Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 30, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Given SUN's payment of $200million to SCO (for not alot of stuff IMHO), the reliability of SUN as a Linux partner comes into question - slam Linux, then provide middleware for it. Do you mind not spreading absolute FUD? Do you have any

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Feel the love. -Shawn And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out of me each time I start writing the OpenSolaris weekly

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 5/31/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Feel the love. -Shawn And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out of me each

Re: [osol-discuss] onnv SXCR status

2006-05-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
Karyn Ritter wrote: Steve just delivered the nightly onnv source and SXCR Build 40 was made available on Friday of last week. There currently aren't any issues with next week's deliveries of onnv or SXCR Build 41. I'm thinking that I will move these to status reports every two weeks unless

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 30, 2006, at 9:47 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Personally, I'd love for Solaris x86 to get to the point where we aren't bitching about hardware support or lack of ISV's, but instead complaining about how we're *TOO* productive with Solaris, and how there are too many software and

Re: [osol-discuss] Switch to gdm?

2006-05-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
Nicolas Linkert wrote: I have installed GNOME 2.14 and would like to switch from dtlogin to gdm. Sorry, I have found no instructions how to do this. The instructions I found did not work: svcadm enable svc:application/graphical-login/gdm:default (before login) svcadm disable

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe over this You have no proof of that what so ever. Quite frankly you are being troll, please go away and troll elsewhere instead of winding us all up and filling up our mailboxes. Some of us follow this

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread gheet
David J. Orman wrote: On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Feel the love. -Shawn And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out of me each time I start writing

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 5/31/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 30, 2006, at 9:47 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Personally, I'd love for Solaris x86 to get to the point where we aren't bitching about hardware support or lack of ISV's, but instead complaining about how we're *TOO* productive with Solaris,

Re: [osol-discuss] onnv SXCR status

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 5/31/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karyn Ritter wrote: Steve just delivered the nightly onnv source and SXCR Build 40 was made available on Friday of last week. There currently aren't any issues with next week's deliveries of onnv or SXCR Build 41. I'm thinking that I will move

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 5/31/06, gheet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David J. Orman wrote: On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Feel the love. -Shawn And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
It would be nice to hear a 'this is what we're working on in the way of hardware support - then atleast whiners like me can say, hey, it'll be around soon, they're working on it now . It's been said a dozen times, use the search function of your email client (or the forums..) The

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 5/31/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe over thisYou have no proof of that what so ever.Quite frankly you are beingtroll, please go away and troll elsewhere instead of winding us all up and filling up

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 30, 2006, at 11:43 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Well, lets assume we go free software and free love - someone has to create this software - and with 5000 employees given the sack at Sun, wouldn't of it been bettter to direct those 5000 (lets assume 1,000 were programmers) or so to

Re: [osol-discuss] onnv SXCR status

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
A nice little 'this is what the band of Sun's merry people did on the week end' journal would be good - so then people can track Solaris progressing, and see what is being developed. This week, we payed particular attention to improving the SATA I/ O, specifically decreasing the CPU

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread gheet
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Well, lets assume we go free software and free love - someone has to create this software - and with 5000 employees given the sack at Sun, wouldn't of it been bettter to direct those 5000 (lets assume 1,000 were programmers) or so to put together a decent Adobe

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: honestly, how many companies would turn down free money? Pretty much every responsibly run company will, if they feel they can get a better return for investing their time resources elsewhere. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: The first thing Sun could do is this; get rid of Xsun - blam, first Working on it, but if we dropped it today, there'd be useless black screens on all our SPARC workstations and Sun Rays. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Well, I started compiling things, all nice, started to compile Xorg 7.1 and it failed to compile; Strange - it's always compiled for me with Studio compilers. I test with gcc occasionally, but there's enough other people testing that works on Linux that I don't do it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen Potter
James Carlson wrote: The problem with that idea is that forcing reconfiguration every time kills the boot-time metric, which is an important part of computing overall availability of the system. Such a project would fail on boot-time regression. It would require a very quick way to discover

