[osol-discuss] xfce 4.4.2 builds?

2008-09-29 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; does anyone have an idea what the state of XFCE (4.4) in OpenSolaris so far is? So far I see [1] announcing there are spec files for 4.4.2 available, but the news date back to December 2007 and the latest binary builds available there are still at 4.4.1. Is the project abandoned, or is ther

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Solaris Real Time OS?

2008-09-29 Thread Ian Collins
Orvar Korvar wrote: > This pdf talks a lot about Solaris beeing RT. But I thought RT OS were very > specialized, and not used in common OS? You can not have the cake and eat it? > > (Open)Solaris isn't a common OS :) Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mail

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is best Solaris for server !?

2008-09-29 Thread Ian Collins
Leví Teodoro da Silva wrote: > Thanks for informations > > I want to run in this server, just two basic things : > Glassfish and postgres. > > And i dont to use Firefox or Star Office and another programs. I want just to > use a web server and a database server. > I think i will try a Core Sy

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Solaris Real Time OS?

2008-09-29 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
On 09/29/08 13:47, Orvar Korvar wrote: > This pdf talks a lot about Solaris beeing RT. But I thought RT OS were very > specialized, and not used in common OS? You can not have the cake and eat it? There are various degrees of "real-timeness", depending on a number of benchmarks: response, jitter

[osol-discuss] Is Solaris Real Time OS?

2008-09-29 Thread Orvar Korvar
This pdf talks a lot about Solaris beeing RT. But I thought RT OS were very specialized, and not used in common OS? You can not have the cake and eat it? http://www.sun.com/servers/netra/docs/solaris_carrier_grade_os.pdf -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] VBox 2.0.2 vs. 1.6.6

2008-09-29 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Now a brief commercial: > > Sun's VirtualBox is working so well and so > transparently, I have not booted up my other Solaris > notebooks (running on bare metal) for over a week now > (& don't see any incentive at least in the near > future). > > Let's face it, we will be fooling ourselves to t

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2008-09-29 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> It's interesting to me reading how much you complain > about iiim. Just > some comments from my side: > > - I have seen some Yong's comments on SCIM is in > maintenance mode -> no > new features and that the world has moved to next > generation input > methods projects. From this perspective is m

[osol-discuss] milax on stick -> next steps

2008-09-29 Thread Kristoff Bonne
Gegroet, I have managed to install milax on a 8 GB USB-stick on my laptop, which now works nicely. Thank you for all the people who helped to get this running. So, I now would like to procede to the next steps: -> How do you make changes to the stick permanent (so, have the root-filesystem on

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is best Solaris for server !?

2008-09-29 Thread Leví Teodoro da Silva
Thanks for informations I want to run in this server, just two basic things : Glassfish and postgres. And i dont to use Firefox or Star Office and another programs. I want just to use a web server and a database server. I think i will try a Core System Support Software Group. I read that Re

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is best Solaris for server !?

2008-09-29 Thread Fredrich Maney
The OP wasn't clear as to why he didn't want the GUI, but "just turn it off" simply doesn't cut it for many of the cases I can think of for not running a GUI. fpsm On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Ignacio Marambio Catán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if you dont want gnome just turn it off, it's no

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is best Solaris for server !?

2008-09-29 Thread Miguel Da Silva - URI
Leví Teodoro da Silva escribió: > Hi Guys > > I am configuring a server at my work and i need some advices. [b]I want to > know what is best solaris distro to install on my server ?![/b] > I installed Solaris 10, but i installed and it has a graphical interface. I > want a server with black

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is best Solaris for server !?

2008-09-29 Thread Fredrich Maney
I really hate the whole "distro" thing, but it looks like that ship has sailed and I was outvoted. Any of the flavors of Solaris/OpenSolaris will do what you want - it's a matter of how you install and configure it. If you are running production applications, I would suggest you stick with mainst

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Leví Teodoro da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi !!! > > I used this command > > cdrecord -dao dev=5,0,0 solaris10.iso > > and it works perfectly !!! Add -v if you like to see more messages. You may remove the dev= option in case you have only one drive in your system and -dao is the defaul

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is best Solaris for server !?

