Re: [indiana-discuss] LiveCDs : Fedora and OpenSuSE

2008-08-26 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> note: prolly you know but: suse's (and ubuntu's etc) > openoffice is > *not* openoffice it's "openoffice novell's edition" > http://go-oo.org > >From my own experience (and I am a very heavy OpenOffice.org user), Novell >produces the best version of OOo. Perhaps this is no coincidence as ever

Re: [indiana-discuss] LiveCDs : Fedora and OpenSuSE

2008-08-26 Thread Glynn Foster
On 27/08/2008, at 5:17 PM, Andras Barna wrote: > some thoughts, > auto-login: imho it's a good thing (for home users) (/me hates > pidgins' keyring thingy) I think definitely for a LiveCD experience. The Fedora prompt sort of gets in the way of the user experience. > note: prolly you know but

Re: [indiana-discuss] LiveCDs : Fedora and OpenSuSE

2008-08-26 Thread Andras Barna
some thoughts, auto-login: imho it's a good thing (for home users) (/me hates pidgins' keyring thingy) note: prolly you know but: suse's (and ubuntu's etc) openoffice is *not* openoffice it's "openoffice novell's edition" http://go-oo.org On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [indiana-discuss] LiveCDs : Fedora and OpenSuSE

2008-08-26 Thread Joel Rees
> < o Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OpenOffice, presumably because of > space > > Maybe, or maybe they like Abiword :) The live DVD has openoffice ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/list

Re: [indiana-discuss] LiveCDs : Fedora and OpenSuSE

2008-08-26 Thread Shawn Walker
MC wrote: > < o Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OpenOffice, presumably because of > space > > Maybe, or maybe they like Abiword :) From what I recall, it has historically been because of OpenOffice's reliance on Java? (for some component of its system) and its size. I will note that Ubuntu doe

Re: [indiana-discuss] LiveCDs : Fedora and OpenSuSE

2008-08-26 Thread MC
< o Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OpenOffice, presumably because of space Maybe, or maybe they like Abiword :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/ma

[indiana-discuss] LiveCDs : Fedora and OpenSuSE

2008-08-26 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Just playing around with some LiveCD's, and figured I'd send the high- level notes I made - Fedora o Nice bootsplash, and pretty sweet looking animated cursor o Doesn't auto-login by default it seems o 24px panel on top and bottom o Panel objects for Firefox and Evolution, notifica

Re: [indiana-discuss] Access a Windows Server

2008-08-26 Thread Thiago Pereira
Thanks guys...Worked fine!! Now there is any VPN client? On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thiago Pereira wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Sometimes I need to access some Windows servers (remote desktop), than I > > need to boot my OpenSolar

Re: [indiana-discuss] Access a Windows Server

2008-08-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Thiago Pereira wrote: > Hi guys, > > Sometimes I need to access some Windows servers (remote desktop), than I > need to boot my OpenSolaris and boot my Windows Vista. > > Do you know any "remote desktop" for OpenSolaris? "pfexec pkg install SUNWrdesktop", then run /usr/bin/rdesktop --

Re: [indiana-discuss] Access a Windows Server

2008-08-26 Thread Enrico Maria Crisostomo
Yes: rdesktop. You can install the package pkg:/SUNWrdesktop from OpenSolaris package repository. Bye, Enrico On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Thiago Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi guys, > > Sometimes I need to access some Windows servers (remote desktop), than I > need to boot my Open

[indiana-discuss] Access a Windows Server

2008-08-26 Thread Thiago Pereira
Hi guys, Sometimes I need to access some Windows servers (remote desktop), than I need to boot my OpenSolaris and boot my Windows Vista. Do you know any "remote desktop" for OpenSolaris? Thanks TaP ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@open

[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris snv_95 under vmware ESXi 3.5

2008-08-26 Thread Lee Packham
Solaris 10 works just fine (10U5 patched up to date with patches as of today), yet OpenSolaris snv_95 suffers from the Dec 28 00:00:00 testsrv genunix: [ID 125632 kern.warning] WARNING: Time-of-day chip unresponsive; dead batteries? I have tried deleting the nvram as suggested by someone http://f

