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

2005-08-10 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:40:20PM -0400, Bruce Riddle wrote: > Well I can tell you wee need a way of asking what processor we have. Have you tried psrinfo -pv? On AMD chips I can see things like 'Athlon64 3000+' or 'Opteron(tm) Processor 850' as well as model, stepping, and clock. -- Keith M

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

2005-08-10 Thread Bruce Riddle
Alan DuBoff wrote: 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_n

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

2005-08-10 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Hi Luke, There are others that are far better at walking through this than I am, but as someone who has experienced source based Unixes and Solaris alike... Luke wrote: >Any system based on binary package management cannot be as flexible as a >system which works with source-based packages. At

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

2005-08-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Magnus Forsberg wrote: > 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, e

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

2005-08-10 Thread Luke
Any system based on binary package management cannot be as flexible as a system which works with source-based packages. At least in the world of open-source software, there are often important configuration options which must be chosen at the start of the build process of a certain piece of sof

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 17:40, Shawn Walker wrote: > +1 - Just got a laptop today ;) Install Solaris yet? -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - Sun on Sun is the way of the future! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensol

[osol-discuss] Re: What is a "community"?

2005-08-10 Thread Bob Palowoda
> The proto-governance proposals floating around all > made sense to me > when used in that context, though it was easy to > imagine other equally > as useful interpretations. My "sanity test" was > whether the following Can we move this topic over to the CAB discussion group where it belongs.

[osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
> 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" If all goes well, I'll so

Re: [osol-discuss] What is a "community"?

2005-08-10 Thread Stephen Hahn
* John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-10 09:39]: > Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >At some point we need to make a distinction between creating > >mailing lists/forums and creating self-governing groups responsible > >for building products. Which one falls under the name "community"? > > +1 >

Re: [osol-discuss] What is a "community"?

2005-08-10 Thread Teresa Giacomini
The need for some clear definitions of some frequently used terms came up at the Joint CAB / Development Process team meeting in Portland last week. Terms like... - community - consolidation - project - branch - trunk - release - child of a gate We'll be putting together some draft definitions a

Re: [osol-discuss] What is a "community"?

2005-08-10 Thread John Plocher
Roy T. Fielding wrote: At some point we need to make a distinction between creating mailing lists/forums and creating self-governing groups responsible for building products. Which one falls under the name "community"? +1 IMHO, IAC! I thought I had a handle on this community thing when

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

2005-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Johan Krüger-Haglert wrote: The Acer Aspire 502x should be able to run Solaris aswell, true? > It probably has a lot incomming with the ferrari 4000 since it's > a 1.6ghz turion with ATI x700 128mb graphics. The x700 isn't supported in Solaris until Nevada build 19, though you could pull down X

Re: [osol-discuss] Openwindows status

2005-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
David Schanen wrote: 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: ftp://step.polymtl.ca/pub/Xview

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

2005-08-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Al Hopper wrote: > 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:

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

2005-08-10 Thread Conor Svensson
> The Acer Aspire 502x should be able to run Solaris aswell, true? It will, however due to a problem with the BIOS, a workaround is necessary, you need to run the kernel debugger to get the Nevada installation media to boot the OS. I don't know if there's likely to be a fix included in one of the

[osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread Johan Krüger-Haglert
The Acer Aspire 502x should be able to run Solaris aswell, true? It probably has a lot incomming with the ferrari 4000 since it's a 1.6ghz turion with ATI x700 128mb graphics. Is it very stupid to get one with ATI graphics adapter? Fujitsu-Siemens and Asus delivers others with Nvidia 6200go but

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

2005-08-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Matt Ingenthron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be disappointed if there were a significant amount of further > separation from SUNW packages. I have no ability to influence it, but > iff the community settles on a package framework, I'd rather see a set > of OSOLblah packages or something like

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

2005-08-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, Compiling OpenSolaris does not produce packages but > > 8 CPIO archives. > > > > If I install SchilliX and add pkgadd, I still cannot use most > > blastwave packages because blastwave packages contein dependencies > > to SUNW packages that seem t

[osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
!! I bought an HP ze2000 notebook specifically for testing Solaris 10. A couple of days ago, I saw the only Turion64 based notebook ad on CNN, and that's the same machine as I have. I have been trying to find a workable Linux notebook for more than five years now (& if I had been succes

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread Casper . Dik
>[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 Commun

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread Andy Giles
[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 Community" Casper, D