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

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Understanding that ZFS is the world's most advanced filesystem, there are times when other filesystem types are needed. In particular I am wondering if there is any work done or planned to start supporting additional file systems. Foe example: - jffs2/squashfs - FAT16/FAT32 - NTFS - ext3 - HFS+

[osol-discuss] Annoyances watching discussion forums.

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Why can't the emails I get include the topic of the post, in addition to the links? Why are there no digest mailing formats? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Annoyances watching discussion forums.

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
3) Why can't the emails I get include the body of the post? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Shouldn't DVD burning be included in this discussion? I need all formats of DVD + and - as well as single and double layer. Also I think that ideally there is a good scriptable cli tool, ideally the sam tool has a simple to use GUI, in addition to an ncurses interface. How many people really ne

[osol-discuss] Re: Annoyances watching discussion forums.

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Another annoyance. I keep getting emails about 'discuss' forum. The unfortunate thing is that their are multiple forums named discuss, and there really doesn't seem to be an east way to distinguish between them. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
> ISO's, then you will need to convince Sun to take on > the burden > of building, shipping, and supporting them - which at > the minimum > will require reviews by the Architecture Review > Committee (ARC) > and Sun's Product management committees, which for > KDE would > probably take closer to mo

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

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
> But if all you wanted to do is just "get stuff out of > your computer", then why are you here? Why Solaris? > Somebody with that kind of mentality can be perfectly > happy on Windows. If you don't care about how it all > works, you don't need the most advanced operating > system on the planet. Wi

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Is there a plan to incorporate this into Solaris Express? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
> community groups - would it be fair to assume this > project will be > affiliated with the existing Storage community? I have been told that there is going to be a new file system community soon. This seems to be the ideal fit. -brian This message posted from opensolaris.org __

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

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Gupta
I'm sorry, at the moment Sun just doesn't have the software tools I need. (I work for a big corp. ) I have made a vow that when VMWare workstation comes out for Solaris, I will start running a Solaris desktop. (I have held of switching to a Linux desktop in the hopes that Sun will come through

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-25 Thread Brian Gupta
I did research about 5 years ago regarding HSM file systems. QFS/SAMFS was a leading contender in that space. It also had the added benefit of having a truly massive ability to scale. (We ended up going with another product, because our first choice of optical jukeboxes was not supported.) This i

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-25 Thread Brian Gupta
I did research about 5 years ago regarding HSM file systems. QFS/SAMFS was a leading contender in that space. It also had the added benefit of having a truly massive ability to scale. (We ended up going with another product, because our first choice of optical jukeboxes was not supported.) This

[osol-discuss] Re: why the 8-character username limit?

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Gupta
> A big part of the problem is L_cuserid from > , which is a > preprocessor symbol with the value 9 (8 + 1 for NUL > byte terminator). > That's been around forever, can't really go away > (AFAIK), and once a program > that uses that has been compiled, it can't be changed > without recompiling > it

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 10 boot from SAN

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Gupta
One way to do this, assuming you are using a supported SAN boot storage array, is to make a full flash archive of you OS, and then Jumpstart it to the LUN. This may need be the most ellegant way to do this, but it is the most storage neutral method that I am aware of. Cheers, Brian On 4/26/07, s

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 10 boot from SAN

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Gupta
You can run into geometry issues. -Brian On 4/26/07, Nicholas Senedzuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not just mirror the internal scsi disk to the LUN then break the mirror and you should be good to go. On 4/26/07, Brian Gupta < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One way to do

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

2007-04-27 Thread Brian Gupta
On 4/26/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to have their problem, because they have the $$$s to solve it. They do not have that money. They have virtual money becuase of the stock value. It is speculative at best what would happen if they tried to exchange all that virtual money for c

Re: [osol-discuss] xenix?

2007-04-30 Thread Brian Gupta
I am pretty sure OpenSolaris does not support xenix filesystems, nor am I aware of any plans to do so. Your best bet is to contact SCO, and see if their OpenServer can do what you need. (They bought Xenix from Microsoft) -Brian On 4/30/07, Jim Bolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: does opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-01 Thread Brian Gupta
The OpenSolaris project is similar to the Fedora project. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ The primary reason for the existence of the opensolaris project is to coordinate the distributed development of Solaris. (The open source version of solaris is called opensolaris). User input is a value

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-01 Thread Brian Gupta
Moderator, Can we please kill this thread. :) -Brian On 5/1/07, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > Lithium also helps for oder people ;-) ^ should be "older" Jörg Hi Jörg, Lithium may be goo

[osol-discuss] Is there a process document describing a project lifecycle from proposal to final completion?

