Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-14 Thread Erast
On 08/14/2010 05:37 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul Kölle If that is true, Illumos will be ahead of the pack in no time. Bright future I'd say. This mostly depends on what S

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-13 Thread Erast
Nexenta Systems initiated, Illumos Project continues its effort... http://www.illumos.org """A community maintained derivative of the OpenSolaris ON source, including open source replacements for closed bits, and additional changes.""" All companies who were working with OpenSolaris/Solaris

[osol-discuss] Co-creator of ZFS, Bill Moore joins Nexenta advisory board

2010-04-20 Thread Erast
Good news for Nexenta and OpenSolaris community in general: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/blog/2010/04/06/bill-moore-joins-nexenta-advisory-board/ Nexenta invites talents and hiring OpenSolaris Kernel/API engineers. If you are in SF bay area and you think you are qualified, send your resume by f

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Distributions

2010-04-19 Thread Erast
Also: NexentaStor Community Edition (3.0.0-1): http://www.nexentastor.org/ This is community driven, fully integrated Open Storage platform. Can be deployed everywhere, including enterprises, however, if one wants enterprise-level support and features, such as Synchronous Replication, High-A

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-02-18 Thread Erast
Meanwhile, Nexenta offers various support options for OpenSolaris-based NexentaStor: http://www.nexenta.com/support This is of course for storage appliances only. Edward Martinez wrote: Indeed, the web page with OpenSolaris support subscription offers dissapeared and is replaced now with Sola

Re: [osol-discuss] Building ON on opensolaris

2009-12-27 Thread Erast
Just for the sake of completeness, here is how NexentaCore's ON bits can be re-build using pure Nexenta environment and Debian APT: http://www.nexenta.org/projects/6/wiki/BuildingOpensolaris Mike Gerdts wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Vikram Hegde wrote: Hi, Has anything changed wi

Re: [osol-discuss] Migration from windows to Linux

2009-12-05 Thread Erast
absolutely free and open: http://www.nexenta.org Nibal wrote: Is Nexenta free? No need to get license ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Migration from windows to Linux

2009-12-04 Thread Erast
Why not use Nexenta as a "Linux" client - it is Debian, yet with OpenSolaris features! Nibal wrote: Hi All, I need your advice : I’m planning to migrate from windows clients OS to any Linux version, in our organization : Current Environment : Solaris 10 server OS which have Oracle Ebs 10

Re: [osol-discuss] I am new and god do i need som help

2009-09-13 Thread Erast
Take a look on http://www.nexenta.org project. Might be easier for you. paul richie wrote: my biggest problem right now is that i can not install anything because i can't use sudo and i cant figer out how to add myself to the sudoers folder or list everything i reed on-line just said to use the s

[osol-discuss] ON/SXCE bi-weekly schedule not valid anymore?

2009-08-11 Thread Erast
Guys, could someone confirm that this schedule is STILL valid? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/schedule/ I'm just wondering that because of SXCE drop - what will happen with bi-weekly schedule and releases? How community will know about stabilization builds, etc? __

Re: [osol-discuss] Which way to go [push/pull] with bkups of Windows OS's to zfs

2009-07-11 Thread Erast
Harry, for enterprises or small businesses I would recommend some "supported" solutions such as Nexenta Delorean: http://www.nexenta.com/delorean robocopy and rsync transports, backup browser, snapshots, ACLs, VCS, etc, etc.. Harry Putnam wrote: Any of you out there that use your opensol

[osol-discuss] next stabilization release date

2009-07-10 Thread Erast
Hi Guys, trying to analyze this link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/schedule/ I see the b111 was the last one marked as stabilization build. Do we have a plan set for the next OpenSolaris stabilization build yet? If so, is it possible to keep this page updated? Thank you! _

[osol-discuss] ONStor/Nexenta OEM - meet Pantera LS 2100

2009-05-27 Thread Erast
Hi All, maybe not a big news but still a news for our great OpenSolaris community and especially those open source developers who developing this great Debian derivative - NexentaOS. Read more on Evan Powell's blog: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_mojo&Itemid=153&p=23 Pante

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta CEO commenting on IBM/Sun merger..

