Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-05-30 Thread Uros Nedic
This view has very small connections to real facts and what is going on inmarket. It is true that in full software/hardware stack as an end productsome parts have higher profit margins than others, but profit margin whenyou are able to deliver whole stack as a product for end user is much highe

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-05-30 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/30/2010 11:03 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: I'm beginning to get a hunch why Oracle is mum about OpenSolaris. Can't stop the sinking ship "Oracle needs to make Sun's once-dominant UNIX server business a success to justify the $7.4 billion price tag attached to the acquisition. Critics of th

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-05-30 Thread Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram
On Monday 31 May 2010 04:10 AM, lance tan wrote: I had exactly the same problem. My workaround is start the DNS server service. No any configuration, just used the default. After then, there is no any outgoing DNS query packet any more, and the login time reduced to less than one second. Don'

[osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-05-30 Thread Edward Martinez
I'm beginning to get a hunch why Oracle is mum about OpenSolaris. Can't stop the sinking ship "Oracle needs to make Sun's once-dominant UNIX server business a success to justify the $7.4 billion price tag attached to the acquisition. Critics of the deal noted from the start that this wouldn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/30/10 03:25 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: Could it be because "pkg image update" is known to work pretty well going forward (b134 -> b134b) but is known not to work well or is untested for going backward (b142 -> b134b)? pkg is known not to work at all for installing b

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-05-30 Thread lance tan
I had exactly the same problem. My workaround is start the DNS server service. No any configuration, just used the default. After then, there is no any outgoing DNS query packet any more, and the login time reduced to less than one second. Don't know exactly why, seems reverse dns lookup goes in

Re: [osol-discuss] install on and boot from 3ware 9650 raid controller

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > The reason I say this, is ZFS is both faster and more secure than a > "hardware" mirror. Unless you plan to use 100% CPU on numbercrunching _and_ > have heavy I/O, ZFS' "software" RAID is better. Using one LUN per disk on the 3ware

Re: [osol-discuss] install on and boot from 3ware 9650 raid controller

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:36 AM, pitutek wrote: > Hi, > I have 2 hdds and 3ware 9650 Raid controller installed in my server. I wanted > to install OpenSol 2009.06 on Raid1 created be 3ware. LiveCD doesnt contain > driver for it but 3ware/LSI site does, so I: The 3ware driver was integrated in b

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:06 PM, John Ryan wrote: > Why not CIFS then? - It's streaks ahead of Samba Samba has some advantages, such as the ability to act as domain controller or AD master. The native cifs server certainly wins on performance, support for VSS and ACLs. As with everything, I supp

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Paul Harper wrote: > Whatever happened to 'Release early and release often'? > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html > > 2010.?? will be full of preventable bugs because users will not have been > giving feedback to th

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mike Gerdts wrote: > Could it be because "pkg image update" is known to work pretty well > going forward (b134 -> b134b) but is known not to work well or is > untested for going backward (b142 -> b134b)? pkg is known not to work at all for installing backwards, by design. Going backwards is done

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Erik Trimble wrote: > Actually, on mature reflection, I'm guessing that the reason actual > built binary development releases aren't available right now is that all > equipment usually used for such a build is occupied with QA for the RC. Nope - we have separate systems for build & QA, and the bin

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-05-30 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- "Gaiseric Vandal" skrev: > Is a major Samba update in the works for the next release of > OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris us currently bundled with Samba 3.0.x. > Among other things, this doesn't support Windows 7 client. Samba has > recently released 3.4.8 and 3.5.3- either of those compil

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-05-30 Thread John Ryan
Why not CIFS then? - It's streaks ahead of Samba -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What is required on the tdst machine to create the IP tunnel

2010-05-30 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- "Sarah kho" skrev: Hi, Is there any specific software or service which I should start on the server machine to create a IP tunnel between client and server? ssh works for me :) -- Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net h

Re: [osol-discuss] install on and boot from 3ware 9650 raid controller

2010-05-30 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I booted LiveCD in text mode, added driver, found and mounted my drive > in /c and there are needed infos in driver_aliases, etc. > > How to install it...? Im out of ideas.. a. Remove 3ware controllers from the system, use them for linux or windows or something b. Install osol onto one dr

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Calum Benson
On 30 May 2010, at 17:27, Calum Benson wrote: > > Plenty of users have been giving feedback on b134 since March, so there's no > reason that any critical issues they reported (and probably some non-critical > ones too) shouldn't be fixed in 2010.??. (Well, "no reason" other than a decision by

[osol-discuss] install on and boot from 3ware 9650 raid controller

2010-05-30 Thread pitutek
Hi, I have 2 hdds and 3ware 9650 Raid controller installed in my server. I wanted to install OpenSol 2009.06 on Raid1 created be 3ware. LiveCD doesnt contain driver for it but 3ware/LSI site does, so I: - booted from LiveCD - copied driver and installed it `add_drv` (`format` shoved my disk creat

[osol-discuss] What is required on the tdst machine to create the IP tunnel

2010-05-30 Thread Sarah kho
Hi, Is there any specific software or service which I should start on the server machine to create a IP tunnel between client and server? In tsrc I should create ip.tun0, but what is required on the server machine? thanks. ___ opensolaris-discuss maili

Re: [osol-discuss] What is purpose of /etc/hostname.e1000g0 ?

2010-05-30 Thread Sean
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Sarah kho wrote: 1- The name should be exactly hostname.e1000g0 or it should be > computer_name.e1000g0 ? I mean should I replace the "hostname" with > something specific or it is "hostname" for all computers? > It should be exactly hostname.e1000g0. -Sean

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Calum Benson
On 30 May 2010, at 07:58, Paul Harper wrote: > Whatever happened to 'Release early and release often'? > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html > > 2010.?? will be full of preventable bugs because users will not have been > giving feedback to the dev

[osol-discuss] What is purpose of /etc/hostname.e1000g0 ?

2010-05-30 Thread Sarah kho
Hi I have a question about /etc/hostname.e1000g0 file. 1- The name should be exactly hostname.e1000g0 or it should be computer_name.e1000g0 ? I mean should I replace the "hostname" with something specific or it is "hostname" for all computers? Thanks.

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread john kroll
I know I'm off topic again but I'd still like to better understand. I just went a round with pkg publisher & 2009.06. I was trying for the release repo in my e521 dell which the broadcom lan is not recognized. I did finally get it by changing origins to http://localhost/ & pkg publisher to opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > > > All that said, I'm still a little mystified as to why the "normal" > > development builds are being held back. > > Could it be because "pkg image update" is known to work pretty well

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > All that said, I'm still a little mystified as to why the "normal" > development builds are being held back. Could it be because "pkg image update" is known to work pretty well going forward (b134 -> b134b) but is known not to work well or i

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/30/2010 1:14 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: On 5/29/2010 9:09 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I don't know, otherwise I wouldn't have asked. I know that build 134 was to be frozen and the next release cut from that. Even though the release hasn't been distributed, I didn't know that all developme

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/29/2010 9:09 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I don't know, otherwise I wouldn't have asked. I know that build 134 was to be frozen and the next release cut from that. Even though the release hasn't been distributed, I didn't know that all development has stopped and there aren't any updates

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Erik Trimble
On 5/29/2010 11:58 PM, Paul Harper wrote: Whatever happened to 'Release early and release often'? http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html 2010.?? will be full of preventable bugs because users will not have been giving feedback to the developers.