2007-05-01 Thread Brian Gupta
I hope this is the right forum for this question. Thanks, Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot from SAN, why? what is the recommendations?

2007-05-03 Thread Brian Gupta
The biggest problem for us was just getting Sun to certify our Brand of storage, otherwise it is a good thing. On 5/4/07, shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the recommendation for doing boot from SAN? I have /,/var,swap partitions, with of them is recommended to put on the SAN for sure? Ge

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Boot from SAN, why? what is the recommendations?

2007-05-04 Thread Brian Gupta
We have the USP, from HDS. Because Sun also sells a rebadged USP, they didn't certify the competing product. On 5/4/07, shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what? Sun certify this AMS storage as a boot from SAN, and also with MPxIO. I did it, and It work perfect. This message posted from opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Boot from SAN,

2007-05-04 Thread Brian Gupta
about the USP I don't know. AMS-500 work realy fine. Oh it works alright, it's just that Sun won't stand behind it as a supported configuration. -Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Boot from SAN, why? what is the recommendations?

2007-05-04 Thread Brian Gupta
The holy grails of SAN boot: 1) Can use array based replication 2) Can snap volumes for backup 3) Can clone volumes to incredibly speed up system provisioning. (Make a master root disk image and just copy it for new systems.) Or if you are really sneaky, and your array supports it you can make co

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

2007-05-05 Thread Brian Gupta
Aren't those things being sold in the tens of thousands, which even at $100 translates into "a lot of money" ... and they already have a reasonable GNU/Linux on them? Well, the same thing could have been said about x86 hardware in general a few years ago. It was pre-installed w/ Windows or Linux

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Filesystem path standards.

2007-05-05 Thread Brian Gupta
I can't seem to find the document that defines where various things are supposed to go in the filesystem. I found these two links for Linux and Solaris, but couldn't find the one for OpenSolaris. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0220/6m6nkorot?a=vi

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

2007-05-07 Thread Brian Gupta
rk? On 5/5/07, Brian Gupta < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Aren't those things being sold in the tens of thousands, which even at > > $100 translates into "a lot of money" ... and they already have a > > reasonable GNU/Linux on them? > > Well, the

[osol-discuss] Change charter of OpenSolaris.org to more closely align with reality

2007-05-07 Thread Brian Gupta
What is OpenSolaris? Reality: (My observation, a bit cynical) - OpenSolaris is Sun's Solaris development team's project site. The process has been opened up to the public, to expand the Solaris developer community to include unpaid volunteers. (unpaid by Sun.) Additionally, the Solaris co

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Filesystem path standards.

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/6/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Gupta wrote: > I can't seem to find the document that defines where various things > are supposed to go in the filesystem. I found these two links for > Linux and Solaris, but couldn't find the one

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Change charter of OpenSolaris.org to more closely align with reality

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Gupta
> What if someone has his/her own OpenSolaris based distro ? Can he/she > make modifications to it as he/she pleases ? Yes. I have made a bunch of mods for BeleniX. Nexenta/SchilliX folks have made a bunch of mods as well ... essentially the distro teams decide what goes into to the dist

[osol-discuss] Re: Request for Community Comment: An

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Gupta
I urge you to check out the OpenWRT project. http://openwrt.org/ Although this uCLinux distribution just supported The Linksys WRT-54g series of WiFi routers, support has been expanded to agreat number of devices that support internal harddrives. The processors in these devices are generally mi

[osol-discuss] Has there been any thought implementing WAN optimizations in O.Solaris.

