Re: [osol-discuss] Roadmap for Solaris 10?

2008-02-21 Thread UNIX admin
I know this is the Open Solaris list, and I use Open Solaris daily, but I can't find a place that documents when Sun plans to drop the next Sol10. We haven't seen a new one since 08/07, IIRC. Does anyone know how to find this information? From experience, there are likely to be two to

[osol-discuss] semaphores on solaris 8

2008-02-21 Thread Allan
Hi, Is there anyway I can tell post action that when a process does a semget(1207963596, 1, 0666|IPC_CREAT) and does not release the semaphore what process actually locked it. i.e in mdb would a defunct process or parent process have a hook still into the memory segment. I have a situation

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-21 Thread UNIX admin
Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes for what the price back then. In retrospective, considering the U10 hardware, they were outrageously expensive back then. But it was a different time, I was young and high on the purple Sun logo. I'm surprised that you'd even consider

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-21 Thread Kyle McDonald
UNIX admin wrote: Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes for what the price back then. In retrospective, considering the U10 hardware, they were outrageously expensive back then. Really? For workstations in general, and SPARC in particular they seemed cheap to me.

[osol-discuss] Nvidia 9600gt compatibility with OpenSolaris distros

2008-02-21 Thread ken mays
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9600gt.html The new video drivers might be v174.16 or higher - but not officially posted on the web site yet for Solaris x86/64 (only Windows XP or higher). Test with SXCE 82 and Solaris 10 if possible. ~ Ken Mays

[osol-discuss] What's in a name? Re: [ogb-discuss] Should the OGB respond to Sun's OpenSolaris name-use decision?

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Joerg Schilling This is why the OpenSolaris cummunity proposed Sun to use a new trademark for an OpenSolaris based distro.

[osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success Re: [ogb-discuss] Should the OGB respond to Sun's OpenSolaris name-use decision?

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:50:53PM +0100, Michal Bielicki wrote: If I would be religious I'd pray that we will have as much susccess as those two [Ubuntu and Fedora] :) How do you define success? * A thriving

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:06:53PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: * A thriving community with sustained growth? * Nearly instant name recognition among anyone that knows there are other operating systems than Windows? And Michal's answer: Start with acceptance and userbase ? My 9 year old

[osol-discuss] Microsoft opens ALL protocols!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Orvar Korvar
Woha!!! MS is opening all their protocols Just recently announced. What are some of the consequences? You clever guys, please write something! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:06:53PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: * A thriving community with sustained growth? * Nearly instant name recognition among anyone that knows there are other operating systems than Windows? And Michal's answer: Start with acceptance and userbase ? My 9 year old

Re: [osol-discuss] Microsoft opens ALL protocols!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
Woha!!! MS is opening all their protocols Just recently announced. What are some of the consequences? You clever guys, please write something! A whole pile of people in the samba project all look with amazement at how they already knew those things. Dennis

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:37:02PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: that anyone will question the DEC Alpha. Regardless, I can assure you that in the world of business, the real world, being right does not matter. How can you explain Microsoft ? You can't. I think that you may be suffering from

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultra 10... honestly somebody on eBay will buy it from you. Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes for what the price back then. Of course I wouldn't even consider it unless it had the Creator 3D Series

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:40:39PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: No it does not. You are making the assumption that world domination can not happen *with* technical excellence. No. User base growth is a goal but technical excellence is a constraint. I am asserting that reversing those leads

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:37:02PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: that anyone will question the DEC Alpha. Regardless, I can assure you that in the world of business, the real world, being right does not matter. How can you explain Microsoft ? You can't. I think that you may be suffering

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:40:39PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: No it does not. You are making the assumption that world domination can not happen *with* technical excellence. No. User base growth is a goal but technical excellence is a constraint. I am asserting that reversing those

Re: [osol-discuss] semaphores on solaris 8

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew C. Henle
What does ipcs -A show? (I *think* Solaris 8 supports the -A option to ipcs...) Maybe there's a hint there. You should at least see the time of the last semop() on the semaphores. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] SXDE php/mysql Incompatibility

2008-02-21 Thread Christopher Gibbs
Hello all, Has anybody else had problems connecting to mysql from php using the unmodified web stack that comes with SXDE 1/08? If you are using the mysql 5 service (the default mysql SMF service) you have to use the /usr/mysql/5.0/bin/mysql binary to connect to it. If you try to use the

Re: [osol-discuss] Microsoft opens ALL protocols!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Ché Kristo
I wouldn't say open and I definitely would not say all. Outside of the very specific patent promises made in the patent promise this announcement does not cover all necessary patents required to implement the given protocols or codecs... Woha!!! MS is opening all their protocols Just