Re: [osol-discuss] What *is* OpenSolaris about?

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
integration. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is making OpenSolaris a non profit organisation on the agenda of the OGB? No - what would the benefit of that be? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: OpenSolaris as a seperate entity to Sun (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris)

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nyone in the least bit interested seeing OpenSolaris actually be able to employ people or pay for things itself rather than depend on the good will of Sun to do it all? You really see enough people or companies donating the sum required to hire anyone? I can't see $100,000+ falling into our la

Re: [osol-discuss] PPlaris, the Opensolaris fork (was: Re: Kill PPC port? (was: Re: [powerpc-discuss] Re: Re: Code drop?)

2007-06-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ere that you think sourceforge will give you? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris PAC?

2007-06-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hanges they do or do not want, and will almost certainly have to do so at some point. That they haven't planned for this is a sign how little they've thought about what OpenSolaris really means to the way Solaris is built. -- -Alan Coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] The OpenSolaris Numbers Game (Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris)

2007-06-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
trics manipulation into a Denial of Service attack against the OpenSolaris web site?) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE removing (In which Build?)

2007-07-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n dtwm & dtterm, etc.). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] About CDE removing (In which Build?)

2007-07-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anil Gulecha wrote: > On 7/10/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> from dtlogin to gdm, waiting for the new installer to remove the dependency >> of the current installer on dtwm & dtterm, etc.). >> > > Are we talking Caiman here? :) Yes - th

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Aaron Epps wrote: > Is the only way to get updates for OpenSolaris to buy a annual contract from > Sun? No - there is no contract from Sun you can buy that will give you anything more than you can get from the free downloads on OpenSolaris.org. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
an OS upgrade from that somehow (boot the CD & choose upgrade, run live upgrade, etc.).The Solaris patch/registration bits are left in those from S10, but aren't useful in the Express releases. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Updates?

2007-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to get partial updates without having to download the full CD or DVD set is one of the things under discussion (including as part of the Project Indiana discussions). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsy

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x27;t contain > non-redistributable files (if any). I know that everything from End User to Full contains binaries from X that we haven't done the work to make redistributable (and until that is done I don't know if we can or not), so it could only be Core or smaller that are alr

Re: [osol-discuss] Updating packages that are not in ON updates

2007-07-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Open Source demo programs > system SUNWsprotSolaris Bundled tools For the majority of the OS (ON is only about 20% of Solaris), you need to download the new ISO's and do an OS upgrade to them - unfortunately, if you've used BFU, it breaks your

Re: [osol-discuss] Keyboard problems.

2007-07-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ld not work on a boot cd? That makes no sense whatsoever, since "keyboard" is just aliased to "kbd" now. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] project administrivia: adding discussions for a project

2007-07-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
website-discuss is the forum for discussing how the opensolaris.org web infrastructure works. -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Paul Jakma wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies if this isn't the right forum, b

Re: [osol-discuss] Keeping up with Changes

2007-07-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
munity/x_win/changelogs/ which is a full change log, not just projects & flag days like the ON page. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Can the forum search engine work?

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
website-discuss is the best forum for reporting issues with the website itself, including the forums. -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Li Qin wrote: > Hi, > > I always get 0 result, whatever I searched

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t given their animosity towards open source drivers. No real action seems to have come from them yet. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Orvar Korvar wrote: > True. > > ATI's has drivers only for Windows OS. ATI has drivers for Linux as well, though they're usually behind the Windows drivers. (For instance, the X1000 series was supported on Windows about 6 months before they got a Linux driver out for it.)

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI vs. nVidia

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
1280x1024, 1152x864 , 832x634, 800x600, > 540x480, but the resyncing veyries on the right side of the screen when I > change resolutions, I have a Asus N2NPV-VM MB w. 64meg enabled nVidia GeForce > 6100. I believe you've filed bugs on both of those right? I seem to remember

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
video device drivers for > "alternate" OS platforms. Really? Where did you hear that? Their actions seem to be consistently the opposite of that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e DRI project, Utah-GLX project, > or others. Nice marketing spin, but ATI hasn't been actively assisting the open source community for quite a while. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting a Lucrative Sponsorship Funded

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ase help if you have any > idea. You'll have to find a sponsor, such as Sun or another company, who has money - OpenSolaris itself has no money. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting a Lucrative Sponsorship Funded

