here:
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There is an updated driver on the packager server that will probably help. I
had a similar issue and mine was fixed with the latest update. But that
doesn't really help you with running from the live CD.
Bill
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Has that list ever been tested ?
Dennis
No it hasn't been tested, this was the first time anyone posted anything. I'm
an admin like Ian and can't approve the emails either. We'll get it straighten
out.
Bill
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I am hoping to organize an informal meeting of people in the Pittsburgh area
interested in OpenSolaris. The intention will be besides the opportunity to
meet with other like minded individuals to also discuss starting a local user
group. If you are interested please respond to this thread or
I am looking for a comprehensive change log of what happens with in
OpenSolaris Community Edition releases. Does such a thing even exist?
I know for ON we have this:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/
But that's ON and only part of the picture obviously.
The reason I ask
Javier O. Augusto wrote:
What about running VMWare on Solaris x86? Any plans?
Does anyone know something about it?
When or if we get VMwarethen I would never install another OS besides
Solaris on the bare metal again!
I am wondering if anyone has done any more fiddling with trying to get
There was one bit of news from CommunityOne (i.e. the JavaOne pre-show)
that I thought might have interesting consequences for the OpenSolaris
community. That was the proposal to pay open source developers for
their work. That doesn't seem like a bad idea and I am wondering how
such a thing
carlos antonio neira bustos wrote:
Im totally against this aproach , why be like that other OS ?? ,for start being
like linux , we need some more bugs and profanity in the source code ...
is enough to say that im horryfied with this news.
I might tend to agree with this sentiment but
UNIX admin wrote:
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`, and that's it.
It doesn't get any simpler than that.
Actually, in Solaris it does get simpler! :-)
cdrw -i MyImage.ISO
Bill
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Quite on the contrary, I think this is a quite matter-of-course move. Some
Java developers have been telling me that they could distinguish b/t a Java app
and a native app in the GNOME environment (though it is quite a different story
in KDE). They need a home, and the
Would you have a problem with DVD-only images for SX:CE? Do you have
systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't have DVD drives and that
you can't netinstall from another system or Live Upgrade from a mounted
image?
Like others have mentioned, what I think should be done is to have one
Simon Phipps wrote:
On Feb 11, 2007, at 13:28, Bill Rushmore wrote:
I totally agree Giacomo. As much as I have tried, I just can't
interested in the licensing discussions. As someone who wants to use
the fruits of OpenSolaris for my own use and to make a living writing
software
De Togni Giacomo wrote:
[i]The discussion should be held
in the widest possible forum, which to me looks like
opensolaris-discuss[/i]
Good for widest possible forum but if generic (like opensolaris-discuss) it
could be problematic.The licenses issues are not generic but specific
issues.So,a
For those of you unaware of the Sun Developers Network there is a nice
little video of an interview with Stephen Lau about the OpenSolaris project:
http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/entry/solaris_in_the_spotlight
This month is Solaris month at SDN so hopefully we'll see more videos
like this
Yu-Hui Liu wrote:
Problem
- After all the configuration, went into “The system is being
initialized, please wait…” and hung there.
I have the same problem but on my physical machine with the 55b of SXCR.
It locks up hard where the mouse won't even move anymore. I have
another
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
also, sun kindly provides a nice download manager that can cope with
the download just fine
I have been using the non Webstarted download manager for years and
never had a problem and it still works fine. It is a pain to copy paste
all the links but will work.
Ben Rockwood wrote:
You guys are the kings. Indeed it was bug 6455727. And indeed that DTrace
one-liner illuminated the problem where no other tool could.
The resolution was simple, add the following line to lighttpd.conf:
server.network-backend = writev
The Blastwave package is built with
Nicholas Senedzuk wrote:
It was taken out of service about 6 months ago. At this point just keeping
it up and running to see how long before something goes wrong. Anyone know
of any systems that have been up longer?
Take a look here: http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=toplist
Christine Sterner wrote:
Sorry, I haven't been following the whole thread but check out:
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solaris_apps/index.jsp.
There is an entry for Solaris Enterprise System Virtual Appliance for
VMware
Runs on x86/x64 desktops or servers...
I'm not sure if
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:
So why do we keep having these endless CDDL/GPL discussions here?
Because people would expect a public reaction from Sun that does not seem
to happen.
I don't think that Sun necessarily has to respond. Take a look at the
page in question:
Jason wrote:
Since it is Open Solaris, would it be possible for someone to make an image
available (http or torrent) for other folks to download? It seems like there are some
very rough edges that could be dealt with once and shared.
I've been trying unsucessfully with the official non-open
A while back I brought up the fact that only Sun blogs are showing up on the
main page and on project pages. The problem is still happening, we only have
feeds from blogs.sun.com, which is fine but there are blogs of interest outside
of there too. Now if there is some kind internal legal
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Stephen Lau wrote:
Yes, it's all part of a secret plan where Sun employees are trying to
sabotage the project ;-)
Man, I didn't even think of that one!
No, in all seriousness this is a bug. It looks like the webapp machine
is having trouble getting through the firewall
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Martin Man wrote:
Hi Sara,
could be just me being too busy, but was there any open decision making
process that led to this logo being chosen?
I like it, I'm just curious who was involved and what was the process.
thanx,
Martin
Also, what does it all mean? Granted,
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Tim Foster wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:52 -0400, Bill Rushmore wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Martin Man wrote:
could be just me being too busy, but was there any open decision making
process that led to this logo being chosen?
No idea (I wasn't involved, in case you
Bill Rushmore wrote:
I noticed that the only blogs that are showing up
now on any of the
OpenSolaris main pages are those from Sun. Is
there a technical glich
or something else...?
blogs.sun.com was upgraded to Roller 3.0 this week,
and changes in that
caused a lot of blog
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Dave Miner wrote:
Matt Williamson wrote:
Bill Rushmore wrote:
This might be a kind of crazy idea and I am not sure if it is even
possible. But couldn't a public flash http server be setup? So all that
would be needed would be an initial install CD. Then during
Matt Williamson wrote:
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
dont you guys think it's getting a little too big?
imho it is
is there a way to include staroffice and the sources in separate cds
to lighten the burden?
great idea! would you mind filing an rfe against consolidation/install?
This
Has anyone tried running a SunPCI III card under any of the recent SXCR
builds? I am thinking about running SXCR on my Sun Blade 1000 at work.
I can deal with the typical problems caused by living on the edge but one
thing I must have is my SunPCI III working. So has anyone tried it?
Bill
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, David J. Orman wrote:
Picture speaks for itself. ;) Some GUI stuff like this sure would help ease
new-users into using the advanced functionality of OSOL. A really slick ZFS
management tool, really slick Dtrace tool (for app devs and whathave), etc.. it
could make a big
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, tyw wrote:
Erm, isnt '/etc/apache' a directory?
Yes, it is. cd into and take a look. There is a README.Solaris that will
be help.
But you will need to do is copy httpd.conf-example to httpd.conf. Then go
to the end of the file and you'll see the thing you are
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Simply put, a friend of mine tried to install Solaris and gave up because he
was convinced that the graphics card and keyboard were not supported.
Forget MAC and the fact that there are digits on the QWERTY keyboard across
the top row. The average user
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I have tried repeatedly on this old old 32-bit HP Kayak XU box to get a
clean build. Something I can do with the same processes in the same manner
on a dual proc Opteron in a flash. Easy as pie.
...
So I guess I have to ask if anyone else out there
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
affected in the same way with the same sort of hardware.
What sort of unit do you have there ?
I have an HP Kayak XU Model D5704T with a few modifications.
Mine is an XU800, it is has some modifications too, and that my be the
problem. It was a
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting
a
href=http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html;Goo
gle Earth v4/a
ported to OpenSolaris?
Do you really want this stuff on your employees' computer? Nah.
Absolutely! I work for a construction
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Something even more freaky .. I know that if I search around in my backup
tapes I can find a copy of MSIE 5.0 for Solaris in there somewhere.
I wonder if the people at Microsoft will port MSIE 7 to Solaris. Don't
laugh. The penetration of MSIE 7 into
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
What would be needed in the way of additional drivers, boot support, etc to make
that happen? Is sufficient info available from publically available
OpenSolaris code,
etc?
FWIW, I have OpenSolaris running on a SunPCi card with VMware running
On Mon, 22 May 2006, Rich Teer wrote:
Well I think that Solaris is very pleasant to use, I doubt I'm the only one.
Could it be improved? Yes, but that's not saying that it is currently
unpleasant
to use.
+1. I really do like JDS for me development work. I basically can sum it
up as It
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Mello wrote:
First off, I guess that the above URL should be
http://www.gnusolaris.org/ (Nexenta home page). Keep in mind it is
only available for x86 systems, though.
Thank you for fixing my typo.
In my case, I'm a total newbie when it comes to Solaris, I've tried
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Bernhard Neuhauser wrote:
- licence not for production or im wrong?
Would this already prohibit a company to use SE for internal file server for
example?
Solaris Express you can think of as a Beta Version of Solaris. Someone
will correct me if I am wrong but you can
On May 15, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Stephen Harpster wrote:
We've been giving lots of talks around the world about
OpenSolaris. One question
that comes up a lot, which unfortunately I've been unable to
answer, is how are people
using OpenSolaris? I have a good handle on what universities are
UNIX admin wrote:
I used to work for a company that was a Sun strategic partner. We had something called a
developer discount that enabled us to get ANY piece of Sun HW at down to 20%
of the sticker price. For example, I spec'd out a 280R (this was six years ago!) with a
T3 -- fully loaded
On Mon, 1 May 2006, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
For me at this moment, OpenSolaris isn't 'there' in terms of workstation
use, but as a server, its definately there, even for my attrociously
small network consisting of two computers and a router.
I have to disagree with you about OpenSolaris not
Over in website-discuss, we've reached consensus
that, for the site
lists as a whole, the various [foo-discuss] tags
should not be
prepended to subject lines by default.
Since opensolaris-discuss is the highest traffic
alias on
opensolaris.org, I think it is reasonable to make
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Darren Reed wrote:
What about organising an article or story on slashdot.org for every SX
release or two or three?
Are you volunteering Darren? :-) But seriously I wouldn't mind helping
out on this.
I do think this is a great idea. One thing I have been unable to
I am going to be moving to Pittsburgh in a couple months and was
wondering if anyone would be interested in getting an OpenSolaris user
group going there.
On a side note, I would really apperciate it if someone would take over
for me with trying to get a NYC group going.
Bill
rushmores.net
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Yu-Hui Liu wrote:
Hi, there,
Question is quite simple as subject. What's your prefer?
I have yet to see one I liked and I am even including Mac OS X which for
the most part has nailed the GUI stuff well. Backups are one of those
things you just want to work and you
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Laura Ramsey wrote:
This is amazing on *several* levels:
1--We're on the radar ...but why? That's what's so amazing.
2--Ron H. is mistaken--he thinks OpenSolaris is a linux-based
community...another amazing thing--he didn't even LOOK at the community,
before he
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Robert Milkowski wrote:
Hello Bill,
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:28:32 PM, you wrote:
BR I say this as someone who has no vested interest in Blastwave,
BR Sunfreeware, or the companion CD but I still don't see the point, the
BR community already has a more than one project
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
So you are still in support of Keith's proposal which opens discussion
between the long existing Sun Companion Software project (which predates
the existence of the very successful Blastwave project) and the community,
and does not propose to
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Stephen Lau wrote:
I don't understand why there is so much animosity being expressed here. The
companion CD project, SunFreeware, and Blastwave have all co-existed
peacefully prior to this discussion. Keith's proposal is to bring the
companion CD project into the open
It seems obvious from a previous thread that the idea of that the idea of
running Solaris on the Mac Intel is a popular idea among the community. I
suggest we encourage Apple to help us make Solaris a reality on Mac Intel
hardware. What we could do is create a petition of names that would not
Anyway, back to the important question..why isn't
anybody talking about audio? (I don't care if it's
OSS drivers or Sun drivers or Tools.de drivers).
Audio is a multibillion dollar business - Apple,
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Cisco are all into audio
and minting money, why not Sun?
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Stephen Potter wrote:
You're only supposed to go through installing from
CD/DVD once, then create a Flash(TM) archive and
install from the network afterwards.
That's great for those of us in a networked, enterprise environment. For Joe
R. User installing on his
So I thought about in what parts of Solaris the Slowaris image is still valid.
Especially, where does the system give a bad impression that might be valid,
but is not applicable to Solaris in general. I have come up with the following
points:
- default DVD based install process (slow)
Try to
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Rich Teer wrote:
Try living where I do--and yes, I do know Solaris well. :-( On more than
one occassion, I've actually been told that I'm over qualified!
I can see it now:
Interviewer: So Rich, how much do you know about Solaris systems
programming?
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Wes Williams wrote:
Since VMware will allow for a Linux host and Brandz supports Linux, I plan to
try to install a VMware host in a Brandz environment. Although I haven't yet
attempted this, perhaps it's worth a try for the occasional 'doz app?
[iTunes!!]
Let us
OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an
application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since
the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an
alternative on x64 yet. BrandZ is a nice idea but I need to
run a popular non-Unix like
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Eric Boutilier wrote:
Q: If SunPCI-like (easy switching to Windows and back) functionality on
x86 is what you want today, you can use Windows as the host OS and
Solaris as a guest OS, correct? So I don't understand what the downside
is of doing that...
Are you
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Karyn Ritter wrote:
Would something like the table I've just created at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size/ help? I need to
work out the answers to many additional questions surrounding this table
-- the least of which is how often I can reasonably
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Roland Mainz wrote:
It may be much better to think about getting VMware itself running on
top of Solaris x86 (e.g. Solaris x86 as host OS) - then I wouldn't have
to fight Linux on the laptop anymore... :-)
A big +1 from me on that!
Bill
rushmores.net
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there not an OpenSolaris vmware image / pre-built Virtual Machine for
Intel architectures available for download yet? All the big Linux
distributions have one available at
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/ and there are plenty of community
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
* For those who are thinking about contributing code, what can we do to
help you get started? Would more oss-bite-size bugs help?
More oss-bite-size would be nice. I also have a couple of suggestions for
the bug list. One is to make sure the bug
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Kenny Kong wrote:
Excuse me!
I would like to learn driver programming from basic technique, like how to
start, what should I know before programming a driver?
I have one year C, C++ and JAVA programming experience.
Do anybody have good websites or books for
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Personally, I don't see how OpenSolaris could receive its deserved attention
(and respect) if no one outside the existing Solaris community can install it.
I have to strongly disagree with you there. Yes, the hardware doesn't
cover everything but
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Roland Mainz wrote:
Actually there is the 3rd type of customer: People who write software -
they usually fall in the space between the two types. Currently Sun
simply lacks a decent development machine which is affordable by
students (Sun Blade 100 was in that range) ...
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Raju Uppalapati wrote:
Right now I am running a J2EE application and it does quite a bit of File i/o
and hence my application runs a bit slower on Solaris x86. My knowledge about
Unix internals is very limited but as a user I would love to see my Solaris
x86 box beat
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Dev Mazumdar wrote:
And one more thing, let's get a single DVD.iso image rather than a 5 part
because you have to babysit the download (since only 2 files can be
downloaded at any given time).
Just use the SDM (Sun Download Manager) tool. It will take care of
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
The point is we are _stuck_ waiting. Wondering. No one is posting a
mesage anywhere in big RED letters that tells us the situation. We
simply go off to our little community worlds and talk and work amongst
ourselves. Or stop working.
Really, its a
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
The lawyers really hate us publically stating We distributed build XX
in such a way that we violated our license with ___, and had to stop.
If __ didn't notice yet, we'd be sending their legal department a
free case of ammo to fire at us,
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Derek E. Lewis wrote:
We may also define functional as how many apps each desktop environment
has. CDE or JDS both have file managers -- dtfile and Nautilus,
respectively; however, as everyone has said, CDE, itself, (meaning the
apps it has, etc.) is much faster than JDS,
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, UNIX admin wrote:
Perhaps you could clue me in as to why did Sun pick GNOME over KDE exactly?
This is pure speculation on my part but I think they choose GNOME over KDE
because of licensing with KDE Qt libs at that time.
Bill
rushmores.net
I am a average desktop user, is open solaris mature enough for desktop use,
my system config is:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+,1024 RAM,80GB HDD,Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 4000,ASUS Mother
Board.
I have running OpenSolaris (on top of Solaris Express) as my primary desktop
and yes it is definitely stable
We just started the content project and I would really encourage people to
get involved with this. I know that there are a lot of projects here but
I really feel that getting information out to people is vital to the
future success of OpenSolaris. I think the world as a whole isn't really
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:15, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Things are progressing well on the screen shots finally. I lost my
NT4 PDC but gained a Solaris 10 virtual machine. More than a fair
trade I guess.
http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/VMWare/VMWare_006.jpg
I am still grabbing
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:
So .. let's assume infinite memory and zero response time IO with near
infinite CPU speed and we hit some internal limit in the VMWare
product at 96 or so ? Or is it possible to get a massive Galaxy box
and install RHEL ( or what? ESX on top of ?
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 19:27, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 1/29/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have posted a draft article on installing Solaris on VMware on my
blog. I would really appreciate any feedback any of you might have.
http://brushmore.blogspot.com/2006/01/installing
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Zhisong Jin wrote:
I have a situation that I need run vertas netbackup in two separate
zones, while sharing the same tape library due to budget constraints.
I believe that netbackup will only work in a global zone.
Either backup from the global or put netbackup server on
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Rich Teer wrote:
Hi all,
The final draft (subject to comments from the community and Sun
legal) of the OpenSolaris Charter is now available on the CAB
discuss mailing list:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=5230tstart=0
The deadline for
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:05, John Kaitschuck wrote:
Does any one have any recommendations and real world
build times to report?
Sun Blade 100: 8-10 Hours
SUNPCI III As guest Vmware OS on Windows XP off of a USB drive: 11+
hours
Sony Vaio TR1: 6 hours
Remember a U60 is an old system and
This would be a good place to start:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/devref_toc/
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:29, Serge Bornow wrote:
Hi
Im trying to install open solaris , build 28, just downloaded it.
I read that i need these two files:
* opensolaris-bfu-DATE.PLATFORM.tar.bz
You do realize how simple it is to install OpenSSH from Sunfreeware or
blastwave? If you don't like Sun's way it would take less time to change
it than it did for me to type this email.
Saying Sun stuff sucks and using Solaris 8 as a reference is a little out
of line. Solaris 8 is 6 years old.
I desperately need Solaris 10 with Portage for the PPC . I hate X86 platform
and Sparc hardware is way to pricey.Sparc's and PPC chips are RISC by arch
design in theory it should be relitively simple, grant it they are 32
instrution chips the problem is it's unclear weather the instrutions
You have it right. I believe in Solaris 8 it came with the Companion CD
which you could say would be part of the intial install.
Bill Rushmore
rushmores.net
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Kenny wrote:
Can someone please tell me which version included SSH? I thought I read that
Solaris 9 and 10
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 13:02, Gary Gendel wrote:
Anyway, Linus has just opened another can of worms that directly effects
OpenSolaris and JDS.
I really don't see how this effects JDS or OpenSolaris. It just one
guy's opinion not some edict from above.
Bill Rushmore
www.rushmores.net
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 16:37, Ian Collins wrote:
Geoff Lane wrote:
The very idea of a desktop interface is very 1970s and we should have
moved on by now to a real document orientated interface.
Such as?
Ian
OS/2! :-)
Bill Rushmore
www.rushmores.net
. I am using NAT so you might want to check out
mikebo's post if you are using bridged networking.
Bill Rushmore
www.rushmores.net
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On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Sean O'Neill wrote:
I've tried NAT and Bridge mode. Same thing. Interface isn't plumbed up at
boot time.
If the VMware settings look good I suggest using sys-unconfig and give it
another try. It has saved me a few times.
Bill Rushmore
www.rushmores.net
DHCP? If so try a static and see if that makes a
difference.
But if you have no luck I have prebuilt VM Image that I built that might
help you. Hopefully soon I can get someone at Sun to distrubute it.
Bill Rushmore
www.rushmores.net
purpose is nostalga. Save the sun4m's
for the museum and lets continue with making OpenSolaris the most advance OS in the World.
Bill Rushmore
www.rushmores.net
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UltraSPARC T1
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Approved: Gw3Zx
Has anyone at Sun had a chance to do a build on one of the new UltraSPARC
T1 's? If so how long does it take? How high can you set maxjobs?
Bill Rushmore
www.rushmores.net
I got it working with VMware and it work quite nicely.
I haven't tried Solaris in a while but I think the issue is that only Xorg
will work with VPC. Try a text based install and configure for Xorg.
Bill
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Matty wrote:
Has anyone gotten Nevada to boot with MSFT VPC
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 14:27, Robert Glueck wrote:
...
The criteria that I'm looking for in an OS that would be of
good use to me are stability, performance (I like the
system to be snappy, both on the CLI and the GUI's, even
with low-powered hardware), security (it's got to be a lot
better
Well if that someone won't do it, like I said in my original email, I
would be willing to volunteer to that for Sun. I pretty much have most of
the work done of a basic install. I have just been testing a few things.
Bill
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Karyn Ritter wrote:
Thanks for the reminder...
Thank you Theo for making the point about OS's is exactly I wanted to convey
about CPU architecture. I have seen several articles with OS comparisons
but little when it comes to hardware architecture.
It looks like I have researching to do and I think I'll write my own article
on the
am looking for a detailed comparison of the Sparc and 64 bit x86
architectures. Specifically, I want to learn when one makes more sense of
the other. Most of the writings I could find don't go into the kind of
detail I would like. I feel that if I want to become a better advocate of
Open
I have heard all of these things before but I want to know why or why not.
I want more meat. I want to know to technical details like is it a
RISC vs CISC, etc. Because I really don't think it is quite that simple.
Bill
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, S Destika wrote:
If you need big iron boxes (8
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