2007-05-08 Thread Brian Gupta
e.g.: - Dynamic window sizing - Selective acks - compressing the data using common sequence reduction - caching TCP sequences on the receiving end - transparent TCP session termination/proxy allows packet reordering at the far end. - Application Optimization Over the WAN. e.g. for a chatty protoco

[osol-discuss] Re: HCL for OpenSolaris

2007-05-09 Thread Brian Gupta
Might we want to put one together, since there are alot of us testing these early Builds on a wide variety of hardware. Cheers, Brian This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-05-10 Thread Brian Gupta
Does this mean we are going to have to scrap the Brand-Linux Zones, and make a Brand-Solaris Zone? (For old-school Solaris admins) Anyway, could someone from Sun please give us more details? Cheers, Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolari

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

2007-05-10 Thread Brian Gupta
Seems like lots of people are bitching and moaning about this. I for one am all for this. (It seemed at times I was the only one for it at times). The fact of the matter is that most of the gnu/Linux command equivalents are, for the most part, more feature rich and easier to use. Would you rath

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

2007-05-10 Thread Brian Gupta
Ian, We are all trying to figure out what exactly you had in mind when you said: "Sun wants to embrace some Linux elements so "we make Solaris a better Linux than Linux"" and "It's too unfamiliar. There's a gulf ... We need to make it familiar to people who know Linux inside and out." "As we

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

2007-05-10 Thread Brian Gupta
For that matter, the userlands aren't that different. Solaris has a little less comfort in that it doesn't imply parameters or helps you with everything (e.g. useradd on Solaris vs. Linux). Anything that runs under X11 is virtually the same between the operating systems. Also, I do hope that S

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

2007-05-11 Thread Brian Gupta
Over in systemadmin-discuss I am discussing a central web based framework See this for more details. http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df6hcjb2_12fvc6tq -Brian P.S. - We can use your CLI skills for the remote data gathering. On 5/11/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why dont we ba

[osol-discuss] Lets take a moment to reflect on Solaris's strengths.

2007-05-11 Thread Brian Gupta
Before we rush headlong into changing Solaris, I think it is worth at least a moment to reflect on what makes Solaris our choice of OS. In no particular order Technical -- 1) Stable ABI 2) Great SMP support. IE: Scales very well 3) Dtrace instrumenting 4) ZFS 5) Reput

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

2007-05-11 Thread Brian Gupta
Please see my recent post regarding, what's good about Solaris. One of the things that just hit me about Solaris administration, is that when most of us learned Solaris, the commercial Internet had not taken off yet. And http was still years away. The way we learned was old school. We bought and

[osol-discuss] I'm a little sad that this post didn't get any responses. (was) Re: Lets take a moment to reflect on Solaris' strengths.

2007-05-11 Thread Brian Gupta
It seems no one is interested in trying to figure out what is right about Solaris. On 5/11/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before we rush headlong into changing Solaris, I think it is worth at least a moment to reflect on what makes Solaris our choice of OS. In no particular

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

2007-05-11 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/11/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not at all, but Sun execs have a long history of > telling the press long > before they talk to the engineers, and half of what > the press reports > bears no relation to what actually ends up happening > in the long run. And why have they not

Re: [osol-discuss] I'm a little sad that this post didn't get any responses. (was) Re: Lets take a moment to reflect on Solaris' strengths.

2007-05-11 Thread Brian Gupta
Well I was hoping to solidify the list... Get other peoples thoughts on it. On 5/11/07, Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Before we rush headlong into changing Solaris, I think it is worth at >> least a moment to reflect on what makes Solaris our choice of OS. Who is trying to c

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

2007-05-11 Thread Brian Gupta
long for this to escalate to into an all out flame. Remember Gentlemen, pinkies up! On 5/11/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/11/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not at all, but Sun execs have a long history of > > > telling the press long

Re: [docs-discuss] fun to watch trainings was:Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Brian Gupta
I want to help. I volunteer for a Solaris Express install video using the curses console. (I will need someone to do the editing.. as I'll have difficulty enough getting the data off the camera.) Let's get on with it, who else wants to help? ___ opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Quoting

2007-05-12 Thread brian . gupta
I top because that's my only option for gmail mobile web edition. On 5/12/07, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thommy M. Malmström wrote: > >> The general consensus on technical Usenet groups is not to top post and >> the reasons have been well debated, >> > > Yeah, but this is a mailing l

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Which reason will cause thi error?

