Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All 32-bit-only X device drivers removed from Hipster -??

2015-03-05 Thread Jacob Ritorto
What Nikola said. +1. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Nikola M wrote: > I have been reading 'Hipster' change log, posted on Openindiana wiki under > the page: > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_hipster > and I noticed that alp did "All 32-bit-only X device drivers removed.", > just after upda

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All 32-bit-only X device drivers removed from Hipster -??

2015-03-05 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello. I think I have to comment some statements to make them clearer. On 03/05/2015 10:04, Nikola M wrote: I have been reading 'Hipster' change log, posted on Openindiana wiki under the page: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_hipster and I noticed that alp did "All 32-bit-only X device drivers

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All 32-bit-only X device drivers removed from Hipster -??

2015-03-05 Thread ken mays via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Removing 32-bit support was not until another release from now. ~K On Thursday, March 5, 2015 6:52 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello. I think I have to comment some statements to make them clearer. On 03/05/2015 10:04, Nikola M wrote: > I have been reading 'Hipster' change l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All 32-bit-only X device drivers removed from Hipster -??

2015-03-05 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I have plenty of hardware that doesn't support virtualization instructions, so 32-bit virtualized guests are my only option. Doing this removes a large population of potential users. It moves them to other platforms, such as FreeBSD or Linux, which still has 32-bit support alive and kicking. " 'W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All 32-bit-only X device drivers removed from Hipster -??

2015-03-05 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > I have plenty of hardware that doesn't support virtualization instructions, > so 32-bit virtualized guests are my only option. > > Doing this removes a large population of potential users. It moves them to > other platforms, such as Free

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Imagining The Unimaginable

2015-03-05 Thread jay
> > Really, I can't imaging doing something besides basic testing on PC > with < 2 GB of RAM. Your FF will eat first one, ZFS arc the second > and IPS will go in swap... And what for do you need 32-bit server? > The last 32-bit server we had was shut down it seems in 2012. It had > 2GB RAM and ru

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-03-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Bruce Lilly wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Nikola M wrote: > > > Regarding managing services on Unix-like OSes, illumos and Opensolaris > > descendent OS'es enjoy Service management Facility (SMF), maybe you could > > comment how it stand for you, comp

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Imagining The Unimaginable

2015-03-05 Thread cjt
On 03/05/2015 08:41 AM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: Really, I can't imaging doing something besides basic testing on PC with < 2 GB of RAM. Your FF will eat first one, ZFS arc the second and IPS will go in swap... And what for do you need 32-bit server? The last 32-bit server we had was shut

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Imagining The Unimaginable

2015-03-05 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
Hi, On 5 March 2015 at 06:41, wrote: > My main computer, on which I run my webserver, mailserver, and ftp > server, is a 32-bit computer with 256 megabytes of memory. It is the > computer on which I am writing these words now. And I am using ZFS > filesystems for most of the files that I work