Re: [indiana-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Release: SPARC-Xorg test binaries (snapshot of current fox-gate)

2008-08-26 Thread Martin Bochnig
> > That's how it is. > >BTW I cannot test your changes since I do not own any SPARC boxes(I am >no longer with SUN). > > Regards, > Moinak. > > -- > > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ This is a blow for them, how can a company r

Re: [indiana-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Release: SPARC-Xorg test binaries (snapshot of current fox-gate)

2008-08-26 Thread Martin Bochnig
>Cool. This is great. > > Regards, > Moinak. Thanks for commenting. Yes, it will also work on your Blade 100. But never(!!!) attempt to enter the OBP monitor with [Stop+A], as long as Xorg is running. On Ati cards (such as the Blade 100's PGX64) this will lock your machine. The driver and

Re: [indiana-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Xorg 7.4: The migration

2008-08-26 Thread Martin Bochnig
> Due to the recent work by Martin Bochnig to migrate XSun legacy SPARC > video drivers to Xorg using snv_95, we want to review the migration of Xorg > 7.4 > into Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris 2008.11. This work is to FULLY replace > XSun, if possible, and merge XSun into a truely compliant Xorg 7.4

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg-image failed from B91

2008-08-26 Thread Shawn Walker
Aubrey Li wrote: > Shawn Walker <> wrote: >> Using "reboot" or "poweroff" will not properly update the boot archive. > > Is this expected? I guess something need to be fixed? I take that back, reboot now has a note on the ;man page stating that it "may" update the boot archive on x86 systems. I

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg-image failed from B91

2008-08-26 Thread Aubrey Li
Shawn Walker <> wrote: > Aubrey Li wrote: >> >> >> I didn't mean update-grub, I mean *update-archive*. > > If you reboot your system properly updating the boot archive is done > automatically. > > As such, such documentation should be unnecessary. I believe I'm not the only one who encountered thi

Re: [indiana-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Release: SPARC-Xorg test binaries (snapshot of current fox-gate)

2008-08-26 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Cool. This is great. >> >> Regards, >> Moinak. > > Thanks for commenting. Yes, it will also work on your Blade 100. But > never(!!!) attempt to enter the OBP monitor with [Stop+A], as long as Xorg is > running. On At

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg-image failed from B91

2008-08-26 Thread Shawn Walker
Aubrey Li wrote: > Shawn Walker <> wrote: >>> I still run into a problem: >>> "Krtld: bind_primary(): no relocation information found for module >>> /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/ >>> unix >>> Krtld: error during inital load/link phase >>> >>> Krtld could not locate nor resolve symbols for: >>> /pla

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg-image failed from B91

2008-08-26 Thread Aubrey Li
Shawn Walker <> wrote: >> I still run into a problem: >> "Krtld: bind_primary(): no relocation information found for module >> /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/ >> unix >> Krtld: error during inital load/link phase >> >> Krtld could not locate nor resolve symbols for: >> /platform/i36pc/kernel/amd64/un

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg-image failed from B91

2008-08-26 Thread Shawn Walker
Aubrey Li wrote: > Gilles Gravier <> wrote: >> How about rebooting with another boot environment. If you've upgraded a few >> times and didn't destroy the previous boot environments, you should be able >> to boot a previous build... say 86 or whatever you had before... >> > > rollback to b86, and

Re: [indiana-discuss] Mplayer

2008-08-26 Thread Thiago Pereira
Hey Thomas, Thanksit`s working fine. ;-) TaP On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Thomas Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I've used packages from http://ocean1.ee.duth.gr/SolarisX/ > > /thomas > -- > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > __

[indiana-discuss] Release: SPARC-Xorg test binaries (snapshot of current fox-gate)

2008-08-26 Thread Martin Bochnig
Hi, http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mbeinsx/FOX/bin-snapshots/sparc/fox-gate20080826tue__sparc-binaries__proto-snapshot.tar.bz2 http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mbeinsx/FOX/bin-snapshots/sparc/MD5SUM.txt With those binaries you can (more or less) replace Xsun on snv_95 or higher on older Ultra and SunB