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH environmental variables. It generally means that something in the dependancy tree can't be found. On 5/14/07, snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Somebody can help me? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opens

Re: [osol-discuss] About Project Indiana

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
Easier to install? I do not see much difference in the difficulty of installing a Linux distribution versus Open Solaris/Solaris. I still have to get a shell to get what I want during installation on Linux. I like the fact Linux installers often let you configure root mirroring and LVMs durin in

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
Well, I would have to say this is an entirely different situation, as the majority of OpenSolaris developers are currently getting paid to work on OpenSolaris. So don't let the Debian issue factor into your position... -Brian On 5/14/07, Venky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was one bit of

Re: [osol-discuss] About Project Indiana

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
The feature is only missing from the interactive installer :( Yeah well, for the sake of this discussion, the interactive installer is all that matters. If they have gotten past the initial barrier to entry and are working on setting up a JumpStart server, then they are well on their way to bein

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

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
my opinion is very important for luring the Linux community to a far superior kernel I think, however, that it's missing the point Agreed. One thing that is often missed, X tool is suitable for the task at hand. In many cases Linux (and it's kernel) is suited to the task at hand. In many ca

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
I proposed in an earlier thread that there I felt there should be two products/distros developed within OpenSolaris.org. - OpenSolaris Enterprise Edition (classic Solaris) - OpenSolaris Community Edition (swiss army knife distro) It would be Sun's digression to support and/or productize either v

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
> - OpenSolaris Enterprise Edition (classic Solaris) > - OpenSolaris Community Edition (swiss army knife distro) > I thought it best to add in here that Nexenta itself is not stagnant, and has tried to be the swiss army knife distro. I'm a little biased Thanks for info! I am thinking that the ex

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
My view is that bounties are best handled for contained single man projects and tasks, e.g. - develop driver for X chip, port xyz small app to OpenSolaris (vs. large community maintained projects.) For large community projects, generally it makes sense to support individual developers, such that

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

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
Why should a project like Indiana support a Sun internal project? Joerg, This sounds exactly like what I have been pushing for. (I don't work for Sun.) brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
Well, Belenix is a project run by a Sun employee. Do you believe it is not a Sun project? Well, the homepage is hosted by Blastwave: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=about No mention of Sun in the about page. Personally I didn't think it was a Sun project, just as my involv

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
> >How can they include closed-source ATI/Nvidia > > drivers in a GNU/Linux > >LiveDVD without violating the GPL ? > > Heh. Who is going to sue? Linus? Who will he sue? If it were a GPL violation, FSF lawyers would be in touch with the infringing party. __

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
Why do you believe this? From: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-violation.html Note that the GPL, and other copyleft licenses, are copyright licenses. This means that only the copyright holders are empowered to act against violations. The FSF acts on all GPL violations reported on F

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
What if someone were to attempt to reverse engineer the kernel interface for Linux strictly by reading what is available on the web. (Commentary) I would pick a popular kernel that has the most commentary. (Don't look at source though). You could then document the kernel interface for say 2.4.x

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
Of course, it matters SchilliX was already fully Opensource before, so what is special in Belenix? Moinak managed to convince 5 or 6 friends of his to help out. Belenix also seems to have reached or almost reached critical mass, as one of the top two leading non-sun OpenSolaris distros. (Fr

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
> What if someone were to attempt to reverse engineer the kernel > interface for Linux strictly by reading what is available on the web. > (Commentary) Doable in theory, probably worthless in practice given the kernel interface churn. No DDI == no reason for stability. I don't think it is wort

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
> > SchilliX was already fully Opensource before, so what is special in Belenix? > > Moinak managed to convince 5 or 6 friends of his to help out. Belenix > also seems to have reached or almost reached critical mass, as one of > the top two leading non-sun OpenSolaris distros. (From a completeness

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Mobile FX & Sun's jPhon

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
another Sun product. I think the JavaOS model is back in the picture. JavaOS? Don't you mean uCLinux? (Reread the article) I'd like to see some head-to-head comparisons of the jPhone versus the iPhone. Personally I think the jPhone is a non-starter. uCLinux yes, Java maybe not. brian __

Re: Multiple development trees... Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
> - OpenSolaris Enterprise Edition (classic Solaris) > - OpenSolaris Community Edition (swiss army knife distro) This is a simple idea that gets hard rather quickly. Coming up with a roadmap/plan that describes what is intended is where we have always run into problems. Some of these imponderabl

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Mobile FX & Sun's jPhon

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/15/07, Doug Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Gupta wrote: >> another Sun product. I think the JavaOS model is back >> in the picture. > > JavaOS? Don't you mean uCLinux? (Reread the article) > >> I'd like to see some head-to-head com

[osol-discuss] Belenix and NexentaOS

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
Based on the following descriptions, I think that Belenix and Nexenta are both suitable candidates for providing a basline for developing a community release of OpenSolaris. It actually depends on how far the community wishes Indiana to diverge from the current code base. Thoughts? brian ---

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Mobile FX & Sun's jPhon

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
lling their own? brian On 5/15/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 15/05/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/15/07, Doug Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian Gupta wrote: > > >> another Sun product. I think the JavaOS mo

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
Joerg, You need to take a chill pill, as you are alienating (have alienated?) the group you are seeking collaboration with. Let me give you a hint. Most people don't like to have their motives questioned at every move. Nor do they like contrariness, when it seems to have no logical purpose. (Othe

[osol-discuss] Inexpensive/quiet server hardware for running OpenSolaris.

