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 but

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 install

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. gcc is

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 some cases cannot

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 code

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, otherwise a

[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

[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 -

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 problem is reported for

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 user

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 system

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 user

[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