Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Zones vs FreeBSD Jails vs VServer vs OpenVZ

2009-05-16 Thread Anon Y Mous
Here's a pretty good comparison of Solaris Zones vs everything else: http://www.softpanorama.org/Solaris/Virtualization/zones.shtml Zones are the best IMO because some of the key advantages that zones have: (1) You can snapshot and clone them and rewind to old snapshots if your zones have t

Re: [osol-discuss] laptop support in OpenSolaris 2009.6

2009-05-16 Thread Andras Barna
i dont think that laptops are meant to be _that_ secure.. @ home, @ office the fingerprint reader is enough .. On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> man, you can imagine your son/neighbor/colleague/wife >> with "gelatin >> molds" in hands?:) > > Ok, you're funny, but it's

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone else had any authentication problems in b113?

2009-05-16 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Ian, CCing sparks-discuss@, Bccing opensolaris-discuss@, probably better for such discussion. Ian Collins píše v so 16. 05. 2009 v 22:14 +1200: > I just upgraded a system to b113 and I'm unable to login with any user > other then root. > >From which build? > The system is an LDAP client, "

Re: [osol-discuss] Perl 5.10?

2009-05-16 Thread John Sonnenschein
Perl 5.10 is built and in jucr/pending . It is awaiting votes to promote to contrib/ -JohnS On 15-May-09, at 11:47 PM, solarg wrote: Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: John Sonnenschein is working on submitting it to /contrib, see http://jucr.opensolaris.org/review/packages/265/ hello all, i need

Re: [osol-discuss] laptop support in OpenSolaris 2009.6

2009-05-16 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> man, you can imagine your son/neighbor/colleague/wife > with "gelatin > molds" in hands?:) Ok, you're funny, but it's a real problem: http://www.google.com/search?q=fingerprint+gelatin OTOH, iris scanners may be subject to the even more horrific "Simon Phoenix" attack. :-) But except for that

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111a X86 on DELL Inspiron 9300, works great

2009-05-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
I'm a happy camper. The wireless was not working on rev snv_110 but today it is. Not sure what changed, but I'm happy. r...@opensolaris:~# uname -a SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_111a i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris r...@opensolaris:~# psrinfo -pv The physical processor has 1 virtual processor (0) x86 (Ge

Re: [osol-discuss] laptop support in OpenSolaris 2009.6

2009-05-16 Thread Andras Barna
man, you can imagine your son/neighbor/colleague/wife with "gelatin molds" in hands?:) On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > [...] >> 3. Support for fingerprint reader; in 2008.11, the >> device is listed as supported (!), but how to >> actually read fingerprints and, most

Re: [osol-discuss] laptop support in OpenSolaris 2009.6

2009-05-16 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > 3. Support for fingerprint reader; in 2008.11, the > device is listed as supported (!), but how to > actually read fingerprints and, most importantly, how > to use them for login authentication has remained a > mystery for me :( Again, this is a well-documented > feature in Linux... [...]

Re: [osol-discuss] laptop support in OpenSolaris 2009.6

2009-05-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 16 May 2009, at 09:34, Oliver H. Weiergraeber wrote: Hello, given that OpenSolaris 2008.11 had very significant improvements (great work indeed :)) in hardware support on current laptops, I am wondering what can be expected with the upcoming 2009.6 release. For my case (Thinkpad R61),

[osol-discuss] Anyone else had any authentication problems in b113?

2009-05-16 Thread Ian Collins
I just upgraded a system to b113 and I'm unable to login with any user other then root. The system is an LDAP client, "getent passwd" shows all users, but "su - user" give an unknown user error. Odd. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list op

Re: [osol-discuss] Perl 5.10?

2009-05-16 Thread Laszlo (Laca) Peter
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 08:47 +0200, solarg wrote: > Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > > John Sonnenschein is working on submitting it to /contrib, > > see http://jucr.opensolaris.org/review/packages/265/ > > > > hello all, > i need perl 5.10 in os2008.11 for an important app (www.koha.org). > I've ins

[osol-discuss] laptop support in OpenSolaris 2009.6

2009-05-16 Thread Oliver H. Weiergraeber
Hello, given that OpenSolaris 2008.11 had very significant improvements (great work indeed :)) in hardware support on current laptops, I am wondering what can be expected with the upcoming 2009.6 release. For my case (Thinkpad R61), these are the most interesting issues: 1. Support for Fn-Fx h