Re: [osol-discuss] Software is free. Service is not. Mike Rocha and Tim Chou.
Please don't degrade the conversation with offensive name calling, I understand your perspective but calling people bastards is an immature way of discussing an issue. IMHO Solaris 10 is not competing with generic linux but with commercial Linuxes like Suse or Red Hat...they do not offer free patches to my knowledge either. I believe it is fair that they expect some sort of payment for these updates but I fear they will lock out private users with the huge expense of support contracts (aka I wont pay ~$500 a year for patches to my home laptop). On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:00, Ken Gunderson kgund...@teamcool.net wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:05 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: OpenSolaris/Solaris friends : This ( see below ) is from a thread on the PCA patch tool maillist this morning. I made a few replies to Martin and there may be some upset by Sun/Oracle customers over this silent change. I'm fine with a fee. It would be nice if paying customers had known that their new contracts were about to be terminated. Certainly people such as myself that purchase support in January of each year. You can see the text below and hopefully this is a transition phase issue. If anyone knows, it would be nice if some light were shed on the topic. Dennis Original Message Subject: Re: [pca] No more free patches From:Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org Date:Fri, February 12, 2010 10:01 To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion p...@lists.univie.ac.at -- Hi, Get ready for some bad news: According to my sources there will be no more free access to any Solaris patch, be it security or not. A support contract will be required for every patch download, no matter whether it's done interactively through the website or hands-off with wget/pca. I've been told that this policy change won't by publically announced by Oracle, but it's described in this SunSolve document: #203648: Software Update Entitlement Policy for Solaris http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-203648-1 It already seems to be in effect. I tried to download various recent security patches and access is denied to any of them. Sooner or later access to patchdiag.xref and all other content currently on SunSolve will be limited to paying customers as well. No opinion, but a few thoughts: Using an operating system where the only way to fix security problems is waiting for the next version is a no-go, so the minimum cost for running Solaris on a real-world system is now that of a basic service plan (324$ and up per year). I am fine with a support contract fee on my servers. That is just business and everyone would expect a small fee for service. Software is free. Service is not. Software is Free, Service is Not: The Dawn of Service Networks written by ex-Oracle executives and co-founders of OpenWater - Mike Rocha and Tim Chou. See http://www.anshublog.com/2007/05/new-meme-software-is-free-service-is.html I have that book and I agree with its basic premise. Simply put, no organization can support an operating system, application stack or any software product for free. Period. Sun didn't make enough money, so it's obvious that Oracle handles things differently. Whether this is a wise decision is left to the future. The fact that there's no public announcement reveals a lot. That bothers me. Given that I bought new contracts within the last 30 days. There should be a much simpler way to get basic patch support (think about a PayPal button at the end of the OS installation to get the idea). And it definitely should cost less than the service plans. Personally, I'd prefer a one-time fee for the OS (which should be included in the price of a server when bought from Sun). That would be retrograde motion back to the days of the RTU license fee on the Sparc servers. I doubt you can do such a thing with x86 servers or machines based on a free download. This will be the undoing of Solaris. One reason Sun got into such bad shape was because they were far, far to late in accepting the reality of the _competition_ from the FOSS world. CompSCI majors were using either MS because of it's ubiquity or Linux because of it's technical superiority and free availability. Hence, Solaris slipped slowly but surely into irrelevance in all but the financial services sector. I know CompSCI grads from the local U, for example, that had never even _heard_ of Sun Microsystems, before I pointed them to Open/Solaris. Open sourcing Solaris and making Solaris 10 freely available was starting to change this. But it happened too slowly and meanwhile the economy crashed, Sun got swallowed by Oracle, and now Solaris as an
Re: [osol-discuss] PKG - dev repository
Not that I am aware of. You could just download that particular release as an ISO and install it... On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 21:51, Vinicius Segantin Viteri vinicius.vit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I configured my repository to http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ and always that i use pkg image-update the system is upgraded to the last version (snv_130 now). But i don't want the snv_130. Is there any configuration on pkg that i can set to upgrade the opensolaris snv_111 (release) to snv_126, for example? Thanks, Vinicius Viteri ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions
Banks aren't really hung up on whether its Solaris 10 or the future Solaris X based upon OpenSolaris. They care that it is a robust, stable and supported product that will do what they need for the right price. I do not doubt at all that Sun will be doing that With Solaris.Next. Comparing the current OpenSolaris with Solaris 10 in that environment is disingenuous to say the least. Compare OpenSolaris with SXDE/SXCE...now tell me how many banks are running that in production. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 13:19, Steven Sim unixan...@gmail.com wrote: This thread is getting a little vitriolic but I agree with UNIX admin's argument. I am a very firm supporter of Solaris, even in situations which are strongly anti Solaris. I also find that although the Sun OS staff and Opensolaris contributors are absolutely brilliant technically, they are a little disconnected from the real world. Unix admin's statement about Banks and such hit right to the point. He's right. Period. I support bringing back SXCE if Sun ever wants Enterprise customers to take Solaris or Open Solaris seriously. Warmest Regards Steven Sim UNIX admin wrote: How are they worthless? They all install fine, since compatibility was kept with the System V packaging system. I guess I failed to make my point - you can't engineer an enterprise piece of software, for example for a bank or an insurance agency, or the any Fortune 100 company, then come to the sales presentation and tell them that they must use OpenSolaris. Banks for instance will laugh you right out of the conference room - they won't touch anything but Solaris 10. So if one wants to earn a living, software MUST run on an enterprise OS - in this case, that enterprise OS is Solaris 10. That's my dilemma. And I believe I'm not alone, I talk to other ISVs, and they too are feeling the pain, only hiding it: when I ask them about OpenSolaris, they just laugh it off. And in truth, I am compelled to agree with them - the stuff is unstable, and as long as I get answer like don't use /opt, stuff should go into /usr from people that don't understand the issues yet make decisions in OpenSolaris, I know I'm in trouble. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Which solaris do you use?
The volume of SPARC still continues to be quite impressive. I do wonder how this will trend over time. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 08:40, Edward Ned Harvey sola...@nedharvey.comwrote: This is just an anonymous public poll, to see what ratio of people use Solars vs OpenSolaris, x86 vs SPARC, for the sake of curiosity. http://tinyurl.com/solarispoll ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] when NEW OpenSolaris 2009.12 will get out and also when free CD available ?
There is no such release as 2009.12, never was The next release is 2010.02 which you can expect towards the end of February if all goes to plan. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 07:30, Leonidas Savvides webmas...@poliscarhire.euwrote: when NEW OpenSolaris 2009.12 will get out and also when free CD available ? -- 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] when NEW OpenSolaris 2009.12 will get out and also when free CD available ?
Aha...I see we have shifted it back On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:02, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.comwrote: Che Kristo wrote: The next release is 2010.02 which you can expect towards the end of February if all goes to plan. That should say 2010.03 in March. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Why is using Package Manager such a pain in the A$$?
I am all for calling out bad language when its used but I am failing to see your point here. As for the C question, it has been discussed already in the IPS mailing list, as already mentioned performance critical portions are written in C at this stage. On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 05:22, W. Wayne Liauh w...@hawaiilinux.us wrote: Is expressing amusement language that causes resentment? Or is the bad language you are talking about the reference to A$$ in the subject line? Has our forum come to this? Brian I believe you have answered your own question. (thus then why bothered to ask?) -- 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] What version of a program in IPS?
Should we not have stricter controls over this? Seems a bit loose to me that you can just choose whether or not to report the version on your package. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:06, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.comwrote: Marco Almeida wrote: I wonder why the versioning information on packages like emacs, nano, iozone, mysql, etc. uses the source code numbering while gnome-* and firefox do not... Because not all packages have had their version numbers set yet, so many still just use the 0.5.11 default. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] What version of a program in IPS?
So I am trying to understand...is this something that package maintainers should be doing and are not or is it just something where there are no rules and people are doing what they think is right? Should I file an RFE around this? On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:50, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org wrote: Che Kristo wrote: Should we not have stricter controls over this? Seems a bit loose to me that you can just choose whether or not to report the version on your package. Its a bit of a process artifact. Note too that the version number of the package does *not* have to match that of the software (especially when its has been modified compared to upstream). But, I do agree that there should be an easier way to expose the upstream version to users. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] What version of a program in IPS?
Thanks for that clarification Alan, I guess we'll just wait patiently until the consolidations move across. Che On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:53, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.comwrote: At the moment, for packages in the main repo (/release, /dev), the package creator gets no choice or control - package versions are assigned by the SVR4 - IPS conversion, and the team doing that hasn't researched each of the thousand packages to find what version number to publish or make sure they stay up to date. This should improve as the consolidations start being converted to generate the IPS packages directly, and they can then set the versions themselves when creating the packages. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Che Kristo wrote: Should we not have stricter controls over this? Seems a bit loose to me that you can just choose whether or not to report the version on your package. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:06, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com mailto:alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Marco Almeida wrote: I wonder why the versioning information on packages like emacs, nano, iozone, mysql, etc. uses the source code numbering while gnome-* and firefox do not... Because not all packages have had their version numbers set yet, so many still just use the 0.5.11 default. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com mailto:alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] What version of a program in IPS?
to be honest I dont know how to get IPS to report actual program version however most prorgams will output their version when you do: # firefox --version sorry i can't answer your question directly 2009/11/27 Thommy M. Malmström thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com How can I tell what version of for example firefox, that is in an IPS package? -- 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] Why is using Package Manager such a pain in the A$$?
I was getting at the fact that *you* are more than welcome to raise these issues *yourself*, by becoming constructively involved in the community you will find that you can have your concerns and opinions heard. Being abrupt and rude is almost a guarantee that no one will listen to you. And yes, calling the work of others crap is not constructive and is very rude. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 19:22, Chad Welsh unixphr...@mac.com wrote: I guess this is not enough information? Chad Welsh wrote: I guess there is a limit to how much you can update at one time when using Opensloaris 1002 b127 or any other Opensloaris version? -- 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] cannot open link rum0: DLPI link does not exist
Follow this thread which covers the additional things you need to specify: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=83449tstart=0 Let us know if you have any further issues or questions On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 16:37, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org wrote: Has anyone seen this interface working on Sparc ? I plug the USB Wireless network interface in and see this : Nov 26 01:16:04 neptune usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 2.0 device (usb13b1,20) operating at full speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: dev...@2, usb_mid0 at bus address 2 Nov 26 01:16:04 neptune usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Cisco-Linksys ompact Wireless-G USB Adapter Nov 26 01:16:04 neptune genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usb_mid0 is /p...@9,70/u...@1,3/dev...@2 Nov 26 01:16:04 neptune genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /p...@9,70/u...@1,3/dev...@2 (usb_mid0) online Nov 26 01:16:04 neptune usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] usba: no driver found for interface 0 (nodename: 'interface') of Cisco-Linksys ompact Wireless-G USB Adapter then I try this : # ifconfig rum0 plumb ifconfig: cannot open link rum0: DLPI link does not exist Am I missing a simple step? -- Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Why is using Package Manager such a pain in the A$$?
