Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-27 Thread Roel_D
Hi Martin, I have 4 sparc processors TIIIi and some memory laying here, waiting for someone. I'd like do donate them to you if you like. Just to appreciate your work. Are you interested? Kind regards, The out-side Op 27 sep. 2012 om 09:59 heeft Martin Bochnig het volgende geschreven:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Hi Martin! > > >> As of quality: The iso is kept unchanged for 2 weeks. As nobody from >> either OI or Illumos has _ever_ offered me any upload link (did I >> overlook sth?) > > I think this was more a communications problem. For example,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-27 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hi Martin! > As of quality: The iso is kept unchanged for 2 weeks. As nobody from > either OI or Illumos has _ever_ offered me any upload link (did I > overlook sth?) I think this was more a communications problem. For example, it was not clear to me that you were *waiting* for someone to give

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Hi Martin! > > > These screens look very nice indeed!! Looking forward to trying out > your distribution on my E4500. :-) > > However, I prefer quality. So if we need to wait a few days more until > everything is finished, that is fine w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-26 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hi Martin! These screens look very nice indeed!! Looking forward to trying out your distribution on my E4500. :-) However, I prefer quality. So if we need to wait a few days more until everything is finished, that is fine with me. Best regards -- Volker -- --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-24 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-09-10 18:33, Gary Gendel wrote: I've got an enterprise 450 (Sparc II), with a PGX graphics card and a bum HME nic so I use a fiberchannel card currently running Solaris 10 using zfs root. I'll pitch in to test openindiana if I can create a separate BE rather than blow Solaris 10 away (which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Gary Gendel
I've got an enterprise 450 (Sparc II), with a PGX graphics card and a bum HME nic so I use a fiberchannel card currently running Solaris 10 using zfs root. I'll pitch in to test openindiana if I can create a separate BE rather than blow Solaris 10 away (which I actually use to build and test p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I wonder how much it would cost to host the OpenIndiana ISOs on Amazon S3... *wonders about possibly hosting as an additional mirror* ;) -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I have a Sun Blade 2500 (red, XVR-1200 graphics) available for testing, and I may be able to convince one of my colleagues to fire up a Sun Fire V240 that I gave him to try with this as well, if you like, Martin. There is still plenty of sun4u hardware out there that would love to test OI on. :) O

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Martin Bochnig
Sašo: Thank you. Hosting help will be very good in every case. I don't know if you are subscribed to the Illumos devel list. Garrett proposed, that OpenIndiana should no longer be Illumos' reference distro. That's what I meant. I finally found some appetite on Indiana, and now it gets dropped? I ju

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Great work, great intentions! Thank you! On 10.09.2012 18:14, Martin Bochnig wrote: p.s. I will not allow, that OI dies! If nobody else wants to keep it alive, I will ensure ... We here will keep OI alive, okay? ;-) Cheers to all OI users, Martin __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/10/2012 02:14 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > And creating a new 10GB solaris and gzip-9 compress it to 3GB takes 6 > hours (and I consider this quick). One more thing: anything above gzip -6 is placebo. Please see https://www.illumos.org/attachments/726/lz4_compression_bench.ods for a quick re

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Michael Hase
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Martin Bochnig wrote: Dear SPARC fellows, I apologize the repeated delays. If you fix a, b and c you forget that this breaks d. SMF complicated life (instead of making it easier). And creating a new 10GB solaris and gzip-9 compress it to 3GB takes 6 hours (and I conside

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/10/2012 02:14 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > If you want all these bugs, rather that sill wait, pls. let me know. > Then I can offer the current instable alpha version via dyndns. > > <> > <> > <> > > > > p.s. I will not allow, that OI dies! > If nobody else wants to keep it alive, I will en