Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Al Hopper
tions to each and everyone who > has contributed in some way to this release. Help spread the word! > > > Glynn Foster > On behalf of the Oracle Solaris Team > __**_ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@**opensolaris.org &

Re: [osol-discuss] The nearest thing to (forthcoming) news

2010-07-10 Thread Al Lang
>> STOP! Oh, for goodness sake. Get over it. Many of us are fans and enthusiasts with personal interest in the future of (Open)Solaris, not (just) dry formal professionals. People will gossip even (or especially) in the absence of formally reliable information. It's normal and natural and just

Re: [osol-discuss] Migration from windows to Linux

2009-12-07 Thread Nibal Al-Ghoul
Is Nexenta free? No need to get license Thanks & Best Regards Nibal -Original Message- From: Erast [mailto:er...@gnusolaris.org] Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 5:50 AM To: Nibal Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Migration from windows to Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I disable cover ( banner ) page on CUPS

2009-12-04 Thread Nibal Al-Ghoul
Great , its works now , thanks Jacob But why this command useless #lpadmin -p (printer shared name) -o job-sheets-default=never Thanks & Best Regards Nibal -Original Message- From: Norm Jacobs [mailto:norm.jac...@sun.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:31 AM To: Nibal Cc: o

Re: [osol-discuss] enable LPR on Linux users let them use Unix printers

2009-10-19 Thread Nibal Al-Ghoul
Dear Norm Thanks a lot but I cant find following file to edit as per the link that you send http://opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/faq/sol2lin.html File is: /etc/inted.conf Linux version is Ubuntu 9.10 The error that I'm getting from Solaris (printer Name): service-unavailable r...@prod

Re: [osol-discuss] (www|hg|svn|wiki).genunix.org down ?

2009-07-11 Thread Al Hopper
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Al Hopper wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Al Hopper wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Roland Mainz >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> >>> >>> Does an

Re: [osol-discuss] (www|hg|svn|wiki).genunix.org down ?

2009-07-10 Thread Al Hopper
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Al Hopper wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Roland Mainz wrote: > >> >> Hi! >> >> >> >> Does anyone know what's wrong with (www|hg|svn|wiki).genunix.org ? I >> can't reach any of these si

[osol-discuss] Service for DNS Client and Gataway In OpenSolaris

2009-07-05 Thread Hosam Al Ali
Hello all I change my IP Address for my Network and I can ping my IP Address from any box in my network and change my /etc/resolv.conf for DNS Client and /etc/defaultrouter for Gataway but I con't Open any Pages or browse any Web site until I reboot my System So But I can to nslookup www.goo

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06, based on build 108 is now available

2009-02-25 Thread Al Hopper
OpenSolaris 2009.06 preview, based on build 108, is now available from Genunix.Org. Regards, -- Al Hopper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] osol-0906-106a available

2009-02-03 Thread Al Hopper
osol-0906, based on build 106a, is available on genunix.org. Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX a...@logical-approach.com Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os

[osol-discuss] genunix.org experiencing tech difficulties

2008-12-02 Thread Al Hopper
tructure but is running on other hardware and is unaffected by this outage. Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/o

[osol-discuss] openOffice 3.0.0 downloads

2008-10-14 Thread Al Hopper
The *Solaris flavors of OpenOffice 3.0.0 are now available on http://www.genunix.org Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris osol-0811-96

2008-09-11 Thread Al Hopper
x27;ve updated Genunix based on your feedback and tried to make it a bit clearer. Let me know if you still think its confusing. You've welcome to send me priave email. > And, if so, what differs from SXCE-b96??? > > >> Thommy M. wrote: >>> Al Hopper wrote: >>

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris osol-0811-96

2008-09-05 Thread Al Hopper
ery 6 months. So that's what I'm showing on the main page. Altough I agree that it could be a source for confusion for the casual/newbie OpenSolaris participant. > BeleniX is .. maybe .. not sure .. cooking a new rev shortly. Which is > amazing because it is cool as

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris osol-0811-96

2008-09-05 Thread Al Hopper
can be a major drag : > > http://blastwave.unix-center.net/OpenSolaris/update/ > > Dennis Clarke > Excellent! Thanks Dennis. Happy Friday! :) Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing B

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris osol-0811-96

2008-09-04 Thread Al Hopper
OpenSolaris osol-0811-96 ISO images are available at http://genunix.org Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005

