Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Alberto, V út, 10. 07. 2007 v 20:55, Alberto Ruiz píše: > > So they are people opened to choose, most Linux people have tried > FreeBSD, BeOS, etc... they like to try things. We don't want to lock > them, the choice is up to them, we just attract them and show them, > that OpenSolaris have fe

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Doug, V út, 10. 07. 2007 v 19:05, Doug Scott píše: > Milan Jurik wrote: > > By increasing usability. Not by duplicating utilities in the core. If > > they cannot really live without it, they will find it. Just give them > > chance. They are not stupid. > > > > You do have to ask though, why

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Doug, > In that case just throw Solaris Express over the wall, and re-name it > Open Solaris. > > If you call RBAC cheaper and quicker, them maybe you have not > implemented it before. For a home user it would be almost the same as > asking them to implement a NIS+ domain for their laptop.

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Eric, I'm sorry that I selected your e-mail for this, but: V út, 10. 07. 2007 v 18:09, Eric Boutilier píše: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Simon Phipps wrote: > > > > I'm with Tim and Doug on this one. > > Me too. > > > The principle I believe we need to > > follow in making the perfect Solaris for

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Doug Scott
Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Doug, > > V út, 10. 07. 2007 v 19:05, Doug Scott píše: > >> Milan Jurik wrote: >> >>> By increasing usability. Not by duplicating utilities in the core. If >>> they cannot really live without it, they will find it. Just give them >>> chance. They are not stupid. >>>

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Doug Scott
Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Doug, > > >> In that case just throw Solaris Express over the wall, and re-name it >> Open Solaris. >> >> If you call RBAC cheaper and quicker, them maybe you have not >> implemented it before. For a home user it would be almost the same as >> asking them to implement

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Ivan Wang
> In that case just throw Solaris Express over the > wall, and re-name it > Open Solaris. > > If you call RBAC cheaper and quicker, them maybe you > have not > implemented it before. For a home user it would be > almost the same as > asking them to implement a NIS+ domain for their > laptop.

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Doug Scott
Milan Jurik wrote: >> During the whole discussion, we have came up with really interesting >> ways to not just clone GNU. However, when we don't have something that >> GNU has, we should take it. I don't see how you have came up to the >> conclusion that we are going to just clone the GNU userland,

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Doug Scott
Ivan Wang wrote: > > >> In that case just throw Solaris Express over the >> wall, and re-name it >> Open Solaris. >> >> If you call RBAC cheaper and quicker, them maybe you >> have not >> implemented it before. For a home user it would be >> almost the same as >> asking them to implement a N

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Tim Bray
On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: > Did somebody ask why there are two (or three) the most growing user's > bases (ignoring MS Windows, as there is another reason): > > a) (X|K)Ubuntu (or PCLinuxOS) > > b) Mac OS X > > Eric, I think you can easily find some of your colleagues who are

Re: [indiana-discuss] reducing the number of services started at boot

2007-07-11 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2007/7/11, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hey, Dave Miner wrote: >> legacy_run 17:22:09 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S52imq >> legacy_run 17:22:09 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S80mipagent >> legacy_run 17:22:09 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S84appserv >> >> >> I would make an effort to port all this legacy_run

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Tim Bray wrote: > On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: > >> what I see resulting (from the >> Indiana/SX-NG/OpenSolaris/Whatever New Distro Project) is a >> distro that is vastly different (and vastly to my liking) from >> Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, etc. > > Care to e

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2007/7/11, Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Alberto, V út, 10. 07. 2007 v 20:55, Alberto Ruiz píše: > > So they are people opened to choose, most Linux people have tried > FreeBSD, BeOS, etc... they like to try things. We don't want to lock > them, the choice is up to them, we just attract

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Tim, V st, 11. 07. 2007 v 13:34, Tim Bray píše: > On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: > > > Did somebody ask why there are two (or three) the most growing user's > > bases (ignoring MS Windows, as there is another reason): > > > > a) (X|K)Ubuntu (or PCLinuxOS) > > > > b) Mac OS X >