I think its more like when people see rudeness like you've displayed they don't want to help On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:27, Chad Welsh unixphr...@mac.com wrote: I guess when people don't like the truth they stop helping no matter, huh? Well you all have a fun time with Sol-nux and stay in your yummy gummy dream world while us true believers stomp the turf with the tried and true heavy metal hitter solaris 10 and its Step brother that is beaten to death by the Sol-nux fanatics SX:CE It hasn't been fun!! -- 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] 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 dl...@le.ac.uk 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] [indiana-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week
Hi Francois, I don't have the answers to your questions unfortunately. I will chase this up with Fluendo and see if I can get some answers for you. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 05:52, Francois Dion francois.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Che Kristo c...@opensolaris.org wrote: Just a brief heads up that Fluendo will be releasing the DVD Player for OpenSolaris at *some stage this week*. You can see some screenshots at my blog: http://myunix.org/2009/11/03/fluendo-dvd-player-for-opensolaris-arriving-very-very-soon/ Thanks to the guys at Fluendo for the hard work. Che Kristo I was looking through their web page and your blog, and I'm not too clear on the sound support and the specs. Maybe you know a bit more? I'll skip the obvious features, but these points, I was wondering about? * Fullscreen support Do you know what it is doing there? Just a linear interpolation, or is it upscaling? Under windows, players like Arcsoft use CUDA to upscale. Of course CUDA is not available under solaris. I've asked around about this feature and I've heard nothing, so that tells me it's not on the radar screen. However, if it has some decent upscaling in software, it can still be worth it, for those with fast processors. When using a computer as a DVD player that has some importance, because even if you have a Reon HQV in your TV, you are driving it at native resolution, so the chip sits idle, and all the upscaling has to be done in the PC. * Dolby Digital pass-through Does pass-through work in OpenSolaris, it is really bitstreaming DD and DTS? If it is a true pass-through, it should even work with dolby digital plus, yes? * Dolby Digital 5.1 output Does it mean it can decode DD and send it PCM 5.1 out, or that it can output 5.1 over the analog out or something else? * Subtitle support Can you set where the subtitle shows? * Multiregion, works in all regions Is that true? I thought that was enforced by the DVD reader itself along with the driver? Years ago I set up an HTPC using solaris, mplayer and some custom front end I wrote. The dvd was brand new and I was having issues until I took the dvd reader, put it in a windows machine, use powerdvd (or something like that) and set the region code, and back into my Solaris HTPC. Then it worked, but only for DVDs with that region code. * Multiple video deinterlacing algorithms Is this automatic or you have to specify film, tv, inverse telecine etc? How does it handle PAL, does it pitch down audio? On your blog you mention no spdif. I'm assuming this is on your specific setup, because OSS does support it and I've used mplayer with that (with -ao to specify the spdif device and -channel 6). Or is there no way to specify the audio output device in the fluendo dvd player? What about keyboard shortcuts, in order to use either a remote or a multimedia wireless keyboard (with stop, play/pause, forward/back etc buttons)? Finally, more important than anything else, can you specify aspect ratio and zoom level? Francois ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] USB Mouse Vanishing in snv_126
I have had USB mice consistently drop out too, yet to investigate cause on my system. On my Ultra 20 I have not had any issues, only on Acer 3935 laptop. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:23, Francois Laagel f.laa...@ieee.org wrote: Greetings folks, My most recent update to snv_126 has been a mixed blessing: it worked perfectly fine on my IA-32 ATI PCIe based box but still is up in the air wrt. my other AMD64 NVIDIA box. Case in point: USB HID mouse support. On that very same AMD64 box, snv_125 works like a charm but on on snv_126, /var/adm/messages issues scary warnings such as: Nov 4 23:56:38 kir3 usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 2.0 device (usb46d,c045) operating at low speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 external hub: mo...@4, hid4 at bus address 4 Nov 4 23:56:38 kir3 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] hid4 is /p...@0 ,0/pci1043,8...@10/h...@2/mo...@4 Nov 4 23:56:38 kir3 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /p...@0 ,0/pci1043,8...@10/h...@2/mo...@4 (hid4) online Nov 4 23:56:42 kir3 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /p...@0 ,0/pci1043,8...@10/h...@2/mo...@4 (hid4) removed I didn't go so far as to check if the USB subsystem changed between build 125 and 126 but something here smells a bit fishy and I've not seen anybody else reporting similar problems. Anybody cares to comment on this? Best regards. Francois -- 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] Dev + OSS + Virtualbox = not good
if you are using opensolaris dev there is no need to install OSS...project boomer was integrated in build 115 of opensolaris: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+opensound/ On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:49, j epsilo...@cox.net wrote: I'm very new to opensolaris. Right now I'm trying it in virtualbox. It installs fine but I'm having trouble getting it to play nice with oss. I downloaded the oss solaris package from 4front's website and I tried installing it on a VM that I had already updated to 'dev', but after rebooting and selecting its entry in grub, the splash screen comes up for a few seconds but then the VM reboots, every time. After that I had to boot into the original install boot environment (ZFS is great :) ), and again tried installing OSS there, and it worked. Then I once again upgraded to dev, had to remove and then install OSS again, and bam! endless reboot cycle again. Is there something with the current Dev distribution that makes it incompatible with OSS? (I need OSS because I want to try out wine in opensolaris) -- 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] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?
IMHO the best approach would be to integrate the skype ibraries with an existing client such as pidgin rather than separate out skype as a separate application. Of course the devil will be in the details and we need to wait and see how this pans out. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 13:15, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.comwrote: Orvar Korvar wrote: Will it be possible to port it to OpenSolaris? It will depend only upon the license they choose, right? http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html Any license that qualifies as Open Source for an application should allow shipping on OpenSolaris - it will depend much more on if they depend on any binary only modules or Linux-specific interfaces, and until they release the source or much more detail than that simple post, it's hard to guess if it will be possible to port or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o
Isn't the community bug repo currently http://defect.opensolaris.org/ ??? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 13:24, Steven Stallion stall...@opensolaris.orgwrote: Any ideas on when this issue might be addressed? In the meantime, what is the best method for creating a new bugster entry? Steve ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o
Correct, hopefully not for too much longer On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 13:48, Steven Stallion stall...@opensolaris.orgwrote: Che Kristo wrote: Isn't the community bug repo currently http://defect.opensolaris.org/??? Last I checked ON issues are still tracked in bugster... Steve ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Skype is being open sourced! OpenSolaris?
From what I understand there will be a closed libskype which could feasibly ported to OpenSolaris by Skype. Skype have in the past said that they are not against the idea of supporting our platform, it's just a matter of priorities for them. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 08:51, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.comwrote: Will it be possible to port it to OpenSolaris? It will depend only upon the license they choose, right? http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/11/skype_open_source.html -- 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] Unable to submit an RFE through bugs.os.o
I'm not in the bugster sucks camp either :-) ... just having two separate tools for the same things that irks me. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 14:02, Steven Stallion stall...@opensolaris.orgwrote: Che Kristo wrote: Correct, hopefully not for too much longer Why? I guess I'm not firm believer in the 'bugster sucks' philosophy... Until ON moves over and webrev supports linking to Bugzilla, I don't see a compelling reason to transition. Steve ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Fluendo DVD player for OpenSolaris to release this week
Just a brief heads up that Fluendo will be releasing the DVD Player for OpenSolaris at *some stage this week*. You can see some screenshots at my blog: http://myunix.org/2009/11/03/fluendo-dvd-player-for-opensolaris-arriving-very-very-soon/ Thanks to the guys at Fluendo for the hard work. Che Kristo ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38
Type: # man pkg in a terminal If you get a man page for the image packaging system then you are running OpenSolaris, if you get No manual entry for pkg that means you are running Solaris On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:57, Ramon F. McDougall r...@cyberjet.net wrote: John Martin wrote: Ramon F. McDougall wrote: Greetings to All. Can someone help me out here. I'm a new user to Solaris evaluating an Ultra 27 workstation. I would like be able to install other operating systems on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i386. I can't find the correct documentation. Is there a difference between my system and openSolaris? Is there a step by step how-to? The easiest solution for S10U8 is to load VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org ). Thank You, Mr Martin, can you tell if my Ultra 27 is running openSolaris? Thanks Again, Ramon ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
There are already two ways to improve your multimedia support: 1 - Fluendo's codec pack: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/ 2 - The homeunix IPS repository: http://ips.homeunix.com:10906/ #1 is the fully licensed approach, #2 is the community packaged no cost variant - suit whichever suits your need (commercial or personal) For various legal reasons I very much doubt you will see any freely redistributable operating system with a company behind it shipping support for proprietary codecs. Hope this helps On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:09, Pen-Yuan Hsing peny...@hotmail.com wrote: General question: What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris 2010.02? Will it have better support for formats such as latest Quicktime, Flash 10, Real, and Windows Media files? Also, what about support for these formats in the included Firefox browser? Are these changes, if any, already present in the current development builds? Just thought these things would make it much more viable as a 'day to day' desktop OS. Thanks! -- 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] package manager - new feature request
Here you go: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_I18n__L10n_Community_SketchPad/trans_status/ On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 19:40, sridhar devatha.srid...@gmail.com wrote: please give me some links to decent to thorough/exhaustive open solaris documentation or normal to advanced user guide that covers everything we need to know to use open solaris(I just used windows without any guide. All things are installed using GUI, not CUI, with good enough information,options and prudent requests from user.). I don't know that soalris reinstallation does not require any format of partition where an operating system is installed. Usually, upgrade does not require format of partition. What will happen if upgrade or reinstallation is giving problems and home directory is in the partition where the operating system is installed? I think then we may have to take backup of settings in our home directory. -- 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] install apps intended for other unix variants
Sridhar, I hope I am not too blunt in saying this but you would do well to first take the effort to Google for your answers before asking others to do it for you, i.e if you want documentation for opensolaris, google opensolaris documentation. There are a lot of folks who love to help, but, like you have limited amounts of time dedicated to providing free support. Be adventurous and just give OpenSolaris a try, play around, click on things, install things, change things google for your questions...if you can't find answers feel free to ask. Che On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 20:25, sridhar devatha.srid...@gmail.com wrote: I am posting this as linus torvald (at least if you recognise him as one of the several system programmers is okay with me) tells something about installation of operating systems. But, I think it will hold good for all kinds of applications. http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/linux-torvalds-on-linux-distri.html Go thru what linus torvalds tell about ease of installation. I copy pasted 2 and third paras of grey coloured portion of interview page. And when it comes to distributions, ease of installation has actually been one of my main issues - I'm a technical person, but I have a very specific area of interest, and I don't want to fight the rest. So the only distributions I have actively avoided are the ones that are known to be overly technical - like the ones that encourage you to compile your own programs etc. Yeah, I can do it, but it kind of defeats the whole point of a distribution for me. So I like the ones that have a name of being easy to use. I've never used plain Debian, for example, but I like Ubuntu. And before Debian people attack me - yeah, I know, I know, it's supposedly much simpler and easier to install these days. But it certainly didn't use to be, so I never had any reason to go for 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] general request/advice/suggestion for os and os app developers