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
I am looking for a relatively inexpensive server(s), that can run in my (family) living room. (IE: That don't sound like jet engine's) Ideally one of them would be beefy enough to run vmware server on, so I can have multiple dev environments running concurrently. (If they are cheap enough I could

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
I have started an ongoing personal project to engage my local Linux UG, (which I am a member of) in an OpenSolaris discussion. So far it's mostly been "Where do I get and how do I install OpenSolaris??" Quote from an anonymous Linux user: I wasn't even talking about installing/admin'ing Solaris

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
The strange thing with this thread is that it has not been aroused by me. I am just sitting back and trying to prevent a discussion from derailing. OK, then explain these words: "I put my fingers into open wounds, but it Do it very lately after other attempts did fail..." > I've noticed that

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

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
I think a modified version of this documentation page should be the opensolaris.org homepage. (Not just a top level link) -brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Backup Server

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Gupta
I use Retrospect. (Professional I think) On 5/15/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I think you are asking for is a client backup system that sends to backup to a network share. There are many of these, both free and not free. I know a common one is Acronis True Image. You run on your W

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

2007-05-16 Thread Brian Gupta
Personally, I am not terribly worried about GNU/Linux users who have a hard time moving over to Solaris. I find the goal to be laughable and I would far more upset if my OS of choice was diluted to support a marketing initiative. How exactly did you learn Solaris? (It's easy to forget). GNU/Li

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-16 Thread Brian Gupta
I have reached decided to include my local LUG in the conversation. I have linked the thread, in case anyone is interested. They have some very valid points). http://nylug.org/pipermail/nylug-talk/2007-May/thread.html#33873 Cheers, Brian P.S. - Please reach out to your local Linux User groups a

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

2007-05-16 Thread Brian Gupta
> Well, Indiana is intended to be a product - an OpenSolaris distribution with a > regular release schedule. > > So, I'd expect to see some documents from you that describe this product. Have you a 1-pager that describes the basics? Project Description Risks and Assumptions Business Summary P

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

2007-05-16 Thread Brian Gupta
> In agile development, you begin with a list of simple requirements > without a detailed description of how you are going to get there. You > then rush straight to implementation. After implementation, you pass > back to customer for feedback at the soonest possible instance. You > then rush agai

[osol-discuss] Re: [networking-discuss] Project Proposal: Virtual Network Machines

2007-05-16 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/17/07, Nicolas Droux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On behalf of the Networking Community I'd like to propose the creation of a new OpenSolaris project: Virtual Network Machines. The project will exploit OpenSolaris technologies provided by Crossbow, Zones, Quagga, IP Filter, and other projects

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [networking-discuss] Project Proposal: Virtual Network Machines

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Gupta
I assume you are in touch with the people working on PEF?? brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: Multiple development trees... Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Gupta
> OSEE - OpenSolaris Enterprise Edition (classic Solaris) > OSCE - OpenSolaris Community Edition (swiss army knife distro) Please don't take my comments as throwing cold water on your strawman; rather, try to use them to help drive a deeper common understanding. I agree with you - we really need

Re: Multiple development trees... Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Gupta
I do think that a lot of us folks on the OSS side of Sun want to see Opensolaris be the leader and Solaris be the distribution, which isn't the way it is right now. But I think we're correct in assuming that that is everyone's eventual goal, else why open source Solaris? While I agree with the

Re: Multiple development trees... Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Gupta
Red Hat and Microsoft had to start with unstable single-user OSes and make them enterprise-capable; surely our task is easier? I would consider Microsoft NT the basis of Modern windows. It took 5/6 major revs before it was ready for use as a mass market OS. The same could be said for RedHat, fr

[osol-discuss] Packaging and package format modernization goals. (Top Priority)

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Gupta
Going back to my initial motivation to get involved with OpenSolaris, and trying to find a common thread from conversations both within and without Opensolaris.org, it seems that the biggest area that needs addressing is the lack of a modern comprehensive packaging and distribution standard for Op