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen Potter
Bruce Riddle wrote: Acrobat should be as uqbiquitous as power for a desktop computer. It is just plain bullshit that a contemporary version of reader is not available for Solaris x86. I don't think there's any disagreement that everyone here wants Acrobat ported to X86. Sun needs to drive

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen Potter
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: What Sun wants are millions of developers to port to Solaris x86 out of the goodness of their own heart - newsflash, the world doens't work that way, people port when either they see the possibility of cash rolling in, or when the CEO pays a visit to pay for the porting.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: It would be nice to hear a 'this is what we're working on in the way of hardware support - then atleast whiners like me can say, hey, it'll be around soon, they're working on it now . A quick look at the x86 HCL (and how much it has been growing)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Glenn Weinberg
Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 31 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Solaris/OpenSolaris - OpenSolaris "as an official distribution" hasn't been released yet; it'll be interesting to actually see if OpenSolaris turns into Solaris is, to all intents and purposes, Sun's distro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: I wish Sun would open-source QFS... / was:Re: Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:19:16AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The requirement is not that inodes and data are separate; the requirement is a specific upperbound to disk transactions. The question therefor is not when will ZFS be able to separate inods and data; the question is when ZFS

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Glenn Weinberg wrote: Sorry to contradict, but Solaris *Express* is Sun's distro of the OpenSolaris code. Solaris 10 and its Updates are *not* direct distributions of OpenSolaris, but rather are essentially backports of selected OpenSolaris code. You are correct, of

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn Weinberg wrote: We've tried. Multiple times. Our MDE (Market Development Engineering) team offered to do all the work. (Not that there is much. As you all know it's just a recompile.) The answer has always been no. I wouldn't be so

[osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/73711 12000 PCs running Solaris soince 1993 are now migrating to Linux. It is a pitty to see that this important costomer got lost because of wrong information from the Linux camp. They wanted OpenSource kde and claimed that they need to move away from

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Glenn Weinberg
If I'm reading the articles correctly, when they made the decision two years ago the information was, unfortunately, valid. Regards, Glenn Joerg Schilling wrote: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/73711 12000 PCs running Solaris soince 1993 are now migrating to Linux. It is a

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] ON Mercurial changeset bundles

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen Lau
Stephen Lau wrote: Starting with yesterday's nightly delivery, we will be delivery Mercurial (Hg) changeset bundles [1] in addition to the raw source tarball. You should be able to unpack these bundles and have a Mercurial repository of ON dating back to OpenSolaris Launch (2006/06/14). To

Re: [osol-discuss] pthread_cancel() does NOT work with several threads

2006-05-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:43:01PM -0700, Luo Kai wrote: See the following code: test.c #include sys/types.h #include unistd.h #include pthread.h #include stdio.h #include sys/resource.h pthread_cond_t cond = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER; pthread_mutex_t mutex =

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Glenn Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm reading the articles correctly, when they made the decision two years ago the information was, unfortunately, valid. They did make the final decision last year. The process did start in autumn 2000 when the Linux Verband Deutschland did aproach

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
They did make the final decision last year. The process did start in autumn 2000 when the Linux Verband Deutschlanddid aproach the OFD Niedersachsen and did tell them that Sun will shut down Solaris x86 support. The final convincing work did start in autumn 2004.This is wy I did aproach

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Glenn Weinberg
David J. Orman wrote: They did make the final decision last year. The process did start in autumn 2000 when the Linux Verband Deutschland"did aproach the OFD Niedersachsen and did tell them that Sun will shut down Solaris x86 support. The final convincing work did start in autumn

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 5/31/06, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm reading the articles correctly, when they made the decision two years ago the information was, unfortunately, valid. They did make the final decision last year. The process did start in

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
We need to be fair here. Sun did defer Solaris for x86 in 2002. We didn't really get it fully back on track until Solaris 10 in 2005. So even in late 2004 all a customer had from us was statements of intent, not an actual product. Good point. I wasn't involved with Sun at all during

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device Naming (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-31 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, You might want to take a look at JET, which resolves these kinds of issues. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/jet/ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sysadmin/

[osol-discuss] Re: Switch to gdm?

2006-05-31 Thread Nicolas Linkert
Nicolas Linkert wrote: I have installed GNOME 2.14 and would like to switch from dtlogin to gdm. Sorry, I have found no instructions how to do this. The instructions I found did not work: svcadm enable svc:application/graphical-login/gdm:default (before login) svcadm disable

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device

2006-05-31 Thread Octave Orgeron
I agree that some consolidation and reorganization is required for the /dev tree. However, I do believe it's important to maintain compatibility. Many sysadmin's depend on knowing which device is on which pci bus, pci slot, or IB cage , etc. It would be nice if that trace-ability is not lost.

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread UNIX admin
To a new Solaris user that comes from other OS, (s)he may find it bothersome not to find the device after a normal system reboot has performed. Then they will ask, what is the problem with Solaris? Are you telling us that you're trying to actually dumb Solaris down for some Joe User who

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] ON Mercurial changeset bundles

2006-05-31 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 5/31/06, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting with yesterday's nightly delivery, we will be delivery Mercurial (Hg) changeset bundles [1] in addition to the raw source tarball. You should be able to unpack these bundles and have a Mercurial repository of ON dating back to

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device Naming (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-31 Thread UNIX admin
Here is a real life example of the inconvenience without a generic root device name. In a sparc farm, a script is written for jumpstart 100 systems. It needs 100 copies of the jumpstart scripts because each system has it own WWN for the root device. However, only one copy is needed if

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: AdobeAcrobat for Solari

2006-05-31 Thread a b
Let's be even more realistic then -- those people should not be programming then, period. Those people could be students who may be writing their first program... Or scientists who cares about the result and not the process... At any rate, I woudn't blame them, instead I would greatly

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x

2006-05-31 Thread a b
Maybe Sun should better advertize the fact that the Sun Studio Compilers are available for Linux also and produce better code than GCC. Given the fact that the Intel compiler is no longer available, it may be the right time to do it now. Agreed. Very good idea. We can only do so much

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x

2006-05-31 Thread a b
Studio 11 seems to implement enough GCC bugs to allow to compile most free software that is not just rubbish. The more important problems arise from the fact that there are many Makefiles that have hidden dependencies on GNUmake. I could even live with having to use GNU utilities like gmake

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x

2006-05-31 Thread a b
If SUN wishes to get the OSS world to start using Studio 11 as the compiler of choice for Linux, then SUN needs to mend ALOT of bridges with the OSS community - how about offering a version for FreeBSD, have double the participation? Actually Sun's been quite friendly to and supportive of the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device Naming (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-31 Thread Casper . Dik
I still want `inst`, `swmgr` and `swpkg` from IRIX on Solaris... Is this perhaps Godwin's law for opensolaris-discuss? (If a discussion on OpenSolaris lasts long enough, someone will mention package tools) Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen Potter
So if you're going to be going that route, can we just have the rest of the IRIX 6.5 brought over into Solaris as well? I think I've mentioned before that SGI can probably be bought for slightly more than a song. There's a couple of technologies that might be worth the cost to Sun. -spp

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device

2006-05-31 Thread Casper . Dik
I think I've mentioned before that SGI can probably be bought for slightly more than a song. Ther e's a couple of technologies that might be worth the cost to Sun. Well, it's not slightly more than a song; there's the balance sheet to consider and that isn't looking rosy. (You'll have to buy

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:49:26PM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: To a new Solaris user that comes from other OS, (s)he may find it bothersome not to find the device after a normal system reboot has performed. Then they will ask, what is the problem with Solaris? Are you telling us that

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
To expand on Casper's post: http://finance.google.com/finance?fstype=bicid=655720 I hope this makes it clear it's a *bit* more than slightly more than a song. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:33 am Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Yonghong Lucy Lai
To a new Solaris user that comes from other OS, (s)he may find it bothersome not to find the device after a normal system reboot has performed. Then they will ask, what is the problem with Solaris? Are you telling us that you're trying to actually dumb Solaris down for some Joe

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device Naming (a.k.a Devn

2006-05-31 Thread Yonghong Lucy Lai
Hi, You might want to take a look at JET, which resolves these kinds of issues. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/jet/ Thanks for the info. lucy -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Octa ve J. Orgeron Solaris Systems Engineer

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device

2006-05-31 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:31:17PM -0700, Octave Orgeron wrote: I agree that some consolidation and reorganization is required for the /dev tree. However, I do believe it's important to maintain compatibility. Many sysadmin's depend on knowing which device is on which pci bus, pci slot, or

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device Naming (a.k.a Devname)

2006-05-31 Thread Yonghong Lucy Lai
Here is a real life example of the inconvenience without a generic root device name. In a sparc farm, a script is written for jumpstart 100 systems. It needs 100 copies of the jumpstart scripts because each system has it own WWN for the root device. However, only one copy is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] ON Mercurial changeset bundles

2006-05-31 Thread Richard Lowe
Cyril Plisko wrote: On 5/31/06, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting with yesterday's nightly delivery, we will be delivery Mercurial (Hg) changeset bundles [1] in addition to the raw source tarball. You should be able to unpack these bundles and have a Mercurial repository of ON

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 11:49 am, Glenn Weinberg wrote: We need to be fair here. Sun did defer Solaris for x86 in 2002. We didn't really get it fully back on track until Solaris 10 in 2005. So even in late 2004 all a customer had from us was statements of intent, not an actual product. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen Potter
quote who=David J. Orman To expand on Casper's post: http://finance.google.com/finance?fstype=bicid=655720 I hope this makes it clear it's a *bit* more than slightly more than a song. I think I remember seeing that the shares were voided when they went into bankruptcy. Now, they're pretty

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas Nau
Hi all On Wed, 31 May 2006, Stefan Teleman wrote: On 5/31/06, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm reading the articles correctly, when they made the decision two years ago the information was, unfortunately, valid. They did make the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - Simplified Solaris Device

2006-05-31 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, prtdiag and cfgadm only help out so far. For example, prtdiag will tell you what's on a pci slot, but it does not tell you what instance that card matches up to. So you still have to look at /etc/path_to_inst or the links /dev to figure that out. Cfgadm is definitely handy, but again, it

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
I'm not talking servers but desktop clients. This means that they most likely for most of the time end up with big vendors such as Dell, IBM, Fujitsu Siemens, HP and so on. If you look closer up till recenty ALL of those business boxes came with the latest Intel chipset and CPU. 95% still do

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/31/06, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm reading the articles correctly, when they made the decision two years ago the information was, unfortunately, valid. They did make the final

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Artem Kachitchkine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not talking servers but desktop clients. This means that they most likely for most of the time end up with big vendors such as Dell, IBM, Fujitsu Siemens, HP and so on. If you look closer up till recenty ALL of those business boxes came

Re: [osol-discuss] Lightweight ZFS NAS requirements?

2006-05-31 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:26:13AM -0700, Tom Smith wrote: Hi. I've been thinking about building a SOHO NAS project using ZFS as some others have suggested doing but I'm curious how lightweight I can make Solaris (from a processor, memory, and install disk space) perspective and still have

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: The first thing Sun could do is this; get rid of Xsun - blam, firstWorking on it, but if we dropped it today, there'd be useless blackscreens on all our SPARC workstations and Sun Rays. Wouldn't be simply a matter of

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On 6/1/06, *Alan Coopersmith* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: The first thing Sun could do is this; get rid of Xsun - blam, first Working on it, but if we dropped it today, there'd be useless black screens on

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Well, I started compiling things, all nice, started to compile Xorg 7.1 and it failed to compile;Strange - it's always compiled for me with Studio compilers. I testwith gcc occasionally, but there's enough other people

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On 6/1/06, *Alan Coopersmith* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: The first thing Sun could do is this; get rid of Xsun - blam, first Working on it, but if we dropped it today, there'd

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: I built it off the cvsweb tree, damn, I should have remembered which module it stuffed up in, anyway, it stopped compiling, and basically I was at the end of my teather - unfortunately I have very limited patience when things like that occur; if it doesn't work, I simply

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Oh well, any word on when Xorg will be updated in Solaris x86? To 7.1? It's been out a week so far - give us some time to test the new release. We should have it in Solaris Express/Nevada in a couple of months. I doubt most users will notice any real difference

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: I built it off the cvsweb tree, damn, I should have remembered which module it stuffed up in, anyway, it stopped compiling, and basically I was at the end of my teather - unfortunately I have very limited patience when

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Oh well, any word on when Xorg will be updated in Solaris x86?To 7.1? It's been out a week so far - give us some time to test the newrelease. We should have it in Solaris Express/Nevada in a couple of months. I doubt most

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 5/31/06, gheet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Well, lets assume we go free software and free love - someone has to create this software - and with 5000 employees given the sack at Sun, wouldn't of it been bettter to direct those 5000 (lets assume 1,000 were programmers) or so

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Gress
Artem Kachitchkine wrote: I'm not talking servers but desktop clients. This means that they most likely for most of the time end up with big vendors such as Dell, IBM, Fujitsu Siemens, HP and so on. If you look closer up till recenty ALL of those business boxes came with the latest Intel

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, a b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If SUN wishes to get the OSS world to start using Studio 11 as the compilerof choice for Linux, then SUN needs to mend ALOT of bridges with the OSScommunity - how about offering a version for FreeBSD, have double the participation?Actually Sun's been quite

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: AdobeAcrobat for Solari

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, a b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's be even more realistic then -- those people should not beprogramming then, period.Those people could be students who may be writing their first program...Or scientists who cares about the result and not the process... At any rate, I woudn't blame

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: I wish Sun would open-source QFS... /was:Re: Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Roland Mainz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNIX admin wrote: There's still an opening in the shared filesystem space (multi-reader and multi-writer). Fix QFS, or extend ZFS? That one's a no-brainer, innit? Extend ZFS and plough on. Uhm... I think this is not that easy. Based on IRC feedback I think

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 06:38 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: One assumes that when Sun is solely backing GNOME, that there is no 'officiallly supported' KDE for Solaris - all very nice to have a 'community working on it' but companies like the warm fuzzy feeling knowing that there are people they

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 28 May 2006 06:53 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: A company that does not create new versions of their software in more than 6 years _is_ dead. The thing is that Adobe does create new versions of their software in less time than you state, just that they don't do it for Solaris on x86.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 28 May 2006 09:08 am, Rich Teer wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Cheers. (from the patio at my parent's house using VPN over wifi;-) Which is nice, but the fact is, thats server software - I'm refering to workstation software. Exactly how is wifi server

Re: [osol-discuss] Lightweight ZFS NAS requirements?

2006-05-31 Thread Bart Smaalders
Philip Brown wrote: you can also get the in-memory footprint down to about 64megs of RAM. this should be way under your requirements. It should be trivial to get a cheap small machine that has a 1ghz cpu with 128megs RAM, and that should be more than plenty for your needs. Given the cost of

[osol-discuss] Using lofs to overlay single files (like /lib/libc.so.1) ...

2006-05-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is there a way to overlay single files using lofs like /lib/libc.so.1 is a lofs-mount to a hardware-optimizsed version version ? I tried the same using mount but it refuses to operate on single files... ;-( How does the boot process get this working ? Bye, Roland -- __ . .

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.1.1 on OpenSolaris

2006-05-31 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 28 May 2006 07:58 pm, James Carlson wrote: Would there be an adventage of removing gcc from /usr/sfw and replacing it with the Sun Studio compilers? (and thus moving gcc to the companion CD) Note that this question is really a Solaris question, and not an Open Solaris question.

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 31, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Xorg 6.9 performs nicely on my FreeBSD box, besides the DRI issue (which hopefully get corrected), I expect a delay due to the nature of this new, more modular approach. Same for me. We already ship 6.9.0 which was released at the

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 31 May 2006 06:38 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: One assumes that when Sun is solely backing GNOME, that there is no 'officiallly supported' KDE for Solaris - all very nice to have a 'community working on it' but companies like the warm

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 31, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: One assumes that when Sun is solely backing GNOME, that there is no 'officiallly supported' KDE for Solaris - all very nice to have a 'community working on it' but companies like the warm fuzzy feeling knowing that there are people they

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 May 2006 09:08 am, Rich Teer wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Cheers. (from the patio at my parent's house using VPN over wifi;-) Which is nice, but the fact is, thats server software - I'm refering to workstation

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 31, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: One assumes that when Sun is solely backing GNOME, that there is no 'officiallly supported' KDE for Solaris - all very nice to have a 'community working on it' but companies like the warm fuzzy

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Trolltech Hey, that's not a bad name ;) -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 31, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Xorg 6.9 performs nicely on my FreeBSD box, besides the DRI issue (which hopefully get corrected), I expect a delay due to the nature of this new, more modular approach.Same for me. We already

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 31, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: So, what is it? is Solaris a desktop or a server operating system? come on, admit it, you're just burning to say, Matty, its a server OS! Don't make the mistake again of putting words in my mouth. Solaris is both, and it is improving

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, Artem Kachitchkine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TrolltechHey, that's not a bad name ;)Well, it wasn't started by me, my company would have been, Bitter and Twisted Technology Limited.Matty ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 31, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: The funny part, when running CDE; there doesn't seem to be that issue to the same extent as it is with GNOME running. I thought that maybe upgrading to Xorg 7.1 would correct the issue, but it seems to be more to do with how Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 6/1/06, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 31, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: One assumes that when Sun is solely backing GNOME, that there is no 'officiallly supported' KDE for Solaris - all very nice to have

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 12:47 am, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Personally, I'd love for Solaris x86 to get to the point where we aren't bitching about hardware support or lack of ISV's Even if we got the point that *YOU* weren't [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it, we'd all be better off. -- Alan DuBoff

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 6/1/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 31, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: So, what is it? is Solaris a desktop or a server operating system? come on, admit it, you're just burning to say, Matty, its a server OS!Don't make the mistake again of putting words in my

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread David J. Orman
On May 31, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Wednesday 31 May 2006 12:47 am, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Personally, I'd love for Solaris x86 to get to the point where we aren't bitching about hardware support or lack of ISV's Even if we got the point that *YOU* weren't [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread James C. McPherson
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: ... So, what is it? is Solaris a desktop or a server operating system? come on, admit it, you're just burning to say, Matty, its a server OS! I don't understand why you are under the impression that Sun can't have an OS that runs just fine on a desktop and also runs

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:45 am, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: And you know sweetcheeks, this is a GENERAL discussion; if you wish to fufil your inner desires of wishing to know the internals of the kernel, may I suggest subscribing to such lists. Yes, and let's remind ourselves that this is not a

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-05-31 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 08:50 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: So, what is it? is Solaris a desktop or a server operating system? come on, admit it, you're just burning to say, Matty, its a server OS! No, most folks at this point are just burning to ask, what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] does this have

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