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Alberto, > There is a OpenSolaris distribution with no sudo and no gnu tools > already, is called Solaris Express, if you like how it is, use it. > And there is OpenSolaris distribution with sudo and GNU tools already, it is called Nexenta. And in my Solaris Express, I already have all GNU t

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Tim Bray wrote: > On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: > >> Did somebody ask why there are two (or three) the most growing user's >> bases (ignoring MS Windows, as there is another reason): >> >> a) (X|K)Ubuntu (or PCLinuxOS) >> >> b) Mac OS X >> >> Eric, I think

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Eric, > > I'm a longtime Linux guy, and when I'm in a terminal window on OS X, I > > basically can't tell the difference from Linux. If I want to do > > system-oriented stuff, there are some issues, but you'd expect that. > > But all my usual commands for moving around, looking at things, seei

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Eric, > >>> I'm a longtime Linux guy, and when I'm in a terminal window on OS X, I >>> basically can't tell the difference from Linux. If I want to do >>> system-oriented stuff, there are some issues, but you'd expect that. >>> But all my usual commands

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Milan Jurik wrote: >> Hi Eric, >> I'm a longtime Linux guy, and when I'm in a terminal window on OS X, I basically can't tell the difference from Linux. If I want to do system-oriented stuff, there are some issues, bu

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Alberto Ruiz
2007/7/11, Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Alberto, > There is a OpenSolaris distribution with no sudo and no gnu tools > already, is called Solaris Express, if you like how it is, use it. > And there is OpenSolaris distribution with sudo and GNU tools already, it is called Nexenta. And i

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Eric, > P.S. It hit me that my post might come off as sarcasm (e.g. in saying, > "I admit to having total, blind-faith..."). IMO, using sarcasm in > forums such as this is almost always a bad idea. So no sarcasm was > intended -- I was being serious. You missed my point ;-) For how long did yo

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Milan Jurik wrote: > ... you are just > waiting for GNU userland, including all mistakes it has... Sorry, I'm not sure I know what you mean by that part. Also is this this drifting into a conversation we should take off-list? Eric

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Hunter
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:05:10 +0200 Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Again, I'm not saying that our tools are great, I'm saying that > duplications are bad, create big mess and big troubles in consitency and > maintaining. [...] Like oawk, awk, nwak. Or maybe a bunch of the stuff in

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread John Sonnenschein
On 11-Jul-07, at 5:37 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: No, but command-line utilities are important for *developers*. And system egineer/admins too. I'm not sure if anyone has used AIX recently, but I feel strongly that we should learn from smit. B

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Tim Bray
On Jul 11, 2007, at 4:55 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Nevertheless, I think I see your point, and probably the following > wording would have been better for my post: > > The Indiana/SX-NG/OpenSolaris/Whatever New Distro Project will > be a > certain assemblage of OpenSolaris (Nevada) cod

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Elling
> On 11-Jul-07, at 5:37 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > >> On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: > >> No, but command-line utilities are important for *developers*. > > > > And system egineer/admins too. > > I'm not sure if anyone has used AIX recently, but I feel strongly > that we sho

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Tim Bray wrote: > On Jul 11, 2007, at 4:55 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: > >> Nevertheless, I think I see your point, and probably the following >> wording would have been better for my post: >> >>The Indiana/SX-NG/OpenSolaris/Whatever New Distro Project will be a >>certain

Re: [indiana-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Indiana, Xsun/Xorg, & SPARC graphics drivers

2007-07-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > from a > pure resource management perspective, it would seem the best solution is > to remove your team's OpenGL from Solaris altogether and ship Mesa on both > platforms. This would also give customers the same OpenGL interfaces on > both platforms, though without hardw

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-07-11 Thread MC
> But Indiana should be base for all distributions, to have the same basics for > everybody. That's what I see being a good idea. If the Linux kernel is the center of all Linux distros, I think a core Solaris distro could/should be the center of all Solaris distros. -- This message posted fro