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I suspect you're right (or at least the people there are more likely to know who they are). -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Brian Gupta wrote: > I suspect they are more likely to be found on the advocacy

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
st of those > protocols. That doesn't require money. Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you still need a license to ship it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] can't subscribe to cab list

2007-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Robert Neville wrote: > On 8/3/07, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That list has been retired. > > Why was the list retired? Because the CAB was replaced by the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) when the OpenSolaris Charter was approved. -- -Alan Coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d on their own for x86 with no effort by Sun? If so, you're very mistaken. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list open

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you >> still >> need a license to ship it. > > Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Matthew Gardiner wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Alan Coopersmith" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Alan DuBoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] CDE Update?

2007-08-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
1.0. Since the only work Sun is putting into CDE now is removing it from Solaris, there is no chance of updating to a new OpenGroup version. > Also is there a way to update solaris 10 CDE from 1.6.3 to 1.7_64? I don't think the Nevada (CDE 1.7) packages will run on Solaris 10, but h

Re: [osol-discuss] File Events Notification API - PSARC/2007/027

2007-08-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rd to know when there is no name attached to the put back as > far as I see. The onnv-notify mail about the putback lists the committers name: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2007-July/012243.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] Compile errors during onnv-gate

2007-08-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e part of open source world use this ! Most of them already are - gcc, gmake, gdb, autoconf, etc. - what are you missing? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Compile errors during onnv-gate

2007-08-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:48 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> S h i v wrote: >>> On 8/6/07, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> It does seem puzzling. >>>> The reason is that: >>>> >>&

Re: [osol-discuss] File Events Notification API - PSARC/2007/027

2007-08-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to ask if cases should be open or closed, and if the user chooses closed, explain why. Before that, making a case open required manual intervention which many ARC case submitters didn't know how to do, so many were made closed that shouldn't be - that should hopefully happen much less often

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g at using his work for Indiana (right now, it's an option we're exploring, not a decision we've made). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Fonts looking bad vs Windows?

2007-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e to better tune the font rendering to your display. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] HP dv9000z

2007-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f to your heart's desire - the easiest way to do so is simply to stop X, and then run Xorg -configure and then mv that file to /etc/X11 and vi it as needed. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] Fonts looking bad vs Windows?

2007-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
may look better than some of the free ones bundled with Solaris, but just being TrueType won't necessarily make any difference. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] HP dv9000z

2007-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
now, if you need new nvidia versions, you can download and install, so it's not that great a burden. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-heavy? The OGB does not need to approve changes like this to the website. We don't have enough time to micro-manage every little web page change. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Fonts looking bad vs Windows?

2007-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Boyd Adamson wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Orvar Korvar wrote: >>> Ok, ive tried that, sub pixel smoothing and such stuff and it looks >>> better. Would installing trutype fonts make it looks better still? I >>> can rip them

Re: [osol-discuss] Fonts looking bad vs Windows?

2007-08-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ndiana if it did. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
cs know the details, most of the rest of us don't. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
mes inexplicable, are simply Sun's current graphical design patten. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: > I wonder what it would take to change that crazy "small root, the rest for > /export/home/" layout? Did you try the new installer in build 70? It just changed the default layout. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g they don't fit on UDF?I still don't see the problem here. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] proposal to add Nigel Smith as a core contributor to Opensolaris storage community

2007-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
orage Community that need to vote, not the just any Core Contributor.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> I did explain why it is not "good enough". >> You explained why UDF will be the wrong choice for making such >> disks - but we're talking a

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot download SXCE snv_70

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
; so therefore anytime soon I expect that the new SXDE to be released .. soon > I hope. snv_70b isn't even scheduled to be built until next week. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Sun to do everything you just end up waiting, since there's only so many of us and we're all very busy already. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] HCL is pretty anemic...

2007-08-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sr/src/cmd/hwdata/pci.ids That's just the complete PCI ID database, used for printing device names. It tells you nothing about what devices are supported or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsyste

Re: [osol-discuss] Should B72 be here any day now?

2007-08-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ely week long process to get them posted as SXCE for public download next week. However, the build 70b respin is also happening this week, so they're building & testing two builds at once, and Monday is a holiday in the US, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is a few days later than

Re: [osol-discuss] Should B72 be here any day now?

