Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-19 Thread Sri
I agree with kebabber. 

Solaris is the most common server operating system. When reliability, 
predictability and uniform upgrades and support are required, sensible IT teams 
always chose Solaris. 

It is a known fact in the veteran community. Unfortunately, newbies and google 
engineers do not seem to understand that. It's sad.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-19 Thread Ken Gunderson
Ha!  That was pretty funny.  Thanks for the laugh ;)
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-07 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
All I'm reading is that you think Oracle/Sun has such a great QA process (I 
have no doubts about it) that it can ignore users' bug reports, they are just 
going to prove what you've already found, which is sufficient for the 
purposes of releasing your software.

This show how much *some* Oracle/Sun people value external contributions. 

Look for some papers on how increased visibility through open source usually 
ensures high quality code since you've thousands of people looking at it, 
submitting detailed bug reports and even small fixes. You cannot seriously 
think your limited number of internal engineers is able to catch all the 
important bugs/issues. I think people running the first ZFS dedup code would 
agree with me.

Like I previously said, at this point anything is fine (closed or not)... 
Oracle just needs to let everybody know what it wants from/for OpenSolaris.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-07 Thread Ben Lavery
Thanks for the clarification Alan :)


On 6 Jul 2010, at 22:46, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

 Ben wrote:
 While OpenSolaris isn't an open source project, isn't Indiana an open source 
 project?
 
 That question seems to be confused about both what OpenSolaris is
 and what open source is.
 
 Indiana was the code name of the project to build the distro
 that was then given the name OpenSolaris.   It's been open to
 some amount of community participation, but the core release
 management of that distro was always unfortunately done behind
 closed doors at Sun - Sun announced the schedule it chose based
 on the availability of Sun's resources to produce  test it, and
 alignment with Sun's other product releases  events like JavaOne,
 we didn't take community votes on release scheduling.   Sun was
 open about many parts of the process, but not all (I certainly
 went to weekly distro engineering/planning meetings that were
 not open to the public and which we were not allowed to share
 all the information from with the public).
 
 Much of the code for the OpenSolaris distro comes from the open
 source project OpenSolaris - in that project (really, that family
 of related projects hosted on opensolaris.org) the community has
 been able to participate in various ways, though again, the bulk
 of the work and some key decision making was always done by Sun
 employees.
 
 OpenSolaris, in both forms, is mostly open source - the source for
 most of it (with some notable exceptions due to third party code
 that never got replaced) is available under an open source license.
 That's not the same as community developed or community controlled,
 but then many corporate-sponsored open source projects are that
 way - final decision making for Ubuntu lies in the hands of its
 Benevolent Dictator for Life (who just happens to be the one
 providing the financing), Fedora similarly has a project leader
 who works for Red Hat.   And while Linus isn't beholden to one
 specific corporation, it is still he, not the community, who
 has ultimate decision authority over the Linux kernel.  These
 projects may all be more open and transparent about their
 decisions and schedules than OpenSolaris has been lately, but
 that doesn't make the licenses stop complying with OSI's
 definition of open source, though it may not be what some people
 think of when they hear open source.
 
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-07 Thread Calum Benson

On 7 Jul 2010, at 09:36, Giovanni Tirloni wrote:

 All I'm reading is that you think Oracle/Sun has such a great QA process (I 
 have no doubts about it) that it can ignore users' bug reports

I don't believe that at all. I don't know of any bug report that Oracle/Sun has 
'ignored', now or in the past.  (They may not have had the resources to fix it 
as quickly as the submitter might like, but that happens in all projects, open 
source or not.)

 , they are just going to prove what you've already found, which is 
 sufficient for the purposes of releasing your software.

Like I said in my previous reply, detailed bug reports are important to 
developers whether they're duplicates or not, and are treated as such by every 
project team I know of.

Even your bug report contains identical information to a previously-submitted 
bug report, knowing that the bug is reproducible and by whom is important 
information that is never ignored.  I'm not sure what gives you the impression 
that this isn't the case.  (Especially as this is all currently hypothetical.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-07 Thread Calum Benson

On 7 Jul 2010, at 12:23, Calum Benson wrote:

 Even your bug report contains identical information

(Sorry, that's supposed to say Even if your bug report contains identical 
information...)

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-07 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Calum,

Calum Benson píše v út 06. 07. 2010 v 21:19 +0100:
 On 6 Jul 2010, at 20:50, Rafael Barros Felix de Sousa wrote:
 
  Without the open source community (usually made of hardcore users with 
  extensive knowledge of computing who usually work in IT companies or 
  universities) support, they would lose even more clients, after all who 
  would advocate for them besides theyselves also who would test their system 
  before production release?
 
 While I'm sure we can all think of several potential disadvantages to closing 
 the Solaris source again, I wouldn't say lack of QA would be one of them.  
 Closed source, commercial software gets released all the time with sufficient 
 testing, for example through formal beta programmes with paying customers -- 
 very much like Sun used to do with Solaris, in fact.
 

Just my personal oppinion - yes, there would be no lack of QA even in
such bad situation, of course, but wider usage of pre-released
versions is benefitial every time. None of QA can catch all real-life
bugs (otherwise I would have no job in Solaris space).

Personally I submitted bunch of CRs (including critical) only because
somebody external had access to OpenSolaris and used it for his/her
usecases. Also I fixed several unpleasant bugs discovered by external
users (and not by QA for years). With high probability these bugs would
not be discovered in QA process and would impact critical production
systems later.