[osol-discuss] Fwd: [osol-announce] http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ package repository update (build 95)

2008-08-15 Thread Al Hopper
-- Forwarded message -- From: Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [osol-announce] http://pkg.opensolaris.org/ package repository update (build 95) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Alan Steinberg <[EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] sxce b95 download sucks

2008-08-08 Thread Al Hopper
gt; The CD and DVD (2) are confirmed working (correct files sizes) for now. > > Sorry for all the inconvenience. Thanks for following up on this Derek. -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Govern

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org Top Level Domain records

2008-08-07 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I'll let whoever made those changes apologize to the user community >> for the inconvenience and

Re: [osol-discuss] sxce b95 download sucks

2008-08-07 Thread Al Hopper
rnal build > servers & never deal with this stuff, so maybe no one is paying attention. > > I agree completely with Bruno, getting the distribution out there properly is > a showstopper. Agreed. Its unprofessional and makes Sun look like amateur hour. Regards, -- Al Hopper Logic

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-07 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Chris Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No need to panic. The site is not changing. The only issue is that >> the top level domain record now

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-07 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Al Hopper wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Chris Mahan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Chris Mahan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-07 Thread Al Hopper
o the wrong name-servers (ns?.blastwave.org). >> >> -- >> Chris Mahan >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> cell 818.943.1850 > > > > -- > Chris Mahan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cell 818.943.1850 > > ___ > opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-07 Thread Al Hopper
genunix.org was independent of Blastwave; the mails on the > subject form May/June '05 indicate that it is. I know Logical Approach Yes it is independent of Blastwave and always has been. > supplied some of the hardware and Al Hopper was involved in > commissioning the site

[osol-discuss] genunix.org Top Level Domain records

2008-08-07 Thread Al Hopper
nience and disruption these changes have caused the OpenSolaris user communities. Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/og

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues ZFS / CIFS on home file server

2008-06-22 Thread Al Hopper
upgrading to higher builds help?. > > > Has anyone have any similar experience?. > > Thanks > Vijay I think you should first max out the RAM on this machine as a first step in improving the performance. Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 97

Re: [osol-discuss] Comments on OpenSolaris or SXDE for VirtualBox Features/Usability

2008-05-23 Thread Al Hopper
ended - well worth the time required to install! :) :) What an amazing piece of software. Kudos to Sun for having the insight to buy InnoTek (and kudos to the developers at InnoTek). [1] cd ~al/virtualbox/vbox wget -O out/solaris.x86/release/bin/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso \ http://virtualbox.

[osol-discuss] os200805 iso images available at genunix.org

2008-05-05 Thread Al Hopper
See http://genunix.org Happy Monday! -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007

Re: [osol-discuss] New ZFS NAS Build, HW opinions/experiences wanted...

2008-03-14 Thread Al Hopper
mend you use a board with a 64-bit PCI-X slot. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 ht

Re: [osol-discuss] [solarisx86] Picking a Laptop for S10/x86

2008-03-10 Thread Al Hopper
gardless of their attempts to obfuscate the download process, that there are reasonable people who can always outwit them, then they'll give up their demented plan to marginalize SXCE. And move on to something worthwhile - like total world domination! :) Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach I

Re: [osol-discuss] [qemu-discuss] Damm Small Solaris

2008-02-24 Thread Al Hopper
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Bernd Schemmer wrote: > Brian, > >>> Al Hopper, who sponsors http://www.genunix.org/, is probably very open >>> to hosting your distro, since he currently hosts or mirrors Nexenta, >>> Bellenix, Schillix, and Indiana. > > It's

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE php/mysql Incompatibility

2008-02-22 Thread Al Hopper
>> >> Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Client does not >> support authentication protocol requested by server; consider >> upgrading MySQL client in /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs/mysqltest.php on >> line 3 >> >> Am I missing something? >> >>

[osol-discuss] Trying to install Indiana (My Observations)

2008-02-18 Thread Al Snow
s have been fixed, but if not, I have contributed. Cheers,Al Snow If helpful: I have "Solaris 10 Operation System 8/07" Developer Tools. I have "Solaris Nevada B80 x86" DVD. I have "Solaris 11 svn_78 x64" DVD. I have OpenSolaris starter kit. I have "Solaris Expres

Re: [osol-discuss] Any interest in a Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris Industrial PC

2008-02-11 Thread Al Hopper
capacity (2 high capacity SATA drives) and a 3rd model that comes with an integrated SAS controller which would allow use of SATA or SAS disk drives where SAS == high IOPS. I believe that your overall concept is very sound - low power, small footprint, OpenSolaris compatible, backed by Sun.