Sridhar, I am not clear on what it is you are saying here I want to use open solaris as a desktop and server machine I want to use ubuntu as desktop for normal computer use and opensolaris as server Which one is it? First you say you want OpenSolaris as Desktop and Server, second you say you want Ubuntu as desktop and OpenSolaris as server :-| and then can not work as good desktop machine as windows operating system - can you make this more constructive please, what specifically are you talking about, what is as good for you? There are many people here who love to help but you need first to #1 Be clear on exactly what it is you want #2 Be specific in your criticism, think to yourself which of the following would help the developers improve OpenSolaris: Feature X that is in Windows is not in OpenSolaris OpenSolaris is not as good as Windows On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 19:48, sridhar devatha.srid...@gmail.com wrote: Opensolaris is appropriate for desktop use and server use as per the link: http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/(readhttp://www.opensolaris.com/learn/%28readthe first sentence of second paragraph.) I want to use open solaris as a desktop and server machine because i am also a developer. I want to use open solaris purely as a desktop that should outsmart ubuntu and windows(Is this a worst request?). I still wonder and don't understand that an operating system with longest and greatest history can not work as good desktop machine as windows operating system. I want to use ubuntu as desktop for normal computer use and opensolaris as server for my development use. -- 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] install apps intended for other unix variants
Sridhar this will help you: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html What you have posted below tells me nothing about what you are trying to achieve. If you are too lazy to ask a question in a way that makes it easy for others to help you. frankly, others will just ignore your posts. If your problem is that their software is not packaged for OpenSolaris you can do either: 1 - Port it yourself 2 - Ask them to to it for you Che On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:36, sridhar devatha.srid...@gmail.com wrote: specific case:http://www.taskcoach.org/download.html http://www.taskcoach.org/download.html debian packages(for debian and ubuntu) RPM packages (fedora and rpm based linux distros) rpm packages. Sorry i did not specify the exact usecase thinking that there will be few articles for available source variants(i think it may be several based on the language they used.) -- 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] create a directory/ file
Hi, You need the right permissions using the pfexec command, at the terminal type: man pfexec this will explain the pfexec command On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 17:38, sridhar devatha.srid...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to create a directory/ file anywhere in the file system except my home directory. How can I enable my user account to create a directory / file anywhere in the file system (other than system related directories)? I am new user(non-unix) trying os. -- 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] package manager - installation dir
This is not windows, please become familiar with unix and linux file system heirarchies, this will give you an understanding that there is no single directory that is used to contain applications. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 17:39, sridhar devatha.srid...@gmail.com wrote: package manager should ask the user about the installation directory for all user applications. usability is not automation. I don't like those user applications which did not ask me about the installation directory. -- 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] OpenSolaris: insecure or unstable ?
Totally agree with this...forking out 324 USD a year for each of my systems (laptop + workstation) per year is just too much. A basic support option just for security fixes etc at a reasonable price would fill that hole well. Call me cynical but Sun will probably ignore this and keep on ignoring the fact that not everyone is and enterprise grade user. On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 04:25, Mika Borner opensola...@bluewin.ch wrote: Alexander wrote: In BSD it's easier (at least in FreeBSD). Base system is updated quite regularly (e.g. after 7.1-RELEASE we had 7.1-RELEASE-p1, 7.1-RELEASE-p2 and so on...). And ports are updated separately and quite often... What is important, in FreeBSD we have at least two branches (current, stable and legacy). There are much more freedom: I may update to latest patch level, update to next release or to checkout current and get all cool features and new bugs :) And here I don't see RELEASE branch (patchsets and upstream), only stale releases or permanent CURRENT. IMHO, what is needed is a subscription below the Basic Support. Just the package updates, as we can get support etc. here from the community. I would assume for approx. 20$/year, a lot of enthusiasts would pay for it (I certainly would), while $324 is just too much. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris: insecure or unstable ?
I've signed for both my laptop and desktop and put a pointer to the poll on my blog too, lets hope the right people pay attention... Che 2009/10/18 Mika Borner opensola...@bluewin.ch Che Kristo wrote: Totally agree with this...forking out 324 USD a year for each of my systems (laptop + workstation) per year is just too much. A basic support option just for security fixes etc at a reasonable price would fill that hole well. Call me cynical but Sun will probably ignore this and keep on ignoring the fact that not everyone is and enterprise grade user. Maybe we just have to push them :-) Here's a poll I've set up: http://www.doodle.com/3ev8fvdxn7yghr84 I'm targeting private, non-corporate users with this poll, who just want security patches/bug fixes. Personally, I'm fine paying a small fee. But hey, USD 324 is too much, I have a family to feed :-) Maybe Sun starts to smell the money, if we get lots of participants in this poll who want to spend some cash... ;-) Cheers Mika ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] No audio
I'll second that... 2009.06 is using the old Sun Audio system which has much less device support in my experience. The latest dev build (125) is rock solid anyway so why not go with that (unless of course you have a support subscription in place). On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 22:30, Jürgen Keil jrgn.k...@googlemail.com wrote: I cannot seem to get sound out of my Dell D620 Laptop running OpenSolaris 2009.06. The audio driver is listed as audiohd. You could try the latest opensolaris development release live cd/dvd, and check if audio support has improved (current dev release has the new boomer audio drivers). Current development release is build 125: http://www.genunix.org/ http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-1002-125-x86.iso -- 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] bluetooth project
I think pertinent to this discussion is this development with 802.11x technology: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/15/1715218/Wi-Fi-Direct-Overlaps-Bluetooth-Territory-For-Connecting-Deviceswhich could possibly obsolete bluetooth. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:25, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: See filed Bug 12012 -- 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] Can we EOL indiana soon?
Which is where the (somewhat ill thought out) differentiation between the opensolaris product and opensolaris community becomes a problem. Personally I believe that the opensolaris product should just be named as Solaris Enterprise for the current Solaris, Solaris Standard for the indiana stable releases and Solaris Dev for dev releases. But thats just me :) Che On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 20:52, Sean Sprague s...@cvok.co.uk wrote: Hello all, Can we please EOL the use of *indiana* soon, archive all the mailing list entries and website pages, and formally replace it (and rename/reallocate the project) with(in) OpenSolaris? Mike Kupfer recently pointed out the fact the opening sentence on the indiana docs page ( http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/documents/ ) was incorrect; and I would even suggest that the title (Gateway to Indiana) should be Gateway to OpenSolaris, or even Gateway to an Open Solaris. Please don't flame me ;-) Thanks and regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] 128 bit technology
That is a very vague statement, is that 128 bit CPU architecture or 128 bit file system? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:42, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Microsoft has announced that the next release windows 8 will be a 128 bit system.Apart from haveing few applications,isv,isv,on their side.Is this a marketing gimmick or saine thinking? Will opensolaris work on 128 bit? -- 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] Nvidia graphics cards
NForce is a motherboard chipset that NVidia produce, I have not seen any statements regarding their graphics chipsets. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:33, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Nvidia and Ati are set to make changes.The disput with chip partner intel may set back development at Nvidia leaving Ati the dominent player in the market.Does this mean the community will be developing the much requested 3 d support for ATI graphics as a priority? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10370767-1.html?tag=mncol -- 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] OpenSolaris under Oracle?
As already stated due to the ongoing acquisition process you wont see any sun folk making statements. Oracle statements are contained at http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/index.htm I don't believe Oracle would damage the fantastic work that has been done to build this community. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 08:14, Pen-Yuan Hsing peny...@hotmail.com wrote: As a new user, I am wondering if there are any implications for OpenSolaris after Sun is acquired by Oracle? Will there be any impact on me as an end user? Thanks! -- 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] bluetooth project business case for resources
I agree as a workstation/desktop/laptop user that bluetooth is important, not as essential as 802.11[abgn] but definitely something that should be on the roadmap. On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 06:05, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: With a business hat on its a question of strategy and focus of limited resources.The case against allocation of resources is focus on development of server and desktop projects for the slow growing enterprise market.The case in favor of bluetooth is support of the rapidly growing mobile,telephoney,and legacy products for which there are many.It it likely development of wireless systems will step forward with mobile competition in the largest hardware growth market blurring the distinction of bluetooth and wifi.However the development of a larger user base means NOW and OS must be a player in the rapidly expanding mobile market.My personal view is it should happen either as a bluetooth response development or change the technology to merge the two? -- 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] bluetooth project
It would be a shame to put this on holdso many ways that this will displease users: - Bluetooth mice - phone sync - phone/hsdpa modem - bluetooth printing IMHO these things missing will push users away from OpenSolaris On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 14:38, Michael Li mikore...@sun.com wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Michael Li wrote: Dear all, No bluetooth feature will be introduced into build125. If you think any Bluetooth function is important or must support, please file RFE to http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz with good judgment. That's the most expected voice from development team's point of view, before putting much more resources onto bluetooth project. Does it mean the project is on-hold or are you still actively working on it and would like to get extra resource? I'm just curious... It's almost on-hold, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=113271tstart=15 Thanks, Michael ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris as WiFi access point
Sorry that we do not have this feature. One thing you could do is submit a RFE (Request for Enhancement) for this feature to the relevant project, this will tell them that they do indeed have a demand for such a feature... To submit an RFE you can go to http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/ and click on ¨file a bug¨, select ¨distribution¨, fill out the details and select ¨enhancement¨ from the ¨severity¨ dropdown. Che On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 15:51, Erwin Boskma e.bos...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I guess I'll stay with Ubuntu then. Thanks for your reply. -- 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] Happy days - for those missing skype on OpenSolaris.