2007-08-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n the next couple of months, but don't know the details. (They contacted the Sun bloggers alias recently to warn us any links in our blogs to download locations may need to be updated soon.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Writing DVD +/-R DL

2007-09-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Another strange thing: Sun is in the board of directors of the Blu Ray group > but there are no known Sun activities related to Blu Ray. You mean other than Blu-Ray Java? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, In

Re: [osol-discuss] Writing DVD +/-R DL

2007-09-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Another strange thing: Sun is in the board of directors of the Blu Ray group >>> but there are no known Sun activities related to Blu Ray. >> You mean

Re: [osol-discuss] ATi Solaris drivers in our future?

2007-09-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
7;t know the results until product is delivered. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] which community for 652094 bug ?

2007-09-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Neerhaj N Joshi wrote: > i apologize for the typing error. Its 6452094. That's a bash bug (would have helped if you said that instead of making us look it up) - so either shell-discuss or sfwnv-discuss would be the places I'd consider to ask about it. -- -Ala

Re: [osol-discuss] is there an identd client that works on solaris?

2007-09-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gt; would be difficult to support and hard to defend as a good choice > during architectural, design, and code review. If we were actually going to do it, wouldn't it make more sense to export a new, more stable API from the kernel for it? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PRO

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun joins the dark side :-D

2007-09-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Giles Turner wrote: > Nice. I hear Solaris 11 is coming out early next year. You need to get a better source of info. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun joins the dark side :-D

2007-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Giles Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 9/13/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Giles Turner wrote: >>>> Nice. I hear Solaris 11 is coming out early next year. >>> You need to get a

Re: [osol-discuss] -nolisten tcp

2007-09-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g set? Secure-by-Default sets it for you. (I thought it was in a profile, but don't see it there - you can see it set in the /usr/sbin/netservices script.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsyst

Re: [osol-discuss] -nolisten tcp

2007-09-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ervice is initialized with. Changes made later by svccfg are kept in the SMF database. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] B75: Running Windows in a Solaris xVM Host

2007-09-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > According to a Sun Blog, xVM is being integrated into Nevada Build 75 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007091801/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineer

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs for Siolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
re, but for the one product I know of that came out of that agreement, it certainly has restrictions and Sun is not free to do whatever it damn well pleases, so I think you just read a poorly informed news article and not the actual agreement. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE3

2007-09-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
stall images get built over the next couple of days.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] xorg.conf ?

2007-09-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e to enable composite, login as root to a text console (choose "Command line login" from the options menu on the login gui) and run: /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -configure mv /xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug submission

2007-09-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
queue about 20 minutes ago with your e-mail in the submitter field: CR 6611124 Created P4 opensolaris/triage-queue inetconv may create manifests that svccfg cannot import -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun M

Re: [osol-discuss] Reflections from the GSoC Mentor's summit

2007-10-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d related infrastructure, is there anyone with "OpenSolaris as their job title"? Alternatively, isn't OpenSolaris supposed to be the job of everyone in the Solaris organization now, regardless of job title? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micro

Re: [osol-discuss] release notes SXDE (74)?

2007-10-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
they have an easy-to-find page archiving them all or if you have to go through the full mail archives. I believe SFW does the same with their source drop announcement e-mails. X changelogs are at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/changelogs/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMA

Re: [osol-discuss] No SunRay section here?

2007-10-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rtual Client OpenSolaris community group is in the process of being set up which will include Sun Ray, but until it is, you'll probably do best at the existing Sun Ray community website/mailing list: http://www.sun-rays.org/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Running firefox in Xvnc session causes Xvnc memory leak

2007-10-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t's caching all the images for all your tabs. For much more discussion on it, see: http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2005-11.html#moz-images http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2007-09.html#firefox-memory-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259672 --

Re: [osol-discuss] b75 is a desaster

2007-10-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e to add more disk space as needed. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
discontinued, SXDE will likely continue as will the > express program SXDE 1/08 is the last planned release of SXDE - after that the current plan (always subject to change) is to replace SXDE with the Indiana 6-monthly releases. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ally each Community Group, names people as Core Contributors, who can then vote in community-wide issues, such as picking the OGB members. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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

