Re: [osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

2010-07-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul Harper > > http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/40394-oracle- > maintains-silence-on-opensolaris-future > > I really can't understand Oracle's lack of com

[osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Harper
http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/40394-oracle-maintains-silence-on-opensolaris-future I really can't understand Oracle's lack of communication regarding the future of Opensolaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ ope

Re: [osol-discuss] warning about mail on this list

2010-07-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble > > (Can I call you Ed?) I prefer Ned, but it don't matter much. Ed, Ned, Edward, Harvey. They're all used. Thanks for asking. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
fyi- you can get ZFS with FreeBSD. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-13 Thread Francois Laagel
That is a bit extreme. That being said I really hope I won't have to move back to Limux myself. I would miss ZFS and IPsec among many other nice features of Osol. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] open source ( was a compilers thread )

2010-07-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
Excellent rant. Too bad so few with a fondness for Red Kool-Aid will ever get it... :( -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc + tgmath (Paul Floyd)

2010-07-13 Thread John Martin
On 07/13/10 09:53 AM, Stathis Kamperis wrote: Hi tgmath.h is C99, and you're compiling as C89 (-ansi). Try -std=c99 instead of -ansi, or stick to C89 features. Your code might compile on Linux, since on that platform C89, C99, C++ and in fact most standards are all rather a blur. Yes, you ar

Re: [osol-discuss] warning about mail on this list

2010-07-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Hugh McIntyre wrote: > For all lists, 22% of the messages were posted with Jive, but this rises to > 44% of all unique sender addresses, so apparently the email users send more > messages on average. 7% of senders used both Jive and email. I don't find this surpri

[osol-discuss] open source ( was a compilers thread )

2010-07-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
Read this whole email and do the exercise at the bottom before replying. > You didn't read what I said, I said it is the _official_ _OpenSolaris_ _GCC_. You are somewhat misguided. > It is the GCC found in the standard OpenSolaris repository as thus *should* work. In theory. How do you know? Y

Re: [osol-discuss] An opportunity for OpenSolaris?

2010-07-13 Thread Gary
Thanks for the correction. Has Oracle ended new contracts though, and is only supporting existing ones to EOL of the contract? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox internal networking

2010-07-13 Thread Gary
Thanks. I thought that was going to be the answer. But I appreciate the reply I can use host-only; I prefer not to use bridged for this. Will setup host-only. Thanks again! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/13/10 12:16 PM, John Plocher wrote: +-- Please join the distro community and help make this happen. Joerg, Moinak and the rest of us will welcome you with open keyboards! Like you said, there are a few obstacles in the way of doing a completely open distro right now (closed source I18

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox internal networking

2010-07-13 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 10:29 -0700, Gary wrote: > Is it not possible with VirtualBox using internal networking > to be able to communicate with the FreeBSD jails? I thought I'd replied to you, but the reply must have been lost. The answer is no; see: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#net

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Paul Gress wrote: [...]> > While I believe Oracle is gung-ho about Opensolaris, I don't believe it's in > sync with our views. I believe they would like to close the source if they > can. I'm starting to look at it this way. > > * Oracle is smart > * If I were Or

Re: [osol-discuss] An opportunity for OpenSolaris?

2010-07-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Gary wrote: > Oracle I believe has ended paid support contracts for OpenSolaris (although > they > will honor the SUN paid contracts to EOL). OpenSolaris doesn't have any > patches, even for security, and the only updates are for dev. OpenSolaris doesn't have "patches" because it uses differen

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: [...]> >> No one is suggesting that Oracle is doing a good job >> of living up to >> their commitments or communicating their intentions. >> However, they >> hold all of the cards. > > Exactly! I'm probably sounding like a broken record but

Re: [osol-discuss] An opportunity for OpenSolaris?