Fantastic stuff! Now i just need to access to a *real* install so I can sign up :) On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 08:27, Michal Pryc michal.p...@sun.com wrote: Hi, I hope some people might find this interesting: http://blogs.sun.com/migi/entry/skype_on_opensolaris_the_last -- best Michal Pryc ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] package manager times out
Yes I get it too on 123, this is similar to http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10010 On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 23:39, Glenn Holmer ghol...@ameritech.net wrote: While doing a search in the GUI package manager for python, I'm getting repeated timeouts (this is on two different machines running snv_123). Other searches seem to be OK. Is anybody else experiencing something like this? -- ...and all watched over by machines of loving grace. Glenn Holmer http://www.lyonlabs.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] When next Release? What Release Cycle?
Every six months... the next one will be in February 2010, AKA 2010.02 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 23:20, Amin amin_...@hotmail.de wrote: Are there any informations when there will be a next release of OpenSolaris? And are there any projected release cycles? -- 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] When next Release? What Release Cycle?
I don't mind waiting longer for quality :-) IMHO it should be 8 months as 6 months is too agressive, but i do understand we are somewhat beholden to the Gnome schedule On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 23:48, Calum Benson calum.ben...@sun.com wrote: On 29 Sep 2009, at 14:33, Che Kristo wrote: Every six months... the next one will be in February 2010, AKA 2010.02 Well, 2009.06 + six months would be 2009.12 :) But yes, the next release is currently scheduled for 2010.02. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] How to setup a dial-up connection ???
Visit here to look at your device support: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/wwan/ note that this is not dial-up, it is WWAN, Wireless Wide Area Network...if you do for some reason want dial up you need a dial up modem. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 07:35, Sushant Taneja green4b...@yahoo.co.inwrote: Hello all, I have OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my laptop and want to connect to internet through a USB data card (ZTE CDMA 1X MG880 model). How should I load the USB serial drivers and then configure system for a dial up connection using the device ??? -- 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] Program of OSDevCon 2009 published
just some OGG/Theora files would be great...live streaming would be overkill :) On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 18:13, Dirk Wetter dirk.wet...@guug.de wrote: likely no live streaming, probably some recorded sessions but not sure yet. B, Dirk Quoting Che Kristo c...@opensolaris.org: I am particularly interested in hearing Vineeth Pillai's talk on the ARM port but am on the other side of the world, will anybody be toting a video camera? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] clarksfield opensolaris laptop
Any chance that the next release of the OpenSolaris/Toshiba laptops could include a model with the new quad core nehalem based chipsets? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Where is SXCE b123?
It is right now...do you mean iso or in the repository? I have accessed both for quite as while now. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:09, keithk keithc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: It's been 3 weeks since the release of b122. Is there any news when b123 will be available for download? Thanks, Keith -- 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] Where is SXCE b123?
SXCE is EOL so I doubt we will see any further updates... http://204.152.191.100/wiki/index.php/SXCE_EOL maybe one more if you're lucky On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 22:00, Keith keithc...@gmail.com wrote: I am still running sxce.How do I get to the iso? Usually, I access the link posting in the announcement forum. Che Kristo wrote: It is right now...do you mean iso or in the repository? I have accessed both for quite as while now. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:09, keithk keithc...@gmail.com mailto: keithc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: It's been 3 weeks since the release of b122. Is there any news when b123 will be available for download? Thanks, Keith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org http://opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Program of OSDevCon 2009 published
I am particularly interested in hearing Vineeth Pillai's talk on the ARM port but am on the other side of the world, will anybody be toting a video camera? On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:57, Dirk Wetter dirk.wet...@guug.de wrote: Hi, Am 09/19/2009 10:44 PM, Dirk Wetter schrieb: just for information: We released the program [1] of this years OpenSolaris Developer Conference which takes place in historical Dresden / Germany between October 27-30, 2009. [..] Registration will be opened within the next few days. In the meantime the registration [2] is open. The special thing this year is that you can hop between Linux-Kongress [3] and OSDevCon. Also feel free to pick tutorials from both conferences. [1] http://www.osdevcon.org/2009/program.html [2] http://www.osdevcon.org/2009/fees_reg.html#reg , https://registration.guug.de/macomaweb-lk2009/registration/registration.jsp [3] http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/ Best / Schöne Grüße, Dirk -- Dr. Dirk Wetter Member of board / Mitglied des Vorstands German Unix User Group (GUUG) e.V.http://www.guug.de Postfach 250123, D-44739 Bochum, Germany OpenPGP key fingerprint: 2AD6 BE0F 9863 C82D 21B3 64E5 C967 34D8 11B7 C62F ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Toshiba's for Australia
I was actually looking at a Toshiba netbook the other day and almost bought one until i found out that tosh wont refund the windows license :-| lets hope they wake up to themselves. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 08:27, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Think it would be more likely to look to the future with a mini booklet from Toshiba with an opensolaris option. It will be sometime before oracle has the complete picture with sun's assets. 2010? -- 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] Adding new application to Indiana
A good first step would be to get your software into the contrib repository...go here to see how this can be done: http://jucr.opensolaris.org/home/ I agree it makes sense to have this on the live cd but it wont be able to jump straight on there without being proven first. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 23:41, Nischal nischal@sun.com wrote: Hi, I have created a GUI application that is used to configure PPPoE connection. Currently the project resides on the java.net website. Now I would like to see this application in future releases of OpenSolaris (naturally people would prefer this application to be on their CD, because they can't access Internet because their PPPoE connection has not been configured yet). I am new to contributing to OpenSolaris and I don't know anything about getting my application as a part of OpenSolaris release. I would really appreciate it if somebody could guide me through the process. regards, Nischal E Rao PS: the project can be found at: https://adsl-modem.dev.java.net/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Toshiba's for Australia
Any word yet on when Sun plan to make available the OpenSolaris laptops in Australia? I have seen before that end of the year was the target, is this still the case? Che Kristo ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Toshiba's for Australia
I know Europe is far more of a market than Australia :) lets hope they just take it international soon 2009/9/20 Uros Nedic ur...@live.com While Australia is important market for sure, I think that Europe is too, as well.So far, there are only options to buy them in UK. What about rest of EU countries, or even Eastern and South-Eastern Europe countries whose are not EU member states yet. You should not underestimate that market. Uros --- Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) -- From: c...@opensolaris.org Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:45:19 +1000 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Toshiba's for Australia Any word yet on when Sun plan to make available the OpenSolaris laptops in Australia? I have seen before that end of the year was the target, is this still the case? Che Kristo -- See all the ways you can stay connected to friends and familyhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Are there bounties?
This would be a great first run for the newly created use-case project. Is there anyone interested in helping me to create a formal use-case from this? On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 19:01, Cyril Plisko cyril.pli...@mountall.comwrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: Given a little foresight (and unless one is trying to do stuff on the extreme cheap), how many situations are there really that _need_ the additional option? Even if I think that the fact that this question is being asked regularly is a best proof that there is a need for this feature. I personally have a number of friends that decided to implement ZFS server (well, home server) believing that at some point in the future this feature will be implemented. That said I agree that in medium business and up growing storage like that could be counterproductive. Side note - NetApp does support adding disks on one-by-one basis, although the implementation details are totally different. -- Regards, Cyril ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Java apps store for opensolaris
Hi Peter, Is this project going to have anything for opensolaris or solaris users? - it appears not, their target at this stage is XP, Vista and Mac (and presumably win7) available outside the US? The FAQ states that The Java Store beta is currently available to U.S. residents. Access to the store from outside the U.S. will begin in 2010 It will be a great shame if they don't support OpenSolaris/Solaris...if even Sun won't support it's own platform as a first class platform what hope do we have from other vendors? --Ché On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:22, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Is this project going to have anything for opensolaris or solaris users? Will it be linked to opensolaris and be available outside the US? http://www.java.com/en/store/intl-contact.jsp -- 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] Oracle commits to SPARC + SOLARIS!!!
Fantastic! On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 23:00, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.comwrote: http://www.oracle.com/features/suncustomers.html -- 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] Use of opensolaris
Solaris is a server *and *workstation operating system, the workstation has evolved/devolved into the desktop and laptop slowly over the past 10 years so this is not a distraction at all. Onto the next point, being a desktop OS is a good way of gaining mind share, if a developer or administrator uses Solaris on his/her desktop have a guess which OS they will use when they deploy! I am a big believer that Microsoft's inroads into the data centre are owed somewhat to their success on the desktop. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:41, Gary Bainbridge g_patri...@yahoo.com wrote: It seems a lot of questions about opensolaris are directed at using it as a desktop (firefox and mplayer for example). Opensolaris is supposed to be a precursor to the next Enterprise Solaris but directing efforts at desktop features seems misguided. Solaris has always been a server OS not a desktop and I would like to see the efforts spent making Opensolaris a solid enterprise server, not a desktop OS. -- 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] OpenGrok Firefox toolbar
It sounds like you want Mozilla Weave: http://labs.mozilla.com/weave/ For OpenSolaris you can get it at http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=108301tstart=60 I think for your use case this is the best fit On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: I use google toolbar to access all my web links from any computer. Sadly, Google Toolbar is not supported under OpenSolaris. Are there any toolbar available for Firefox that works under OpenSolaris? Or any other solution? (As of now, I use Linux or WinXP with google toolbar under VirtualBox to access my web links) -- 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] Nokia Booklet 3G
I'm 100% in support of staying with CDDL too Jörg but what are your thoughts on LGPL? On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Uros Nedic ur...@live.com wrote: market. Certainly Sony and other companies will continue to use Linux under GPLv2. Even Linus is not for that Linux make transition from GPLv2 to GPLv3. We could think that one of reasons is big sponsorship contracts of Linux Foundation with large hardware companies. =A0 If OpenSolaris make transition=2C it'd be *first* OS under GPLv3. Very soon we could expect that some company release same product as Sony PlayStation 3=2C for example=2C but now with software licensed under GPLv3. All GNU stack will instantly GPLv3 is not a way to go. Solaris needs to be able to combine OSS (CDDL) and other code. This does not work with the GPLv3. The GPLv3 gives even less openness than the GPLv2. While the GPLv2 allows to link a GPL program against any libray of any license (because the GPLv2 is limited to the work that is published under GPLv2), the GPLv3 tries to aritificially introduce additional restrictions. These restrictions that are written in a very vague way, so it is a legallity risk for projects that use GPLv3. Background: Since the second half of the 1990s, the FSF spreads incorrect claims about the compatibility of GPLv2 with other code. The FSF claims that things are eforcable that are not even written in the GPLv2 text. The GPL analysis from Lawrence Rosen (the lawyer of the OpenSource initiytive) in http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf explains word by word, sentence by sentence which claims from the GPLv2 are not enforcable and thus void and which if the claims of the FSF are not written in the GPL text. A lot of OSS software can only exist because certain claim of the GPLv2 are not enforcable. The GPLv3 is more restrictive than GPLv2 (and thus closer to what the FSF claims for the GPLv2) and it contains contains vague claims about what cannot be combined with GPLv3 code and thus causes a legal risk. Another legal risk with the GPLv3 is that you may add exceptions that give your users more freedom but the GPLv3 allows downstream redistributors to remove these opening exceptions before redistributing the code. I know of OSS projects that converted to GPLv3 and that had to go back to GPLv2 because the users of the code could no longer use it because of legal problems that resulted from GPLv3. Please note: this is a OpenSolaris discussion and no license discussion. A license discussion will not bring us anywhere. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.deemail%3ajo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de(home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] A market prospect thought
Sun are already working with Toshiba on certain models which unfortunately are only available in the US and UK :-| Lets hope that that relationship is mutually beneficial and we see more models included and eventually other vendors jump on board. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: This is an interesting shift to reducing the capital barriers for entry into the lower end hardware market through mass manufacturing techniques.The branded open source OS distributions like Opensolaris should welcome this opportunity for Commoditization of hardware to work with manufacturer's at minimal risk of entry to this market? .I certainly believe manufacturers like Asus will be looking to offer as many as three alternative distributions down loadable after purchase from their parent website in the forseeable future.Microsoft maybe getting a few sleepless nights in the future. -- 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] Featurerequest
Wireshark is in the repository already for the rest search the net to see if someone has already done the work. If you can't find anything then you can file an enhancement/RFE at http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/ Hope that helps, Ché On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Darko Hojnik hoj...@virtualizing.orgwrote: Hi Can i submit here featurerequests? On OpenSolaris 2009 i am missing some programs, they are Moonlight Firefoxplugin Wireshark Networksniffer A Dialog to configure the Printersettings (Collors, Format) and to print a testsite in Gnome A backport from the cadp160 driver F-Spot to manage Picturelibarys Banshee is on my wishlist too :) a graphical tool to configure the Mixersettings for the Soundcard and some graphical Tools to create Audio and Video Projects like Tovid, Hydrogen something like Mainactor and Ardour Something like Tomboy for quickly notices Thats currently that whats me almost hurts to migrate from Linux to OpenSolaris kind regard Darko Hojnik -- 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] Are there bounties?
