Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 20/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 19/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True, and I don't have a problem with that. However, I will also > > grant an irrevocable license to everyone who "receives

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/24/07, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: UNIX admin wrote: >> I'm glad we've managed to dumb things way down in the >> last 20 years: > ... >> No longer do we need to write in assembly language >> (or machine code or ...) sure we do. I don't think we will ever get away from the hardw

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Except that the Device Driver community is defunct, having no contributors nor core contributors able to participate in community decision making, and as noted, it's really a better fit for Storage or the proposed File Systems community than Device Dr

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
I'm sorry, at the moment Sun just doesn't have the software tools I need. (I work for a big corp. ) I have made a vow that when VMWare workstation comes out for Solaris, I will start running a Solaris desktop. (I have held of switching to a Linux desktop in the hopes that Sun will come through

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> But if all you wanted to do is just "get stuff out > of your computer", then why are you here? Why > Solaris? Somebody with that kind of mentality can be > perfectly happy on Windows. If you don't care about > how it all works, you don't need the most advanced > operating system on the planet. W

[osol-discuss] Re: gnome dumps core -> sxce_b62 x86 upgrade from b59

2007-04-24 Thread John Brewer
have you tried to see what was in the core, i.e. use strings ./core |more or better yet use pmap or pstach ./core check the man page and check out the related commands. 1. bash-3.00# strings core|more CORE exename /pathtoexename CORE i86pc CORE CORE CORE :1.29 org.freedesktop. CORE exen

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Ted Pogue
All, I can affiliate with the storage community until an FS community exists if that works for everyone. Oversight on my part not to have included this as part of the proposal. Thanks for the feedback, Ted Alan Coopersmith wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: What if you just make it a condition that T

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan DuBoff wrote: What if you just make it a condition that Ted needs to get the affiliation? Tom Haynes said this has happened, so I'm satisfied. If it's just a formality that Ted didn't get an affiliation from an existing community, I would affiliate with the Device Driver community, whi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread ken mays
Can anyone give a make and model of a Blue Ray drive? Admittedly, I don't know much about any of that new stuff. Joerg, I'll buy you one and send it your way so that you can work on it, if I can find one to buy. -> If you are looking for Sony Blu-Ray drives: You c

[osol-discuss] Re: gnome dumps core -> sxce_b62 x86 upgrade from b59

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Lees
now - the weird thing is that i left the laptop overnight, then updated a very similar model vaio in the same way. that worked fine, so i tried the 1st laptop again. this time it worked! i have no idea what changed between then & now :/ grrr This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Micro-optimizing for the wrong thing - coding efficiencies -vs- processor speeds

2007-04-24 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
It is all about costs. You don't say. One would think it is all about fashion. The number of folks wearing boss of the plains, leather chaps and lariats is dwindling exponentially. -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Ted Pogue wrote: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. The project proposal draft bein

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Tom Haynes
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Ted Pogue wrote: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. The project proposal draft being considered by the OG

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCE build 62

2007-04-24 Thread Michael Laajanen
Hi, Its a Ultra 45 Workstation so there is no RCS, Openboot is/was updated tó latest for a few weeks ago when the machine arrived. System PROM revisions: -- OBP 4.22.19 2006/09/06 23:42 Sun Ultra 45 Workstation POST 4.22.19 2006/09/07 00:06 - The machine is now running b61 pe

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
> community groups - would it be fair to assume this > project will be > affiliated with the existing Storage community? I have been told that there is going to be a new file system community soon. This seems to be the ideal fit. -brian This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ted Pogue wrote: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. The project proposal draft being considered by the OGB right now would require

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/24/07, Ted Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data services ex

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/24/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Considering these are currently unbundled and shipping products, that > might be hard. I.e., would you want to tell > customers that they need to learn new commands, change all of their > scripts, etc?

