Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Gary wrote: > But there's an enormous, tedious history of butthurt when it comes > to "giving back" to a BSD project. There's more than ten years of whining > about OS X. and several more about OpenBSD, OpenSSH, etc. The reality is > that these projects can get be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Jan Owoc wrote: I don't think the drive's model number or revision will change with a system update. I don't know whether it detects sector size or simply uses ashift=12 always (using 4k data sectors on a 512b drive doesn't exactly have downsides). Either way it shouldn't req

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-05 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Folks, I got on board the OI boat seriously back in April. I love it. It has pushed me to learn a lot about Solaris as an OS and certain technologies (like SAS, SCSI) that probably wouldn't have had a place on the Mac I sold. I want to work with it and use it in solutions I propose to Vet cli

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Magnus wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> >> I expect that this became available in oi_151a_prestable5 (however, >> oi_151a_prestable6 is out today!). > > I'm looking at http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/ and it looks like 151a5 is > t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread Magnus
On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > I expect that this became available in oi_151a_prestable5 (however, > oi_151a_prestable6 is out today!). Hi Bob, I'm looking at http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/ and it looks like 151a5 is the latest available to the public right now. Doe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:53:10 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I am unware of 4K sector disk "issues" in Illumos. http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 Most significantly, the issue was RESOLVED four months ago. U

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:53:10 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I am unware of 4K sector disk "issues" in Illumos. http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 4 September 2012 16:53, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > I am unware of 4K sector disk "issues" in Illumos. Then you are very lucky/don't use EARS drives. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread James Relph
That will require a better groomed Netatalk package & SMF manifest. Right now that's a slightly messy thing to set up. This to some extent goes back to something I've been talking about recently. The current version of netatalk (v3) is actually excellent on OI. NetAFP added cross-protocol

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: That would leave just a good HCL as an obstacle to wider use of OI. The issues with modern/pervasive 4K sector disks on Illumos may also stifle adoption. I am unware of 4K sector disk "issues" in Illumos. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simpl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread Open Indiana
inald Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com] Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2012 17:02 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns" Is it really necessary to convince the freeNAS people to change? Mark Creamer's re

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 08:01:52 -0700 (PDT), Reginald Beardsley wrote: > Offer as an install time option a configuration of OI w/ ZFS as a file > server in a mixed MacOS, Windows & *nix environment. That will require a better groomed Netatalk package & SMF manifest. Right now that's a slightly mess

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Robin Axelsson wrote: > From: Robin Axelsson > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns" > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 9:13 AM > I certainly hope you are right. But I > also hope you a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
I certainly hope you are right. But I also hope you are aware of survival bias that may "color" your past experiences. It is very easy to look at the successful projects that have managed to survive over the years in retrospect while forgetting about those project that died and fell into oblivi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns" - next steps

2012-09-03 Thread David Halko
See comments below, in-line. > Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 11:29:48 +0200 > From: "Open Indiana" > To: "'Discussion list for OpenIndiana'" > > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden > resigns" &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Michael Stapleton wrote: > The future of OI is on the server, and it should have a usable GUIinterface. > But in my opinion, trying to support every Desktop application is a bit futile. Exactly. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Open Indiana wrote: > It's not that OI doesn't have to have a GUI, it's only that not all settings > have to be set OVER a GUI. > Of course it needs a decent GUI, but that doesn't imply that you can > change/alter anything without getting deeper and into the commandline. Totally agreed. Though

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Open Indiana wrote: > I guess i sparked this discussion about the GUI. Thanks for that. I cannot ignore GUI discussion. > most people that call OI "a stupid OS" are the people that only use a GUI to do things. ;-) +1 :))) > 1. Who wants to help develop OI? I want. But unfortunately I do no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
> Secondly I find it incredibly hard to start developing things on the operating system. I may be irrelevant here, but there are rapid application development tools in modern computing world. One of them could be packaged for OpenIndiana. I am talking about Lazarus - a RAD environment for Free

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
> But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to administer > web-admin GUI that would encourage the average-Joe to use it as a > home-NAS / virtual server is not a bad thing. It is not have to be fancy, but GUI is absolutely necessary. Well, I am an average-Joe in UNIX world (develop