Re: [osol-discuss] Any interest in a Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris Industrial PC

2008-02-11 Thread Al Hopper
of them back-to-back in a typical (deep) 1U cabinet? Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community

Re: [osol-discuss] on/downloads/current/ restored

2008-02-06 Thread Al Hopper
ml". I don't think it matters which filenaming convention you follow, but I would like it to remain *constant* over time. Hmm.. the "bnn" format looks a little cleaner IMHO. > Has been restored, but I am still waiting for official notification that > it&#

Re: [osol-discuss] Test image for Preview 2 (fwd)

2008-02-05 Thread Al Hopper
... snip ... > > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/indiana/downloads/current/in-test-199.iso.torrent ... snip Now available at http://www.genunix.org Clarification: the ISO image is available at http://www.genunix.org Regards, Al ___ opens

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Test image for Preview 2

2008-02-05 Thread Al Hopper
sol/indiana/downloads/current/in-test-199.iso.torrent ... snip Now available at http://www.genunix.org Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member

Re: [osol-discuss] on/downloads/current/ is missing

2008-02-05 Thread Al Hopper
enunix.org? [the in-test-199.iso.torrent link is MIA and I'd rather just get a copy of the iso file than mess with bittorrent] PS: dlc.sun.com appears to have lost a tonne [1] of data and links etc. I would suggest that Sun put a "Site under maintenance" notice up until the site

[osol-discuss] SchilliX 0.6 and NexentaCP 1.0RC2 on genunix.org

2008-01-25 Thread Al Hopper
Ref: www.genunix.org We have the latest/greatest SchilliX, along with NexentaCP and the Nexenta APT package repository (updated every 4 hours) available at Genunix.org. Let the downloads commence! :) Congrats to Joerg Schilling and Team Nexenta. Happy Friday! Al Hopper Logical Approach

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-19 Thread Al Hopper
now. I am prepared but there is some work I cannot do. Again - you keep making accusations and you have yet to request a sponsor to begin the actual integration. Stop foisting FUD on the OpenSolaris project with these unfounded accusations. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EM

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Al Hopper
by your deed rather than your e-mails. +1 Garrett's Dad is obviously a very smart man. And Garrett seems to have learned from his Dad very well. He (Garrett) is a very successful contributor to ON and a (successful) role model that we would do well to emulate. Regards, Al Hopper Lo

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Al Hopper
k". On the contrary - ksh93 proves that it *does* *work*. Think about how to find a way to change this Why change anything? Download build 77 and type: exec ksh93 -o vi at the command line. It works. "If it ain't broke - don't fix it!" Regards,

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Al Hopper
omplaining about how you had "star" years before that other person subsumed "your" program name. Joerg - I've tried to make this email as blunt as possible. Stop trying to swim upstream. If you want "star" integrated - (per Nike) "Do It Now&qu

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel GB NICs (82573 PCI-E) not working

2007-12-09 Thread Al Hopper
.. Re-evaluate your Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection procedures before you work on the 2nd motherboard. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Al Hopper
driver".. blah, blah. And we can see other existing OS naming conventions that work in the real world (like I wrote earlier): Ubuntu Desktop Edition Ubuntu Server Edition So I would like to propose a naming convention that is future-proof, that shares a "family" of well kno

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: > Al Hopper wrote: > >>> I don't want to rain on your parade, but all those things you mentioned >>> would have happened even if Indiana hadn't come along. Granted, they've >>> probably happened a

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Al Hopper
p the customers guessing when they try to place an order! :) But we'll keep an eye on him and immediately have him "disinfected" if we notice any danger signs! :) snip ... PS: Thank you Sara D for tolerating my bizarre sense of humor! :) Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approac

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: > Al Hopper wrote: > > >> And I've been in favor of this project (after I recovered from the initial >> shock of Ian Murdock being hired by Sun) - because it means that people are >> putting money and talented developer

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Al Hopper
one's pet project getting "top billing"; this is > about growing up and meeting the needs of our users instead of > bickering about who's feelings are going to be hurt. +1 > Stop focusing on yourselves; focus on the users. We need to do what's > best for the co

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Al Hopper
penSolaris Indiana Workstation in the same way we see (today): Ubuntu Desktop Edition Ubuntu Server Edition with room to grow in any direction in the (near-term/far-term) future. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.

