I don't care to find out experimentally) > > Where I get the error message > > > The product you requested is not available at this time. [image: > warning:] Sol-Express_b203-DVD-x86-SP-G-B > "b203" looks wrong; I thought we were around b77 somewhere. > > (There's no apparent way to contact the webmaster from the error page or > the download page) > > I get the same error from the "quick download links" box, too. > > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info > > > _______ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- Andrei Maxim http://andreimaxim.ro <>___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
