Re: [osol-discuss] Another delay in release cycle ?

2006-01-31 Thread Stephen Lau
Cyril Plisko wrote: Any ideas why there is no source drop for b32 and no ISOs for b31/b32 ? Cyril Partly my fault... I've been working remotely the past couple of weeks, mostly on trying to automate the build fully after the b31 split-tree work. The irony is that in trying to make future

[osol-discuss] Re: Needs maintenance - metastat

2006-01-31 Thread UNIX admin
In metastat comand out I have output below. What can I do ? The advice of command says that I have to invoke metasync d10, etc.brIs need umount the disk before to invoke metasynk metareplace -e d10 d11 metareplace -e d20 d21 metareplace -e d30 d31 lockfs -fa reboot In the future, you could

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 23:32 -0800, UNIX admin wrote: That's such a pity. Sure, one should look for new ways to bring the word out. But going to extremes just to get attention? What about collateral and long term damage that GPL could cause to Sun? Well, I guess if Scott felt that Jonathan's

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, UNIX admin wrote: This is what I am referring to, among other things: 7. License Compatibility. When you release a work based on the Program, you may include your own terms covering added parts for which you have, or can give, appropriate copyright permission, as long

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why is CDDL suddenly no good any more? Why? Who says it is not? JS's blog talked of the possibility of *additional* /dual-licencing/ under the GPLv3. I really fail to see any advantage, if my interpretation of the GPLv3 draft is correct, than

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread UNIX admin
Well, I guess if Scott felt that Jonathan's blogs were doing more harm than good, he'd probably find a polite way to let him know, which may or may not involve his hockey stick :) Ha ha ha! Good ol' Scott, bless him! This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Community/Project Update: 1/30/06

2006-01-31 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Sean Sprague wrote: Hey Jim, Just a very small point wrt: Naming Services Community * Proposed 1/20/06 by Anup Sekhar * Community consensus: yes * CAB vote: no +/- vote yet * Opening date: not currently scheduled On 1/20, John Beck suggested that this should in fact be named (sic) Name

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jan 31, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Paul Jakma wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, UNIX admin wrote: This is what I am referring to, among other things: 7. License Compatibility. When you release a work based on the Program, you may include your own terms covering added parts for which you have, or can

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Karyn Ritter
I agree with others in the thread that we should take Jonathan's comments with a grain of salt. GPLv3 is not yet finalized. As such, no one knows what it will or will not allow, whether or not Solars/OpenSolaris could be dual licensed with it, or whether or not Linux is going to switch to it.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Ben Rockwood
UNIX admin wrote: I always take what Jonathan writes about with a pinch of salt. To be sure, the man's got some great ideas and he's got some vision. But unfortunately, he's becoming more of a marketeer then he ever was before, in the most negative sense. That's such a pity. Sure, one

Re: [osol-discuss] Community/Project Update: 1/30/06

2006-01-31 Thread Anup Sekhar
Sean Sprague wrote on 01/30/06 23:16: Hey Jim, Just a very small point wrt: Naming Services Community * Proposed 1/20/06 by Anup Sekhar * Community consensus: yes * CAB vote: no +/- vote yet * Opening date: not currently scheduled On 1/20, John Beck suggested that this should in fact be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread James C. McPherson
Ben Rockwood wrote: ... Jonathan is a smart guy, and even though Scott seems to have all the visability theses days lets not doubt Jonathan's wisdom untill we have a reason to question him. Frankly, I'm standing behind Jonathan and won't bother sweating the small stuff. And in the

[osol-discuss] Multi-Homing...Is there any limitation on the number of Logical Units

2006-01-31 Thread vijayanand
Context: Multi-Homing Can anyone let me know whether there is any limitaion on the number of Logical Units/Ip address that can be association with a single network physical interface. Please reply Thanks in Advance, Vijay. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Community Forum Proposal: Packaging, Patching, and Distribution Mgmt

2006-01-31 Thread Rob
[b]Packaging, Patching, and Distribution Mgmt Community Forum Proposal[/b] Creation and management of an OpenSolaris community forum focused on the what, how, and why of Solaris component software packaging, updating (patching), and product distribution initially providing the Sun-specified

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Glynn Foster
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:38 -0800, Erast Benson wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:08 -0800, peter murray wrote: http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/ Would it not be cool if we could get google to use OpenSolaris instead of linux. Now, think about NexentaOS

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glynn Foster wrote: Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to become the Linux distribution of choice? From every conversation I've I think ubuntu took the idea or low entry barrier to the limit, they are actually

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange new software package id numbers ?

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Kupfer
Dennis == Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis So then .. it looks like the old way of pkgrm packages is going Dennis away and a new prodreg uninstall process is here now? The last I heard, Solaris packages (pkgadd, etc.) are in no danger of going away. I don't know why a new prodreg

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:22 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to become the Linux distribution of choice? From every conversation I've had with Jeff, he indicates they're not a development team [1] and they've only been doing some smart

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange new software package id numbers ?

2006-01-31 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/31/06, Mike Kupfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis == Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis So then .. it looks like the old way of pkgrm packages is going Dennis away and a new prodreg uninstall process is here now? The last I heard, Solaris packages (pkgadd, etc.) are in no

[osol-discuss] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Jake Maciejewski
I don't want to start a debate about security, but it comes at a price for any OS. Linux, Solaris, and the BSDs should all be secure enough for desktop use with nothing listening by default. Looking Glass looks neat, but I wonder if it would be usable without 3D acceleration. Nvidia provides

[osol-discuss] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
Glynn Foster wrote: Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to become the Linux distribution of choice? ... Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is. (Sound's cynical, but big-time funding gives any project a huge advantage.) Eric

[osol-discuss] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Lee
Yes it would be but Ubuntu is a much better choice because of the following: 1. far more drivers, e.g.: native driver from ATI 2. single set of tools, you don't get different versions of ls, m4, awk--it's all gnu--and an extensive pkg-get software base; far better than blastwave.org 3. better

[osol-discuss] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Jake Maciejewski
I agree with 1 and 3, but not really with 2 and 4. Solaris has different versions of tools to maintain backwards compatibility (particularly with BSD-based SunOS) and comply with various standards. Linux distributions care very little about backwards compatibility and try to support POSIX to

[osol-discuss] 2 new patches for KDE 3.4.3

2006-01-31 Thread Stefan Teleman
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-solarism=113877382526587w=2 --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Roberto J. Dohnert
I personally blogged about it over the weekend. And I do feel if Sun goes the route of GPL 3 they will be inhibiting the platform a great deal. http://rjdohnert.blogspot.com/2006/01/opensolaris-released-under-gpl3.html Joerg Schilling wrote: Ignacio Marambio Catán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss][Offtopic] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Eric Boutilier wrote: Glynn Foster wrote: Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to become the Linux distribution of choice? ... Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is Couldn't resist replying. Mark Shuttleworth was recently in Bangalore and I attended his talk at