I'm 100% with you on the bounty idea...i have brought this up before but I got the feeling there wasn't much support for the idea :-| maybe this time... On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:22 AM, rarok raroki...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, just a quick idea that I had, I'm concerned of the lack of ZFS to expand a RAIDZ just increasing the number of drives in the RAIDZ itself. I would pay (not so much) for having it. Surely there are other people that would want to have another things working on opensolaris. There is any bounty system working in opensolaris or anyone ready for creating 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] [xwin-discuss] A Tribute to OpenSolaris
I must say I agree, this release fixed some little quirks that I hadn't yet got around to reporting. Very polished and it can only get better as we move closer to release! On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: /* just ignore */ Hi! Today I migrated my (Intel Core Duo based, with DRM supported Intel gfx) to OpenSolaris preview 2010.02, based on build 121. I must really take my hat:) I love almost everything of the countless goodies. RESPECT, dear Sun! regards, %martin (who has now replaced SXCE on all physical machines) ___ xwin-discuss mailing list xwin-disc...@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Problems installing OpenSolaris
Which laptop? tell us the modelthen we will be able to look at whether it is supported or not On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Ashlee Naidoo ashlee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I'm new to open solaris and am trying to install opensolaris on my acer laptop, but each time i try, it loads the little dots and then just stays on the black screen with the sun information and nothing happens. Please can someone tell me how to fix this? I'm trying to move from ubuntu to opensolaris? Thanks Ashlee -- 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] [desktop-discuss] Nautilus Access List Tab
Can you file an RFE at http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/ for this feature? On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Chris Peden ch...@chrispeden.com wrote: Is there plans to implement a ACL GUI? If not I really have to wonder why. I am wanting to build an OpenSolaris NAS (because of ZFS) for a client of mine but without a GUI, I can see my support calls increasing quite a bit. some posts have said you can do it all from a windows client, however that does not seem like a solution to me, more of a workaround. -chris On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Ghee Teo wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Chris wrote: Ben from cuddletech.com said it was in a version of SXCE, because he wrote about it on his blog. I emailed him and he gave me the following info. Very odd, same behavior on my SX:CE 116 box. The functionality was added to GNOME-vfs some time ago (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0724/gdppz?l=dea=view). You can see ACL info for instance by using 'gnomevfs-info /some/path' What Ben pointed at was SXDE which was something we shipped and stopped. I think this is what you are seeing. ACL list was implemented using gnome-vfs for nautilus and was in GNOME 2.20. But in GNOME 2.22, gvfs was written to replace gnome-vfs and since then nautilus has been using gvfs to display the various bits and also helpers for various views. The ACL file dialog was in gome-vfs was never forward ported to gvfs even for ufs. The dialog you should though was a design for zfs which was never implemented (not even in gnome-vfs). -Ghee Anything further you can find out would be appreciated. You'll find out more asking on desktop-discuss, where the GNOME engineers are found, than on the general opensolaris-discuss list. ___ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-disc...@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Any plans for a DVD Release..
However Fluendo have been (typically) silent as to the timeframe for release of the Solaris version :-| they were promising the DVD Player for years before they released the Linux version, will we wait that long for the Solaris version? Only Fluendo knows! On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote: Spencer: Fluendo has already released a licensed DVD player for Linux, and they plan to make one available for OpenSolaris soon: http:://www.fluendo.com/ The difficulty with distributing a DVD player is that there are many associated licensing that is required to play DVD's. Many media formats used in store-bought DVD videos require paying a licensing fee to use. MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3 audio, Dolby AC-3, and CSS for example. There are some media players out there that you can build or download that will play DVD's. However, if you use a solution that avoids paying these licensing fees, then you would need to speak with a lawyer to find out what legal risks are involved with doing so. When the Fluendo solution is available for OpenSolaris, you can use it without worry about any such legal risks. Brian Been running OpenSolaris for a while now, a point from a peer who's been running it for a while well worth noting is the fact that many people can't keep up with all the packages online, since the repository images don't change so often it makes sense to have a DVD release doesn't it? There's plenty of Linux users who would rather use a OS with a broad appeal and reputation of a commercial company such as Sun, apart from the fact that it's open source most people see Solaris as a server OS not a desktop OS. OpenSolaris has a desktop appeal that most people don't appreciate due to lack of applications on it's bootable media it just seems to lack applications on the face of it. How do users who want to develop or deploy their applications or concepts when trying out what Sun has to offer(as you get from Solaris Express Edition) - It's a good thing to have Netbeans, Sunstudio or Eclipse among many other applications in place as you would on a live Linux/BSD DVD. It makes a good impression for many who are interested in adopting OpenSolaris in the first place when there's a thriving social development community for the tools mentioned above which they may use on a different platform. A bootable environment that helps put accross the best possible set of applications. In that case are there any plans for a DVD release for OpenSolaris? All the best, Spencer ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] question about QFS
That must be the commercial supported one, i understand it is open source and a project under opensolaris at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/samqfs/ On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Jiawei Zhao c789a...@gmail.com wrote: sorry to ask this question here, I can not find a dedicated forum for QFS though. Is QFS free to use on solaris and linux? I see on sun download page for QFS that it has a 90 days trial period, not sure about if that means it can be used only for so long. -- 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] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal
I am happy to be the point of contact for this project. I think genunix wiki would be a great starting point for our community to begin a web page whilst the content transition is taking place. If no one objects to this within the next 24 hours I will go ahead and generate a page there. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Jim Walker james.wal...@sun.com wrote: Thanks for the great response. It looks like there is a need for this project :) I added the Systems Administration area. Just a few more details before we begin the project ratification process: - need someone to volunteer to be project point of contact - I would like one more Community to sponsor this project since it crosses Community Boundaries. If you think the project proposal can be ratified in your Community let me know. The Documentation and Testing Communities already plan to sponsor this project. BTW. Since the website transition is in progress this project may start by sharing a sponsoring Community's webpages and/or genunix.org. The usecase-discuss email list will be available immediately after the project is ratified. Cheers, Jim = o Project: OpenSolaris Use Case Project o Short Description: The OpenSolaris Use Case Project collects, develops and validates OpenSolaris operating system and application Use Cases and provides real world feedback to development, documentation, testing and other OpenSolaris groups to help ensure users get what they need from OpenSolaris distributions and applications. o Project Description: The primary focus of the OpenSolaris Use Case Project is to evaluate and organize real world OpenSolaris user experiences into Use Cases, case studies and best practices for the benefit of other OpenSolaris users, and to provide feedback to OpenSolaris developers, technical writers, testers and others so they may produce better quality products and education materials that more effectively meet user requirements. This project is run by users for users. Project roles and activities are diverse and include users bringing specific issues into the discussion, end users and consultants bringing expertise and focus to areas they are most interested in, Use Case organization and development experts, and project leaders who organize the overall project and review processes. Development, documentation, test teams and others can provide this project materials they want user feedback on prior to release to help ensure the user is getting what they need to be successful. Example areas of interest can include: * Core OpenSolaris Technologies zfs, smf, security, and DTrace and common OpenSolaris commands and utilities * OpenSolaris Installation and Packaging pkg, beadm commands, pkgmgr GUI, Automated Installer and Distro Constructor * OpenSolaris Systems Administration Standard and unique Systems Administration approaches and best practices * OpenSolaris Desktop OpenSolaris desktop, layout and appearance and standard desktop applications * Virtualization zones, crossbow, ldoms, xVM, VirtualBox, etc... * OpenSolaris Distributions distribution centric use cases for BeleniX, MilaX, Nexenta, SchilliX etc... * OpenSolaris Applications OpenOffice, contrib repo applications, Oracle, etc... * Development Tools SunStudio, netbeans, hg, svn, etc... * Hardware Configurations Various hardware types and storage configurations, etc... * Combination Solutions Unique End User solutions using multiple technologies * Use Case Development This area focuses on Use Case development itself, including how Use Cases are written, Use Case tools and the review process. Both formal and informal Use Case methods will be used. o Sponsoring Communities: Documentation Community Testing Community o Initial Project Members: Joanie Diggs (joanied) Jason Schroeder (jks) Alex Smith (sentinel) Uros Nedic (urosn) Sriram Natarajan () Steven Acres (swa) Rich Reynolds (odd1) Octave Orgeron (oorgeron) Che Kristo (che) Guruprasad (lgp_cse) norbert (norbertc) Hernan Saltiel (hecsa) Masafumi Ohta (masafumi) Ken Mays (kmays) o Point of Contact: (needed) o Project Needs: Standard project website and SCM setup at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/usecase/ usecase-disc...@opensolaris.org email alias. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal
I have forwarded this request the the desktop discuss mailing list to see if we can get sponsorship from the Desktop Community members (I am am member of that community). I will follow that request and report back. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Jim Walker james.wal...@sun.com wrote: Thanks for the great response. It looks like there is a need for this project :) I added the Systems Administration area. Just a few more details before we begin the project ratification process: - need someone to volunteer to be project point of contact - I would like one more Community to sponsor this project since it crosses Community Boundaries. If you think the project proposal can be ratified in your Community let me know. The Documentation and Testing Communities already plan to sponsor this project. BTW. Since the website transition is in progress this project may start by sharing a sponsoring Community's webpages and/or genunix.org. The usecase-discuss email list will be available immediately after the project is ratified. Cheers, Jim = o Project: OpenSolaris Use Case Project o Short Description: The OpenSolaris Use Case Project collects, develops and validates OpenSolaris operating system and application Use Cases and provides real world feedback to development, documentation, testing and other OpenSolaris groups to help ensure users get what they need from OpenSolaris distributions and applications. o Project Description: The primary focus of the OpenSolaris Use Case Project is to evaluate and organize real world OpenSolaris user experiences into Use Cases, case studies and best practices for the benefit of other OpenSolaris users, and to provide feedback to OpenSolaris developers, technical writers, testers and others so they may produce better quality products and education materials that more effectively meet user requirements. This project is run by users for users. Project roles and activities are diverse and include users bringing specific issues into the discussion, end users and consultants bringing expertise and focus to areas they are most interested in, Use Case organization and development experts, and project leaders who organize the overall project and review processes. Development, documentation, test teams and others can provide this project materials they want user feedback on prior to release to help ensure the user is getting what they need to be successful. Example areas of interest can include: * Core OpenSolaris Technologies zfs, smf, security, and DTrace and common OpenSolaris commands and utilities * OpenSolaris Installation and Packaging pkg, beadm commands, pkgmgr GUI, Automated Installer and Distro Constructor * OpenSolaris Systems Administration Standard and unique Systems Administration approaches and best practices * OpenSolaris Desktop OpenSolaris desktop, layout and appearance and standard desktop applications * Virtualization zones, crossbow, ldoms, xVM, VirtualBox, etc... * OpenSolaris Distributions distribution centric use cases for BeleniX, MilaX, Nexenta, SchilliX etc... * OpenSolaris Applications OpenOffice, contrib repo applications, Oracle, etc... * Development Tools SunStudio, netbeans, hg, svn, etc... * Hardware Configurations Various hardware types and storage configurations, etc... * Combination Solutions Unique End User solutions using multiple technologies * Use Case Development This area focuses on Use Case development itself, including how Use Cases are written, Use Case tools and the review process. Both formal and informal Use Case methods will be used. o Sponsoring Communities: Documentation Community Testing Community o Initial Project Members: Joanie Diggs (joanied) Jason Schroeder (jks) Alex Smith (sentinel) Uros Nedic (urosn) Sriram Natarajan () Steven Acres (swa) Rich Reynolds (odd1) Octave Orgeron (oorgeron) Che Kristo (che) Guruprasad (lgp_cse) norbert (norbertc) Hernan Saltiel (hecsa) Masafumi Ohta (masafumi) Ken Mays (kmays) o Point of Contact: (needed) o Project Needs: Standard project website and SCM setup at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/usecase/ usecase-disc...@opensolaris.org email alias. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal
I have created a Wiki here with a sample template which we can begin with and modify to suit our needs. Once we get the project set up and the opensolaris.org content transition is complete I will migrate the content over. http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/opensolaris_use_cases Others, please input your ideas onto this page, your contributions are more than welcome! Ché On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Jim Walker james.wal...@sun.com wrote: Thanks for the great response. It looks like there is a need for this project :) I added the Systems Administration area. Just a few more details before we begin the project ratification process: - need someone to volunteer to be project point of contact - I would like one more Community to sponsor this project since it crosses Community Boundaries. If you think the project proposal can be ratified in your Community let me know. The Documentation and Testing Communities already plan to sponsor this project. BTW. Since the website transition is in progress this project may start by sharing a sponsoring Community's webpages and/or genunix.org. The usecase-discuss email list will be available immediately after the project is ratified. Cheers, Jim = o Project: OpenSolaris Use Case Project o Short Description: The OpenSolaris Use Case Project collects, develops and validates OpenSolaris operating system and application Use Cases and provides real world feedback to development, documentation, testing and other OpenSolaris groups to help ensure users get what they need from OpenSolaris distributions and applications. o Project Description: The primary focus of the OpenSolaris Use Case Project is to evaluate and organize real world OpenSolaris user experiences into Use Cases, case studies and best practices for the benefit of other OpenSolaris users, and to provide feedback to OpenSolaris developers, technical writers, testers and others so they may produce better quality products and education materials that more effectively meet user requirements. This project is run by users for users. Project roles and activities are diverse and include users bringing specific issues into the discussion, end users and consultants bringing expertise and focus to areas they are most interested in, Use Case organization and development experts, and project leaders who organize the overall project and review processes. Development, documentation, test teams and others can provide this project materials they want user feedback on prior to release to help ensure the user is getting what they need to be successful. Example areas of interest can include: * Core OpenSolaris Technologies zfs, smf, security, and DTrace and common OpenSolaris commands and utilities * OpenSolaris Installation and Packaging pkg, beadm commands, pkgmgr GUI, Automated Installer and Distro Constructor * OpenSolaris Systems Administration Standard and unique Systems Administration approaches and best practices * OpenSolaris Desktop OpenSolaris desktop, layout and appearance and standard desktop applications * Virtualization zones, crossbow, ldoms, xVM, VirtualBox, etc... * OpenSolaris Distributions distribution centric use cases for BeleniX, MilaX, Nexenta, SchilliX etc... * OpenSolaris Applications OpenOffice, contrib repo applications, Oracle, etc... * Development Tools SunStudio, netbeans, hg, svn, etc... * Hardware Configurations Various hardware types and storage configurations, etc... * Combination Solutions Unique End User solutions using multiple technologies * Use Case Development This area focuses on Use Case development itself, including how Use Cases are written, Use Case tools and the review process. Both formal and informal Use Case methods will be used. o Sponsoring Communities: Documentation Community Testing Community o Initial Project Members: Joanie Diggs (joanied) Jason Schroeder (jks) Alex Smith (sentinel) Uros Nedic (urosn) Sriram Natarajan () Steven Acres (swa) Rich Reynolds (odd1) Octave Orgeron (oorgeron) Che Kristo (che) Guruprasad (lgp_cse) norbert (norbertc) Hernan Saltiel (hecsa) Masafumi Ohta (masafumi) Ken Mays (kmays) o Point of Contact: (needed) o Project Needs: Standard project website and SCM setup at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/usecase/ usecase-disc...@opensolaris.org email alias. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE going away?
This has been done to death in this thread :) http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=109945tstart=15 and I have collected a few pieces of information into a FAQ at http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/SXCE_EOL Ché On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM, en...@businessgrade.com wrote: So I was reading: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ And based on the announcement, Community Express is going away in October. I use SCXE mainly for Comstar and other features that I found (the hard way) were not in OpenSolaris mainstream. I see that OpenSolaris 2010.02 Developer Builds are available. Is it the intention to replace SXCE with the Developer Builds? What will be missing that we don't get in the Community Express Edition? Thanks, This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication may contain material protected by the attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete all copies. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)
It would be really nice of we could have these figures for OpenSolaris released to the community...can someone inside push to get these figures published? On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:19 PM, casper@sun.com wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: The popularity of the OpenSolaris 200x releases vs. that of the Solaris Express releases in terms of usage speaks for itself IMO. Do you have the numbers? I certainly would want to know those, also because of the number of the SPARC vs the x86 downloads now that we have SPARC OpenSolaris downloads. SXCE can only be downloaded through www.sun.com/downloads, correct, whereas OpenSolaris can be downloaded from different locations? If the information isn't public, please send them to me personally,' though I'm also trying to get the information locally. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Use Case: Package Management Possible Scenario
As I have said before the effort spent supporting two packaging systems would be better spent on porting packages into the existing system (IPS), if someone wants to go and work on other package systems (and they have) they are ,more than welcome to. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume schir...@gmail.com wrote: More choice is relevant when you have a limited application base, to make the most of what's out there would mean using subversion and OpenPKG for best effect. One would expect to get more packages on a running system provided that you can install it from the disc since both have their own application repos - that's the only gripe I have with OpenSolaris atm. More choice to the user works for most don't you think. 2009/8/18 Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org: Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume wrote: Hi Shawn So would it be possible to have a system similar to portage or subversion? Somewhat, I believe you could create something similar using pkgtool. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Is OSol 2009.06 ready for production?