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/24/07, Tom Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: > Ted Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Project Overview: >> >> I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the >> community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/24/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ted Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Project Overview: > > I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the > community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive > Manager or SAM and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Tom Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Considering these are currently unbundled and shipping products, that > might be hard. I.e., would you want to tell > customers that they need to learn new commands, change all of their > scripts, etc? Does this mean that my fears are correct? Consderin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Tribble
On 4/24/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The number of true IT experts and professionals is dwindling exponentially every day. Dindling exponentially? Where are they all going? Perhaps systems are getting harder to use so professionals are lkess productive and we nee more ofthem? I

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Tom Haynes
Joerg Schilling wrote: Ted Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ted Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Project Overview: > > I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the > community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive > Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data > services

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Don Traub
EXCELLENT! +1! -dt Ted Pogue wrote On 04/24/07 13:57,: Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data

[osol-discuss] Re: Network card install help

2007-04-24 Thread Hazvinei Mugwagwa
Ok, I have finally been able to install the nfo drivers onto my machine and setup all the usual networking files to set my device to static ip. Alas, I still have no network access! I cannot ping my router and have run out of ideas on how I can troubleshoot why I am not able to get solaris to pl

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread James Carlson
Ted Pogue writes: > I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the > community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive > Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data Wow! +1 from me. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Is there a plan to incorporate this into Solaris Express? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Roland Mainz
Ted Pogue wrote: > > Project Overview: > > I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the > community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive > Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data > services exist today and are di

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Ted Pogue
Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data services exist today and are distributed commercially by Su

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS at OSDEVCON demos

2007-04-24 Thread Erast Benson
3 little demos by Martin Man. Available as of today. http://martinman.net/software/nexenta Thanks Martin. Enjoy! -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
> But if all you wanted to do is just "get stuff out of > your computer", then why are you here? Why Solaris? > Somebody with that kind of mentality can be perfectly > happy on Windows. If you don't care about how it all > works, you don't need the most advanced operating > system on the planet. Wi

[osol-discuss] Micro-optimizing for the wrong thing - coding efficiencies -vs- processor speeds

2007-04-24 Thread John Plocher
UNIX admin wrote: And we've progressed... how exactly? Look at Google Sketchup for a great example of the virtues of being able to spend developer energies on 2nd and 3rd order features like intuitive ease of use and great tutorials rather than on counting bytes in rendering subroutines. It is

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> P.S. - I can't believe some people are actually > advocating making a tool harder to use just so people > will be forced to learn the underlying technology. > That completely defeats the purpose of technological > progress!! If you're referring to me, you got it wrong. I don't believe cdrecord s

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Stephen Lau
UNIX admin wrote: I'm glad we've managed to dumb things way down in the last 20 years: ... No longer do we need to write in assembly language (or machine code or ...) And that's a good thing? That we now have compilers generating bloated code that make it unthinkable to run a modern GUI? He

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> I'm glad we've managed to dumb things way down in the > last 20 years: ... > No longer do we need to write in assembly language > (or machine code or ...) And that's a good thing? That we now have compilers generating bloated code that make it unthinkable to run a modern GUI? Hey, I was coding

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> PS: If "the number of true IT experts and > professionals is dwindling exponentially every day", > you might say that the free market is letting it > happen because it doesn't need them. That > observation matters to Sun because they probably want > to appeal to the new guard before the old guar

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
For background on what this is, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=24416#24416 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=25200#25200 = opensolaris-discuss 04/01 - 04/15 = Size of all threads du

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> You certainly do have a point from a different > angle. I'd agree with > you on this CS/IT skill thing. I've had CS students > asking me: What > is Unix ? Is it something similar to Linux ? I > have interviewed folks > who have done Java Web Services development but > did not know > how to se

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
ken mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have a Blu Ray drive in a machine and could > give me > a login on that machine? > --- > > 1. I'll get a machine set up. Let me know if you need > Solaris 10 or SXCE (what build) and we can go from > there. As

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread John Plocher
UNIX admin wrote: My point is, quite simply, if we dumb everything down, I'm glad we've managed to dumb things way down in the last 20 years: No longer do we need to wire up plugboards to program the mainframes. No longer do we need to toggle front panel switches to bootstrap a system. No lon

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread ken mays
ken mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asking if you needed immediate access to a > Blu-Ray drive and/or workstation for development > purposes. > I'd gladly donate some funds for hardware if you're > willing to provide the solution. Do you have a Blu Ray drive in a machine and could give m

Re: [osol-discuss] Noob needs some help with wireless network adaptor

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Nitz
I don't know about that specific WiFi adapter, but you're more likely to have support for Wifi with recent Solaris Nevada builds rather than Solaris 10. Unless you intend to buy support or need to something specific to Solaris 10, I'd recommend Solaris Express Developer Edition: http://develo

[osol-discuss] Re: Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?

