Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re[2]: snv_b18 on Acer 4101WLM notebook

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jürgen, Monday, August 8, 2005, 4:24:44 PM, you wrote: I tried to install b18 on Acer 4101WLM notebook with Pentium M (Sonoma) 1.6GHz with 512MB DDR2 and PCI-X. Just after kernel started it panics, stack looks like: kaif_enter+7 kdi_dvec_enter+0x32 panicsys+0x36f

[osol-discuss] Security Community is Live!

2005-08-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
The OpenSolaris Security Community is now live. There is some skeleton content there just now. We will be adding more as time goes on, particularly in the area of active project work and pre integration source for these. There is also now a security-discuss mailing list. -- Darren J Moffat

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-09 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Matt Ingenthron wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: (snip...) These are the sort of things that we need to address. I am working on a new Subversion repository for all the software at Blastwave right now. If we also implement a build system then we can move towards a

[osol-discuss] Openwindows status

2005-08-09 Thread David Schanen
Hello all, For whatever reason, I was curious what the status of the Openwindows source was. You can obtain Xview from X.org, but apparently there are still some components which are still closed. I was thinking specifically of components mentioned in:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-09 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, TJ Yang wrote: Previously, Eric Boutilier wrote: The project goal states ... provide OpenSolaris OS a modern package age management system. What will be the right wording of above sentence ? TJ, First let me backtrack a bit. In my first reply I didn't realize

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Packaging and Building applications, standards for OpenSolaris

2005-08-09 Thread Magnus Forsberg
Hi Eric, I've just installed the JDS CBE. Seems like a good start to create a common build environment. It would be great to setup a RPM repository with Solaris (or OpenSolaris) src.rpms, that are specifically customized for Solaris (SMF, etc). Installing them would of course place them in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-09 Thread Chris Ricker
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, TJ Yang wrote: Previously, Eric Boutilier wrote: The project goal states ... provide OpenSolaris OS a modern package age management system. What will be the right wording of above sentence ? TJ, First let

[osol-discuss] Embedded OpenSolaris PDA Phones

2005-08-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I noticed that Bob Lunnun and Eric Boutilier (among probably quite a few others) both mentioned OpenSolaris as a viabile platform for embeded systems. In a recent article: http://taiwan.cnet.com/news/ce/0,262982,20100765,00.htm it was mentioned that while the prospects of PDA and cell

[osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Casper . Dik
After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the OpenSolaris Laptop Community Laptop, I think, is the name which

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the OpenSolaris Laptop

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Bruce Riddle
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd

[osol-discuss] freeware porting encouragement?

2005-08-09 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Some freeware packages will build successfully on Solaris with little or no changes (kudos to their developers who went to some extra effort to achieve either portability or multi-os customization). Others, for which there may be no viable alternative on Solaris, do not. Some coordination of

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:21:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the

[osol-discuss] Re: Packaging and Building applications, standards for OpenSolaris

2005-08-09 Thread Magnus Forsberg
I can package pretty much anything complying with Sun / SVR4 in under 30 minutes now (time to compile excluded, since that has to be done regardless of the packaging system). But you have created your own tools to do it and so have I. I have my custom scripts, prototypes, pkgmk, pkgtrans,

[osol-discuss] Re: Security Community is Live!

2005-08-09 Thread Magnus Forsberg
Great news Darren! :-) I will be checking it regularly. I've already posted a few questions on the forum. An idea is that you consolidate all your great blog tips, or link to it. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

[osol-discuss] Re: Embedded OpenSolaris PDA Phones

2005-08-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
In a recent article: http://taiwan.cnet.com/news/ce/0,262982,20100765,00.htm it was mentioned that while the prospects of PDA and cell phones are decreasing, PDA/cellphone combos are raking significant market shares (from 30% to 70% of total PDA sold in Taiwan in six months). Oops, the

Re: [osol-discuss] Binary model taxonomies: Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-09 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, John Plocher wrote: 1.2 auto build another application if depended by current one. That is not so straight forward. Rhetorical question: Why should you be required to rebuild everything? Caution: The following is probably more than you ever wanted to know about

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-09 Thread Albert White
Hi, Chris Ricker wrote: I think it's perhaps more clear, particularly if you're wanting to compare lots of different systems / cherry-pick from available implementations, to think of the needed functionality as 3 different things: * building packages * installing and removing packages *

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] New community proposal: Approachability

2005-08-09 Thread Stephen Hahn
With all these +1's flying about, I thought I should ask if CAB member cares to spare a second +1 for Approachability? (We're interested in making things just work right on all kinds of platforms.) Cheers Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun

[osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Robin McDonald
After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the OpenSolaris Laptop Community Yes +1 This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Roy T . Fielding
On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the

Re: [osol-discuss] New community proposal: Approachability

2005-08-09 Thread John Beck
Stephen With all these +1's flying about, I thought I should ask if CAB Stephen member cares to spare a second +1 for Approachability? I'm not a CAB member, but I'll give a thumbs-up to both Approachability and Laptops for new communities. -- John ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Currently running Solaris on a Vaio Z600TEK, Ferrari 3400, Ferrari 4000; and soon, perhaps, a Dual Core laptop) There's a nice review of the 4000 in the Sep issue of (my new favorite mag) Digital Magazine. Here's the online copy:

[osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Bob Palowoda
After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the OpenSolaris Laptop Community Laptop, I think, is the

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 8/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to propose the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:00 pm, Bob Palowoda wrote: +1 also. To be politically correct, +1.;-) Talk about quirks the HP Compaq nx9600 Notebook PC runs in 64bit Solaris and now where on their spec page: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12114_na/12114_na.HTML do they

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Casper, Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 10:21:50 PM, you wrote: CDSC After doing extensive work on making Solaris of the x86/x64 variety more mobile CDSC and trying to make it the laptop of choice withing Sun (not there yet, but CDSC in much better shape than some time ago), I'd like to