2007-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
de as times change and the people involved change. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f of the OpenSolaris community. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Eric Boutilier wrote: > As Alan Coopersmith just alluded to, it's not up to the OGB to > mandate a vote. That wasn't quite my point - if there is a proposal ready to be put to a vote, it would be the OGB who put forth the vote to the members, but I haven't seen any proposa

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

2007-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ignoring it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Burlison wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >>> Perhaps someone from the OGB would care to comment? Or perhaps we >>> should expect their usual torpor to continue... >> >> The OGB just spent an hour on the phone (12 noon-1pm PDT) with Ian >> Murdock

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

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
iliated folks as well. Calling it >> Sun OpenSolaris would be inaccurate. > > A really comparison. Try to find out how hard it was to include ksh93 and > that star is still not in! star is still not in simply because no one wants it badly enough to do the work, while ksh93 is in becau

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

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> I remember that we did aggree ~ 2.5 years ago, that Sun would not call a >>> distro OpenSolaris. >> I don't know who would have made that agreement

Re: [osol-discuss] Name Change?

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
search in.If you find a conflict with another trademark, then it's, stop/rinse/repeat, costing another iteration of the search fees, until you get a good one. So is it possible? I don't know why not. Is it going to be cheap or easy? Probably not. -- -Alan Coo

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

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>>>> I remember that we did aggree ~ 2.5 years a

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

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
[Dropping [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED] since this is getting way off topic.] Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> star is still not in simply because no one wants it badly enough to do >> the work, while ksh93 is in because R

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

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
think that December/January-ish is about as late as we can push it unless Indiana agrees to choose another name for it's March release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Nvidia 8700 less than stellar performance

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ssage/44508 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Name Change?

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ents, and differing sets of opinions to reconcile. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Self-hosting ON

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
> 3) If so, how do I help or get this started? [I obviously need someone > with the sources, so it's no use telling me to just get started] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/emancipation/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be a distribution with exclusive use of the name, just that the name shouldn't be taken exclusively by a distribution the community hasn't agreed to endorse that way, nor even seen until after it was announced it was using the name. I suspect we'll get to the same end result

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nd influence are inversely proportional. The more control you try to take, even over things like the name that you may consider less significant, the less influence you will have with the members of the community. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsys

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e that none of the 6 existing distros could be renamed OpenSolaris, but the new one from Project Indiana could be named OpenSolaris before anyone in the community had seen it, and then claiming it was the community's distro. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
" bugs.) It's used for scripts to get an exit status from grep without grep printing output (i.e. a more efficient version of "grep > /dev/null 2>&1"). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineer

Re: [osol-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
en source project to the benevolent dictator model, it needs to come out and say so. As Shawn pointed out, other projects have worked that way - certainly Ubuntu has managed to make it work with the core source of funding also being the final decision maker, but only because it was clear from

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Glynn Foster wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> James Carlson wrote: >>> I don't think I agree that our current constitution allows for a >>> dictator, benevolent or otherwise. Should Sun's management actually >>> announce that this is in fact wha

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hange that the current constitution > says requires a community-wide decision -- i.e., a vote. I agree - if that change were desired, I think it would be somewhere between a large change to the constitution and a complete replacement. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [osol-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
opment of the OpenSolaris project. There is no legal contract signed with anyone requiring they do so, just community goodwill to be lost when they don't. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] Start Using SX*E, Or Just Wait?

2007-11-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
your wireless to work in Indiana if it works in SX*E. Indiana should be a subset of SXCE. I know of at least one major driver (nvidia graphics) which is in SXCE but not Indiana, due to redistribution restrictions. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] Start Using SX*E, Or Just Wait?

2007-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
entirety of the next version of Solaris, including not just ON, but all the other consolidations (X, JDS, SFW, NWS, GAN, etc.) as well. ONNV is the code name for ON for Nevada. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] Start Using SX*E, Or Just Wait?

2007-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tradition. If you follow it, you'll see there is no "Nevada Community" there, just an ON community group with a ONNV project. (It's one of several links I'd remove if I controlled the sidebar, along with the duplication of the "Portal" and "All Communi

Re: [osol-discuss] ATI new graphic cards roxx! Solaris drivers?

2007-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
opment model, not yet even up to beta quality. ATI has not yet released 3D specifications, so this isn't the place to go yet if you want 3D performance. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

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