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging and package format modernization goals. (Top Priority)

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
I am moving this discussion to install-discuss. (Please remove opensolaris-discuss from any replies). On 5/17/07, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Gupta wrote: > Going back to my initial motivation to get involved with OpenSolaris, > and trying to find a common

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: {Solaris} Chargeback Community

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
Wouldn't this partially fall into system administration community? -Brian On 5/18/07, Isaac Rozenfeld - NEW YORK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: > Isaac R. wrote: >> >> This is a draft proposal to create a new OpenSolaris community >> focusing on the subject of Chargeback. >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
(E.g., nVidia drivers) Well, as far as I am aware, Nvidia doesn't allow redistribution of their drivers, due to GPL issues. -Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging and package format modernization goals. (Top Priority)

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
> > On 17/05/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > In order to do that we need a set of common goals, > > defining what we > > > expect out of our modern packaging standard. I > > have started with a > > > list below. L

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
opensolaris community offer it.So,for example,Indiana should be offer as first choice GNU CC and not SunPro compiler because it is a only binary product.Then,but only after that, we My understanding is the Forte was going to be OpenSourced? Is this not the case? __

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

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
Why don't we first focus on those applications that don't exist in Solaris currently? Also, in parallel, we should work on an updated packaging format. These two things will do much to lay the foundations for addressing the out of box completeness gap. -Brian On 5/18/07, Geoff Clare <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [osol-discuss] Lets take a moment to reflect on Solaris's strengths.

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/14/07, Pradhap Devarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Brian, Nice list !! , may be you can start putting it in wiki http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page . So that people can start contributing to it. Done. http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/SolarisStrengths brian __

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiler mailing list?

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
The Sun Studio compiler is still a central piece for Opensolaris development. Since Sun is unlikely to replace the web forum interface in the near future I support the request to create a mailing list on opensolaris.org Might this fall under tools-discuss? ___

[osol-discuss] Ticketing tak/project tracking system.

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
I was wondering if there is a fit for a ticketing system to track who is working on what? (It would help me to have a list of task I have commited to. If there is interest, I can set something up, either in my domain. or if Sun is willing, I would be willing to set it up, at opensolaris.org. -Br

Re: [osol-discuss] Inexpensive/quiet server hardware for running OpenSolaris.

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=181 Questions: Is this unit 64 bit? Also, is their a supplier where I can purchase a barebones system? (Or if not what rackable case should I use?) Thanks, Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list o

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

2007-05-19 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/19/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Initially Linux was not suitable for Enterprise > deployments, but as > time goes on Linux is acceptable, for more and more > tasks. (Many times > being the best choice). One picks Linux "as the best choice" only if one doesn't know what one is

Re: [osol-discuss] logwatch for Solaris 10?

2007-05-20 Thread Brian Gupta
1) Logwatch doesn't come with Solaris. (Although if you look in the root crontab, there is an included script that can roll syslogs. It's pretty straighforward, and should be easy to edit. 2) Logwatch proper will run on Solaris. On 5/20/07, Anne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings to All I'

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

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
Actually, I see them as two very different groups. The difference is primarily the entry point. Agreed. (Don't ignore the fact that goals and workloads are currently very different.) The current market for Solaris 10 (and the market RHEL etc. also target) is the traditional enterprise, i.e., t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: And that would break... what, exactly? (Re: Sun to make Solaris more

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/21/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've worked in places where system administrators > hacked source code > which was available (BSD Unix, source licenses). > > Invariably, it is a *bad* idea; but that point is > never driven home > until one of the administrators does leave or i

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

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
I've never liked popularity contests since long term popularity fades. Shawn, I think you've hit the nail on the head. Anyone remember that old old instruction set that the Intel 8086 popularized? See what happens to popular technology? It fades from use, especially if it is underpowered and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Lets take a moment to reflect on Solaris's strengths.

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
I would add to the list the fact that the source code is well documented, which I don't really find the case in the linux kernel. Done. In the future, feel free to edit the wiki yourself. On 5/18/07, Christopher Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Brian Gupta <[EMA

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

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
> > I've never liked popularity contests since long term popularity fades. > > Shawn, I think you've hit the nail on the head. Anyone remember that > old old instruction set that the Intel 8086 popularized? See what > happens to popular technology? It fades from use, especially if it is > underpow

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