[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0.1 available

2010-09-17 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0.1. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadStable Over the NCP 3.0, this release includes * Fixes to nexenta-zones * Additional b

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-22 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:48 PM, William Bauer wrote: > OK, someone 'splain me somethin' > > I get how Solaris and OpenSolaris work, what packages are, IPS, how to > install stuff, and all that.  Been doing it for a couple decades.  And by the > way, I'm still holding out hope for the Solari

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Released

2010-08-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadStable This is the same iso as the RC3 release. --- The near future: NCP 3.9 The move

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC3 Released

2010-07-28 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC3. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the RC2 release include: * ON fixes backported to b13

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-17 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > Ok, fine.  But what do the internal developers use to build on? > > How well will a community distro be able to do that? Not too hard. Nexenta was until the recent builds self-hosting. It will soon be again. (And Nexenta strays awa

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-07-17 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > We all see that the development pace on OpenSolaris is high, even today: > http://static.opensolaris.org/on/flagdays/141-145.html > http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/year/2010.html > > As I have understood it, the source code is available to

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC2 Released

2010-06-30 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC2. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the RC1 release include: * Dozens of ON fixes backpor

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor Community edition 3.0.3 released

2010-06-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
rk at http://people.nexenta.com. -- Thanks Anil Gulecha Community Leader http://www.nexentastor.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1 Released

2010-05-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Beta3 release include: * Dozens of ON fixes backp

Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-14 Thread Anil Gulecha
> > aggg, I  don't like  the thought of Garrett D'Amore and ZFS co- creator > Bill Moore deflecting to Nexenta,other  opensoalris originators may follow. > IMO    nexenta by hiring some former opensolaris devs. is preparing > themselves to continue developing the opensolaris kernel on their

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor Community edition 3.0.2 released

2010-05-03 Thread Anil Gulecha
join our growing social network at http://people.nexenta.com. -- Thanks Anil Gulecha Community Leader http://www.nexentastor.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta3 Released

2010-04-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta3, the final beta release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Beta2

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Distributions

2010-04-20 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM, john kroll wrote: > Could you better explain the tie-ends of nexenta OS to open-solaris kernel ?? > I get that the OS turns into ubuntu and for a client gui service its hard to > beat. Also with apt-get servers it can immediately acquire kde software. Not > sure

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta2 Released

2010-04-01 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Alexander wrote: >> Fee Structure >> - >> Starting with this release of NCP3, there will be a >> small charge for >> all users of NCP. This is required for security >> upgrades, and usage of >> apt-clone functionality. > > Cool. It seems that FreeBSD is going t

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta2 Released

2010-03-31 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta2, the final beta release in the NCP3 cycle. Starting with this release we will begin charging users of NCP a modest fee. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexe

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor Community edition 3.0 released

2010-03-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
been obsoleted.) If you are a storage solution provider, we invite you to join our growing social network at http://people.nexenta.com. -- Thanks Anil Gulecha Community Leader http://www.nexentastor.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-di

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta1 Released

2010-03-06 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta1, the sixth release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Alpha5 rele

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha5 Released

2010-02-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha5, the fifth release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Alpha4 rel

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha4 Released

2010-01-19 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha4, the fourth release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Alpha3 re

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor 2.2.1 Developer Edition Released

2010-01-13 Thread Anil Gulecha
/wiki/DeveloperEdition Summary of recent changes is on freshmeat at http://freshmeat.net/projects/nexentastor/ A complete list of projects (14 and growing) is at http://www.nexentastor.org/projects Nightly images are available at http://ftp.nexentastor.org/nightly/ Regards -- Anil Gulecha Community

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha3 Released

2010-01-06 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha3 (and belatedly wish you a great new year!). This is the third release in NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/Downloa

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha2 Released

2009-12-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
> * move from Opensolaris b124 to b124. This brings the long awaited ZFS > deduplication support to the distribution. A correction.. this was meant to read "move from Opensolaris b124 to b129" Thanks Anil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolari

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha2 Released

2009-12-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha2. This is the second release in NCP3. The main changes over the Alpha1 release include: * move from Opensolaris b124 to b124. This brings the long awaited ZFS deduplication supp

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor 2.2.0 Developer Edition Released

2009-11-23 Thread Anil Gulecha
s deduplication support. Stay tuned! Regards -- Anil Gulecha Community Lead, NexentaStor.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3 Alpha1 Released

2009-10-13 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha1. This is the first release towards NCP3.0. The main changes over NCP2 include: Move from Opensolaris build 104 to 124. >From this release

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor.org and Open Source components

2009-09-09 Thread Anil Gulecha
a complete forge environment with mercurial repositories, bug tracking, wiki, file hosting and other features. We welcome developers and the user community to participate and extend the storage appliance via our open Storage Appliance API (SA_API) and plugin API. Website: www.nexentastor.org Than

Re: [osol-discuss] StormOS Beta ISO out

2009-06-05 Thread Anil Gulecha
Congrats on the release! ~Anil On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Stormont wrote: > Hi everybody, > > The StormOS Hail Beta ISO has now been released and is available for > download immediately, grab it here. > > StormOS is the first desktop distribution based on Nexenta Core Platform 2 > whi

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 2 Released

2009-05-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
ble by the Autobuilder. Anil Gulecha, leader of NCP project and IRC lurker, who maintained dozens of packages, the website, and helps collaboration on the distribution. Erast Benson, maintainer of the opensolaris packages, and various server packages, who ensured NCP has a stable foundation to build on. Dav

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 2 RC3 released

2009-05-19 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Stephen, On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Stephan Ferraro wrote: > I would like to test it. > Is it possible to install it on an existing zpool? > I don't want to delete my existing OpenSolaris installation. No, you cannot install to an existing zpool not.. the current installer only support

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 2 RC3 released

2009-05-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC3. The changes since RC2 include: - Man-db fix - Opensolaris kernel fixes Release Highlights: -- * OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches. * Over 13000 packages in the repository, thanks to the

[osol-discuss] NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC2 released

2009-05-04 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC2. The release has stabilized. This release will become the final release if no major bugs are reported. Release Highlights: -- * OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches. * Over 13000 packages i

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-20 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Alexander Eremin wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 18:19 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: >> http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/ >> ___ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >

[osol-discuss] NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC1 released

2009-03-31 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC1. The interesting feature addition in this release is experimental 128-bit processor support. Further information at http://www.nexenta.org/os/x86_128_support We've also fixed many bug and resolved issues since the last beta

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-26 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Ken Mays wrote: > I posted a wiki over at Blastwave.org so that we can track and update things > easier > as well. I've added all of the updates I've received today: > > OpenSolaris Distribution stats > http://wiki.blastwave.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=280&star

[osol-discuss] COMSTAR/zfs integration for faster SCSI

2009-03-02 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, Nexenta CP and NexentaStor has integrated COMSTAR with ZFS, which provides 2-3x performance gain over userland SCSI target daemon. I;ve blogged in more detail at http://www.gulecha.org/2009/03/03/nexenta-iscsi-with-comstarzfs-integration/ Cheers, Anil http://www.gulecha.org __

[osol-discuss] NexentaCore Platform 2.0 Beta2 released

2009-02-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 Beta2 - Debian/OpenSolaris native environment (unstable "Hardy" branch). This is our second beta, and includes many bug fixes and issues resolved after the first beta release. Release Highlights: -- * OpenSolaris bui

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta's CEO blogging about 2009, OpenStorage, GPL, CDDL, etc

2009-02-04 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Greg Palmer wrote: > >> > http://www.nexenta.com/blog >> > >> > >> The quote below is rather interesting, though it would have been nice if >> he included the specifics of his charge rather than just indulging in a >> bit of drive by corpor