2008-09-29 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
if you dont want gnome just turn it off, it's not such a big deal. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Leví Teodoro da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys > > I am configuring a server at my work and i need some advices. [b]I want to > know what is best solaris distro to install on my se

[osol-discuss] Why is best Solaris for server !?

2008-09-29 Thread Leví Teodoro da Silva
Hi Guys I am configuring a server at my work and i need some advices. [b]I want to know what is best solaris distro to install on my server ?![/b] I installed Solaris 10, but i installed and it has a graphical interface. I want a server with black screen =) I made a mistake on my insta

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Leví Teodoro da Silva
Hi !!! I used this command cdrecord -dao dev=5,0,0 solaris10.iso and it works perfectly !!! Thanks for attention !!! Leví -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Bittorrent client for Solaris

2008-09-29 Thread Neil Houston
Hi Folks, I've been working on some transmission package for blastwave, you can get the latest pkg from: http://blastwave.network.com/testing/transmission-1.34,REV=2008.09.24-SunOS5.8-i386.pkg.gz This was built on Solaris 8 using sunstudio, so it should work anywhere =) SPARC to follow shortly

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Girts Zeltins wrote: > Is there any info about planned changes in Solaris for future in this and > next year? I am interesting what is planned for future. A lot of that was presented at the community town hall two weeks ago - you can see the slides from the initial talk, and listen to recording

Re: [osol-discuss] ACER Aspire One and OpenSolaris B99, fdisk

2008-09-29 Thread David Clack
Hi, Thanks for all the info. My ACER ONE came without any media. It also only has Window XP Home. The hardware died on Saturday a day after I got it. I was working in reverse (first for me), install OPenSolaris on 1st partition, then Windows XP Prof. After fix up to boot grub. I'd just

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread Calum Benson
On 29 Sep 2008, at 14:38, Girts Zeltins wrote: > How about driver support? As we know the best driver model is now > for Windows, but how about Solaris? > Maybe there is possible Sun Microsystems to sponsor Jungo driver > development tools to allow them to use for free. > I see that driver ad

[osol-discuss] osol 0811-98 desktop performance?

2008-09-29 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; not sure whether or not this does belong here: Installing OpenSolaris once again (using an osol-0811-98 iso off genunix.org), I happened to find some of the desktop features (example: the firefox notification bars on top of the window, in example the "keep-password..." question) being notic

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread James Carlson
Girts Zeltins writes: > I am interesting to know when GNOME 2.24 will be integrated in Solaris? A quick google search shows that the gate is based on 2.24: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/ and that it was integrated around build 99: http://opensolaris.org/jive/me

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread Girts Zeltins
How about driver support? As we know the best driver model is now for Windows, but how about Solaris? Maybe there is possible Sun Microsystems to sponsor Jungo driver development tools to allow them to use for free. I see that driver adoption is very slow. regards, Girts -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread Girts Zeltins
Thank You. Regards, Girts -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
> Leví Teodoro da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi guys > > > > I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i > will install Solaris 10 on my server. I am > downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) > > My question is simple : How can i do to create a > bootable dvd with this ISO us

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread Ghee Teo
Girts Zeltins wrote: > Hello all, > > I am interesting to know when GNOME 2.24 will be integrated in Solaris? > The GNOME 2.23.91 is integrated into nevada 99 and 2.23.92 for nevada 100 and 2.24.0 is scheduled for nevada 101. > Is there any info about planned changes in Solaris for future in th

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread James Carlson
Leví Teodoro da Silva writes: > I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i will install Solaris 10 on > my server. I am downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) > My question is simple : How can i do to create a bootable dvd with this ISO > using OpenSolaris !? I do not know a program for it

