Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Elvis Presley
I hope you find this funny. I know I did: http://www.amazingaustralia.com.au/kiwi_jokes.htm -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Matthias Pfützner
OK, understood! Still, as mentioned elsewhere... Different Company Cultures of communicating things, that's all, we're seeing... And, yes, sadly, that's generating confusion and uncertainty... Matthias -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Erlan Sergaziev erlan.sergaz...@gmail.com An:

[osol-discuss] Any idea of how to deal with osol133 trying to finish part2 of the boot

2010-04-16 Thread Henry Pepper
Hi I'm having a problem with my OSOL 133, it doesn't get beyond the progress/scan bar. There is a lot of network activity and nothing else. I've seen the problem a few time before on previous versions, usually disabling the network or doing a power cut and boot up made the problem go away. This

Re: [osol-discuss] Any idea of how to deal with osol133 trying to finish part2 of the boot

2010-04-16 Thread Ian Collins
On 04/16/10 09:48 PM, Henry Pepper wrote: Hi I'm having a problem with my OSOL 133, it doesn't get beyond the progress/scan bar. There is a lot of network activity and nothing else. I've seen the problem a few time before on previous versions, usually disabling the network or doing a power cut

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Claudia Hildebrandt
Please. please please guys, osol-friends and discussers, would you all please come back to a professional communication and cooperation and state and comment busineeslike and objective. Please, stop insulting people wheter it is or not your opinion, stop the offenses, personal affronts,

[osol-discuss] Oracle tunes Solaris for Intel's big Xeons

2010-04-16 Thread Paul Griffith
Supplied without comment! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/oracle_solaris_nehalem_ex/ snip. In the absence of shipping Nehalem-EX iron, Oracle is talking up how OpenSolaris, the development version of Solaris, has been tweaked so it can support some of the new features in the

[osol-discuss] Probably stupid question, but: OpenSolaris on Atom N450 with 2GB ram

2010-04-16 Thread Svein Skogen
I'm considering getting a cute little netbook for vacation use (something smaller than my W500), and can get a real good deal on an Ideapad S10-3, which is an Atom N450 with 2GB ram. How (un?)well will OpenSolaris run on this hardware? //Svein --

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
The bad attitude of the official discussions here causes heise to snear. Sorry, it is in german: I read German. The article is largely about Oracle's lack of openness. Nothing in the article leads me to believe that people expressing on this forum their unease resulting from Oracle's failure

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle tunes Solaris for Intel's big Xeons

2010-04-16 Thread Edward Martinez
Supplied without comment! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/oracle_solaris _nehalem_ex/ snip. In the absence of shipping Nehalem-EX iron, Oracle is talking up how OpenSolaris, the development version of Solaris, has been tweaked so it can support some of the new features

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Rick N
Well we have heard from one of the OGB members about forking this project to save it from the hands of [b]HOracle[/b] the multi-headed, voracious, open source devouring monster. So, when and who might be the first step/person to make this happen to protect what has been done so far? Been

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Rick N
http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-04-15/opensolaris-leaders-unnerved-by-oracle-silence.html Right ON !!!, brothers and sisters, ... :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-16 Thread Edward Martinez
Hi, were the Toshiba preinstalled OpenSolaris laptops discontinued? I was planning about getting one later this year but now i can't find them anymore. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 16/04/2010 15:10, Edward Martinez wrote: were the Toshiba preinstalled OpenSolaris laptops discontinued? From the wording on this page, it would appear so: http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/ Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-16 Thread Grzegorz Rozniecki
I believe that 2010.03 will be released when some critical bugs (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2010-April/017812.html) will be fixed - probably in b138 (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2010-April/017814.html) - but it's not an official info, just

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Michael Lee
I'd switch to the forked version immediately. In all honesty, who wouldn't like to see Oracle out of this equation. It could be very healthy for OpenSolaris or whatever it'll be called when forked. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-16 Thread Henrik Johansson
What are you going to do with the fork? Solaris is dependent on the briliant engineers from what was Sun, no external coders have stepped upp and supplied many new features, mainly fixes only. You sure can make your own distro but I'll think the only way forward for the success of

Re: [osol-discuss] MythTV

2010-04-16 Thread Travis Tabbal
I'd like to see it. I'm currently running my master backend in Xvm under Ubuntu. It works very well with NFS handling the recordings storage. As it can be CPU heavy, I'd consider running it under OpenSolaris to avoid any overhead from virtualization. I use HDHomeRun for the tuner, so no need