So, this is one of the biggest benefits of free community, I think.

Best regards,

Milan

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Rafael Barros Felix de Sousa
Wouldn't it be bad for Oracle, entirely closing Solaris next release source?
I mean Solaris doesn't have not even 1% of operating systems market share.
Without the open source community (usually made of hardcore users with 
extensive knowledge of computing who usually work in IT companies or 
universities) support, they would lose even more clients, after all who would 
advocate for them besides theyselves also who would test their system before 
production release? It is better a bug in a simple John Doe's 
notebook/desktop/VM/VPS than in a multibillion dollar company's mainframe.

I believe that closing next release source would be a step backwards and  
further to Solaris' demise. 
Most of the profit from enterprise systems (Red Hat or SUSE) comes from support 
and not from selling the software itself like MS Windows. And open source is 
known for decreasing RD costs and reducing risks and they could use some 
saving after acquiring Sun.

Besides it would sooo sad to see it ending :-(, Solaris is the best Unix ( I 
still need Windows for gaming and some multimedia so I've scratched it out from 
the list) I've tried so far. So solid, so consistent and so stable. It just 
need more packages and to update some of them which already belongs to the 
collection. Sometimes I have to build software from source.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
To a database vendor, everything either looks like a database, or
a place to run one, or something that interfaces with one?

Ptui.  I hope they're not that stupid.

AFAIK, MS played around with the notion of a database-based filesystem,
but never got it out the door.  IBM has played around with the notion
of making DB2 play a more important role on their systems, and I don't
know that they pulled it off either.  On the other hand, I gather that
both of those know that the color of money is the same whether it
comes from large or small customers.

Those are not very good analogies, but my basic point is that it takes
a bunch of tools to get a range of tasks done, and that one can
make a profit by multiplying hundreds times tens of millions of customers
as well as  by multiplying millions times thousands of customers.

Databases are no more central than operating systems, middleware,
or a bunch of other software.  And profit is profit.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Calum Benson

On 6 Jul 2010, at 20:50, Rafael Barros Felix de Sousa wrote:

 Without the open source community (usually made of hardcore users with 
 extensive knowledge of computing who usually work in IT companies or 
 universities) support, they would lose even more clients, after all who would 
 advocate for them besides theyselves also who would test their system before 
 production release?

While I'm sure we can all think of several potential disadvantages to closing 
the Solaris source again, I wouldn't say lack of QA would be one of them.  
Closed source, commercial software gets released all the time with sufficient 
testing, for example through formal beta programmes with paying customers -- 
very much like Sun used to do with Solaris, in fact.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Ben
While OpenSolaris isn't an open source project, isn't Indiana an open source 
project?
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
 While I'm sure we can all think of several potential
 disadvantages to closing the Solaris source again, I
 wouldn't say lack of QA would be one of them.  Closed
 source, commercial software gets released all the
 time with sufficient testing, for example through
 formal beta programmes with paying customers -- very
 much like Sun used to do with Solaris, in fact.

Sure! All bug reports submitted by users are quickly marked as duplicates of 
existing bugs that have already been submitted by paying customers 
participating in Beta programmes. 

Please don't insult everyone that has taken the time to submit detailed bug 
reports.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ben wrote:
 While OpenSolaris isn't an open source project, isn't Indiana an open source 
 project?

That question seems to be confused about both what OpenSolaris is
and what open source is.

Indiana was the code name of the project to build the distro
that was then given the name OpenSolaris.   It's been open to
some amount of community participation, but the core release
management of that distro was always unfortunately done behind
closed doors at Sun - Sun announced the schedule it chose based
on the availability of Sun's resources to produce  test it, and
alignment with Sun's other product releases  events like JavaOne,
we didn't take community votes on release scheduling.   Sun was
open about many parts of the process, but not all (I certainly
went to weekly distro engineering/planning meetings that were
not open to the public and which we were not allowed to share
all the information from with the public).

Much of the code for the OpenSolaris distro comes from the open
source project OpenSolaris - in that project (really, that family
of related projects hosted on opensolaris.org) the community has
been able to participate in various ways, though again, the bulk
of the work and some key decision making was always done by Sun
employees.

OpenSolaris, in both forms, is mostly open source - the source for
most of it (with some notable exceptions due to third party code
that never got replaced) is available under an open source license.
That's not the same as community developed or community controlled,
but then many corporate-sponsored open source projects are that
way - final decision making for Ubuntu lies in the hands of its
Benevolent Dictator for Life (who just happens to be the one
providing the financing), Fedora similarly has a project leader
who works for Red Hat.   And while Linus isn't beholden to one
specific corporation, it is still he, not the community, who
has ultimate decision authority over the Linux kernel.  These
projects may all be more open and transparent about their
decisions and schedules than OpenSolaris has been lately, but
that doesn't make the licenses stop complying with OSI's
definition of open source, though it may not be what some people
think of when they hear open source.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Calum Benson

On 6 Jul 2010, at 22:31, Giovanni Tirloni wrote:

 While I'm sure we can all think of several potential
 disadvantages to closing the Solaris source again, I
 wouldn't say lack of QA would be one of them.  Closed
 source, commercial software gets released all the
 time with sufficient testing, for example through
 formal beta programmes with paying customers -- very
 much like Sun used to do with Solaris, in fact.
 
