Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris Online Forum Event :: April 14th at 9am PT

2011-04-19 Thread Bob Palowoda
Glynn Foster glynn.fos...@oracle.com wrote: (contrary to popular opinion, we didn't organize the event just for opensolaris.org folks) Take a break, go fishing. There is plenty of time. ---Bob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris Online Forum Event :: April 14th at 9am PT

2011-03-23 Thread Bob Palowoda
To Register for this FREE event, please go to: ttp://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=298093s=1k=12D718A68226 85EE6AD2390FC381A7AEpartnerref=opensolaris Oh darn. I just installed Firefox 4.0 with the development help of Oracle and after registration with on24.com it indicates that it is not a

Re: [osol-discuss] Larry Ellison takes on challenge in Sun

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Palowoda
I would very much like to see a SunRay tablet (with or without keyboard). SunPad anyone? (At least it sounds better than OraclePad... ;)) There is a windows sun ray client (aka soft sun ray), currently only for windows 7. But with citrix et.al. and rdp/vnc from a windows machine to

[osol-discuss] Opensolaris or Solaris VPN solutions

2010-05-10 Thread Bob Palowoda
Just curious what is the basic plan for VPN solutions for Opensolaris or even Solaris in general? What would Oracle recommend as a common solution in this category that would include Solaris x86, and Solaris sparc? Open source or proprietary as long as it has a roadmap that can work and is

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris or Solaris VPN solutions

2010-05-10 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bob Palowoda wrote: Just curious what is the basic plan for VPN solutions for Opensolaris or even Solaris in general? What would Oracle recommend as a common solution in this category that would include Solaris x86, and Solaris sparc? Open source or proprietary as long as it has a roadmap

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris on HP x86 servers

2010-04-27 Thread Bob Palowoda
You (Bob Palowoda) wrote: What are you doing with these WorkStations or Desktops? Are there production services running on them, or are they development and desktop tools? Because: The Solaris 10 download includes a development and evaluation license. So

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris on HP x86 servers

2010-04-25 Thread Bob Palowoda
What are you doing with these WorkStations or Desktops? Are there production services running on them, or are they development and desktop tools? Because: The Solaris 10 download includes a development and evaluation license. So, anyone running Solaris 10 on laptops or desktops is

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle products via IPS

2010-04-19 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bob Palowoda wrote: On 4/18/2010 8:12 PM, Bob Palowoda wrote: One of the things that folks are going to have to get use to (that includes us new Oracle folks) is that Oracle generally does not talk about it's plans for commercial offerings before

[osol-discuss] Oracle products via IPS

2010-04-18 Thread Bob Palowoda
I have rather a basic question. Considering IPS is a core technology of OpenSolaris distribution and is a key component of any future release of Solaris for Oracle. Does Oracle plan to distribute their Oracle DB and other supporting applications with IPS? If not is their a general statement

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle products via IPS

2010-04-18 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 4/18/2010 8:12 PM, Bob Palowoda wrote: One of the things that folks are going to have to get use to (that includes us new Oracle folks) is that Oracle generally does not talk about it's plans for commercial offerings before they actually announce product

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-27 Thread Bob Palowoda
There is more information here: http://www.cio.com/article/588163/Oracle_Enacts_all_Or _Nothing_Hardware_Support_Policy?taxonomyId=3234 Is the hardware OEM's that supply the chips, controllers etc supporting Oracle's support strategy? ---Bob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 134 Won't boot

2010-03-10 Thread Bob Palowoda
Apparently this is a known bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bu g_id=6932552 alan Wow a lot of people are hitting this bug. Hopefully it's marked as a stopper. ---Bob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Says OpenSolaris Will Stay Open Source

2010-03-02 Thread Bob Palowoda
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Here's how I interpret all of this: I think they're shifting some percentage of developers from opensolaris to solaris. Instead of letting opensolaris lead the way, and trickle down with open source contributions to solaris ... Solaris will lead the way,

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun has set

2010-02-10 Thread Bob Palowoda
Jussi Nieminen wrote: It makes me sad to see those red Oracle logos even here on opensolaris.org webpages, but I suppose we just have to get used to it. But at least we now get to see the Sun logo on Larry's fancy new sailing boat! That'll probably give the logo more air time than

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2010-01-07 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 01/ 5/10 12:19 PM, andrew wrote: That's interesting - I guess you do need an on-disk format for that. There are two obvious use cases for a file-based package: 1 is to do an OS install, the other is to just add packages to a system after you download them. It is sometimes quicker to

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-03 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 12/31/2009 10:49 AM, Ron Halstead wrote: Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it dead? Last I heard SXCE 130 was planned for release after the Sun US employees responsible for the release get back into the office next week. (Sun's US offices are closed for a

Re: [osol-discuss] When next Release? What Release Cycle?

2009-09-30 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 30/09/2009, at 5:06 PM, Che Kristo wrote: I don't mind waiting longer for quality :-) IMHO it should be 8 months as 6 months is too agressive, but i do understand we are somewhat beholden to the Gnome schedule It's not just GNOME, but a wide variety of other projects

[osol-discuss] Extended partition install

2009-08-30 Thread Bob Palowoda
Now that extended partitions are supported via PSARC/2006/379 which was integrated in build 119 are their plans to have the installer allowed to install on an extended partition. Note I don't think the arc case 2006/379 is public because it may have some proprietary information about extended

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux prospers, Solaris dies?

2009-04-09 Thread Bob Palowoda
Ché Kristo wrote: What do you say? Am I well researched? Could this be true? Does it make sense? SUN is loosing because of POLITICS? I don't think your world view and mine even remotely connect so I don't think I am able to critique your analysis on its merits. I will say

[osol-discuss] Winners of the Awards Program

2008-08-28 Thread Bob Palowoda
I was out for the week around the 15th but who where the Sun Awards Winners? It was to be announced the 15th but I may have missed the notice. Who where the big winners and did they get there prizes yet? ---Bob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Winners of the Awards Program

2008-08-28 Thread Bob Palowoda
I was out for the week around the 15th but who where the Sun Awards Winners? It was to be announced the 15th but I may have missed the notice. Who where the big winners and did they get there prizes yet? ---Bob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS

2008-08-15 Thread Bob Palowoda
* andrew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I read on a previous post somewhere that the menu-driven version of Live Update - i.e. the lu command - doesn't wokr with ZFS due to a particular bug, but I can't locate the original post. Doesanyone have a link to the bug in bugs.opensolaris.org .

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

2008-08-07 Thread Bob Palowoda
Ian Collins wrote: Matthew Snyder wrote: A little off topic, but I figure you guys use the site and I see Dennis around here often, so.. Anyone know whats up with blastwave.org? the notice sounds legal; probably means no official updates right now. Anyone know anything?

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

2008-08-07 Thread Bob Palowoda
Ian Collins wrote: Matthew Snyder wrote: A little off topic, but I figure you guys use the site and I see Dennis around here often, so.. Anyone know whats up with blastwave.org? the notice sounds legal; probably means no official updates right now. Anyone know anything?

Re: [osol-discuss] The end of Sparc desktops?

2008-08-04 Thread Bob Palowoda
Why don't you use a Sun Ray and a Sun SPARC server? Interesting is the Sun Ray software going to become a project in the future for OpenSolaris? ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2008-07-10 Thread Bob Palowoda
Hi people, Finally, I am able to run Oracle 10g on my OpenSolaris installation. :-) But it is tricky and here is how I did it: 1) I installed Solaris 10 (x86) on my another laptop. Installed configured Oracle 10g on it successfully in /export/home/oracle. 2) Now, on my acer laptop,

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris 2008.05 cannot mount a shared CIFS folder from MacBook

2008-07-10 Thread Bob Palowoda
This is a bug in Samba on MacOS/X. I don't have the Apple radar number for it yet, but will post when I do. Meanwhile, here's an OpenSolaris CR to help track this issue: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6710493 Why not log the bug in bugzilla to begin with? By putting

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-16 Thread Bob Palowoda
I'm just wondering, what am I giving up if I dump the U10 w/ Solaris10? Your under the bridge position. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-summit] Summit recordings from first day

2007-10-15 Thread Bob Palowoda
If I only could find an application on my SXCE b72 x86 that could play those files... I actually heard the files play on SXCE b72 x86. But I'm not from this planet so your mileage may very. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

2007-08-27 Thread Bob Palowoda
PS: Take a quick look at these two cost effective systems, each with 4Gb of RAM built by Bob Palowoda at: http://www.fiver.net/misc/solarisamdbox.html Those machines looks good, except for the use of Maxtor hard disks on the first one. I would personally substitute Western Digital

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

2007-08-26 Thread Bob Palowoda
When Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) was added to the Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) disks, it was made the default entry on the boot menu, even though it requires a minimum of 768MB of memory, whereas Solaris Express Community Edition only requires a minimum of 512MB of

[osol-discuss] Re: ISO of a 16 channel sata2 controller..

2007-06-26 Thread Bob Palowoda
div id=jive-html-wrapper-div brdiv brI'm looking to build a raid array consisting of up to 16 sata drivers.brbrAre there any cards out there that will work under OS that can handle upwards of 16?brbrbrThanks!br/div /div___ You didn't mention

[osol-discuss] Re: Deferred Patching Scheme

2007-06-26 Thread Bob Palowoda
Steven Sim wrote: Folks; Today Sun BIG ADMIN website posted an article by Lynne Thompson entitled What's New in Patching See http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/patch-wn. jsp Could somebody here elaborate more on the following statement .Now,

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Error on compiling php on SOLARIS 10

2007-06-26 Thread Bob Palowoda
i find iconv.h both in /opt/csw/lib and /usr/local/lib. i didn't know how to add LD_LIBRARY_PATH . is it edit /etc/profile,add line: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib i have add this,but no use. I would advise not to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Rather set your LDFLAGS -L and -R paths

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Error on compiling php on SOLARIS 10

2007-06-26 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bob Palowoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i find iconv.h both in /opt/csw/lib and /usr/local/lib. i didn't know how to add LD_LIBRARY_PATH . is it edit /etc/profile,add line: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib i have add this,but no use. I would advise not to set

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Flashplayer 9 Gone from Adobe Site

2007-06-25 Thread Bob Palowoda
Ah this does sound encouraging. Though it's still confusing why the download page says Solarisx86 and points to a Sparc version. It did at one time point to x86 versions. But maybe this an Adobe web page problem. I seem to remember it often (always?) had this problem and

[osol-discuss] Re: Flashplayer 9 Gone from Adobe Site

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Palowoda
Solaris version of flashplayer 9 plugin seems to have disappeared from the Adobe d/l site: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html Anyone knows anything about this? Thanks. Near as I can tell Adobe seems to be in a state of war with Solaris users. Maybe Jonathan

[osol-discuss] Re: Flashplayer 9 Gone from Adobe Site

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 24/06/07, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solaris version of flashplayer 9 plugin seems to have disappeared from the Adobe d/l site: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html Anyone knows anything about this? Thanks. From:

[osol-discuss] Re: How to install ClamAV on OpenSolaris X86?

2007-06-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
Compiler by myself?!oh,it sounds too difficult to me~ where can I find ClamAV for OpenSolaris X86? Well he did say Blastwave, http://www.blastwave.org ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

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

2007-06-04 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 6/4/07, Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Given how negative this community is on Linux... But when one looks literally *anywhere* else on opensolaris.org besides this list one finds the complete opposite, namely, flexibility, diversity,

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

2007-05-23 Thread Bob Palowoda
Just not the reverse. Linux grub cannot boot Solaris. Go figure. haha. Are your changes to grub pushed upstream? Upstream Grub. A novel concept indeed. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

[osol-discuss] Bug metrics

2007-05-18 Thread Bob Palowoda
Many open source projects keep track of open/closed/in-progress status of bug metrics. Is it reasonable for the next revision of boo to keep metrics of these bug attributes between builds? That is all bugs that would affect opensolaris. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Project Indiana and Sunrays

2007-05-17 Thread Bob Palowoda
Is project Indiana going to support Sunrays? Seems like it should as Sunrays are consider the prime client Sun platform. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris on the XO?

2007-05-05 Thread Bob Palowoda
Hey, Just having a look at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program nyone thinking of porting OpenSolaris to this? Would be a pretty fun project for a bunch of people I think? [1]. I love slow news days with OpenSolaris as they tend to warp your mind. ---Bob This message

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris and 2o7.net

2007-05-04 Thread Bob Palowoda
Is 112.2o7.net aka 2o7.net and Omniture necessary for a good Opensolaris website experience? I often find that sinking the site into a black hole speeds things up and even causes downloads to function. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: bug_id=6497363 : rge should support RealTek

2007-05-04 Thread Bob Palowoda
RTL8110SC/RTL8169SC In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: Gw3Zx X-OpenSolaris-URL: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=116341tstart=0#116341 Matt Ingenthron wrote: This

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris and 2o7.net

2007-05-04 Thread Bob Palowoda
Is 112.2o7.net aka 2o7.net and Omniture necessary for a good Opensolaris website experience? I often find that sinking the site into a black hole speeds things up and even causes downloads to function. Correction I should have said: sunopensolaris.112.207.net Than again 2o7.net has

[osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-03 Thread Bob Palowoda
Heads up: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007 /tc20070430_095211.htm I've always been fascinated that the PR machine always used the GPL/Linux announcements every time the stock takes a hit. And than the stock goes lower. I recommend the Rocky and Bullwinkle

[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Bob Palowoda
This is for review. goto : http://www.blastwave.org/docs/index.html select doc BLS-0061 A lot of the pages were written when I was getting tired and there will be errors. At the very least some dry humour and possibly rambling. The topic or index page is still being written. It

[osol-discuss] Re: snv_61 system/webconsole:console failed fatally

2007-04-07 Thread Bob Palowoda
anyone else seen this on snv_61 ? # Apr 7 19:06:53 mercury svc.startd[7]: system/webconsole:console failed fatally: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details) # svcs -xv svc:/system/webconsole:console (java web console) State: maintenance since Sat Apr 07 19:06:53

[osol-discuss] Heads-up: ZFS Boot support for the x86 platform bld 62

2007-03-29 Thread Bob Palowoda
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007032801/ Might be helpful to give url's reachable outside the swan. - . Instructions for Manual set up: http://fs.central/projects/zfsboot/zfsboot_manual_setup.html ^^ 2. Instructions for

[osol-discuss] Should RFE's expire?

2007-03-28 Thread Bob Palowoda
I know this might be a touchy subject but is it reasonable to close RFE's that are more than a year old with some evaluation? There are RFE that can last greater than 5 to 10 years and it leaves the Open Solaris developers wondering what types of evaluations or comments are going on in the

[osol-discuss] Re: Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-22 Thread Bob Palowoda
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 01:23 pm, Stefan Teleman wrote: This was one of the other suggestions made on the ARC discuss list. My primary concern about keeping both 2.0.x and 2.2.4 around (albeit temporarily) is that it creates the possibility of a huge disaster: application X links

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Next Generation Web Stack

2007-03-16 Thread Bob Palowoda
Project Proposal: Next Generation Web Stack Summary We would like to create an OpenSolaris project to assume and enhance the community and work originally created in Sun's CoolStack project as part of the CoolTools project. This project will assume all of the CoolStack

[osol-discuss] Re: mplayer (blastwave) broken on snv 59 60

2007-03-16 Thread Bob Palowoda
i think it has something to do with the move to modular Xorg, but i've been trying to run mplayer on both snv_59 (clean install from sxde DVD) and opensolaris_b60 (bfu'd from 59). that package always worked fine on 57. i can start gmplayer and it works until i try and play a

[osol-discuss] Belenix DVD 0.6 comments

2007-03-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
I was reading Moinak Ghosh's blog about Belenix 0.6 improvements: http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/belenix_dvd_with_netbeans_openoffice#comments and I'm a bit interested in the application development futures in OpenSolaris. He is including Netbeans 5.5 and Java EE Application Server 9.0 U1

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris sessions at JavaOne

2007-03-09 Thread Bob Palowoda
Why would a Solaris developer go to an expensive Java developers onference to see novice sessions about Solaris? ---Bob 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

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCE Build 59 issue

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Palowoda
Hi, I just completed a fresh install of the x86 version of B59 on an IBM Thinkpad A21p and there seems to be an issue with the gnome startup. When logging in as root or normal user it immediately goes back to the login window. Logging in using CDE works. I started up in

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris sessions at JavaOne

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Palowoda
Sorry for the broad distribution, but I wanted to give the most people the opportunity to comment and participate. Teresa and I applied for, and were granted, an OpenSolaris track during JavaOne. The track will take place on Monday May 7th (the day before JavaOne officially begins) at

[osol-discuss] Re: New Release: Bugs.opensolaris.org

2007-02-27 Thread Bob Palowoda
div id=jive-html-wrapper-div tt OpenSolaris Community,br br br I would like to introduce to you phase two of (b.o.o) bugs.opensolaris.org. Needs more lipstick. :-) ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN) ... / was: [Fwd: [

2007-02-20 Thread Bob Palowoda
Stephen Hahn wrote: Not easily, no. I'll look at the moderation idea, but the subscribers only request contradicts the aims of most legitimate forum posters. Another alternative would be to moderate the first few posts from new registrants. This should stop the spammers

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server

2007-02-18 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bill Moffitt wrote: So, there's only one question left: what's going to make those five people sitting around in somebody's garage look around and, instead of coming to the conclusion that they need a Windows server, come to the obvious and irrefutable conclusion that they need a

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCE Build 57 installer hangs on Ferrari 3400.

2007-02-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
Ferrari 3400 768 MB RAM, 60 GB internal disk, Wistro CM9 Atheros chipset Mini-PCI card. I'm using the non-developer selection from the grub menu. Right after selecting the installation type (Interactive, jumpstart etc..) The machine locks up completely. Has anyone else seen this?

[osol-discuss] Cool Stack

2007-02-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
I found this sort of interesting: http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack/ Cool Stack is built using Sun Studio (TM) 11 Compiler using the -xO4 option (SPARC version) and gcc with -O4 (x86 version) for high levels of optimization. This results in anywhere between 30-200% performance

[osol-discuss] Desktop Jive forum

2007-02-12 Thread Bob Palowoda
What happened to the desktop jive forum? For a while it got a java exception error than nothing in the web jive forum. There was some good archive information in that list. Speaking of the Jive forums used for the OpenSolaris website. I notice that Sunsolve and the support use Jive

[osol-discuss] Re: Problem installing PHP on Solaris 10?

2007-02-12 Thread Bob Palowoda
When installing libxml2 which I got from xmlsoft.org I got this problem on make command *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xpath.lo' Current working directory /export/eder/libxml2-2.6.18 *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord

[osol-discuss] Re: Intel 82562EZ Network Controller support

2007-02-08 Thread Bob Palowoda
Hello, I want to inform that there is no supported yet Intel 82562EZ Network Controller in Solaris. This controller is on Intel D915PBL motherboard. There is need to support it as soon as possible. Do you think it should go into OpenSolaris also? ---Bob This message posted from

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Bob Palowoda
I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platforms. We believe the only sensible

[osol-discuss] Re: smpatch

2007-02-06 Thread Bob Palowoda
Hi, I was wondering if the /etc/release file should be updated after all patched have been applied to a system? I have solaris 10 06/06 and I did an smpatch update and successfuly applied all patches. How do I know this takes me up to 11/06 now? If you bought a Sun service

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-04 Thread Bob Palowoda
Casper wrote: I live in a community in which is perhaps not very divers, but it contains lawyers, real estate agent, brokers, actors, photographers, people who own their homes, people who rent, single parent families, single persons, unemployed, employed, self-employed. These are all

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-03 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bob Palowoda wrote: x86 hardware support has been steadily improving over the last couple of years and the rate of improvement has accelerated in the past year. I have only failed to install on one x64 system (and I have done a lot of installs) and that was an HP DL380

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

2007-02-03 Thread Bob Palowoda
this is, unfortunately, x64, not sparc. For some reason they where talking about Sparc Solaris 10 on the first line. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-02-03 Thread Bob Palowoda
this is, unfortunately, x64, not sparc. For some reason they where talking about Sparc Solaris 10 on the first line. ---Bob Sorry I could have toke your comment about the patch not being sparc or your trying to be politically correct and indicate you haven't purchased an x64 from

[osol-discuss] Direct boot coming in build 57

2007-02-03 Thread Bob Palowoda
For x86/x64 users you might want to check out the flag days entry for direct boot coming up in build 57. It's a good heads up. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007011901/ ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Community participation

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Palowoda
Peter Tribble wrote On 02/02/07 05:23,: On 2/1/07, *Ben Rockwood* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While that would be handy, we already have a good program in place, its just buried. I refer to Bite Sized Bugs. ... The idea here is that

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Palowoda
Yes, because Sun employees are the majority of engineers that understand and can work with the code. A good majority of the folks outside of Sun have not even pulled or looked at the sources. You don't expect the engineers who have been working on this code for man years to

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

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Palowoda
Is there seriously no ident for solaris anymore??? This is going to be a BIG issue for me if there is not. Help? Someone? Been searching for three days now, and have yet to find anything. All the usual suspects don't compile properly with all sorts of errors. Somebody did it on

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-02 Thread Bob Palowoda
S Destika wrote: Do you have a specific device that is really preventing you from using Solaris/OpenSolaris? About 8 different x86/64 boxes - and I am not alone by any means. Only place where it works reasonably is VMware. Has Sun any interest in fixing x86 hardware support?

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

2007-02-01 Thread Bob Palowoda
In our SunLabs/CTO organizational All-Hands meeting this morning I had the chance this morning to ask Rich Green (Sun's EVP/Software) about what Sun has learned in the last few years about licenses and open source, especially with the recent GPL'ing of Java and this OpenSolaris thread.

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 56 available

2007-02-01 Thread Bob Palowoda
Please find the links to SXCR Build 56 at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/. - Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Bob Palowoda
What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? Is the project still active? There were not any status reports or updates in the last months. A better place for the question might be: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=5 or check out the ppc community pages:

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 1/29/07, Bob Palowoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? Is the project still active? There were not any status reports or updates in the last months. A better place for the question might be: http://www.opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: base directories, gnome versus cde

2007-01-26 Thread Bob Palowoda
Back in the day when GNOME 2.0 from Sun shipped on a beta CD, I recall that executables and libraries were installed in /usr/gnome. This was consistent with /usr/dt and other, more archaic windowing systems such as /usr/openwin. Though when GNOME was released and later bundled with Solaris

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-23 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bob Palowoda writes: But for people who want to write their own software, they are forced to choose between GPL'ing their code or paying money to TrollTech. Mixing different licenses in Solaris and OpenSolaris. Who would have thought that would ever happen

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Bob Palowoda
De Togni Giacomo wrote: This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bob Palowoda wrote: De Togni Giacomo wrote: This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing

[osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSola

2007-01-18 Thread Bob Palowoda
On 1/17/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an

[osol-discuss] Re: GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Bob Palowoda
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Never could have ever imagined that this was going to happen, but looks like it is: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2084284,00.asp?kc =EWEWEMNL011507EP28A Nothing is certain yet (to my knowledge), but I know of at least two CAB

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-16 Thread Bob Palowoda
Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project +1 ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-16 Thread Bob Palowoda
Martin Bochnig wrote: John Plocher wrote: Am I missing something??? Yes. This [ http://solaris.kde.org/ ] is the URL for the KDE Solaris site at KDE, under the kde.org domain, sponsored, paid for and maintained by The KDE Foundation [KDE e.V.]. It is completely

[osol-discuss] Re: WLAN on dell 1501 with NDIS and Solaris 10 06/11

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Palowoda
--- with a lot of messages in the /var/adm/messages file (see below for a little extract) -- --- Jan 5 20:41:43 d1501 genunix: [ID 387338 kern.notice] symbol

[osol-discuss] Re: sxce on Tyan S3992 MB?

2006-12-30 Thread Bob Palowoda
An update on my experiences with this hardware... Learned of an IDR to fix S10U3 (11/06) from hanging when probing the PCI-e space. To use it you need to get a copy from Sun (support), and build a new distribution media DVD with the miniroot rebuilt with the IDR. (An IDR is Interim

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Installation of OpenSolaris in logic partition

2006-12-30 Thread Bob Palowoda
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: This is a work in progress: PSARC 2006/379 tp://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006 /) The changes touch a lot of places both in Kernel and Userland, in ddition to changes to the installer. Code review is ongoing at present. gards,

[osol-discuss] Re: Contributing to OpenSolaris

2006-12-21 Thread Bob Palowoda
What would the money be for? Volunteers don't get paid for their time. I'd be willing to donate money for a real bug database. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: New Release of B.O.O!

2006-12-06 Thread Bob Palowoda
Would the estimate be any shorter if we picked an active Sun developer and put him outside for the SWAN for week and see how he coped? ;) I'd volunteer myself, but I suspect it wouldn't have the same impact as an ON developer. I think the impact would be equivalent; pain to

[osol-discuss] Re: Aaron Seigo KDE folks on OpenSolaris/BeleniX

2006-12-05 Thread Bob Palowoda
Aaron Seigo, Leader Developer for KDE Project was a key note speaker at FOSS.IN 2006. He visited the OpenSolaris stall and spent some time with us. He went back to Calgary and blogged about us. Check out my blog for pictures and more details: http://blogs.sun.com/josephgeorge Aaron's

[osol-discuss] Re: AHCI SATA support

2006-11-27 Thread Bob Palowoda
Hi, All Sorry for my late on responding to this topic. I was not aware that AHCI was discussed here in opensolaris forum. This project is almost finished and is under its final test. Hopefully this driver could be putback by the end of this year. In the first phase, AHCI driver will

[osol-discuss] Re: panic booting with B51 x86 DVD. LONG!

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Palowoda
I've downloaded b51 and tried to upgrade my workstation which is currently running on b50 with no problems. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8U with 3 GB RAM and an AMD Athlon 64 3000+. oot w/no debugging: Interesting no comments on a panic. ---Bob This message posted from

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris Weekly News #37

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bonnie Corwin mailed [3] with 2 updates to the Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA), both minor giving more freedom to companies registering their employees. Along with this, Bonnie posted details of the SCA FAQ. 3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-anno

[osol-discuss] Re: Rumors about GPLd Java

2006-11-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
I found this reading through the Slashdot thread about GPLing Java and the potentially of GPLing OpenSolaris. Something inference about Sun taking a bribe from MS to make OpenSolaris less 'free' or 'open'? Anybody know anything about this or it the usual FUD?

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