[osol-discuss] Upcoming NexentaCore 2.0 Hackathon and Bounties

2009-01-19 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, The NexentaCore platform 2.0 (NCP2) has has grown leaps and bound since the last round of hackathon in October. Our repository has size increased by over 200%, thanks to the Autobuilder. So the repository now has over 13000 binary packages (and growing) from the Ubuntu 8.04 repository. We

[osol-discuss] Devzones

2008-12-22 Thread Anil Gulecha
[posting from zones-discuss as it could be of interest here too] Hi, A quick google revealed that devzones never came up on this list, so I thought I'd do an introductions. Devzone is built on Zones, and allows one to define a base_zone and then easily make copies of it as and when required via

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 2 Beta1 Released

2008-12-20 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 beta - Debian/OpenSolaris native environment (unstable "Hardy" branch). The packages are relatively stable, and we've thus moved NCP to beta, and aim for a stable release early next year. Release Highlights: -- * Ope

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-10 Thread Anil Gulecha
> Trying to keep everything under opensolaris.org umbrella > won't work in the long run, simply because you cannot force > people do it one "blessed" way. A +1 to this sentiment. Hosting space, and webpage URL shouldn't really matter. -- Anil http://www.gulecha.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 2 Alpha2 released

2008-10-11 Thread Anil Gulecha
Correction: The alpha 2 link is http://www.nexenta.org/releases/nexenta-core-platform_2.0-b85-alpha2_x86.iso.zip Thanks to perlun for the heads-up. Regards Anil On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Anil Gulecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is to announce

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 2 Alpha2 released

2008-10-11 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha2 - Debian Native OpenSolaris environment and platform. (unstable "Hardy" branch). [1] Release Highlights: -- * Over 4500 packages in the repository. * This includes latest dpkg/apt, gcc, binutils, coreutils, pe

Re: [osol-discuss] September edition of Nexenta Hackathon

2008-08-29 Thread Anil Gulecha
A gentle reminder that the hackathon has officially started. Join in :) Regards Anil On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Anil Gulecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A quick update on the hackathon. We've advanced the event by a couple > of days to start from the 29th

Re: [osol-discuss] September edition of Nexenta Hackathon

2008-08-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
1/ [3] http://www.gulecha.org/2008/08/22/getting-started-with-nexenta-development-part-2/ [4] http://www.nexenta.org/os/Hackathon On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Anil Gulecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > The next Nexenta hackathon session is scheduled for Aug 31st Mi

[osol-discuss] September edition of Nexenta Hackathon

2008-08-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
scribed to nexenta-changes mailing list to get notifications of accepted packages! Further details at: http://www.nexenta.org/os/Hackathon -- Regards Anil Gulecha http://www.gulecha.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Update on the NexentaCore project

2008-08-12 Thread Anil Gulecha
org Nexenta Planet : http://blogs.nexenta.org Regards Anil Gulecha ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] DESKTOP BACKGROUND - View from the moon

2008-02-17 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Kevin, Everyone has it. This background is included by default on current SX releases.. just rightclick> Desktop background.. ~Anil On 2/17/08, Kevin Mitnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WOW!! The response is underwhelming. > > Anyone care to answer this one? I can't imagine that out of the w

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is the magic ?

2008-01-07 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 1/7/08, Akhilesh Mritunjai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > As an opening remark, let me say that I have been dealing with systems for > sometime and have been monitoring OpenSolaris since its inception. > > Although there are many nice things, I have been both puzzled and "awed"

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there support for Google Talk (open protocol) or Skype (propietry)?

2007-12-13 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 12/13/07, Dr. David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last time I looked there was no Skype for Solaris. I just looked for a Google > Talk client, but there is not one for Solaris either > > http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html > Google talk uses the jabber protocol It is available v

Re: [osol-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-12 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 12/13/07, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the approaches to finding what external USB disks are currently > connected? I'm starting on backup scripts, and I need to check which > volumes are present before I figure out what to back up to them. I > suppose I could just

[osol-discuss] Fwd: The Belenix 5 day challenge (Dec 4-8)

2007-12-04 Thread Anil Gulecha
FYI, -- Forwarded message -- From: Anil Gulecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 4, 2007 7:44 AM Subject: The Belenix 5 day challenge (Dec 4-8) To: Belenix Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, The belenix team has launched a 5 d

Re: [osol-discuss] Graphic Software Installation Utility in Solaris Indiana?

2007-11-21 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 11/21/07, Karina Astudillo B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering if you're considering to include a Graphic Utility to Add > Software in Solaris Indiana. > > I don't have problems with using pkgadd or pkg-get or any other commands, but > I believe that if we really w

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana milestone reached!

2007-11-01 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 11/1/07, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/11/2007, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > o ZFS as the default filesystem > > Is that as in 'ZFS root'? Yup. ~Anil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - first glance

2007-11-01 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 11/1/07, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well golly gee .. that was fast. > > I am still playing and I just wanted to get this out there so the world can > see it. I get about 44K unique users looking at Blastwave and so I wanted to > stick this on the homepage : > > http://www.

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana milestone reached!

2007-10-31 Thread Anil Gulecha
:) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Solaris on Dell XPS 1330?

2007-10-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi all, I'm planning on getting a laptop and like the Dell XPS 1330. I found XPS 1210 on the HCL but not 1330. Has anyone on this these lists runs (seen running) Solaris on 1330? Cheers Anil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@open

Re: [osol-discuss] Install from USB Flash?

2007-10-20 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 10/20/07, Gregory McPherran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can OpenSolaris be installed from a USB flash drive? > It should be soon enough, with Project Indiana. You can also do it right now wiht Belenix LiveUSB ~Anil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing l

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

2007-10-09 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 10/9/07, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darren Reed wrote: > > > While I'm not sure what will be happening next year, it is likely > > to run again. This year I believe there were 6 to 8 submissions > > for GSoC projects on OpenSolaris, of which 4 were accepted. > > Next year we, op

Re: [osol-discuss] Lines of Code

2007-10-01 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 10/1/07, S h i v <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/1/07, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:57:08AM +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: > > >> On 9/29/07, Scott Rotondo <[EMAIL P

Re: [osol-discuss] Lines of Code

2007-09-28 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 9/29/07, Scott Rotondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Grisanzio wrote: > > hey ... anyone have an updated count of the number of lines of code in > > the OpenSolaris source? > > > > Jim > > (Ada) 33 files,18944 lines > (Tcl) 6 files, 1028 lines >(make)

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Registration Wizard hangs indefinately

2007-09-27 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 9/28/07, Bryan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all! > > I can see I have a lot to learn :-) > I'd say there are a lot of unrequired stuff that need to go. Cheers Anil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Registration Wizard hangs indefinately

2007-09-27 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, Just run 'svcadm disable basicreg' as root to disable it :) Anil On 9/28/07, Bryan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm running Nevada snv_66 and enjoying it. However, the Solaris Registration > Wizard hangs whenever I attempt to login. I get the watch icon indefinately.

Re: [osol-discuss] xorg.conf ?

2007-09-26 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 9/26/07, Rishabh Nagendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I have the nVidia drivers installed, I went to Application -> System > Tools -> NVIDIA S Server Settings. Clicked on "X Server Display > Configuration" and then on "Save to X Configuration File" and typed > /etc/X11/xorg.conf . > So

Re: [osol-discuss] xorg.conf ?

2007-09-26 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hmm.. I overlooked the earlier details. Yes you should be able to run the 3d stuff. looks like you need an xorg file. Have you tried the BeleniX method I mentioned? Regards Anil On 9/26/07, Rishabh Nagendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I DO have an nVidia card! > And how would I upgrade to b7

Re: [osol-discuss] xorg.conf ?

2007-09-26 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 9/26/07, Rishabh Nagendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! > But when I run the script I get this: > > bash-3.00$ sh compiz-0.5.2-for-solaris.sh > You must be root to install the package > enter this system's root password. > Password: > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > = Compiz

Re: [osol-discuss] xorg.conf ?

2007-09-26 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 9/26/07, Rishabh Nagendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I'm new to Solaris. I have installed Solaris from the DVD labeled "Solaris > Express Developer Edition". > I'm used to Linux, so I could figure out most of it. However, there seems to > be no xorg.conf file in the /etc/X11 dire

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris "thinks" that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-04 Thread Anil Gulecha
> We never compared Solaris with MacOS/ Windows from the desktop user > point of view, To the powers that be, Why not? I assume it is the lack of resources, but then isnt this market worth the investment? Anil PS : Mac OSX, now offcially a Unix, has shown that one can be adapted for the avg Jo

Re: [osol-discuss] Install opensolaris onto a 2G disk

2007-08-02 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 8/2/07, Lu, Baolu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I decide to intall the opensolaris onto a classmate PC, which has the > > memory size of 256M and 2G NAND flash storage space. The aim is > > to have the system run some kind of desktop system, like Gnome, and > > a browser, like fi

Re: [osol-discuss] Oh dear operating systems help me please

2007-08-01 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hey, On 8/2/07, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i previously had a machine running windows vista and ubuntu 7.04 on one GRUB > boot loader. Now when i installed solaris 10, it has a new grub boot loader > and vista and ubuntu aren't there! i cant even acess the other partitions!!! > > omg plea

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

2007-08-01 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 8/2/07, Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Playback is free on Windows and Mac OS because Microsoft and Apple > licensed the codecs from their respective owners. Playback is free > on Linux only because the Linux movement doesn't care much about the > IP Laws in the US (understandably)

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

2007-07-30 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Korey, On 7/30/07, Korey Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The frustrating part is that it doesn't need to be this way. We now have the > technology to make the command line obsolete. Combo boxes and check marks > and tool tips could open up a world of features to the general user. Simpl

Re: [osol-discuss] Windows switcher: Wine for Solaris ( DC++ )?

2007-07-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, I also remmeber one of the members from BOSUG having compiled wine without issues using pkgbuild : pkgbuild.sourceforge.net You could try that.. ~Anil On 7/26/07, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shit Im frustrated right now. Anybody knows how to get Wine on this "#"#&%& > > S

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting NTFS troublesome?

2007-07-14 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 7/14/07, Orvar Korvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im migrating from Windows XP to Solaris. Therefore I bought 4 hard discs and > set up ZFS raid. Now I am copying all my stuff to ZFS (at last no worries any > more! :o) > > mount ntfs via Belenix FSWfsmisc/FSWfspart as described in: > http://w

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

2007-07-10 Thread Anil Gulecha
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? :) regards Anil ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-05 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 6/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One of the goals of Indiana is also to be able to boot and install from a >mini cd rom image, that pulls things from the network. I have been thinking >that the best option would be to include templates in the installation >procedure tha

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

2007-05-26 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 5/27/07, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2007, ken mays wrote: > I've been testing Belenix 0.6 for almost a week and I > only a few things (right now) I'd like to see fixed: > > 1. Evince 0.4.0 - update to Evince 0.9.0 > 2. GIMP 2.2.10 - update to GIMP 2.3.16 > 3. KDE 3.5

Re: [osol-discuss] backspace key not working on Java environment

2007-05-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 5/24/07, Anne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All When I start Xwindows from my workstation and connect to my Solaris 10 boxes, and I choose the Sun Java Desktop (not the classic CDE), I can't use the backup space key in the terminal windows. It's terribly annoying and in fact, I have to run CDE

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Dualboot Solaris and slackware using grub

2007-05-23 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 5/23/07, Boris Derzhavets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do I have to install grub (from linux) on the MBR, or > can I still use the Solaris Grub that is installed on > the MBR? As soon as you place linux GRUB into MBR your Solaris instance will be lost for ever. Reinstall slackware as was sug

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

2007-05-22 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 5/23/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Curious: What is the motivation behind supporting both Xfce and KDE? For the user booting the DVD, is one recommended over the other? In terms of loading, KDE is present in the innermost sectors (near the center), so loads quicker (Come to think of i

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris Distributions

2007-05-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 5/16/07, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Humans are wired creatures, keep asking themself the same question over and over again... what's the meaning of life? :-) Easy. 42 :) ~Anil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

2007-05-08 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 5/7/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could always ask BitTorrent about their plans for uTorrent ports. It's probably the best torrent client anywhere. A pretty simple app written in C or C++ I believe. With some cooperation it might see a Solaris port. IIRC, the author once mention

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/24/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @all: Yes, I know that wrappers exist, and > have used xcdroast previously. The last gcombust > release was in 2003. Lets just say I like my GUIs > pretty and intuitive. The graveman screenshots look > promising. The point is there are no produ

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the proper forum to discuss alternate filesystems?

2007-04-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Brian, Replies inline. On 4/24/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are times when other filesystem types are needed. unsure - FAT16/FAT32 These are supported. - NTFS - ext3 The above are not supported by

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-23 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/23/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just wonder how useful a GUI is going to be when you're going over ttya. I find Nero nearly useless. It's a *consumer grade* toy for plants. Be that as it may, we will just have to agree to disagree. >There is a need for GUI, and Nero can well fill

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: CD burning in Solaris

2007-04-23 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/23/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nero is a child's plaything compared to cdrtools from Joerg Schilling, that BTW come built into Solaris: cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord -v -data -sao dev=c,t,l /var/tmp/MyImage.ISO where "c,t,l" are the numbers you'd get from `cdrecord -scanbus`, a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/19/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to get various disk parameters including > disk serial > umbers (or disk IDs). How do I do that on thumper > with OpenSoalris? > Is there any equivalent command for hdparm on > Solaris? `format`. And once you become an expert wit

Re: [osol-discuss] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/14/07, Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, i am new to Open Solaris, but have a demand to have my own OpenSolaris installer, which basically a simple design like this : Add a software (e.g Moodle learning management software) as pre-installed so that, if i distri

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 9 with xp

2007-04-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/16/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I wan to installa a solaris 9 and a xp. I thint that I have to begin to install the xp and then de solaris 9, but ...how I must create the partitions? 2 primary? one NTFS and the other linux ex3 or swap? Thanks a lot and sorry for my english.

Re: [osol-discuss] Noob with a couple questions

2007-04-10 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, Replies inline On 4/11/07, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, how is OpenSolaris different to Solaris? OpenSolaris is the core (kernal+networking+commands) .. Solaris is a distribution (opensolaris + Gnome+ applications) BeleniX looks like the ideal way for me to begin and with any

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10: The Complete Reference

2007-04-07 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/7/07, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering how compatible this would be with somelike belenix or another distro built on Solaris. As far as the commands are concerned, and the underlying technologies like Zones, Dtrace, ZFS, etc.. it would be completely compatible. Regards

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 2/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are the engineering benefits got out of abandoning CD-ROMS greater than >the loss of a few (?) developers, students and users ? This is something we need to discuss; and what alternatives there might be. Driving upward the installe

Re: [osol-discuss] Free S10 CDs?

2007-02-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
The page and link was posted on slashdot. Enough said. Regards Anil On 2/23/07, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Enright wrote: > Hi all, > > Several weeks (months?) ago Sun had some sort of online deal where > they would ship free S10 and Sun Studio 11 CDs out for free. A f

[osol-discuss] 2007 Prediction : "OpenSolaris community will be widely recognised as larger and more active than the Linux community"

2006-12-31 Thread Anil Gulecha
From : http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=763 Cheers Anil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Syncmaster 793s monitor xorg.conf

2006-12-23 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi list, Does anybody here have a syncmaster 793s monitor, and are you able to get something more than 1024x768? If yes, could you mail me your /etc/X11/xorg.conf .. I'm trying to figure out why the higher resolution isn't recognized. Regards Anil ___