Re: [osol-discuss] Any idea of how to deal with osol133 trying to finish part2 of the boot

2010-04-16 Thread Albert Lee
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:55:46 +1200, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 04/16/10 09:48 PM, Henry Pepper wrote: Hi I'm having a problem with my OSOL 133, it doesn't get beyond the progress/scan bar. There is a lot of network activity and nothing else. I've seen the problem a few time

Re: [osol-discuss] Probably stupid question, but: OpenSolaris on Atom N450 with 2GB ram

2010-04-16 Thread Albert Lee
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:57:43 +0200, Svein Skogen sv...@stillbilde.net wrote: I'm considering getting a cute little netbook for vacation use (something smaller than my W500), and can get a real good deal on an Ideapad S10-3, which is an Atom N450 with 2GB ram. How (un?)well will OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Asterisk

2010-04-16 Thread Givon Zirkind
i was able to compile asterisk 1.6.2.6 it runs. it comes up. but, is not fully configured. at the moment, i am trying to get the zaptel ztdummy drivers the thralling peguin site has drivers, but they won't compile on opensolaris 2009.06 says u need solaris 7 or higher. -- This message

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-16 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.comwrote: As some Oracle employees have already pointed out, that distribution is *their* product. If that's the true spirit of things, it would make sense why commits are not public and they probably see integrating the

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-16 Thread ken mays
Hello, Something is brewing: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b138/ ~ Ken --- On Fri, 4/16/10, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: From: Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise To: Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-16 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:31 PM, ken mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, Something is brewing: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b138/ That's good news but it doesn't answer the hard questions in my two previous emails. It's like throwing a bone. -- Giovanni

[osol-discuss] External contributions to Opensolaris (was: Re: So when are we gonna fork this sucker?)

2010-04-16 Thread I. Szczesniak
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Henrik Johansson henr...@henkis.net wrote: What are you going to do with the fork? Solaris is dependent on the briliant engineers from what was Sun, no external coders have stepped upp and supplied many new features, mainly fixes only. I see this as slap into

Re: [osol-discuss] External contributions to Opensolaris (was: Re: So when are we gonna fork this sucker?)

2010-04-16 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, I. Szczesniak iszczesn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Henrik Johansson henr...@henkis.net wrote: What are you going to do with the fork? Solaris is dependent on the briliant engineers from what was Sun, no external coders have stepped upp

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-16 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:31 PM, ken mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, Something is brewing: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b138/ I wouldn't take it as a sign of something exceptional - nothing new here. There are also b135, b136, b137 as well as almost any previous build. This

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-16 Thread Chad Welsh
calum, why on every post that you include a hyperlink it gets clipped and the only thing we see is just the http://; just a question since we can never go to the links you provide. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 17/04/2010 01:37, Chad Welsh wrote: calum, why on every post that you include a hyperlink it gets clipped and the only thing we see is just the http://; just a question since we can never go to the links you provide. Who is 'we', and how are you reading my emails? The links show up just

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-16 Thread Steven Acres
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Calum Benson calum.ben...@oracle.comwrote: On 17/04/2010 01:37, Chad Welsh wrote: calum, why on every post that you include a hyperlink it gets clipped and the only thing we see is just the http://; just a question since we can never go to the links you

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are prices for Solaris 10 OS support not on Oracles Web pages?

2010-04-16 Thread Charles Hedrick
We've been talking with both our Sun salesman and HP. It appears that support for Sun hardware will be priced at 12% of net purchase price (i.e. after discount) for both hardware and software support, and 8% for just software. There will be only one class or service, namely high class. We don't

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-16 Thread Edward Martinez
Darn, it does sound like they were discontinued. On 16/04/2010 15:10, Edward Martinez wrote: were the Toshiba preinstalled OpenSolaris laptops discontinued? From the wording on this page, it would appear so: http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/ Cheeri, Calum. --

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-16 Thread Jürgen Keil
I don't know why but I expected that the release build to be available in the Mercurial repository after it gets released. $ hg clone -r b111b ssh://anon at hg dot opensolaris dot org/hg/onnv/onnv-gate abort: unknown revision 'b111b'! So no, you cannot build previous releases of the

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-16 Thread Steven Acres
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.orgwrote: On 04-14-10, Paul Gress pgr...@optonline.net wrote: I don't think he wants to start a new distro, he's looking to publishb137. That's about it in a nutshell. I have no shortage of build servers and thus I was