Re: [osol-discuss] Planning a system configuration for OpenSolaris

2007-10-23 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Mike Ramsey wrote: > Al, > That looks right. I have sent an e-mail to LSI's site admin noting that: > 1. The Solaris/x86 driver description mentions support for LSI SAS3041X-R but > not LSI SAS3041E-R > > 2. Driver support for Solaris/x86 is listed u

Re: [osol-discuss] Planning a system configuration for OpenSolaris

2007-10-23 Thread Al Hopper
you like. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_

Re: [osol-discuss] Planning a system configuration for OpenSolaris

2007-10-23 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Mike Ramsey wrote: > Al, > After doing some more research, I think that I need the LSI SAS3041[b]E[/b]-R > (as opposed to the LSI SAS3041[b]X[/b]-R). The LSI SAS3041E-R lists a driver > for both Solaris x86 and Solaris SPARC while the LSI SAS3041X-R lists a &

Re: [osol-discuss] Planning a system configuration for OpenSolaris

2007-10-21 Thread Al Hopper
re=Zerotherm Case (incl/ 4 fans) LianLI PC-65B $150 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682040 Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OG

Re: [osol-discuss] Memory requirements to install Solaris

2007-08-26 Thread Al Hopper
"absolutely >> unacceptable". If you're serious about >> (Open)Solaris, then you're >> serious about your hardware. >> >> PS: Take a quick look at these two cost effective >> systems, each with >> 4Gb of RAM built by Bob Palowoda at: >

Re: [osol-discuss] Memory requirements to install Solaris

2007-08-25 Thread Al Hopper
us about your hardware. PS: Take a quick look at these two cost effective systems, each with 4Gb of RAM built by Bob Palowoda at: http://www.fiver.net/misc/solarisamdbox.html Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133

Re: [osol-discuss] back to windows share -possible automated?

2007-08-25 Thread Al Hopper
n exceptions from the original standard > to allow filenames to begin with a period and such things. > > Nevertheless, with star (then backing up the tar file) you might be best > served, in terms of potential data loss (file names and or file types). > > %m > > _

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Al Hopper
news/wendigo_byoc_04_panorama.jpg [1] term of endearment - but also indicates a demanding and potentially agressive/abusive user of internet bandwidth. PS: Often, event organizers ask other companies to sponsor the equipment and raffle off the hardware at the conclusion of the conf. [attendees must

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >>> Is the b70 re-spin being released today? >> >> Hi Al, >> Sorry, I don't know. Another team takes care of the respins and posting >> them up to SDLC. > > I know that I filled in a survey that aske

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Al Hopper
; hopefully it stands up better now ;-) >>> >> >> cool thanks .. but why not just hand code in the URL and bypass the backend >> script altogether? > > because we don't want to rely on someone manually updating the URL > everytime a new build is released.. H

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-18 Thread Al
Where's the FUD? No one is claiming that Sun doesn't have rights based on earlier agreements with Novell and AT&T. The issue, which everyone seems to be avoiding here, is that, according to McNealy (see quote above), Sun went back to SCO to modify the earlier agreements. The judge has already de

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-18 Thread Al
Well, I guess we'll all have to wait and see what happens. In the latest court filing Novell states: "At trial, Novell will seek a declaration that SCO was also obligated to seek Novell's approval prior to entering into new SVRX licenses or amendments to SVRX licenses that that SCO therefore ha

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Al
[b]McNeely: "We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code". [/b] Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately open-source code without getting permission from Novell. The fact that SCO agreed to this and Sun paid them money to do so seems to be irrelevant in light of t

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Al
What makes you think Novell's legal team have as little subtlety and smarts as SCO's? There are other options. > [b]Bruce Lowry, Novell Spokesman, Aug 2007[/b] > > "We're not interested in suing people over Unix," > Novell spokesman > Bruce Lowry said. "We're not even in the Unix > business anym

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-16 Thread Al
[b]Darl McBride, SCO CEO, April 2005[/b]: "We have seen what Sun plans to do with OpenSolaris and we have no problem with it. What they're doing protects our Unix intellectual property rights." [b]Jack Messman, Novell CEO, in November 2004 on Sun's plans to open source Solaris[/b]: "We are g

