Re: [osol-discuss] Open Sound System - Dev Mazumdar

2007-07-18 Thread Dev Mazumdar
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Using the OpenSound driver: bash-3.00$ /usr/bin/ossinfo Version info: OSS 4.0 (build 1004/200707062145) (0x00040002) Platform: SunOS/i86pc 5.11 opensol-20070709 Number of audio devices:3 Number of audio engines:7 Number of MIDI devices:

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Sound System - Dev Mazumdar

2007-07-18 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 23:33 -0700, Dev Mazumdar wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Using the OpenSound driver: bash-3.00$ /usr/bin/ossinfo Version info: OSS 4.0 (build 1004/200707062145) (0x00040002) Platform: SunOS/i86pc 5.11 opensol-20070709 Number of audio devices:3

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Sound System - Dev Mazumdar

2007-07-18 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 23:33 -0700, Dev Mazumdar wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Using the OpenSound driver: bash-3.00$ /usr/bin/ossinfo Version info: OSS 4.0 (build 1004/200707062145) (0x00040002) Platform: SunOS/i86pc 5.11 opensol-20070709 Number of audio devices:3

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-18 Thread James Carlson
Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan writes: Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? It's not clear what the question might be here, but the list previously cited: http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ points to all of the OpenSolaris-base distributions of which we're aware. There are

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-18 Thread Venky
Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? Yes - those are the known distributions. Not so bad for a 2-year old project, IMO. I guess you are comparing the number of distributions to what's available on Linux. But the explosion of distros is a reasonably new phenomenon even

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-18 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:59 +0530, Venky wrote: Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? Yes - those are the known distributions. Not so bad for a 2-year old project, IMO. I guess you are comparing the number of distributions to what's available on Linux. But the

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread UNIX admin
Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? I do not believe that there would be very many happy people in the Solaris community if we started seeing a number forks, pardon, distros of Solaris increase. One of the things we as a community have often communicated is that we

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread Stephen Lau
UNIX admin wrote: Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? I do not believe that there would be very many happy people in the Solaris community if we started seeing a number forks, pardon, distros of Solaris increase. One of the things we as a community have often

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
UNIX admin wrote: To build the knowledge following development projects are started in the Menhir project: * A document based on BSD Associate Exam Objectives will be written which guides every user in the use and administration of FreeBSD, NetBSD, Slackware and OpenSolaris. * A document

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Gaopeng Chen, The first step of your project is stated to focus on the support of desktop systems. It stores and manages the fingerprint records in local system. I am experimenting with a few desktop motherboards for Solaris installation and I happen to have a notebook barebone with a built

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the package managemnet software on solaris?

2007-07-18 Thread Matt Kolb
On Jul 13, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Jim Adams wrote: I know that Debian GNU/Linux has Synaptic for package management. Is there a similar package manager for Solaris? We use pkgsrc http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html A big reason for choosing pkgsrc is that it works on multiple

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-code] lex flex

2007-07-18 Thread Michael Shapiro
Dear all: There're two lexical analyzer generator in Solaris/OpenSolaris /usr/ccs/bin/lex /usr/sfw/bin/flex What's the difference between these 2 tools? Are they replaceable? Thanks in advance. p.s. And what about yacc and bison? Regards TJ lex and yacc are the original crusty

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] About CDE removing (In which Build?)

2007-07-18 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: There is no schedule yet - at the moment individual pieces are starting to be removed (sdtimage is out already, sdtaudiocontrol will probably come out around the time OSS goes in), but there's still some dependencies on other pieces that need to be

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-code] CANNOT build ON source b66 on Solaris Express b66

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Lowe
陶捷 Tao Jie wrote: Dear all: I'm building ON source b66 these days. But I fail all the time, no matter what I've tried, the nightly opensolaris.sh or cd usr/src/uts; dmake all. My build environment is: Intel P4 with 512M memory, Solaris Express B66 + Sun Studio 11 I can't

[osol-discuss] Solaris Projects for Students

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
This mail is sent to Bangalore open Solaris user group with a request to forward / communicate to campus ambassadors / heads of departments of colleges and student members. My company, Isolated Networks, is based in Erode, Tamilnadu and is working on installing solaris on X86 platforms. We

[osol-discuss] Fwd: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-07-18 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Gaopeng Chen, The first step of your project is stated to focus on the support of desktop systems. It stores and manages the fingerprint records in local system. I am experimenting with a few desktop motherboards for Solaris installation and I happen to have a notebook barebone with a built

Re: [osol-discuss] nv b67 oddities

2007-07-18 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
James Carlson schrieb: Thomas Maier-Komor writes: I am wondering if it is normal that pkginfo bails out with a dynamic linker error stating that libssl.so.0.9.7 is missing on a nevada build 67 (SPARC). No. That sounds like a broken system. I've done an upgrade with live upgrade from

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:53 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: UNIX admin wrote: Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? I do not believe that there would be very many happy people in the Solaris community if we started seeing a number forks, pardon, distros of Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread Stephen Lau
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:53 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: UNIX admin wrote: Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? I do not believe that there would be very many happy people in the Solaris community if we started seeing a number forks, pardon,

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Kaiwai Gardiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:53 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: UNIX admin wrote: Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? I do not believe that there would be very many happy people in the Solaris community if we started

[osol-discuss] Project proposal for SCSI SAM File system

2007-07-18 Thread Harihara Kadayam
I would like propose a new project SCSI SAM Pseudo File system in OpenSolaris. This file system will be somewhat similar to Linux’s /proc/scsi file system, with several extensions. In a typical setup, we have multiple systems connected to the storage devices and each could have multiple

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:27 -0700, Glenn Lagasse wrote: * Kaiwai Gardiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:53 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: UNIX admin wrote: Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? I do not believe that there would be very

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-18 Thread S h i v
On 7/18/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's of course your spare time and effort, but as far as (Open)Solaris documentation goes, I believe that your time would be better spent developing great new software for Solaris, on Solaris, than writing documents which already exist, and

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread Stephen Lau
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:27 -0700, Glenn Lagasse wrote: * Kaiwai Gardiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:53 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: UNIX admin wrote: Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short list ? I do not believe that there would

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
For the desktop (forgot to add) - given the fabulous reputation that Oracle has for security (chuckles) I wouldn't be using that as a poster boy anytime soon. What sorts of commercial desktop applications would you want? And that doesn't seem to be something that is a fallacy of Linux,

Re: [osol-discuss] Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux,

2007-07-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] I find the professional documentation for Solaris fairly typical of professional documentation these days, and not terribly useful. It is, as you say, detailed and step-by-step. What it *doesn't* do is give me any traction in really understanding how the system works; which

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread Stephen Lau
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: How so? ATI drivers which are buggy and unreliable due to their unsubstantiated paranoia over 'IP'. But still better than what we have under Solaris. True, but given the unreliability of it, one could argue that it is best that Solaris doesn't have it. I'm in the

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris p

2007-07-18 Thread S h i v
On 7/19/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compatible?! talk to ATI customes who are at the mercy of whether AMD/ATI can be stuffed creatingn compatible kernel drivers for their distribution due to inter-distribution incompatibilities. and yet they still have drivers while