 Sure! All bug reports submitted by users are quickly marked as duplicates of 
 existing bugs that have already been submitted by paying customers 
 participating in Beta programmes. 
 
 Please don't insult everyone that has taken the time to submit detailed bug 
 reports.

If such a situation were to ever to arise, detailed bug reports are important 
to developers whether they're duplicates or not, and are treated as such by 
every project team I know of. So there would be no reason for anyone to feel 
insulted, or that they'd wasted their time.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-12 Thread Tim Scanlon
kmays  wrote:
The point is you could build an updated 'something' and call it something.

/* Firstly, I would remind everyone that this is a *discussion* list. All 
topics involving OpenSolaris are open for discussion. So if you don't like 
what I'm saying, fine. But stuff a sock in that ignorant bullshit about how 
this is supposed to be a discussion list about code, because you're wrong, and 
it's not. Secondly, try to have a sense of humor about my frustration  
hyperbole, I assure you that not even I fully agree with some of the things 
you're about to read. I do think they need to be said though, and I know for a 
fact that I'm quite ignorant about whatever is going on. That's part of the 
problem though isn't it? */

Hmm, here are some naming ideas:

Sickly Snake?
Vicious Viper?
The Arizona Project?
Dark Matter? - (because no one can discover what's really going on)
Mumbling Marketer?
Sails Flails?
Layoff Liars?
Yournoose Mongoose? - (because the only one throat to choke is going to be your 
own)
Fascist Freedom? - (Red White  Black, Diese farben werden nicht ausgeführt!!)
Bloody Bunny?
Prefork Pidgin?
DeepWater Horizon?
Mouldering Morale?
Larrys Sinking Ship?

Look, before I get flamed by the fires of Oracles autocratic oven, I *know* 
there are developers working on code. I appreciate that, I really do. It's a 
small miracle and a testament to decency that everyone hasn't jumped ship. I 
doubt that it's appreciated, just expected  exploited by Oracle management in 
a rough economy.

That said, outside of those people's efforts, Oracle is failing with Sun. It is 
failing obviously  badly to those of us who look to real world results that 
can be plugged into the wall, turned on in our hands in a somewhat mobile 
machine, or run on a computer at all.

I don't know what it will take to kick Larry Ellison's autocratic egotistical 
mean ass out of his bubble of narcissistic cult worship, but right now all I 
see is shareholder value being pissed away because Oracle hasn't the faintest 
clue how to run a company who's core value relies on open source. An before you 
go knee jerking to drink the KoolAid, I highly suggest you go look at some of 
the crap *he* says, cause he damn sure has the unvarnished truth coming to him. 
The problem is he's so stinking rich no one's got the balls to tell him the 
truth, and he's rich enough not to have to listen to it anyway. Besides that, 
he's in love with a culture of mean, and that does NOT work with open source 
projects. No one's ever going to mistake him for a nice  decent person,  at 
least in business.

The fact is, Oracle is blowing it, they're making simply awful mistakes with 
Sun that leave me gaping with surprise at how badly groupthink  `none of us is 
as dumb as all of us' can ruin what they paid good money for. The company was 
not culturally prepared to buy Sun. Oracle is unwilling, and wholly unable 
(imao) to change it's own culture enough to make things work with Sun, and the 
results of that show. They show in statements Larry makes, they show in how 
Oracle marketing acts, doesn't act, and _blatantly_ fails with.

Now, other than as absolute proof that I quite often don't give a flying crap 
about my online reputation, wtf is to be done about these problems? I don't 
know. I don't want to throw in the towel on OpenSolaris, but I am frustrated 
because things *I* want to work on are too hung up to get involved with right 
now, and because I like the OS from a technical  CS perspective to want to 
leave it. What's going on with Oracle has me seriously concerned  discouraged. 
Thus my angst. I'm not alone in my frustration, and I really wish Oracle would 
get it's corporate act together. Right now it provably does not have it's act 
remotely near together.

You can play shoot the messenger all you want. I don't care, I don't have to 
care, and I fully expect it. The nice thing about growing used to abuse is that 
you learn how much of it ends up being self-serving lies. Pot-shots at the 
messenger won't put pants on the emperor either, and I certainly am not 
enamored with his game of `lifeboat' as a corporate model of `who do we eat 
next?'.

Tim
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-12 Thread Peter Jones
I certainly am not enamored with his game of `lifeboat' as a corporate model of 
`who do we eat next?'.

Two main options on the table are.

Go with Oracles sponsorship and craft a working relationship ..this may involve 
a great cultural change,has great rewards.but the community would not be in 
control and ultimately carry risks.

Form a separate not for profit community,rewrite,subsitute licensed code and 
produce a community edition, ulimatley this would require an arms length 
relationship with Oracle for things such as support. Will also carry risks but 
you would have control

Clearly what ever you decide it must be customer focused,be developed at the 
market rate or greater, and be stable enough to deliver a  environment for 
adoption.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-12 Thread Ken Mays
Tim said:
That said, outside of those people's efforts, Oracle is failing with Sun. It 
is failing obviously  badly to those of us who look to real world results that 
can be plugged into the wall, turned on in our hands in a somewhat mobile 
machine, or run on a computer at all.

-

Well, Oracle is worth about $114 billion while IBM is at $165 billion. There 
are some 'real world' results that can turn Kool-Aid into wine.

You have a point, but also know that many large corporations have decisions to 
make as well - and some of those same large corporations are still running 
Sun-based solutions. Some of those corporations and universities are still 
running Solaris 8/9/10 servers today.