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-22 Thread Al Hopper
type: $ sudo apt-get install nexenta-gnome Known bugs: * after fresh install APT caches needs to be re-created: $ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/* $ sudo apt-get update -- Erast Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Al Hopper
Network-type installations via main or third-party APTs (NEW). First "unstable" b65-based ISO with ZFS/Boot-capable installer available as usual at: http://www.gnusolaris.org/unstable-iso/ncp_beta1-test1-b65_i386.iso ... snip Now also available on www.genunix.org Regards, Al Hoppe

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCE Build 65 available

2007-06-02 Thread Al Hopper
e bandwidth! :) Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/og

[osol-discuss] Genunix.org download stats

2007-06-01 Thread Al Hopper
Want to know how popular the BeleniX 0.6 distribution is? Then take a look at the download stats just published for 2007. There's a link on the main page at www.genunix.org. Again - many congratulations to Moinak Ghosh and his team. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plan

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: On 5/31/07, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007, James Carlson wrote: > Roy T. Fielding writes: >> As I said, the proposal is obviously wrong. One of these days, Sun >> marketing will stop trying to run this pr

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Al Hopper
osals for highly visible OpenSolaris initiatives. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communit

Re: [approach-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Al Hopper
e pre-allocated to ensure that this happens smoothly and quickly. IOW the resources to ensure that "process A" can be implemented and completed in a timely manner. And this would include having people with the necessary tools/training etc. be ready, willing and able to perform the neces

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: BeleniX 0.6 Released

2007-05-26 Thread Al Hopper
andle the 0.6.1 release... :-) Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/og

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Al Hopper
list. And your current work status is equally off-topic and inappropriate. As an OGB member you should be displaying a higher standard of examplary behavior. Very poor form indeed. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaOS Alpha 7 is now available

2007-05-15 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Alex Ross wrote: > http://www.gnusolaris.org/Download alternatively: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/index.html PS: the VMWare image will take a while longer to mirror. Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vo

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX meets Indiana (Was: About Project Indiana)

2007-05-15 Thread Al Hopper
distro. Nexenta being the other. Fully OpenSource, and > very feature rich. > > -Brian > Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to

[osol-discuss] GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-04-30 Thread Al Hopper
Heads up: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070430_095211.htm Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005 OpenSolaris

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] polls are closed !

2007-03-27 Thread Al Hopper
as a mistake - because of the potential for confusion. Joerg - I hope that this unfortunate event won't dampen your enthusiasm for the OpenSolaris Project - you are a highly valued Core Contributor, and indeed a champion of Open Source Software in general. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approac

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] polls are closed !

2007-03-27 Thread Al Hopper
ection - please let me know and I'll [2] work directly with you to resolve them to your complete satisfaction. [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/cab/OGB_Election_Status/ [2] will doubtless need Stephen Hahns help Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED

[osol-discuss] Re: [cab-discuss] Board Election 2007/Constitution Ratification results

2007-03-27 Thread Al Hopper
68 Core > Contributors, 135 Ayes were required for an affirmative majority. Whew - as Al breathes a sign of relief! :) >- With respect to Question 2, as evaluated by Meek STV, the 2007 - > 2008 Governing Board, in alphabetical order, are > > * James D. Carlson,

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-05 Thread Al Hopper
of OpenSolaris. Keith has the right attitude and the right solution. Treat it just like any other "bug" and work the *solution* going forward. In the meantime, let's do everything possible, so that potential voters and valuable contributors like Martin (Martux) Bochnig don

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Conference in Germany

2007-03-04 Thread Al Hopper
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > > > Al Hopper wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > > > >> I've been here in Berlin all week at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference > >> run by the German Unix User Group. It was an excellent

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Conference in Germany

2007-03-02 Thread Al Hopper
o are predominately featured in your pictures? While a picture is worth a 1,000 words, a picture of an OpenSolaris presenter without a name is not very useful? Is there any other coverage of the Conference in Germany available? Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EM

[osol-discuss] OGB March 2007 Election

2007-03-01 Thread Al Hopper
tp://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/cab/OGB_Election_Status/> If you see any errors or omissions, feel free to email me directly. Notes: [1] A community member scratches his/her head and asks: "Hey we've conducting an OGB election under the terms of a Constitution which has not been (commu