2010-07-13 Thread Gary
Oh for crying out loud, stop these ridiculous posts about OpenSolaris. Oracle I believe has ended paid support contracts for OpenSolaris (although they will honor the SUN paid contracts to EOL). OpenSolaris doesn't have any patches, even for security, and the only updates are for dev. What

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Gary
eam1, every post you present is old stuff and it has been asked before that you stop posting these. It's been almost 18 months since a RELEASE has been made (code likely frozen in Feb 2006 and it is almost Aug 2010). Almost every post now on discuss is stuff about the (non)future of OpenSolari

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox internal networking

2010-07-13 Thread Gary
| |VB guest with intern net 10.0.0.5/24 | |---| |VB guest with intern net 10.0.0.4/24 | |---| |FreeBSD jail 10.0.0.3/24 | |---| |

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread John Plocher
My last post here on the topic. Come on over to OGB-discuss if you want to seriously work towards a better solution. Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > they are saying "sorry, under the current terms we've no purpose so it's useless to pretend we should hold any official position". Bingo. Many Somebody

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
> Ooh... I can actually hear the sarcasm and > condescension dripping! :-) > > There is a difference between taking someone to task > and threatening > them for not, in your subjective view, living up to > their end of the > bargain. Personally I think the OGB should not even bother giving Orac

Re: [osol-discuss] warning about mail on this list

2010-07-13 Thread Hugh McIntyre
Ken Gunderson wrote: Yes, Erik. But few users are old grey beards like us that are comfortable with listserver and push discussion. The newer generation interfaces w/everything via the browser, e.g. witness web 2.0, so the reality of the matter is that the majority of posts come via Jive int

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Cyril Plisko
> While I believe Oracle is gung-ho about Opensolaris, I don't believe it's in > sync with our views.  I believe they would like to close the source if they > can.  I'm starting to look at it this way. > I think they can do that easily. After all the source belongs to them and they decide whether

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread John Plocher
+-- On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Paul Gress wrote: | So I think not a Fork is required, but a "Cloning" is required. This new project | should be called maybe "Desktop Clone-aris"  Where what we do is try to | compile the source and recreate the missing closed binaries. +-- Please join the di

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
As has become pretty obvious to most of us, I'll share a few characteristics and let what's left of the old school community draw it's own conclusion: 1) Recent join dates. 2) Never post anything technical, nor demonstrate any technical insights or actual technical knowledge. 3) Always pro Ora

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc + tgmath

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Floyd
Hi I've looked at this a bit more. On Linux, it looks like this is achieved by some ugly macro hackery. On Solaris, as you've seen, fairly simple macros are used. Running a grep in the sun studio dir I see ggrep -r __tgmath_creal * Binary file prod/lib/lintlib/v9/llib-lgpc.ln matches Binary fil

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Stefan Parvu
If I could add my comment(s) regarding latest developments: - Oracle clearly *is* a moving boat. But maybe a bit slower than expected for many of us. As well Oracle is not very well known for active relationships with open source communities , where they *actively* participate and communi

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Fredrich Maney
Attributions fixed. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 Fredrich Maney wrote: >> You don't need to be a betting man to see that OGB attendance at these >> meetings would be a good thing. However, thanks to the OGB's decision >> to poke a stick in Lar

[osol-discuss] An opportunity for OpenSolaris?

2010-07-13 Thread russell
It has been reported, see link below that the UK Government want to save money and would like to make the best use of Open Source software. If OpenSolaris was to be considered, would it stack up as a desktop and server platform? Does it have the necessary configuration tools bundled with it fo

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/13/10 07:08 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: I still think Oracle is gung ho about OpenSolaris and still ironing things out. this docs may seems old but they are dated 2010 and has the oracle banner on them. I see it there is still interest. quote: This is just one update on Oracle's freq

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc + tgmath

2010-07-13 Thread Rainer Orth
Stathis Kamperis writes: > has anyone managed to make gcc (3.4.3) + tgmath.h play nice ? > Even this simple test case fails for me: > > stathis:~% cat tgmath.c > #include > > int > main(void) > { > cos(1.0); > > return 0; > } > stathis:~% gcc tgmath.c -lm -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic > t