Oracle didn't kill off Solaris 10 - nor the OpenSolaris kernel. So on that note,
 you can create something and call it something. Also, if you read some other 
forums, OpenSolaris 2010.X is still forthcoming. I haven't heard of the project 
cancellation.

There are some technologies that have lived long after their sponsors or 
creators. You have the right to pull the plug and walk away. But also know
that no matter what solution you come up with, the same fate may reoccur sooner 
or later. Time to invest in those migration experts.

But since this is a 'discussion' - the Emperor made a choice to continue the 
masquerade of being clothed when he was not (although made fully aware he was 
unclothed). No one forced the Emperor to make that choice.
Some celebrities, magazines, and models make millions off of a very similar 
concept. Members of Club Bourgeoisie have those types of privileges
to make a product like Solaris 11 (or aka Solaris 'X') come out of the work of 
millions of engineers and schools of academia - and not even worry about what 
clothes they have on for a given day (i.e. Why? They can pay other people for 
that).

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer... but I never said let the 
sharks swim in your bathtub.

~ Ken Mays
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-10 Thread Rob McMahon

 On 10/06/2010 06:44, Andrew Kolchoogin wrote:

Have I got a car for you, next time you're looking
for one:

http://www.treehugger.com/picture-is-worth-sum-car-parts.jpg

Easy assembly. Shouldn't take you long.

Oh wait...

 Hm-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m... O.k, I'll consider bying it somewhat later if you kindly 
explain me where's the keyboard there to type pfexec nightly.sh...

;)))
Have you actually done this ?  I've been trying to do this on and off 
for two weeks, and I'm still trying.  If you have a recipe that works, 
that would be great.  When I finally get a working version, I'll try to 
recreate it and post the results.


Rob

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-10 Thread Rob McMahon

 On 10/06/2010 10:08, Rob McMahon wrote:


;)))
 Hm-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m... O.k, I'll consider bying it somewhat later 
if you kindly explain me where's the keyboard there to type pfexec 
nightly.sh...
Have you actually done this ?  I've been trying to do this on and off 
for two weeks, and I'm still trying.  If you have a recipe that works, 
that would be great.  When I finally get a working version, I'll try 
to recreate it and post the results.


Rob

Okay, I'm on the verge of giving up, because I don't know how to 
progress from here.  I've hg cloned, pulled, and updated onnv-gate, 
installed the closed binaries and the crypto stuff, updated the Sun 
compiler suite, added some symlinks so the build process could find 
them, copied stuff from /opt/onbld into the proto dir, hacked the env 
script to stop it undoing all my changes, and I felt like I was getting 
really close.  I can't get past this one, though, and don't know how to 
move on.  This error causes all manner of stuff to fail later on.  Any 
clues ?


wonky -- Job output
/export/testws/usr/src/tools/proto/opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw -_cc -O  -Xa  
-xildoff -errtags=yes -errwarn=%all -erroff=E_EMPTY_TRANSLATION_UNIT 
-erroff=E_STATEMENT_NOT_REACHED -xc99=
%none-W0,-xglobalstatic -g -xc99=%none -W0,-noglobal 
-_gcc=-fno-dwarf2-indirect-strings -xdebugformat=stabs -DNATIVE_BUILD  
-I ../common -I/usr/include/libxml2  -I/export/tes
tws/usr/src/lib/libscf/inc  -I/export/testws/usr/src/lib/libtecla  
-I/export/testws/usr/src/lib/libuutil/common -c -o 
manifest_find-native.o ../common/manifest_find.c
+ /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -fident -finline -fno-inline-functions -fno-builtin 
-fno-asm -nodefaultlibs -D__sun -O -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas 
-Wno-missing-braces -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-pa
rentheses -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-implicit-function-declaration 
-Wno-unused -Wno-trigraphs -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-switch -Werror 
-std=gnu89 -gdwarf-2 -std=gnu89 -fno-dwarf2-in
direct-strings -DNATIVE_BUILD -I ../common -I/usr/include/libxml2 
-I/export/testws/usr/src/lib/libscf/inc 
-I/export/testws/usr/src/lib/libtecla -I/export/testws/usr/src/lib/libuu
til/common -c -o /tmp/nightly.tmpdir.25649/.cwCAArhaqJK.o 
../common/manifest_find.c

../common/manifest_find.c: In function `find_manifests':
../common/manifest_find.c:253: warning: return makes integer from 
pointer without a cast
+ /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -O -Xa -xildoff -errtags=yes -errwarn=%all 
-erroff=E_EMPTY_TRANSLATION_UNIT -erroff=E_STATEMENT_NOT_REACHED 
-xc99=%none -W0,-xglobalstatic -g -xc99=%none -
W0,-noglobal -xdebugformat=stabs -DNATIVE_BUILD -I ../common 
-I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/export/testws/usr/src/lib/libscf/inc 
-I/export/testws/usr/src/lib/libtecla -I/export/testws
/usr/src/lib/libuutil/common -c -o manifest_find-native.o 
../common/manifest_find.c

*** Error code 1
dmake: Warning: Command failed for target `manifest_find-native.o'
Current working directory 
/export/home/cudcv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/svc/svccfg


Cheers,

Rob

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-10 Thread Rob McMahon

 On
Okay, I'm on the verge of giving up, because I don't know how to 
progress from here.  I've hg cloned, pulled, and updated onnv-gate, 
installed the closed binaries and the crypto stuff, updated the Sun 
compiler suite, added some symlinks so the build process could find 
them, copied stuff from /opt/onbld into the proto dir, hacked the env 
script to stop it undoing all my changes, and I felt like I was 
getting really close.  I can't get past this one, though, and don't 
know how to move on.  This error causes all manner of stuff to fail 
later on.  Any clues ?
Okay, again, and sorry to follow up to myself.  It's clear that some 
people have checked in changes which do not `gcc -Wall' clean and the 
`-Werror' is causing that to make the build fail.  I'll work on these as 
and when I have time.