2009-04-04 Thread Erast
and we know examples when some particular bugs in open source been addressed years later after they reported. It is all matter of resources and priorities of course. Oehnei wrote: Nexenta can't even put up an image of their distribution that functions, even 4 months after 3 people post about

[osol-discuss] Nexenta CEO commenting on IBM/Sun merger..

2009-04-04 Thread Erast
Just wanted to share this link as well: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_mojo&Itemid=153&p=15 Unrealistic worst case scenario: OpenSolaris likely will continue its development on its own. Independent companies will start offering OpenSolaris support as Nexenta Systems does toda

Re: [osol-discuss] [storage-discuss] NDMPCOPY Test Tool and NDMP Protocol Test Suite Released

2009-02-09 Thread Erast Benson
Great! uploaded to Nexenta APT now, for NCP2 users just do: # apt-get install ndmpcopy On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 17:46 -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Vilas Deshpande, I love you!!! Thank you! I've been needing this badly! > > > benr. > > ___ > storage-d

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

2009-02-03 Thread Erast Benson
Hi folks, you might be interested in what Evan Powell (Nexenta Systems CEO) blogging about plans on 2009, OpenSolaris and Open Storage movement: http://www.nexenta.com/blog and so called community "Statement of Policies": http://www.nexenta.com/community Enjoy! ___

Re: [osol-discuss] recent broadcom (bge) drivers failing to plumb bge0, but do plumb bge1

2009-01-21 Thread Erast Benson
E for ip: bge0: Invalid argument > >>> > >>> prtconf shows bge at 1648: > >>> > >>> dev_path=/p...@0,0/pci1022,7...@a/pci15d9,1...@5,1:bge1 > >>>dev_link=/dev/bge1 > >>> > >>> and lspci -n sh

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

2008-12-10 Thread Erast Benson
Very interesting development! I went ahead and setup a domain + site: http://www.kernelunix.org If there is an interest - we could extend its content over time. I like the idea of modular approach to build ON. I do believe that kernel, libc, networking all could be delivered as separate compone

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-19 Thread Erast Benson
freebsd-i386 > > They also haven't been able to get things like the wifi tools for > FreeBSD working. I'm not saying that adapting glibc is a bad thing, > but we need to figure out if we really want to go down this path. > Michael > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM,

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-19 Thread Erast Benson
blTBJ2i2pteBACdET5A0ycn3U+G3S2R+8mCN6vq > 0oAAniom7MRTL3P4TR8H1PotiT+R+qSi > =8cf5 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Joerg Schilling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-18 Thread Erast Benson
Hi David, Great work! Yes, such port makes sense and solves some of the issues (mostly GNU libc portability) but unfortunately creates new issues, which I'm sure, could be worked out and soon we should have more or less working first ISO available with support for this new exciting architecture!

[osol-discuss] Nexenta : Ubuntu Server with ZFS goodness

2008-09-11 Thread Erast Benson
Anil just published nice article: http://www.osnews.com/story/20280/Nexenta_Ubuntu_Server_with_ZFS_goodness The idea is to engage Debian/Ubuntu community and position/create Nexenta Server 1.0 (Hardy Heron) which will match Ubuntu Server with its functionality + ZFS/Zones/SMF/COMSTAR goodness on

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Alpha2 Hackaton minutes

2008-09-05 Thread Erast Benson
Hi All, Hackaton is still in progress! Here goes short history of events so far: * NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha2 first 'testing' ISO available - ON b97/b98 based. People reported successful installations, likely we will have official Alpha2 next week, as usual, upgradable with power of Debian tools - b

Re: [osol-discuss] Update on the NexentaCore project

2008-08-12 Thread Erast Benson
I like your blog entry on using graphviz to view Nexenta package dependencies graphically. Nice! On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: > Hi All, > > We've setup a blogging infrastructure at http://blogs.nexenta.org. If > you have a Nexenta blog, or want one let us know, and we'll