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread Calum Benson
On 29 Sep 2008, at 13:27, Girts Zeltins wrote: > Hello all, > > I am interesting to know when GNOME 2.24 will be integrated in > Solaris? It will be available in OpenSolaris 2008.11, and SXCE/Nevada b101. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mail

Re: [osol-discuss] Maximum LUN size

2008-09-29 Thread Erik Persson
And yes. I should have checked the Suns documentation on the subject. :-) Regards, /Erik -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Maximum LUN size

2008-09-29 Thread Erik Persson
Thanks everybody for the swift response! I didn't consider (or know) that there was any limitations to fdisk labels. Armed with this knowledge I did some more thinking and testing and it now works. This is probably what happened: The disk group in the disk system (a el-cheapo four years old

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leví Teodoro da Silva wrote: > > Hi guys > > > > I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i will install Solaris 10 > > on my server. I am downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) > > My question is simple : How can i do to create a bootable d

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Leví Teodoro da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Hi guys > > I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i will install Solaris 10 > on my server. I am downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) > My question is simple : How can i do to create a bootable dv

[osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread Girts Zeltins
Hello all, I am interesting to know when GNOME 2.24 will be integrated in Solaris? Is there any info about planned changes in Solaris for future in this and next year? I am interesting what is planned for future. How about JDS marketing? Is there plan to go away from JDS name and use in all place

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Matt Harrison
Leví Teodoro da Silva wrote: > Hi guys > > I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i will install Solaris 10 on > my server. I am downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) > My question is simple : How can i do to create a bootable dvd with this ISO > using OpenSolaris !? I do not know

Re: [osol-discuss] ACER Aspire One and OpenSolaris B99, fdisk

2008-09-29 Thread andrew
Hmm. I bought a Toshiba laptop recently and I got 2 recovery disks - one for Vista and one for XP. After about a week struggling with the dog-slow Vista I "downgraded" to XP and set it up to dual boot OpenSolaris. All the hardware is supported, except for audio and the memory card reader. I hop

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Leví Teodoro da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys > > I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i will install Solaris 10 on > my server. I am downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) > My question is simple : How can i do to create a bootable dvd with this ISO > using OpenSola

[osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Leví Teodoro da Silva
Hi guys I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i will install Solaris 10 on my server. I am downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) My question is simple : How can i do to create a bootable dvd with this ISO using OpenSolaris !? I do not know a program for it Thanks, Leví -- T

Re: [osol-discuss] Maximum LUN size

2008-09-29 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
I just found a documented answer: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Erik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I am exerimenting with ZFS on a fibre channel connected storage system and > have run a minor annoyance. Ideally I would like to have all my storage > exported as ~1.5 TB LUNS

Re: [osol-discuss] Maximum LUN size

2008-09-29 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Erik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solaris detects these LUNS but it cannot use them. I get "cannot open > /dev/rdsk/c4$WWNdNp0" when trying to run fdisk. A Linux system has no > problems using the same LUN. > > If I reduce the size to half it does work

Re: [osol-discuss] PostgreSQL slower on 64bit opensolaris than on 32bit WinXP ?

2008-09-29 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Bruno Damour napsal(a): > Sorry, if there are duplicates... I messed it up > > Hello, > I had some simple tests on my laptop (dual core intel, 1G mem), > dual-booting winXP Pro SP2 32bit (ntfs) and nevada b98 64 bit (full zfs). > The test is (for now) a SQL copy on a medium size csv file (49megs

[osol-discuss] Maximum LUN size

2008-09-29 Thread Erik Persson
Hello! I am exerimenting with ZFS on a fibre channel connected storage system and have run a minor annoyance. Ideally I would like to have all my storage exported as ~1.5 TB LUNS from the disk system (2x750 GiB). Solaris detects these LUNS but it cannot use them. I get "cannot open /dev/rdsk