It's not just './configure ; make ; make install' though :-)  Certainly 
not just `sh nightly'.


Rob

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-10 Thread Dennis Clarke

   On 10/06/2010 06:44, Andrew Kolchoogin wrote:
 Have I got a car for you, next time you're looking
 for one:

 http://www.treehugger.com/picture-is-worth-sum-car-parts.jpg

 Easy assembly. Shouldn't take you long.

 Oh wait...
  Hm-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m... O.k, I'll consider bying it somewhat later if
 you kindly explain me where's the keyboard there to type pfexec
 nightly.sh...

 ;)))
 Have you actually done this ?  I've been trying to do this on and off
 for two weeks, and I'm still trying.  If you have a recipe that works,
 that would be great.  When I finally get a working version, I'll try to
 recreate it and post the results.


I have to go back to the beginning and follow the roadmap down that path
again. It has been months. I was certainly able to do nightly builds over
and over once I put the correct parts in place. What bothers me is the Sun
Studio compiler specifics. One needs very specific patch levels in order
for the build to work. Also you must face east under a full moon with a
black cat sleeping nearby on a warm running SparcStation 20.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Andrew Kolchoogin
  OpenSolaris 2010.02... 03... 04... 05... 06!
  If you ask me Oracle should be re named to Orifice
 sarcasm alert
 No, they just wanted to bring back the dreaded nickname slowlaris.
 /sarcasm alert
 Let's try to keep things here like we have a little humor and self-irony, 
 please? ;)
O.k. :)

Guys, I can't understand indeed why the people waiting Indiana Release 2010.x 
just haven't built any release they like from Mercurial repository?

AFAIK OpenSolaris building process is straightforward (sure, if you CAREFULLY 
follow the building instructions), moreover, BFU process has been deprecated 
for quite time in favour of upgrading from your local repository, as such, you 
can use pkg image-update usual way as if you're upgrading from 
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/[dev/].

So, what's the problem? People who use _DEVELOPMENT BY DEFINITION_ distribution 
of operating system are unable to cope with C compiler?-)
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Rich Burridge


O.k. :)

Guys, I can't understand indeed why the people waiting Indiana Release 2010.x 
just haven't built any release they like from Mercurial repository?

AFAIK OpenSolaris building process is straightforward (sure, if you CAREFULLY follow the 
building instructions), moreover, BFU process has been deprecated for quite time in 
favour of upgrading from your local repository, as such, you can use pkg 
image-update usual way as if you're upgrading from 
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/[dev/].

So, what's the problem? People who use _DEVELOPMENT BY DEFINITION_ distribution 
of operating system are unable to cope with C compiler?-)
   


Have I got a car for you, next time you're looking for one:

http://www.treehugger.com/picture-is-worth-sum-car-parts.jpg

Easy assembly. Shouldn't take you long.

Oh wait...




( :-) for the humor impaired.)



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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Svein Skogen
On 09.06.2010 15:33, Rich Burridge wrote:

 O.k. :)

 Guys, I can't understand indeed why the people waiting Indiana Release
 2010.x just haven't built any release they like from Mercurial
 repository?

 AFAIK OpenSolaris building process is straightforward (sure, if you
 CAREFULLY follow the building instructions), moreover, BFU process has
 been deprecated for quite time in favour of upgrading from your local
 repository, as such, you can use pkg image-update usual way as if
 you're upgrading from http://pkg.opensolaris.org/[dev/].

 So, what's the problem? People who use _DEVELOPMENT BY DEFINITION_
 distribution of operating system are unable to cope with C compiler?-)

 
 Have I got a car for you, next time you're looking for one:
 
 http://www.treehugger.com/picture-is-worth-sum-car-parts.jpg
 
 Easy assembly. Shouldn't take you long.
 
 Oh wait...

I think my old mother has an advanced 3D puzzle for a flower vase as
well. Should keep you busy... ;)

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Alexey N. Karakuts
xfce and othe prors in repo http://opensolar.ru:1 
blog http://karakuts.livejournal.com
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Ken Mays
Well, you have to also consider:

1. Oracle is still making patch updates to OpenSolaris 2009.06. See support 
contract.
2. OSOL DEV 134 is available, otherwise OSOL 2009.06.
3. Some engineers have updated to the ON snv_142 kernel release.
4. ZFS a little buggy (data loss =b134 possible under certain conditions, but 
very usable). Reported by Nexenta engineering.
5. There is no defined osol snv_142 consolidation defined outside of Oracle.

The point is you could build an updated 'something' and call it something.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Ron Mexico
 Best buy Solaris 10 and install on my pc.

Enjoy the 30-day demo.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Andrew Kolchoogin
 Have I got a car for you, next time you're looking
 for one:
 
 http://www.treehugger.com/picture-is-worth-sum-car-parts.jpg
 
 Easy assembly. Shouldn't take you long.
 