2007-04-24 Thread Doug Scott
Hey, For Xfce on Solaris 8, 9, & 10, I would suggest you use the blastwave packages (Note: They are built for Solaris 8 - no DBUS, HAL etc). For Solaris Express >= build 61, there is now a Xfce (+extras) binary release for x86 hardware (sorry no SPARC yet) on the Open Solaris Xfce project sit

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris

2007-04-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Gupta wrote: ISO's, then you will need to convince Sun to take on the burden of building, shipping, and supporting them - which at the minimum will require reviews by the Architecture Review Committee (ARC) and Sun's Product management committees, which for KDE would probably take closer to

[osol-discuss] Re: Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
> ISO's, then you will need to convince Sun to take on > the burden > of building, shipping, and supporting them - which at > the minimum > will require reviews by the Architecture Review > Committee (ARC) > and Sun's Product management committees, which for > KDE would > probably take closer to mo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
ken mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asking if you needed immediate access to a > Blu-Ray drive and/or workstation for development > purposes. > I'd gladly donate some funds for hardware if you're > willing to provide the solution. Do you have a Blu Ray drive in a machine and could give m

Re: [osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?

2007-04-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/24/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manish Chakravarty wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build? OpenSolaris has no builds to include them in - it's a source base for distros to be built from, and I believe a couple of the distros already

[osol-discuss] Noob needs some help with wireless network adaptor

2007-04-24 Thread qwerty
hello all. the title says it all. Im currently downloading Solaris 10 and...its my first time migrating to open-source OSes. my current PC is a 2.4GHz Intel Celeron D (which is of the X86 architecture, isnt it?), 512MB od DDR RAM and 80GB harddisk space, and a Samsung CD-ROM drive. My system

[osol-discuss] Re: Annoyances watching discussion forums.

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Another annoyance. I keep getting emails about 'discuss' forum. The unfortunate thing is that their are multiple forums named discuss, and there really doesn't seem to be an east way to distinguish between them. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?

2007-04-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi everyone, Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build? OpenSolaris has no builds to include them in - it's a source base for distros to be built from, and I believe a couple of the distros already include those. If you're referring to the Solaris Express

Re: [osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?

2007-04-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi everyone, Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build If you wish to have an OpenSolaris related discussion on this I highly suggest that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the appropriate alias and please look at what is going on in the desktop community first: http

Re: [osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?

2007-04-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/24/07, Manish Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build? Both of them work on OpenSolaris. KDE 3.4.3 has been built using Sun Studio. It would be great for KDE users (like me) or other XFCE users (I am sure there must be some)

[osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?

2007-04-24 Thread Manish Chakravarty
Hi everyone, Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build? Both of them work on OpenSolaris. KDE 3.4.3 has been built using Sun Studio. It would be great for KDE users (like me) or other XFCE users (I am sure there must be some) KDE is good for the power users , IMHO (I have no intention

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread ken mays
ken mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As stated before, it seems we need the hardware and > specs available to the right software engineers that > will provide the solution. > > 1. Sony has a workstation (130G, $1500 USD) and > Blu-Ray drives (BWU-100A and BRU-100A (external)). The > 25GB Blu-Ray

Re: [osol-discuss] X86 equivalent of probe-scsi-all?

2007-04-24 Thread James C. McPherson
Brian Nitz wrote: I'm troubleshooting a problem with recognition of an external SCSI tape drive through a KME PCMCIA card bus. I've found references to the openboot probe-scsi-all command but since X86 hardware typically lacks openboot firmware, what is the equivalent of probe-scsi-all on Solari

[osol-discuss] X86 equivalent of probe-scsi-all?