Realistically OpenSolaris is not at the same level of production readiness as S10, Indiana releases are much more bleeding edge and have not been as thoroughly tested as S10 so it is to be expected that they are not as reliable... On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Hua hua_...@hotmail.com wrote: I am not sure if I suppose to ask such a question? I am in the process of building a samba file server running on home pc. The hardware are new and all devices are in HCL. I am currently assessing Solaris 10 5/09 and OSol 2009.6 Both are default installation without patch(I do not have support contract yet), here is some observation OSol GUI crashed many times in vary occasion, e.g. 1. log out 2. resize window 3. mouse move, etc The worst is tha when Gnome crash, it takes down the whole system. I coudn't even ping the system. Understand that OSol is new to game thus GUI maybe is not stable, however, stress test by running IOZone from 3 clients result system being disconnected from network a couple of times. On the other hand, same stress test on Solaris 10 on the same hardware didn't have any issues. No doubt Solaris 10 is commercial product and is meant for production use. But OSol is kind disappointing. So I want to know your experience about OSol in terms of stability(in home/casual use, of course not in enterprise environment). Is it ready for production? Thanks -- 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] A question about OpenSolaris Customize
Hi, Take a look at this Sun Wiki which can help you build a JEOS (Just enough operatin system) prototype: http://wikis.sun.com/display/jeos/OpenSolaris++2009.06+JeOS+Prototype There is an OpenSolaris project for JEOS at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jeos/ On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Chen Jianxun(Kelvin) jianxun.c...@sun.comwrote: I am an engineer of Open Community Great China. There is a company, that is a ISV focus on Storage Porduct, they are intending to develop a kind of Storage product and want use Solaris as the OS of that, and leverage Comstar module. But they think even the OpenSolaris 0906 is too large for their product, they just want a core Operating System, doesn't include GUI, doesn't include unnecessary package in it. And they want include their own software in it. My question is, does Distribution Constructer can do it? If so, what is the correct packages set for minimal live CD. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] A question about OpenSolaris Customize
I haven't done this myself but I know that Platespin has virtual to physical migration...i am not sure whether it is supported for Solaris though :-| On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Chen Jianxun(Kelvin) jianxun.c...@sun.comwrote: Hi Kristo Thank you very much for you point it out now I am downloading the image and go on with it. But I have a question, because it is a Virtual disk Image, so I worry about that can I use it on a real server, and how can I do it. Thank you very much. Che Kristo 写道: Hi, Take a look at this Sun Wiki which can help you build a JEOS (Just enough operatin system) prototype: http://wikis.sun.com/display/jeos/OpenSolaris++2009.06+JeOS+Prototype There is an OpenSolaris project for JEOS at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jeos/ On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Chen Jianxun(Kelvin) jianxun.c...@sun.com mailto:jianxun.c...@sun.com wrote: I am an engineer of Open Community Great China. There is a company, that is a ISV focus on Storage Porduct, they are intending to develop a kind of Storage product and want use Solaris as the OS of that, and leverage Comstar module. But they think even the OpenSolaris 0906 is too large for their product, they just want a core Operating System, doesn't include GUI, doesn't include unnecessary package in it. And they want include their own software in it. My question is, does Distribution Constructer can do it? If so, what is the correct packages set for minimal live CD. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Use Case: Package Management Possible Scenario
If you look back through the mailing list you can see that I have advocated for OpenPKG in the past, but, this was before IPS came along. OpenPKG is available for Solaris 10 and no doubt will be made available for Solaris.next once it has been on the market for a while. To bring OpenPKG into mainline Solaris/OpenSolaris by default would confuse the package management situation. Are you advocating?: 1 - Having OpenPKG in OpenSolaris by default 2 - Having OpenPKG as an optional install (perhaps in the contrib IPS repository?) Personally I see no problem with option 2, I think it would be great to see OpenPKG available to those who want it. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume schir...@gmail.com wrote: The thing is that you have pkgbuild or OpenPkg which can build or install from rpms thus addressing user needs through package interoperability. You normally don't have to apply a lot of effort by adding more packages when there's several rpm repositories online that are used in other scenarios. With a working framework getting most applications to work as on any other rpm based platform is worth shouting about - for depending on your point of view and development issues. It would be interesting to see how this is addressed in OpenSolaris. 2009/8/18 Che Kristo c...@opensolaris.org: What is the isue you are trying to address exactly anyway? If we are missing packages our efforts would be better spent on getting those packages into the existing framework rather than complicating our package management by introducing additional frameworks. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume schir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It would be great to have the OpenPkg package management system integrated with opensolaris' IPS GUI which allows users to access binaries in RPM format for cross platform compatibility, it should make it easier to get programs from Fedora/Redhat linux platforms to run on opensolaris helping users moving from linux to opensolaris with a probable added benefit of user confidence. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans
Agreed On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Dave Koelmeyer davekoelme...@mac.comwrote: Whoever cooked up Nimbus frankly did an outstanding job, IMO. It's very polished, and very easy on the eye - in that it's comfortable to use for extended periods of time (i.e. not garish). I can't really think of a better default theme, and I'm a long-time Mac user. Even Ars Technica made a point of highlighting just how good Nimbus is: One of those customizations is a unique and distinctive theme called nimbus, which has soft colors, smooth gradients, and a slightly bubbly look. It's not as snazzy as Murrine, but it's a nice improvement over Clearlooks and it beats the crap out of Ubuntu's brown. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/05/first-look-opensolaris-2008-05-a-work-in-progress.ars -- 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] Finding my bearings with 2009.06
Where did you hear that 2009.06 doesn't make use of ECC? that is the first I have heard of it... On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:40 PM, chris fra...@yahoo.fr wrote: I am getting used to the opensolaris GUI. The last time I used solaris was with version 1 (SunOS 4), but I am mainly a XP user these days. I am still looking for the following bits of information, hopefully with a GUI, but I can use a prompt if I have to: - regional setting (to do things like use a 24hr clock) - disk manager - where to set delay for disks to go to sleep if unused - an (hopefully easy) way to setup a simple (app-based if possible) firewall - an app using smart data to monitor disks problems for me - device mgr - is there a way to monitor how the CPU power saving is used (hlt instruction usage, SpeedStep or Cool'n'Quiet status)? Having these would mean I have all I need, I am working on the network and SMB aspects atm. Also, I was told 2009.06 can't make use of ECC memory. Is that right? Thanks for you insight. -- 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] OpenSolaris Use Case: Package Management Possible Scenario
What is the isue you are trying to address exactly anyway? If we are missing packages our efforts would be better spent on getting those packages into the existing framework rather than complicating our package management by introducing additional frameworks. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume schir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It would be great to have the OpenPkg package management system integrated with opensolaris' IPS GUI which allows users to access binaries in RPM format for cross platform compatibility, it should make it easier to get programs from Fedora/Redhat linux platforms to run on opensolaris helping users moving from linux to opensolaris with a probable added benefit of user confidence. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal
Communities are more of a collection of people with similar interests. A project is a collection of activities with a beginning and an end which is what I think best describes what we are discussing here. The use-case project would then feed into many communities (desktop, security, sys admin, etc). On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Steven Acres ad...@swatteksystems.comwrote: Peter Tribble wrote: Jim, [changed facilitation-discuss to @opensolaris.org, not @sun.com] On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Jim Walkerjames.wal...@sun.com wrote: o Project: OpenSolaris Use Case Project ... Example areas of interest can include: Systems administration seems conspicuous by its absence! o Project Members: Need 5 or more initial members, they will become Core Contributors. o Facilitator: Need 1 facilitator. Nit: Core contributors and Facilitators apply to communities, not projects, so that wouldn't apply. Would this proposal fit better as a community? -- Cheers, Steven Acres Toronto OpenSolaris User Group TOROSUG Leader http://opensolaris.org/os/project/torosug ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-disc...@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal
Hi Jim, I would like to help on this also...happy to work on desktop use cases. Thank you Ché Kristo On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Jim Walker james.wal...@sun.com wrote: This concept was discussed a few months ago on indiana-discuss as a beta test project, after looking at this more closely I refocused it on Use Cases since that is what we really are needing. There were several people interested in being part of a project like this. All input welcome. Specifically, I'm looking for five OpenSolaris users that want to help lead and contribute to this project. I won't be leading it, but will help out as I can. Cheers, Jim === o Project: OpenSolaris Use Case Project o Short Description: The OpenSolaris Use Case Project collects, develops and validates OpenSolaris operating system and application Use Cases and provides real world feedback to development, documentation, testing and other OpenSolaris groups to help ensure users get what they need from OpenSolaris distributions and applications. o Project Description: The primary focus of the OpenSolaris Use Case Project is to evaluate and organize real world OpenSolaris user experiences into Use Cases, case studies and best practices for the benefit of other OpenSolaris users, and to provide feedback to OpenSolaris developers, technical writers, testers and others so they may produce better quality products and education materials that more effectively meet user requirements. This project is run by users for users. Project roles and activities are diverse and include users bringing specific issues into the discussion, end users and consultants bringing expertise and focus to areas they are most interested in, Use Case organization and development experts, and project leaders who organize the overall project and review processes. Development, documentation, test teams and others can provide this project materials they want user feedback on prior to release to help ensure the user is getting what they need to be successful. Example areas of interest can include: * Core OpenSolaris Technologies zfs, smf, security, and DTrace and common OpenSolaris commands and utilities * OpenSolaris Installation and Packaging pkg, beadm commands, pkgmgr GUI, Automated Installer and Distro Constructor * OpenSolaris Desktop OpenSolaris desktop, layout and appearance and standard desktop applications * Virtualization zones, crossbow, ldoms, xVM, VirtualBox, etc... * OpenSolaris Distributions distribution centric use cases for BeleniX, MilaX, Nexenta, SchilliX etc... * OpenSolaris Applications OpenOffice, contrib repo applications, Oracle, etc... * Development Tools SunStudio, netbeans, hg, svn, etc... * Hardware Configurations Various hardware types and storage configurations, etc... * Combination Solutions Unique End User solutions using multiple technologies * Use Case Development This area focuses on Use Case development itself, including how Use Cases are written, Use Case tools and the review process. Both formal and informal Use Case methods will be used. o Sponsoring Communities: (need community facilitators to confirm they are interested in sponsoring this project) Documentation Community Installation and Packaging Community Desktop Community OS/Net (ON) Community Software Porters Community Distribution Community Testing Community o Project Members: Need 5 or more initial members, they will become Core Contributors. o Facilitator: Need 1 facilitator. o Project Needs: Standard project website and SCM setup at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/usecase/ usecase-disc...@opensolaris.org email alias. ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-disc...@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)
+ 1 for the visual panel idea. I still think however that by default Solaris and OpenSolaris should present it's own personality rather than putting linuxiness before quality On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.orgwrote: przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:57:07PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: Jan Friedel wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:04:26PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: AFAICT, Indiana by default comes with a PATH that has /usr/gnu/bin in front of the rest That is the default environment for the new user created by the OS installer. As always, users are free to change their $PATH to any set of tools they like, and shell scripts are encouraged to declare the paths to the tools they need so they are not broken by users with different $PATH settings. I'm just curious, why this cannot be an installation option? Sth. like ability to set netservices(1M) during the S10 installation. If you read past discussions on the installer, you'll see that one of the goals was to keep the install process as simple as possible. Configuration options like this belong in the firstboot configuration setup, or in visual panels where they don't add to the complexity of the installer. But one of the (hidden ?) goals of OpenSolaris is to attract linux users. So one additional screen during installation which asks about your habits (PATH, etc.) shoudn't make it really more complicated. The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer. They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel, or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force them to be part of the install process. Installation should be about installation and the minimum amount of configuration to get the system going. Anything beyond that is a pollution of the process IMO. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] No sound after installing OSS
