Re: [osol-discuss] Crypto status

2005-11-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:24, Mike Kupfer wrote: So people who want to use crypto will want to use the signed binaries that are provided in the closed-bins tarball. Or if you are a distro builder you can #ifdef out the checking code in krtld and libpkcs11, they you won't need it. That will also

[osol-discuss] 1st Israel OpenSolaris User Group meeting

2005-11-08 Thread Cyril Plisko
Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to announce 1st Israel OpenSolaris User Group meeting When: Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 17:00 Where: Sun office at Herzeliya (Manofim st. 9) I'd like to ask every attendee to RSVP - we need to plan accommodation accordingly. Preliminary agenda: 1.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Genunix Nexenta Mirror

2005-11-08 Thread Rafael David Tinoco
Hey mac, congratulations on your work. Man, im loving it! It is set as my desktop already. Id like to give the distro some packages im preparing, like mplayer, irssi, giftd*, etc etc. Just a question, If i get the sunstudio compiler.. do u think ill have any problems trying to compile build 26,

[osol-discuss] Matrox 4.2 video driver for X11 6.8.2

2005-11-08 Thread ken mays
Hello, Several months ago, I got into building video drivers for Xorg 6.8.2. I happen to have a few old desktops using the Matrox Millenium cards I use for various purposes. Well, I decided to spin my wheels and port over the Matrox 4.2 video driver with HAL support. I need to check to see if

Re: [osol-discuss] Crypto status

2005-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joerg, I believe all the crypto code should be open now... unless there's something I missed? Thank you, but what is e.g. with programs like /usr/bin/des? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] We need a binary license for pkg* immediately

2005-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will check on our status; I know that we have been through the source files, and closing in on how to get the package tools published (i.e. in one delivery or two, with binaries first). Please do. Note that I would like to create a

Re: [osol-discuss] Crypto status

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Lau
Joerg Schilling wrote: Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joerg, I believe all the crypto code should be open now... unless there's something I missed? Thank you, but what is e.g. with programs like /usr/bin/des? Jörg Hi Jörg, Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean? /usr/bin/des

Re: [osol-discuss] Crypto status

2005-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean? /usr/bin/des should be in the open source code (usr/src/cmd/des). Sorry for the confusion, I checked the path on a too old system ,-) Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: [osol-discuss] Genunix Nexenta Mirror

2005-11-08 Thread support
Hi Rafael, Rafael Tinoco wrote: Hello guys, Im Rafael Tinoco from Brazil. We have a brazilian community http://opensolaris-br.org. Ive written to our mailing list so everybody there could test nexenta here in Brazil and give you guys feed backs. Thanks! We would like to contribute to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Genunix Nexenta Mirror

2005-11-08 Thread Justin Conover
On 11/7/05, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Conover wrote: I'm installing it now on my linux laptop with vmware and later I'll try it on one of my desktops running solaris express 24.Please note that network interface is currently not working on VMware.We are working on the driver;it should

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Genunix Nexenta Mirror

2005-11-08 Thread Rafael David Tinoco
Hey mac, congratulations on your work. Man, im loving it! It is set as my desktop already. Id like to give the distro some packages im preparing, like mplayer, irssi, giftd*, etc etc. Just a question, If i get the sunstudio compiler.. do u think ill have any problems trying to compile build 26,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Mon 11/07/05 at 21:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 07 Nov 2005 at 11:57AM, Adam Leventhal wrote: Dan, I think the type of discussion and interest around BrandX is likely to be orthogonal to that of Zones. Without completely spoiling the surprise, BrandX hopes to publish

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Matthew Simmons
I don't see the problem with using the code name for a project as the community name, knowing that later on you may need to rename the community when marketing invents a new name for it. Try as we might, we're never going to guess that name in advance. Matt -- Matt Simmons - [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Genunix Nexenta Mirror

2005-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Rafael David Tinoco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question, If i get the sunstudio compiler.. do u think ill have any problems trying to compile build 26, 27 and so on on nexenta, i mean, is there anything needed missing to make a full opensolaris-src compilation ? Cause in my opinion,