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Nitz
I'm troubleshooting a problem with recognition of an external SCSI tape drive through a KME PCMCIA card bus. I've found references to the openboot probe-scsi-all command but since X86 hardware typically lacks openboot firmware, what is the equivalent of probe-scsi-all on Solaris X86? This m

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal for IPoIB performance project

2007-04-24 Thread David Brean
+1 Many customers are asking for higher performance from the IPoIB and we now have a project to deliver some improvements. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread MC
IT maintenance is one thing. Scientific innovation is a different thing altogether. I can tell you this much: the software GUI is not the cause of a degeneration of computer science. There is nothing smart or noble about typing a word instead of clicking a button. If anything, GUIs make life

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-24 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solaris only needs to improve if Sun wants to stay > > competitive and grow its market and mind share. > If > > it wasn't for that little hitch, Solaris could > remain > > as painful as your heart desired. > > Solaris isn't "painful", but easy and e

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
ken mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As stated before, it seems we need the hardware and > specs available to the right software engineers that > will provide the solution. > > 1. Sony has a workstation (130G, $1500 USD) and > Blu-Ray drives (BWU-100A and BRU-100A (external)). The > 25GB Blu-Ray

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote: ... If Chung wants to help, he should get involved and try to fix it... +1000 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shouldn't DVD burning be included in this discussion? I need all formats of > DVD + and - as well as single and double layer. > Well, cdrecord supports this Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
UNIX admin wrote: [...] Moinak, I urge you to think carefully one more time about what you've written (an excellent reply BTW). The number of true IT experts and professionals is dwindling exponentially every day. Over here I've got bakers and train drivers and construction workers bei

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-24 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> Just so I'm clear, the Nexenta design philosophy is > (as with many other > people) one of the things you're mainly interested > in here? Is that what > gives rise to most of the sentiments and > observations you're expressing here? > Nexenta design philosophy? I am not sure what you are refer

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the proper forum to discuss alternate filesystems?

2007-04-24 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Brian, > In particular I am wondering if there is any work done or planned to start > supporting additional file systems. Foe example: > - jffs2/squashfs I have one student who just started to work on JFFS2 support. Based on docu, just from scratch, it will take some time. Another is working

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread ken mays
"Anil Gulecha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not specifically asking for a Solaris port of linux Nero. I'm asking for > a well designed GUI for burning CD/DVDs.. if Nero *were* to be ported, it > would be a great choice. The problem is thsat many people ask for something to happen instead of

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Shouldn't DVD burning be included in this discussion? I need all formats of DVD + and - as well as single and double layer. Also I think that ideally there is a good scriptable cli tool, ideally the sam tool has a simple to use GUI, in addition to an ncurses interface. How many people really ne

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-24 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 14:01 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wrapping lines correctly is the job of the MUA. > > No, it is not. For this reason, the Mail RFC > allows a max line length of 78 characters. The RFC also says "it is encumbant upon implementat

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 02:06 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > My point is, quite simply, if we dumb everything down, once we're > gone, the knowledge and experience might very well be lost. Forever. As long as there's one person who still needs to make use of that knowledge and experience, it won't get

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Anil Gulecha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not specifically asking for a Solaris port of linux Nero. I'm asking for > a well designed GUI for burning CD/DVDs.. if Nero *were* to be ported, it > would be a great choice. The problem is thsat many people ask for something to happen instead of h

[osol-discuss] Re: ethernet card not found during installation ?

2007-04-24 Thread Boris Derzhavets
You were asked to report a bug . It might cause creating a CR (Change Request) It works fine when you perform production support for Enterpise System maintained by Company, paying a good money to software vendor. I am not quite sure that in open source development process it will work as good as

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought that it was obvious that an OpenSolaris > > based product cannot be > > compatible to Sun Solaris 10. > > Why would that be obvious? I've compiled binaries on Nevada and ran them on > Solaris 10 without a hitch, so no, it is not obvious. The f

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> I'm not specifically asking > for a Solaris port of linux Nero. I'm asking for > a well designed GUI for burning CD/DVDs.. if Nero > *were* to be ported, it would be a great > choice.I'm a Campus ambassador for SUN, > and spread awareness about Solaris and other SUN > technologies on campus. It i

[osol-discuss] Re: Annoyances watching discussion forums.

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
3) Why can't the emails I get include the body of the post? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Annoyances watching discussion forums.

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Why can't the emails I get include the topic of the post, in addition to the links? Why are there no digest mailing formats? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the proper forum to discuss alternate filesystems?