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ken mays wrote: > I'll also point out that Oracle OpenWorld is Sept 19-23 and there is a > 'Oracle Solaris 10 and Beyond: Lead Engineers Panel (S317641)' meeting on > Sept 23 10:30 AM PST. This is a month after the OGB 'mutiny' date of Aug 23rd > mentioned in Ben Rockwood's blog. > > The meetin

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Edward Martinez wrote: > >The OGB has obtained contacts within Oracle (see: > >http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-July/007931.html) and > >has to maintain the general rules of governance stated here in the OGB > >portal: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+o

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc + tgmath (Paul Floyd)

2010-07-13 Thread Michael Lee
The linker is complaining. It can't find a reference to "__tgmath_cos." Try the following: gcc -std=c99 tgmath.c -l -lm -Wall -W Replace "" appropriately. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Ivan Wang
[...] > > If I was a betting man...I'd think someone from the > OGB staff attending these two meetings would be very > helpful to > > the OGB and to those attending > > You don't need to be a betting man to see that OGB > attendance at these > meetings would be a good thing. However, thanks to

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread ken mays
---Ken Mays wrote: > > If I was a betting man...I'd think someone from the > OGB staff attending these two meetings would be very helpful > to the OGB and to those attending --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > If Oracle is willing to arrange the flight and trip, I am > sure that

Re: [osol-discuss] ISCSI SAN......

2010-07-13 Thread Günther
hello yes you have to set views. if you want to have it more easy, you could use my napp-it web-gui for nexenta and Opensolaris. it has full support for comstar iscsi see a running config with menue 'comstar iscsi' at: http://www.napp-it.org/pop_en.html there are also infos about comstar settin

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Edward Martinez
>The OGB has obtained contacts within Oracle (see: >http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-July/007931.html) and >has to maintain the general rules of governance stated here in the OGB portal: >http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/governance. Well, i was under

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
> You don't need to be a betting man to see that OGB > attendance at these > meetings would be a good thing. However, thanks to > the OGB's decision > to poke a stick in Larry's eye, you do need to be a > betting man as to > whether or not the OGB or OpenSolaris is even > relevant when these > meet

Re: [osol-discuss] ISCSI SAN......

2010-07-13 Thread Marty Scholes
> But the problem is all LUNs are visible to all hosts > which i dont want. I want to restirct LUNs to > particular host only.. > > This is purely on LAN, I have no FC HBA Installed in > my scenario. I am stumbling through the same for PXE->gPXE->iSCSI boot with host-specific LUNs. There are se

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc + tgmath (Paul Floyd)

2010-07-13 Thread Stathis Kamperis
>Hi > > tgmath.h is C99, and you're compiling as C89 (-ansi). Try -std=c99 instead of > -ansi, or stick to C89 features. Your code might compile on Linux, > since on that platform C89, C99, C++ and in fact most standards are all > rather a blur. Yes, you are right. But it doesn't make any differ

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:59 AM, ken mays wrote: >> http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1134 > > This is a very interesting read as Ben shakes a finger moreso at the OGB's > comments and direction on the issue(s) at hand. Agreed. And I think he is right. The OGB is trying to play c

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
ken mays wrote: > I'll also point out that Oracle OpenWorld is Sept 19-23 and there is a > 'Oracle Solaris 10 and Beyond: Lead Engineers Panel (S317641)' meeting on > Sept 23 10:30 AM PST. This is a month after the OGB 'mutiny' date of Aug 23rd > mentioned in Ben Rockwood's blog. > > The meeti

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > The community is tired of having to guess Oracle's intentions. This FAQ means > nothing. > Please stop posting every single URL that mentions OpenSolaris/Solaris in an > attempt to paint a rosy reality. And the non-stop paranoia, pessim

[osol-discuss] VirtualBox internal networking

2010-07-13 Thread Gary
Haven't received and answer on the virtualbox forum, so thought maybe somebody here knows. Using FreeBSD jails on lo1 with 10.0.02, 10.0.0.3, 10.0.0.4 /24 Have VirtualBox OSE 3.2.6 installed and have internal networking selected. Why can a VirtualBox guest with an IP of 10.0.0.5/24 not be able