[osol-discuss] Sata support for the SPARC architecture

2005-11-08 Thread Paolo Di Francesco
Hi all, I was wondering when sata will be supported on sparc (it is supported on x86). I have read somewhere on the site that the effort is ongoing, so I was wondering if someone can tell me the status. I have googled around with no luck... Thank you. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Genunix Nexenta Mirror

2005-11-08 Thread Mac
Rafael David Tinoco wrote: Hey mac, congratulations on your work. Man, im loving it! It is set as my desktop already. Great! Id like to give the distro some packages im preparing, like mplayer, irssi, giftd*, etc etc. Excellent; feel free to sign up on our developers mailing list on our

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:15:54AM -0500, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote: Ok. I wasn't aware that BrandX was a feature name. Thanks for clarifying that. I had seem some discussions which led me to be confused on that point-- and that the name would be much more closely associated with zones.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Matthew Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-08 09:15]: I don't see the problem with using the code name for a project as the community name, knowing that later on you may need to rename the community when marketing invents a new name for it. Try as we might, we're never going to guess that

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Matthew Simmons
SH == Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SH As as additional comment, marketing names are associated with SH distributions and not the source tree shared across the community. So are we going to maintain a separate mapping somewhere so that users coming to the OpenSolaris pages

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Matthew Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-08 09:53]: SH == Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SH As as additional comment, marketing names are associated with SH distributions and not the source tree shared across the community. So are we going to maintain a separate

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Genunix Nexenta Mirror

2005-11-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 11/8/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael David Tinoco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did try to start this discussion many times now... It is most unlikely that you will be able to do this. Even a distribution like SchilliX that tries to be binary compatible with Sun Solaris

[osol-discuss] GNU/Solaris depends on modified OpenSolaris sources...

2005-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
so I would expect that www.gnusolaris.org would contain a place where I could download the modified sources (similar to what I do with: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/patches) Did I miss the download location or are the sources missing? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU/Solaris depends on modified OpenSolaris sources...

2005-11-08 Thread Mac
Joerg Schilling wrote: so I would expect that www.gnusolaris.org would contain a place where I could download the modified sources (similar to what I do with: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/patches) Did I miss the download location or are the sources missing?

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU/Solaris depends on modified OpenSolaris sources...

2005-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: so I would expect that www.gnusolaris.org would contain a place where I could download the modified sources (similar to what I do with: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/patches) Did I miss the download location or are the sources

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU/Solaris depends on modified OpenSolaris sources...

2005-11-08 Thread Mac
Joerg Schilling wrote: So there is not yet source for e.g. the mods on the OpenSolaris libc? Oh, for the ksh? (Our workaround is to use XPG4's sh.) Give us a few more days to release the source; we're currently re-organizing our code repository to make it easier for the public to access. --

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU/Solaris depends on modified OpenSolaris sources...

2005-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: So there is not yet source for e.g. the mods on the OpenSolaris libc? Oh, for the ksh? (Our workaround is to use XPG4's sh.) Give us a few more days to release the source; we're currently re-organizing our code repository to make it

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU/Solaris depends on modified OpenSolaris sources...

2005-11-08 Thread Mac
Joerg Schilling wrote: As you have /bin/sh linked to bash, I suspect that there are a lot other places where the sources needed to be modified... For this particular wordexp() in libc, we use /usr/bin/xpg4/sh. It would be nice if Sun were to use the latest ksh93 instead of the outdated one,

[osol-discuss] GNU/Solaris, GNOME 2.12.1, ZFS, and Alienware Area-51 m5700 notebook

2005-11-08 Thread ken mays
Notes: 1. Alienware Area-51 m5700 notebook 2. GNU/Solaris released 3. GNOME 2.12.1 4. ZFS So much goes on in a day, moreso in a week... My notes reflect a review of GNOME 2.12.1 in which GNU/Solaris didn't have a full port of GNOME 2.12.1 yet but enough was there to give a nice impression of