[osol-discuss] Solaris Express Community 20

2005-08-17 Thread Girts Zeltins
Hello all, Where I can see which changes has been made in Solaris Express Community 20 release? I think that there is need to inform in website about changes in every release. Thanks. Girts This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express Community 20

2005-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Girts Zeltins wrote: Hello all, Where I can see which changes has been made in Solaris Express Community 20 release? I think that there is need to inform in website about changes in every release. Unfortunately, I don't think we've found a way yet to keep up with the biweekly release cycle

[osol-discuss] Re: What types of training would you need or want for OpenSolaris?

2005-08-17 Thread David Lindt
Diffs between Linux and Solaris and configuring your system for Solaris would be helpful. For Java development, if you are using NetBeans, have you looked at some of the tutorials at http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/index.html? This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

2005-08-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Apparently, you have not seen any of HP's thin and light turion64 based notebooks. They are really good (especially their Lance Armstrong series) and relatively inexpensive. (If you paid attention to Sunday's ads, you will definitely get an unmistakable impression that HP has placed big bets on

[osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Marilyn Shoemaker
We plan to push development for the Solaris Companion out into the community, to serve as a test case for community development for other areas of Solaris. The Companion is the supplemental collection of open source software distributed with Solaris. The source code repository, the gate,

[osol-discuss] Re: Really simple docs for Solaris 10 Installation .. in progress ...

2005-08-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Yesterday's Inquire has an article about Solaris, entitled Sun's Linux killer shows promise: http://www.theregister.com/2005/08/16/solaris_x86_not_too_shabby/ I don't know if anyone mentioned that article here, but it is surprisingly informative. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Bob Palowoda
3. Initial Structure Solaris management has asked Steve ked Steve Christensen to be the gate keeper. Steve has maintained the sunfreeware.com site for many years. The source base will be the Companion contents for Solaris 10 minus those packages that are now included in Solaris 11 or

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Ian Collins
Marilyn Shoemaker wrote: We plan to push development for the Solaris Companion out into the community, to serve as a test case for community development for other areas of Solaris. The Companion is the supplemental collection of open source software distributed with Solaris. Isn't this

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:40:22PM -0700, Bob Palowoda wrote: Sorry Blastwave has better potential in handling this over Sunfreeware. Sunfreeware isn't. Steve is. This is not Sun saying Here's the companion CD, Steve, please go incorporate the software in it into sunfreeware. It's a new

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Ian Collins wrote: Isn't this a duplication of effort, we already have Blastwave. Or is this seen as somehow complimentary? I see them as complimentary. For example, Blastwave's packages are supported on S8+, whereas the Companion CD presumably doesn't have that

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 8/17/05, Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Ian Collins wrote: True, but is duplication? I am entirely happy with the decision by Sun management to bring in Steve Christensen as the project lead on this. He has been working with Solaris and the open source software

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:05:11AM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: True, but is duplication? Possibly, which is why I'd like to see this community-packaged software effort grow to include everyone. Whether that will be possible depends on how well we can accomodate varied interests in one place.

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Steven Christensen
First, my thanks to Dennis for his very kind and supportive comments. I have always enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy, working with him and the members of Blastwave. I fully expect to have our individual communites join together with the OpenSolaris world of develpers to define and deploy the

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, First, my thanks to Dennis for his very kind and supportive comments. I have always enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy, working with him and the members of Blastwave. I fully expect to have our individual communites join together with the OpenSolaris world of develpers to define and

[osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-17 Thread David McDaniel
This might be better suited to another board, but if so I dont know which one. In any case the dialog might be valuable to the community at large. To wit: I dont fully grasp the semantics of umem_cache_alloc, et al. Some use cases or examples would really help. A few of the obscure (to me)

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 8/17/05, Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Ian Collins wrote: True, but is duplication? I am entirely happy with the decision by Sun management to bring in Steve Christensen as the project lead on this. He has been

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development - packaging community?

2005-08-17 Thread Glynn Foster
Heya, The packages from the companion cd, or blastave or sunfreeware will all be regular solaris packages. I guess that Steve as gatekeeper will be responsible for building the actual packages, so the community effort will be mainly around the source. However a packaging community would

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 8/17/05, Steven Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, my thanks to Dennis for his very kind and supportive comments. I have always enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy, working with him and the members of Blastwave. I fully expect to have our individual communites join together with

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, First, my thanks to Dennis for his very kind and supportive comments. I have always enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy, working with him and the members of Blastwave. I fully expect to have our individual communites join together with the