Re: [osol-discuss] warning about mail on this list

2010-07-13 Thread Fredrich Maney
> On Jul 12, 2010, at 16:50, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > > > As a result of the language used in some of these > latest threads, I am removing some people from this > list. > > Thanks, Jim, that's helpful, appropriate and > proportionate. Agreed. Thanks Jim. fpsm -- This message posted from openso

Re: [osol-discuss] warning about mail on this list

2010-07-13 Thread Fredrich Maney
Posted via the Jive forum since Gmail still seems to be in the blacklist. Sorry about any duplicates. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:10 AM, John Plocher wrote: > > +-- On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Fredrich Maney > wrote: > | +-- I wrote: > | | In other words, it isn't Jive's fault, nor is it th

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc + tgmath

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Floyd
> Hi people, > > has anyone managed to make gcc (3.4.3) + tgmath.h > play nice ? > Even this simple test case fails for me: > > stathis:~% cat tgmath.c > #include > > int > main(void) > { > cos(1.0); > > return 0; > } > stathis:~% gcc tgmath.c -lm -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic Hi tgma

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread ken mays
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Edward Martinez wrote: > From: Edward Martinez > quote: > The OGB is keen to promote the uptake and open development > of OpenSolaris and to work on behalf of the community with > Oracle, as such the OGB needs Oracle to appoint a liaison by > August 16, 2010, who has the t

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Plocher wrote: > +-- On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: > | there should be no moral dilemma in forking, if Oracle/Sun is not playing > their > | role in the partnership with the community. > +-- > > As a matter of principle, I see no problem with forking as long as the >

[osol-discuss] gcc + tgmath

2010-07-13 Thread Stathis Kamperis
Hi people, has anyone managed to make gcc (3.4.3) + tgmath.h play nice ? Even this simple test case fails for me: stathis:~% cat tgmath.c #include int main(void) { cos(1.0); return 0; } stathis:~% gcc tgmath.c -lm -Wall -W -ansi -pedantic tgmath.c: In function `main': tgmath.c:

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Edward Martinez wrote: > That is to say, "start talking to us or we'll just shot ourselves in the > head." > > http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1134 I am not sure whether Ben missunderstands some things, but the OGB is not repsonsible for givong Ben free access to the Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > If this is carried forward, I think it's a very sensible decision by the OGB. > There is no point in pretending the OGB is what it was supposed to be (or at > least what the community expected it to be) when Oracle is not willing to >

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
> I still think Oracle is gung ho about OpenSolaris and > still ironing things out. this docs may seems old > but they are dated 2010 and has the oracle banner on > them. I see it there is still interest. > The community is tired of having to guess Oracle's intentions. This FAQ means nothi

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Edward Martinez wrote: > i think dissolving the OGB will make Oracle show its true colors about > OpenSolaris. if they want to keep it active they will probably appoint new > OGB members or just close up shop. > > But i think is better to wait after the OpenWorld show to dissolve, who > kn

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: > i think dissolving the OGB will make Oracle show its true colors about > OpenSolaris. if they want to keep  it active they will probably appoint new > OGB members or just close up shop. It's not clear to us that (from a community perspec

[osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Edward Martinez
I still think Oracle is gung ho about OpenSolaris and still ironing things out. this docs may seems old but they are dated 2010 and has the oracle banner on them. I see it there is still interest. quote: This is just one update on Oracle's frequently asked questions (FAQs) for its newly a

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread ken mays
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Rob McMahon wrote: From: Rob McMahon Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here? To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 6:16 AM On 13/07/2010 03:38, John Plocher wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Giovanni Tirl

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Edward Martinez wrote: > i think dissolving the OGB will make Oracle show its true colors about > OpenSolaris. if they want to keep it active they will probably appoint new > OGB members or just close up shop. Let us try to understand why Jeb Dabsteel did not attent the teleconference yester

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Rob McMahon
On 13/07/2010 03:38, John Plocher wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: Sorry for sounding so pessimist, it feels terrible to see the OpenSolaris project going through all of this. It feels worse to be on the OGB and still being able to do so little about the proble