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
That is the right way to do it, but it will be a big challenge. I have always though it a little crazy that we still store most of the configuration data of a server on the server. I don't know what Oracles plans are for Solaris, but bit by bit they are moving all the service configuration in to S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have been developing a virtualization product that runs on OI, It's written in Java but uses ZFS and Comstar so the server side has to be Iluminos/Solaris11 based. For me, development and testing has been much more efficient by running OI on my workstations and laptops. When I'm traveling, I can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Gary Gendel
I, but that doesn't imply that you can change/alter anything without getting deeper and into the commandline. -Original Message- From: Gary Gendel [mailto:g...@genashor.com] Sent: zondag 2 september 2012 16:53 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Magnus
On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Michael Stapleton wrote: > Would not webmin be a good fit? Develop good modules for webmin to > manage OI with. Webmin is the past. Management API's are the future. SmartOS is doing some compelling things in this sphere that are worth looking at. With a management

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
t for OpenIndiana > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden > resigns" > > On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > > On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: > >>> >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Open Indiana
-- From: Gary Gendel [mailto:g...@genashor.com] Sent: zondag 2 september 2012 16:53 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns" On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Gary Gendel
On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But making OI look well-poli

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to administer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Open Indiana
information we already have more (centralized) than we have right now. -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: zaterdag 1 september 2012 16:48 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdai

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to administer web-admin GUI that would encourage the averag

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Sat, 9/1/12, Robin Axelsson wrote: > From: Robin Axelsson > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns" > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Saturday, September 1, 2012, 7:27 AM > While I don't have a clue abo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-01 Thread Robin Axelsson
harder and have not as much spare time as they used to have. When someone needs to choose between his work or an OpenSource hobby the choose is easy. -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 21:00 To: Discussion list for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-01 Thread Open Indiana
his work or an OpenSource hobby the choose is easy. -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 21:00 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Ivar Janmaat
Now we are talking! I have been deploying Sun Rays for over 14 years. It is a perfect solution and it needs rock solide virtualisation to handle the large numbers of VMs. ZFS and Comstar features would be great to use. I am hoping that the next version of Oracle VDI/Sun Ray software supports So

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/31/2012 09:22 PM, Ron Dawson wrote: > In my workplace we are still using some SPARC desktop applications on aging > Sun SPARC workstations and Tadpole laptops. We also utilize Sun Ray > technology extensively in our training environment. (As an aside, I > remember talking to Garrett back wh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for >> OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock >> on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I >> would hope OpenI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Ron Dawson
I'm also sad to hear that* *Alasdair Lumsden has resigned as lead of the project. I was greatly heartened when Alasdair first announced the project and have been using OI ever since the early releases on both my personal laptop and as my new work desktop (my other work desktop is Solaris 10/SPARC)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I would hope OpenIndiana was never just a single-person job. The main risk at the m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Gary
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012, Jan Owoc wrote: > > NB: just because you are using a copyleft license still doesn't mean > the people using your code must work with you; they could create a > fork and ignore you, only publishing the code as a whole when they > have a finished product (apparently Android was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Open Indiana wrote: > It is a true nightmare that the hard work of a lot of volunteers and the > people of the old Sun company dies because it has been sucked empty by the > commercial snakes. How Is it possible that companies can take > opensource-code, wrap a com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 31/08/12 07:31 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I would hope OpenIndiana was never just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/31/2012 08:31 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: >>> And the "farewell" message (if you can call it that) here: >>> >>> http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ >> http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Open Indiana
efield? -Original Message- From: Dave Koelmeyer [mailto:dave.koelme...@davekoelmeyer.co.nz] Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 8:32 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns" On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-30 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: And the "farewell" message (if you can call it that) here: http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/thread.html has the original message and responses on the dev

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > And the "farewell" message (if you can call it that) here: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/thread.html has the original message and responses on the developer list. -- -Alan Coopersmith

[OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-30 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
And the "farewell" message (if you can call it that) here: http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ My response on this list forthcoming, once I get over the frankly deeply shitty way in which it's been communicated. Cheers, Dave ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing