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

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: On 6/4/06, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Thomas Nau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back to Sun itself: in my opinion they dropped the desktop many years ago during the dot-gone era. They forgot about their own roots and the

[osol-discuss] Re: libumem project proposal

2006-06-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Good idea about libumem-discuss. There's already a project for libumem support on non-Solaris systems too: http://sourceforge.net/projects/umem I don't like some of the choises they made while porting, but since I was interested in porting libumem to run on FreeBSD too, I've been looking at

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

2006-06-04 Thread Thomas Nau
Jim, ... But unfortunately the situation has become so bad now that Sun would need to agressivly approach the people in the univsersities who are responsible for the computer pools to make Solaris be present again in the universities. We are making progress. I see the guys in China have been

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

2006-06-04 Thread UNIX admin
When I move to Japan, I hope to get closely involved with community building at universities throughout Asia. I envy you for moving to Japan! But anyways, perhaps you'd be so kind as to update us on what things are like on the Sun HW / Solaris front in Japan when you get settled in? I for

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

2006-06-04 Thread UNIX admin
Joerg and Thomas are correct to point out the university issue, but things will turn around. Inside Sun, this is being taken seriously. I would like to make a suggestion, and task you specifically to take that suggestion back to the Sun education and marketing execs, provided you are willing

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

2006-06-04 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
Oh, I think there are massive community building opportunities in South America. Whenever anyone goes to Brazil, for example, they seem to be extremely impressed. I don't know much about the region myself, but just observing the Java community there gives me great hope. I see that Jonathan was

[osol-discuss] why is there open source in Open Solaris [was Re: What is OpenSolaris?]

2006-06-04 Thread James Carlson
Alan DuBoff writes: On Friday 02 June 2006 07:38 am, James Carlson wrote: I don't see how having an accumulation of source code that's known to work on a particular operating system (and some of which that might have needed to be tweaked to do so) is itself a bad thing. In fact, I think

Re: [osol-discuss] MXGE project proposal

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thanks, Andrew. You have some seconds. Eric will get you guys set up. Jim Andrew Gallatin wrote: The MXGE project is an effort to port a proprietary, vendor supplied Solaris GLDv2 ethernet driver for the Myricom 10GE NIC to an OpenSolaris GLDv3 driver. This project will start with the

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

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thomas Nau wrote: I agree, Sun is pretty straight forward in China and some other areas in Asia as I could see myself in Beijing. Attending the same conference as Teresa and Glenn I had later on the honor of giving presentations at one of the local Universities and those people are REALLY

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

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Grisanzio
UNIX admin wrote: I envy you for moving to Japan! Thanks. :) It should be wild. I'll be in Sun's office in Yokohama: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgris/12375033/in/set-302056/ But I'd like to also spend a lot of time at the offices in Tokyo ... only a half hour away via train. But

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris desktop background image

2006-06-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
ALL : Over the past week or so I have worked to capture the feeling of open and transparent with intricacy but not complexity. I wanted something open and inviting and yet a reasonable expression of science and engineering. So here it is .. my first OpenSolaris Desktop :

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris desktop background image

2006-06-04 Thread James C. McPherson
Dennis Clarke wrote: Over the past week or so I have worked to capture the feeling of open and transparent with intricacy but not complexity. I wanted something open and inviting and yet a reasonable expression of science and engineering. So here it is .. my first OpenSolaris Desktop :

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris desktop background image

2006-06-04 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke wrote: I have my artsy hat on. Feedback is welcome :-) Hi Dennis, it looks nice could you make you the column more stoney and less cylindery? Perhaps some vertical grooves and shading? nice ? the word you use is nice ? [ insert complete artsy hissy fit here ] ha ha

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

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Joerg and Thomas are correct to point out the university issue, but things will turn around. Inside Sun, this is being taken seriously. I would like to make a suggestion, and task you specifically to take that suggestion back to the Sun education and marketing execs, provided you are

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-04 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:24:11PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: ... I'm too lazy to see if vgatext and ALL associated bits, are now CDDL'd. If someone will confirm this (and email my regular address off-list to prod me) then perhaps I will remember to contribute my now 5-year-old hacked

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-04 Thread Philip Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:47:27PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/vgatext.html has a link to a tarball I hastily threw together of the resulting code. PS: there are two points of interest in my code: 1. it theoretically allows use of other fonts, even