 Oh wait...
Hm-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m... O.k, I'll consider bying it somewhat later if you 
kindly explain me where's the keyboard there to type pfexec nightly.sh...

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-09 Thread Andrew Kolchoogin
 I think my old mother has an advanced 3D puzzle for a
 flower vase as well. Should keep you busy... ;)
In no case. I'll just type make world, and it will be done automagically. ;)
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-08 Thread Tom Wickline
OpenSolaris 2010.02... 03... 04... 05... 06!

If you ask me Oracle should be re named to Orifice

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-08 Thread Svein Skogen
On 08.06.2010 11:08, Tom Wickline wrote:
 OpenSolaris 2010.02... 03... 04... 05... 06!
 
 If you ask me Oracle should be re named to Orifice
 

sarcasm alert
No, they just wanted to bring back the dreaded nickname slowlaris.
/sarcasm alert

Let's try to keep things here like we have a little humor and
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-08 Thread john kroll
We also have OpenSolaris distros that use XFCE, Enlightenment, KDE, or some 
other product as the alternative desktop environment for OpenSolaris.

I was under the impression that a core distro release use an even smaller 
-kernel common core- ? than the TM Opensolaris full. So Opensolaris live ON 
full cd release actually builds to the managed Solaris new ?
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-07 Thread MSim
Hi

Similar possibilities (i.e. fork) have been discussed on this list lots of 
times.
(Maybe even too much)

Shortly said:
You can't make a OpenSolaris 2010.x Community Release because of the 
trademarks on the name. - That's an issue every project that builds ON from 
source faces. 

Personally I don't think its worth to invest energy starting yet another 
community release. IMMV - Your energy could be more appreciated by already 
existing communities around Nexenta Core, StormOS, MilaX or BeleniX... From 
what I know Nexenta already backported lots of fixes from up to snv_138 sources 
to their 134a-based distro (i think uname -a tells now 134e).

Them main difference to OpenSolaris release from Oracle/Sun that I could read: 
ON/Net is Open Source under CDDL while their distro contains  some binary - 
non-redistributable - bits. Only Oracle can make a complete OpenSolaris 
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-07 Thread Peter Jones
Personally I don't think its worth to invest energy starting yet another 
community release. IMMV - Your energy could be more appreciated by already 
existing communities around Nexenta Core, StormOS, MilaX or BeleniX... From 
what I know Nexenta already backported lots of fixes from up to snv_138 sources 
to their 134a-based distro (i think uname -a tells now 134e).


So just a temp name change to say OSE would not be enough for an interim 
release..would it be possible to produce an interim realease based on 
nexenta,branded or unbranded?
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-07 Thread Aurélien Larcher
Hi all,
I think it's a bit boring having emails on this list every week, complaining 
about the release being missing for 1, 2, 3, 4 months.
While it is important (as a community) to think about the way we can 
collaborate with each other (including Oracle), and focus on any communication 
issue, it seems quite unproductive to ask this same question dozen billions 
times.

If you search on the web for clues (on other sites than slashdot and cnet which 
are obviously less than qualified to have any insight on the subject) you learn 
that there are some showstopper bugs, as seen on:
- gdamore's blog: 
http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/06/osync-behavior-not-honored.html
- unix admin's blog: http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2010/05/zfs-pipe-is-clogged.html

On the one hand, it might seem acceptable to deplore the lack of 
visibility/clarity, on the other hand I think every community member can/should 
spend two minutes on his blog to relay this kind of information, or think of 
the possibility of maintaining a status/news page placed somewhere on 
opensolaris.org

Even if it does not solve the question of interactions between Oracle and the 
community (which has been discussed recently according to jim grisanzio  
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_user_groups_the_time ), it 
avoids the confusion between communication/corporate matters and technical 
issues (and prevents fud).

I don't have a blog, but maybe it's an opportunity (at least for me) to start 
blogging or contributing with web content...

Best regards,

a.

ps: sorry english is not my mother tongue...
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-07 Thread ken mays
Peter,

The viability of the situation is if Oracle can create Oracle Solaris 11
from what they have today.

That is more answerable by the people managing the Solaris product integration.

The other question is if independent ISVs/distro providers can continue
to create a reliable OpenSolaris-based distro from the recent kernel snapshots? 
Even at the core level? Some people have BFU'd to snv_138
and others mentioned using b141-b142. So, there is some hope!

Right now, a few critical ZFS bugs are being tested and reviewed (aka 
showstoppers) that may cause data loss. One on hand, I heard a lot of the ZFS 
issues were fixed now. One another hand, I heard that there are a few bugs left 
with ZFS (ZFS pool 24-25) and other packages to make a reliable release 
possible.

My angle on this is that products like NexentaStor 3.0.2 and Nexenta Core 
Platform 3.x may provide better manageable solutions - as the OpenSolaris core 
distro release is just a common starting point. We also have OpenSolaris 
distros that use XFCE, Enlightenment, KDE, or some other product as the 
alternative desktop environment for OpenSolaris. 

Great contributors are not only those that can fix bugs - but those that can 
find bugs and willing to report those bugs to others.

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 Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?
 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
 Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 5:34 AM
 Personally I don't think its worth to
 invest energy starting yet another community release. IMMV -
 Your energy could be more appreciated by already existing
 communities around Nexenta Core, StormOS, MilaX or
 BeleniX... From what I know Nexenta already backported lots
 of fixes from up to snv_138 sources to their 134a-based
 distro (i think uname -a tells now 134e).
 