What happens when you type *osstest *when it is installed? 2009/8/13 Thommy M. Malmström thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com I had my Ferrari 4005 with 2009.06 running OK with sound working for almost everything when I decided to install OSS from 4Front. Said and done, the installation vent OK and I rebooted. No more sound for anything :( pkgrm the package, but still no sound. What can that package have destroyed? (And why didn't I take a snapshot first?) -- 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] OpenCL on Solaris
Haven't heard anything yet, best chance would be NVidia although their current implementation is only for Linux and Windows. Send them an email and let them know you want it supported on Solaris too... On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Brandon Barker brandon.bar...@gmail.comwrote: Does anyone know of planned support for OpenCL for various CPUS and GPUS in solaris? See: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20090804006502newsLang=en -- 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] SXCE end-of-life plans
I assume by the security issue you are reffering to http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1945 http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4885 My understanding is that a fix for 4885 is targeted for indiana.next to get rid of the XP style admin by default On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Glynn Foster glynn.fos...@sun.com wrote: Sun is announcing the intent to discontinue production of the Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October time-frame. As we intend to continue on a bi-weekly build schedule, consolidations will move towards producing native Image Packaging System (IPS) packages alongside SVR4 packages and then phase out the latter completely. Technologies such as IPS, Automated Install, Snap Upgrade and the Distribution Constructor will be integrating into a consolidation after following through the established processes including architectural (ARC) review. I propose not to do this before there was a correct ARC review for all deviations in Indiana and not before there was a fix for all security problems that have been introduced with Indiana. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.deemail%3ajo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de(home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Returning with a Question
I like that argument :) the amount of double dipping from patent holders is ridiculous though i'd love to see it tested in court and have precedent set. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Babb dcb...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I hold several licensed copies of Windows 2k, XP, Vistax32, Vistax64, none of which are in use at this point. As these OS's ship with the default codecs I need (except flac), legally, I'm squeaky clean. Just because they aren't installed at this point does not negate their license. I so appreciate the information and the appropriate warnings, I'm going to go the home route. THANK YOU! Dave Babb -- 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] SXCE end-of-life plans
Looking at the response so far perhaps it is a good idea to get a FAQ set up on the genunix wiki...does anyone else support this idea? On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Glynn Foster glynn.fos...@sun.com wrote: Sun is announcing the intent to discontinue production of the Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October time-frame. As we intend to continue on a bi-weekly build schedule, consolidations will move towards producing native Image Packaging System (IPS) packages alongside SVR4 packages and then phase out the latter completely. Technologies such as IPS, Automated Install, Snap Upgrade and the Distribution Constructor will be integrating into a consolidation after following through the established processes including architectural (ARC) review. We recognize that this transition will require some effort for all members of the OpenSolaris development community, and are committed to working with all of you in making that transition a success. You can expect updated information from us and the communities which manage the consolidations as we further plan the transition schedules. Questions can be directed to David Comay, Glynn Foster, William Franklin, Stephen Hahn, Dave Miner, Vincent Murphy, or Dan Roberts. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans
Cool, just getting started now at http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/SXCE_EOL will just copy and paste for now and will clean up language etc later... On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Glynn Foster glynn.fos...@sun.com wrote: On 11/08/2009, at 2:15 PM, Che Kristo wrote: Looking at the response so far perhaps it is a good idea to get a FAQ set up on the genunix wiki...does anyone else support this idea? Sounds like a good idea to me and can probably help writing it based on the responses here. Glynn ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone successfully boot OpenSolaris on Toshiba A605 notebook ?
I think the M10 is a great value system, especially when you look at the cost of the included Sun support, also the fact that you know that Sun folk are using this system themselves which means that you'll be very well supported in the future. It's a shame that this isn't yet available in Australia otherwise I would have picked one up. On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Anon Y Mous music_anal...@yahoo.com wrote: To be honest. I'm not really a big fan of the A605 or the R600, instead I recommend forgetting about the R600 / A605 and going for the Toshiba Tecra M-10 that you can get with OpenSolaris pre-installed here: http://www.shopopensolaris.com/suntoshiba/home.htm The $1,399 for a Core2 T9400 Tecra M10 with 4 gigabytes of RAM and a 320 GB hard drive is a sweet deal! The Nvidia card gives you a blazing fast OpenSolaris 3d compiz desktop and it comes with support from Sun AND buying it MAKES A STATEMENT because it shows hardware vendors that there are people out there who actually care about UNIX (Solaris) and that Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux aren't the only desktop operating systems out there that should be sold pre-installed on laptops- i.e. if you're one of those people like me who is upset that CISCO isn't making anyconnect VPN clients for Solaris x86, then you should probably buy a a Juniper router / firewall and a Solaris x86 pre-installed laptop out of protest ;-) My justification for hating on the R600 is that it's too small, it costs quite a bit of quid, and I think the performance of OpenSolaris as a desktop OS on Nvidia Quadro equipped machines is much, much better than it is on desktop and laptop computers that have Intel or ATI cards (Intel graphics performance on OpenSolaris was pretty weak last time I checked compared to the blazing torrent of 3d awesomeness that is the current Solaris nvidia driver). I know Intel is doing a great job helping out with OpenSolaris, Linux and BSD kernel development right now, but did they ever write decent Solaris 3d acceleration drivers for their Intel graphics cards? I never could get Compiz working with Solaris on an Intel Graphics Card. Enabling it always froze the machine up, and I suspect other kinds of intense 3d acceleration would do the same thing, so that's something to think about when you're buying your A605 or R600... doing intense 3d graphics work might just kill the box. Plus with me as a 64-bit OpenSolaris power user running hundreds of zones plus ZFS plus a few virtual box virtual machines all at the same time on my desktop trust me. I'm going to need ALL 4 gigabyes of RAM that comes with the fully loaded Tecra M10 T9500. 3 gigabytes just won't cut it for me trying to run distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop or CouchDB or Eucalyptus spread across dozens or even hundreds of zones on my development laptop. What about the money? Well, I honestly didn't have the money for the M10 as I am crunched for cash right now with college tuition and things coming up, so I had to borrow money from my girlfriend's mom to pay for it. But seriously it's worth it just to have something that comes with UNIX pre-installed on it, has killer Nvidia drivers, and is guaranteed by Sun to work ok with their OS. -- 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] Returning with a Question
Hi Dave, The licensed and supported way: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/ use this if you are in a country in which the relevant codecs must be appropriately licensed (most countries), essential if you are implementing within a corporate environment unless you want to risk having you company end up in court The non-licensed way: http://solaris.homeunix.com/ appropriate for home-use situations and for countries where the licensing conditions for the codecs are not relevant Hope this helps and have fun! I've used both and they are great! Ché myunix.org On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:34 PM, David Babb dcb...@gmail.com wrote: Good evening all, 2008.11 just caused too many issues with my hardware, so I took a sabbatical. Now after the 2009 Release, I'm giving O.S. another look. Before on 2008.11, I got the multimedia apps I needed from lifewithsolaris.jp, now, there is no multimedia there. If I port, I need to have the ability to listen to my sound library, some of which I have converted from vinyl. Think Woodstock, (although I was somewhere else((Vietnam Era Vet)). Some of it is in flac, wmv, mpeg4, the whole gauntlet of formats. Question: What is the new mechanism of enabling a movie player and a sound player, and installing the proper codecs for each in Open Solaris? This is my only question/issue to overcome, and I'll move the shops machine over first. Thank you sincerely, Dave babb -- 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] Running Windows Apps on Solaris with Bordeaux 1.8.2 and Wine
Given that MS has anywhere between 80 - 95% market share in this segment I very much doubt it is as dire a situation as you portray On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Anon Y Mous music_anal...@yahoo.com wrote: For a monolithic organisation with 8000 staff and over 30,000 users change happens much slower than you or I would like - especially something as radical as switching the core office productivity suite. Heh, I bet some time in the distant future though, when King Larry decrees that you'll have to upgrade to the free and open-source Oracle Open Office suite (Ooo) or pay an extra 10 pints of blood per CPU core in Oracle database licensing fees, your monolithic organization with 8000 staff and 30,000 users will drop Microsoft Office 2007 pretty fast ;-) IBM's Lotus Symphony office suite, is, I think also based on the OpenOffice code base as well, so Micro$oft's Office monopoly is going to be in a world of hurt with Oracle / Sun, IBM and the entire Linux / UNIX / BSD / (insert name of FOSS operating system here) community descending upon them to rip them apart. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Why no OpenSolaris laptops on sun.com
This is more directed at the Sun Marketing folk... If Toshiba are linking to the OpenSolaris version of the laptop from the Tecra and Portege product pages on toshiba.com why are sun not even listing the product on sun.com? Why is the product rlegated to shopopensolaris.com? Are we not wanting to let everyone know about the product? Why do Sun need prodding to list new products ont their own web site, I had to ask why their was no Ultra 27 one week after its official launch :-| Maybe there is some good reason for this but from outside it doesnt look like the various teams within Sun even work for the same company! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Mobile broardband world
Very alarmist! There is already and RFE for this, http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9695 On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: The lastest resaerch show a continuing worldwide trend to adopt mobile broardband which include mobile dongles from all of the major operators.In addition many laptops and portable devices will be sold with built in HSPA. It is beleived that the mobile dongle will the key product for adoption by the young and mobile professionals. Many consider this trend follows the adoption of social networking sites such as google? Given that hotplugging of HSPA commonly used dongles has STILL not been included in a major release of Opensolaris.The community is unable to find OEM adoptors and next generation shakers embracing OS laptops until this problem is fixed asap.! If you do anything tomorrow at work tomorrow work on this problem before the Sun goes down on Sun! -- 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] Oracle buys AmigaOS to merge it with Solaris ?!?!
Yep, reads like BS to me On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Anon Y Mous wrote: I can't believe this is real: I can't either, since Oracle would not issue any press release referring to their Solaris OS, since they yet don't own Solaris nor Sun. The lack of any information on Oracle.com and the content of the other postings on http://commodoretoday.blogspot.com/ (like references to Steve Wozniak as the CEO of Commodore) makes it seem much more like an early April Fool's joke. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris?
I am sure they will do such things...much like the existing appliance they have done with HP but this time a totally in-house affair! On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Anon Y Mous music_anal...@yahoo.comwrote: Has anybody heard of an old project that Oracle and Sun worked together on that was called Raw Iron: http://news.cnet.com/Oracles-Raw-Iron-plan-not-fully-forged/2100-1001_3-219129.html I wonder if we're going to get a similar Oracle-Solaris powered, pre-tuned and pre-configured server appliance running on top of ZFS if the acquisition goes through? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
