[osol-discuss] James Gosling at SVLUG tonight, Mountain View, CA

2008-11-05 Thread Alan DuBoff
If anyone is in the valley area and is interested, James Gosling is speaking over at the Silicon Valley Linux User Group which meets at the Veritas/Symatec building on Ellis. http://www.svlug.org/meetings.php -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group __

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Brian Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Glenn: > >>> I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be >>> an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to >>> be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on >>> the system). >> >> In

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Glenn: >> I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be >> an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to >> be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on >> the system). > > In theory, if a user wants to use IPS to manager their

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Brian Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Glenn: > > I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be > an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to > be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on > the system). In theory, if a

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Cameron
Glenn: I think your arguments are sound. It does seem that there should be an interface for finding out if the user has a preference for IPS to be used as the packaging system (beyond IPS just being installed on the system). It also seems odd that there isn't a standard interface that can be re

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [indiana-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-05 Thread James Andrewartha
Ginn Chen wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:02 PM, James Andrewartha wrote: > >> Ginn Chen wrote: >>> I believe Firefox 3 doesn't have this bug since it's using its own >>> sqlite3 library. >> >> Does it suffer from the fsync bug that the Linux versions have? > > I guess not. > > First, the probl

[osol-discuss] Requesting one OPENSOLARIS Student Package

2008-11-05 Thread M . A . Syed
Hello, I am a student, I have just installed open solaris in vmware and its sluggish ; after reading this post and the opensolaris student package, I am really keen on getting my hands on one so that I can try the developer tools and this great operating system. My Address is : Mutahir 305 - Fi

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Student Pack

2008-11-05 Thread Jane Ullah
Hi there, I found out about the OpenSolaris student pack from David Stewart at http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/11/03/opensolaris-student-edition /. I would love to check this out and I would greatly appreciate a copy of the student pack. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Jane Ull

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Ignacio Marambio Cat?n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > huh? i dont see how java using IPS to distribute it's software makes > checking whether pkg(5) is available or not less reliable. > for the intended purpose, if pkg(5) is available, then "codenia" > should try and install an IPS package, otherwi

Re: [osol-discuss] timeslider in b100a?

2008-11-05 Thread Ghee Teo
Kristian Rink wrote: > Folks; > > installed OpenSolaris using the 100a iso to be found on genunix.org once > again, and the first thing I stumbled across was the Time Slider splash > screens to appear during installation. Great, that's exactly what I have > been waiting for. [1] seems to provide a

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, I agree with you. That's what GCC(1) offers the [-std=standard] > options for (of course Studio has a limited similar functionality, > which supports less standards unfortunately). However, it is not > GCC(1)'s fault if many folks tend to write c

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alfred Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Martin Bochnig wrote: >> > I like gcc because it has repeatedly helped me to get things working, >> > which not only would first need to be ported to Studio, but which in >> > s

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alfred Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > > I like gcc because it has repeatedly helped me to get things working, > > which not only would first need to be ported to Studio, but which in > > some cases cannot even be ported to Studio at all. Another example is > > Qemu. > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Ignacio Marambio Catán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > huh? i dont see how java using IPS to distribute it's software makes > checking whether pkg(5) is available or not less reliable. > for the intended purpose, if pkg(5) is available, then "codenia" > should try and

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Follow the GNU autoconf philosophy - don't test for OS names and assume > you know the feature set of all versions, past, present and future, of > that OS -- test for the features you care about. You are not talking about the GNU autoconf philosophy b