2007-04-24 Thread Mark Phalan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:34 +0200, Mark Phalan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 03:04 -0700, Brian Gupta wrote: > > Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are > > times when other filesystem types are needed. > > > > In particular I am wondering if there is any work d

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: b62 system error

2007-04-24 Thread James Carlson
Andrew Pattison writes: > How do I disable IPv6 on the loopback? It's enabled automatically if you have one or more regular IPv6 interfaces at boot time (plumbed by /etc/hostname6.*), or if you're using the phase 0 NWAM feature. You can disable it at run time by doing "ifconfig lo0 inet6 unplumb.

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the proper forum to discuss alternate filesystems?

2007-04-24 Thread Mark Phalan
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 03:04 -0700, Brian Gupta wrote: > Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are > times when other filesystem types are needed. > > In particular I am wondering if there is any work done or planned to start > supporting additional file systems. F

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/24/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @all: Yes, I know that wrappers exist, and > have used xcdroast previously. The last gcombust > release was in 2003. Lets just say I like my GUIs > pretty and intuitive. The graveman screenshots look > promising. The point is there are no produ

[osol-discuss] Solaris (SXDE) Parallels appliance available on SDLC

2007-04-24 Thread Daniel Zhu
Hi guys, A Solaris (SXDE) Parallels Virtual Machine Appliance (i.e., a pre-installed SXDE Parallels image) is now ready for your download on Sun Download Center! Generally speaking, this ready-to-resume appliance enables you to run Solaris inside Parallels virtual machine (http://www.parallels.co

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the proper forum to discuss alternate filesystems?

2007-04-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Brian, Replies inline. On 4/24/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are times when other filesystem types are needed. unsure - FAT16/FAT32 These are supported. - NTFS - ext3 The above are not supported by

[osol-discuss] What is the proper forum to discuss alternate filesystems?

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are times when other filesystem types are needed. In particular I am wondering if there is any work done or planned to start supporting additional file systems. Foe example: - jffs2/squashfs - FAT16/FAT32 - NTFS - ext3 - HFS+

[osol-discuss] Re: ethernet card not found during installation ?

2007-04-24 Thread pietro maggi
sorry, I did't understand (my english is poor as my unix knowledge :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> Solaris only needs to improve if Sun wants to stay > competitive and grow its market and mind share. If > it wasn't for that little hitch, Solaris could remain > as painful as your heart desired. Solaris isn't "painful", but easy and elegant. It's a matter of opinion, and in particular, it's a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Manoj Joseph
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Seriously, the next thing you know, you'll want a "wizard" or dancing paper clip or some such to step the newcomers through the choices that can't just be defaulted (like what kinds of systems do you want to be able to read this CD: Apple (Mac OS X), Solaris, Linux, Wi

[osol-discuss] Re: Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> I thought that it was obvious that an OpenSolaris > based product cannot be > compatible to Sun Solaris 10. Why would that be obvious? I've compiled binaries on Nevada and ran them on Solaris 10 without a hitch, so no, it is not obvious. To be fair, I recently compiled something on Solaris 10

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nero is a child's plaything compared to cdrtools from Joerg Schilling, that > BTW come built into Solaris: > > cdrecord -scanbus > cdrecord -v -data -sao dev=c,t,l /var/tmp/MyImage.ISO > > where "c,t,l" are the numbers you'd get from `cdrecord -scanbus`, an

[osol-discuss] Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> I seem to have not been as clear as I should have. I > sugest Nero not because there is no other alternative > but because it is simple better. from and end user > rospective it is highly intuative, can do anything > you could posibly want, Actually, no, it can not. For example, the kind of UDF

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> Ummm we have a couple of user groups here ... > developers/power users > ho want scriptablity > and power, casual users and newbies who want ease > of use. > A developer/power user will go gaga over the > power, flexibility, > etailed output and scriptability > that cdrecord and mkisofs prov

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread UNIX admin
> @all: Yes, I know that wrappers exist, and > have used xcdroast previously. The last gcombust > release was in 2003. Lets just say I like my GUIs > pretty and intuitive. The graveman screenshots look > promising. The point is there are no production > quality ones, that could be included in SX by