 
 So just a temp name change to say OSE would not be enough
 for an interim release..would it be possible to produce an
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-07 Thread Rob McMahon

 On 07/06/2010 13:00, Aurélien Larcher wrote:

Hi all,
I think it's a bit boring having emails on this list every week, complaining about the 
release being missing for 1, 2, 3, 4 months.
It is.  What I'd really like is step-by-step instructions to build from 
source.  Having finally got fairly frustrated (fuelled by comments like 
fixed in build 140), I started trying a few days ago, off and on.  
It's not so easy.  My last attempt failed with:


Aborting due to missing compiler.

even though I have

 cc -V
cc: Sun Ceres C 5.10 SunOS_i386 2009/03/06

It comes from

if /export/testws/usr/src/tools/proto/opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw -_cc 
-_versions /dev/null 2/dev/null; then ...


which doesn't exist, /export/testws/usr/src/tools/proto is empty, 
although /opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw does exist.


I'll keep trying, but it ain'a that easy.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-07 Thread Владимир Новосельцев

07.06.2010 16:54, Rob McMahon пишет:

 On 07/06/2010 13:00, Aurélien Larcher wrote:

Hi all,
I think it's a bit boring having emails on this list every week, 
complaining about the release being missing for 1, 2, 3, 4 months.
It is.  What I'd really like is step-by-step instructions to build 
from source.  Having finally got fairly frustrated (fuelled by 
comments like fixed in build 140), I started trying a few days ago, 
off and on.  It's not so easy.  My last attempt failed with:



+1
Though I do not expect it to be as easy as to build FreeBSD's world :)


Aborting due to missing compiler.

even though I have

 cc -V
cc: Sun Ceres C 5.10 SunOS_i386 2009/03/06

It comes from

if /export/testws/usr/src/tools/proto/opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw -_cc 
-_versions /dev/null 2/dev/null; then ...


which doesn't exist, /export/testws/usr/src/tools/proto is empty, 
although /opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw does exist.


I'll keep trying, but it ain'a that easy.

Rob


WBR,
Vladimir Novoseltsev
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-07 Thread Jason King
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Rob McMahon rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk wrote:
  On 07/06/2010 13:00, Aurélien Larcher wrote:

 Hi all,
 I think it's a bit boring having emails on this list every week,
 complaining about the release being missing for 1, 2, 3, 4 months.

 It is.  What I'd really like is step-by-step instructions to build from
 source.  Having finally got fairly frustrated (fuelled by comments like
 fixed in build 140), I started trying a few days ago, off and on.  It's
 not so easy.  My last attempt failed with:

 Aborting due to missing compiler.

 even though I have

 cc -V
 cc: Sun Ceres C 5.10 SunOS_i386 2009/03/06

 It comes from

 if /export/testws/usr/src/tools/proto/opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw -_cc -_versions
/dev/null 2/dev/null; then ...

 which doesn't exist, /export/testws/usr/src/tools/proto is empty, although
 /opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw does exist.

 I'll keep trying, but it ain'a that easy.

 Rob

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I run into this on occasion, try
bldenv YOURCONFIGFILE.sh
cd $SRC/usr/src/tools
dmake

Then rerun nightly/etc.

For some reason, dependencies get messed up and it tries to build
modules prior to the stuff under tools (mostly cw) getting built.
Alternatively, I believe there's a flag for nightly that can be
set/unset to tell it to not use the tools built under
$SRC/usr/src/tools (check the manpage)
Or, try lmkdir -p /ws/onnv-tools;  ln -s /opt/onbld
/ws/onnv-tools/onbld (though I'm not 100% sure on the paths --
basically to emulate what is normally found on systems inside of
Oracle)
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-06 Thread Mirko
Under new Oracle policy I suppose that you'll not get info before it's 
officially out.
When ? can be tomorrow like never, It's a coin toss.
really I can't find any reason, any, about this long silence about an open 
source OS, this is the best away to loose customers.

A Little teaser on Homepage that OS 2010.X is coming soon don't spoil nothing 
and for sure don't hurt sales, because it's a free product, for now.

Sure the big Businessman can call Oracle and get info on the future roadmap, 
otherwise I can't see they live in complete dark about future release until the 
official announcement. with no time to plan ahead.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-06 Thread Edward Martinez
 OpenSolaris 2010.02... 03... 04... 05... 06!
 
 Where is new OpenSolaris release? Any position?
 
 I founded together with Eduardo Kislanski the
 Brazilian portal OpenYourSource.com, dedicated for
 Solaris and OpenSolaris news, articles and tips.
 
 We are concerned with the OpenSolaris future. Any
 news?