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Al Hopper
ate - you can use a find command to search every *.so file on your system! This is the last resort[1] solution/substitute for lack of *Solaris specific knowledge. :) But also a good way to explore *Solaris shared libs. [1] I say: let the *machine* do the work! Happy Friday! Al Hopper

[osol-discuss] CAB/OGB Position Paper # 20070207

2007-02-07 Thread Al Hopper
CAB/OGB Position Paper # 20070207 version 0.6 Topic: Should OpenSolaris be dual licensed via CDDL and GPLv3 Published by: OpenSolaris CAB/OGB current members: Casper Dik, Al Hopper, Roy Fielding, Simon Phipps, Rich Teer Background: Over the past week or so a heated and passionate debate has

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you?

2007-02-07 Thread Al Hopper
and *still* is not today. The selection process was fair, open and very well organized and Mercurial won based on its merits. To infer that the selection process was flawed or unfair, or that the outcome somehow pre-ordained, is unfair and untrue. [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you?

2007-02-07 Thread Al Hopper
o it postponed until that general timeframe. In addition I believe that further discussion on GPLv3 is merely a diversion/distraction that should be discouraged, so as to allow the community to concentrate on the higher priority action items, until that timeframe. Regards, Al Hopper Logica

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-02 Thread Al Hopper
en > this movie before. The hero dies in the end. Agreed. The history of computing is littered with the dead bodies of technically "better" ... everything. The only way to be the leader is to spend every waking minute of every day running like hell to stay ahead of the pack. Devel

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-02 Thread Al Hopper
that, they can do that now. Knock yourself out. > ... snip [1] there is some evidence to suggest that he is the ultimate geek who just likes to build software systems and rockets and anything else that strikes his fancy and does not seem compelled to justify his technobudget to anyone.

[osol-discuss] Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-21 Thread Al Hopper
servers, and signal renewed competitiveness for Intel's chips. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116942865146783283.html?mod=djemalert Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris.Org Comm

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal : OpenSolaris on extended partitions

2007-01-16 Thread Al Hopper
ating System(s). The original proposal looks good to me. When that's integrated we can look at other opportunities to integrate the code more fully into ON. Best of luck with the project and thanks for taking it on. [0] Actually hard disk drives Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Pl

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS bogarting memory

2007-01-15 Thread Al Hopper
frightened. That > sort of thing. The best (IMHO) answer is to try it on your system with your workload. Bear in mind that the ZFS developers are adamant that there should be no tunables and that the system should handle every situation automatically. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Appro

Re: [osol-discuss] home network design advice

2006-12-24 Thread Al Hopper
grade the image easily via the GUI Performance: the system will handle between 40 and 50 Mbits/Sec of firewalled traffic with a typical firewall ruleset. [1] 2.1mm jack, center pin positive Seasons Greetings, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.37

Re: [osol-discuss] Unkillable Processes

2006-12-17 Thread Al Hopper
this: # dtrace -n profile-1234hz'/pid == 4308/[EMAIL PROTECTED]()] = count()}' That should tell you pretty clearly where you are and what's going on... - Bryan ------ Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Dev

Re: [osol-discuss] Suggestion: PCFS Open Development Project

2006-11-29 Thread Al Hopper
t > improvements, add own code, and of course try it out sooner. > > Thoughts/suggestions/seconds ? +1 But you probably need to mention how you feel about "performance" :) A bizarre sense of humor is the sign of a great developer mindset IMHO. Regards, Al Hopper Logical

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble with "sendmail" and '"Smart" relay host' in B48 ...

2006-11-23 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, John Beck wrote: > Al> Suns sendmail is just too "different" to where it gets in the way, rather > Al> than solves your email config issues. (Sorry John Beck) > > If you are talking about things like patches modifying sendmail.cf, then I > agre

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble with "sendmail" and '"Smart" relay host' in B48 ...

2006-11-22 Thread Al Hopper
) sendmail config. In fact, you can setup a zone purely as your Sendmail "server" for the machine. But you do need to watch for the Sun sendmail coming back from the dead (it's like a virus). Don't believe me? Try this scenario in a zone: netservices limited svcadm disable s

Re: [osol-discuss] Moving on...

2006-11-22 Thread Al Hopper
d professional endeavors. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005 OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Mem

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