With Oracle continuing to remain silence.  I think is starting to give the 
impression  this project is not really in Oracle's best interest, when some of 
SUN's former other open source projects already have been receiving new updates 
e.g. VirtualBox already have  released two updates since being under Oracle and 
was rebranded. OpenOffice also released  new updates and got a new logo.,etc.   
 some  people  are already  speculating maybe Oracle really wants to only focus 
on saving Solaris and not spend time on the OpenSolaris community.   who knows? 
If Oracle  decides to remain silence and not release a new stable release in 
next couple  months and only continue to publish source code then  maybe  
Solaris is the sole OS  and OpenSolaris  project  returned  back to it roots, 
where only the source code will only be avaliable to download.

few quotes from one of those speculating Oracle only wants to save Solaris and 
not focus on this project.

quote:
The future of Solaris is in question. Oracle certainly wants to keep is alive, 
as many of its database customers run on Solaris,


quote:
Solaris
Simply put, its place is: big servers running Oracle software. This nicely 
results in one-stop shopping for Oracle customers. Get your hardware, OS 
support, and database software from one place, and have only a single place to 
call when support is needed. It's a nice idea, if you can afford it.

quote:
And OpenSolaris

One might think that because OpenSolaris is a community effort, like Linux, it 
will survive and even transcend any business decisions. Except, OpenSolaris is 
not. It is very hostile to the community and the only thing that's open is the 
source code, which is open but not really reusable in the pure open source 
sense. Ben Rockwood (supreme blogger and OpenSolaris guy) explains how 
OpenSolaris really works, in this blog posting. And in the very next post, 
talks about the end of the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris user group.
Solaris may remain open, but there is little chance a community of passionate 
users and developers will congregate around OpenSolaris. In many ways, Oracle 
doesn't want that. It's too much hassle, and Solaris can meet Oracle's needs 
well enough by focusing on one thing: running a database. Much like the other 
two Unix variants that are still widely used, Solaris only needs to do a few 
things well.

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/_featured/article.php/3886161/Is+Sticking+With+Solaris+a+Wise+Choice?.htm

http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/oracle-unleashes-version-320-virtualbox-810

http://technology.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978280166
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-06 Thread MSim
Hi

I have read Ben Rockwood's Blog post before your answer and I understand and 
agree with what he says. Until Oracle doesn't break silence, there's almost 
nothing other than their silence on what we can judge what OpenSolaris' future 
according to Oracle might be, i.e. as DB Appliance or Storage OS in Fishworks.

I just wanted to say that Solaris is a much bigger piece for Oracle to bite 
than VirtualBox and OpenOffice are. Also OOO.org has considerably bigger 
community contributions than OpenSolaris. That would partly explain why Oracle 
keeps more time mumbling in silence what they want to do with a full-blown OS 
that awaits quite much of work but great potential but with a community that 
keeps asking ;-)

Keep up waiting a little more now that FY10 Q1 results have been published. We 
have to accept Oracle has another way of communication and collaboration 
(citing Ben: scaffolding)
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-06 Thread Edward Martinez
 Hi
 
 I have read Ben Rockwood's Blog post before your
 answer and I understand and agree with what he says.
 Until Oracle doesn't break silence, there's almost
 nothing other than their silence on what we can judge
 what OpenSolaris' future according to Oracle might
 be, i.e. as DB Appliance or Storage OS in Fishworks.
 
 I just wanted to say that Solaris is a much bigger
 piece for Oracle to bite than VirtualBox and
 OpenOffice are. Also OOO.org has considerably bigger
 community contributions than OpenSolaris. That would
 partly explain why Oracle keeps more time mumbling in
 silence what they want to do with a full-blown OS
 that awaits quite much of work but great potential
 but with a community that keeps asking ;-)
 
 Keep up waiting a little more now that FY10 Q1
 results have been published. We have to accept Oracle
 has another way of communication and collaboration
 (citing Ben: scaffolding)
 - Well at least I hope it's worth to do so.

Appears Nexenta Core 3 is about to be release soon it's already on RC1, it's 
based on  OpenSolaris build b134. I don't have anything against nexenta but i 
will not be a happy camper if core 3 igets released before  new stable release 
of OpenSolaris that is also supposed to be from the same build as nexenta core 
3,  build 134. 

http://www.nexenta.org/news/14
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-06 Thread Hillel Lubman
 Under new Oracle policy I suppose that you'll not get
 info before it's officially out.
 When ? can be tomorrow like never, It's a coin toss.

I find it totally inappropriate for open source project to have such secrecy 
policies. But as Ben Rockwood pointed out - while OpenSolaris has open source, 
is not an open source project (see 
http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1130 ). However sad it may sound 
- that's the situation.

Nokia for example just recently announced that Qt framework will have an open 
development process and governance: 
http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2010/06/03/open-governance/ That's a real open source 
project. OpenSolaris is no where near that in a sense of openness 
unfortunately, and under Oracle it will probably never be.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-06 Thread Franklin Ronald
OpenSolaris is my favorite Operating System. Is consistent, well documented, 
stable and has a amazing management. Reject this project is a nonsense decision!

Back to Linux is insane. Best buy Solaris 10 and install on my pc.

;-;
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Jones
OpenSolaris 2010.02... 03... 04... 05... 06!

Where is new OpenSolaris release? Any position?

I founded together with Eduardo Kislanski the Brazilian portal 
OpenYourSource.com, dedicated for Solaris and OpenSolaris news, articles and 
tips.

We are concerned with the OpenSolaris future. Any news?


Could a community edition be out soon based on 134a?
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Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-06 Thread Franklin Ronald
Me and OpenYourSource.com community are willing. And you? OpenSolaris need an 
attitude, now!
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[osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-05 Thread Franklin Ronald
OpenSolaris 2010.02... 03... 04... 05... 06!

Where is new OpenSolaris release? Any position?

I founded together with Eduardo Kislanski the Brazilian portal 
OpenYourSource.com, dedicated for Solaris and OpenSolaris news, articles and 
tips.

We are concerned with the OpenSolaris future. Any news?
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