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor API & Windows SDK published

2008-08-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hey folks, just saw another cool news this morning - Nexenta Systems released documentation for remote API and Windows SDK with demos for accessing NexentaStor. News itself: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=56 ZFS and the rest of appliance function

[osol-discuss] Pogo Linux ships NexentaStor pre-installed boxes

2008-08-01 Thread Erast Benson
Hi folks, wanted to share some exciting news with you. Pogo Linux shipping NexentaStor pre-installed boxes, like this one 16TB - 24TB: http://www.pogolinux.com/quotes/editsys?sys_id=3989 And here is announce: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=56 P

[osol-discuss] NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha1 "Hardy" Released

2008-06-16 Thread Erast Benson
This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha1 - Debian Native OpenSolaris environment and platform. (unstable "Hardy" branch) NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha1 Release Highlights: -- * 3392 packages ported over just two weeks of Hardy Hackathon

[osol-discuss] NexentaCore 1.0.1 Released

2008-06-09 Thread Erast Benson
This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 1.0.1 - Debian Native OpenSolaris environment and platform. (stable "Elatte" branch) NexentaCore 1.0.1 Release Highlights: - * OpenSolaris b85+ based (x86 32-bit and 64-bit, non-debug), with critical

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Hackathon in Progress - Status

2008-06-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hi, A lot of fun these days and a lot of achievements! June's Hackathon-in-progress status: * Debian tools such as: devscripts, dpkg, apt, debarchiver, etc all ported * compiled bunch of NCP 2.0 packages (gcc prerequisites) * newisys-nas.stanford.edu mac

[osol-discuss] Announcing Nexenta Hackathon event this Saturday (05/31/08)

2008-05-29 Thread Erast Benson
Dear OpenSolaris Developers and Users! Starting this Saturday, we are inviting all Debian/OpenSolaris developers and users to participate in our first Hackathon event. Hackathon starts on this Saturday 05/31/2008 and continues during first week of June. Development coordinated at #nexenta on free

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distributions as of 05/17/2008

2008-05-17 Thread Erast Benson
Correct. Also: NexentaCore - 1.0 (stable b82+ based) NexentaCore - 1.0.1-test3 (unstable b85+ based) NexentaStor - 1.0 (b85+ based + some patches from b87...b90 + commercial drivers) On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 09:30 -0700, MC wrote: > FYI NexentaCore and NexentaStor are two different distributions. >

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaCP and X

2008-02-18 Thread Erast Benson
Ubuntu Hardy - next Long Term Support (LTS) release. On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 15:01 -0800, joseph schafer wrote: > erast, > > thank you for all of the info. > > >From my searches, it seems that folks have gotten gnome to work on ncp1. > >Can you please provide a quick howto

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-14 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 21:48 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> > > >>> http://blogs.sun.com/alanbur/entry/kicking_both_tyres_together_virtualbox > > >>> > > >> > > >> Shure you cannot use the "ae" driver that comes wich SchilliX? > > >> > > > > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 available

2008-02-12 Thread Erast Benson
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=8f4a28c436d2dc7f866560fc6ac3a6363c73e310 On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:56 -0800, Lucian wrote: > Are There a metalink and bittorrent for download the iso images? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org >

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 available

2008-02-12 Thread Erast Benson
Thanks. FYI, www.nexenta.org website is totally open for editors (except front page) - login and change the way you like it - its Wiki after all. On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:05 -0800, Tim Cook wrote: > Just a request/hint/whatever. Finding the actual download link on that site > is the most convol

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Builder 1.0 available

2008-02-11 Thread Erast Benson
Hi, This is to announce Nexenta Builder 1.0! Recently released NexentaCore 1.0 is especially well suited to serve as a platform for application distributions due to Nexenta Builder 1.0, an open source packaging solution included as part of NexentaCore that enables the simple creation of 'software

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC5 available

2008-02-09 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC5 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * Critical bootstrapping issue fixed * Minor apt-clone fixes * Minor packaging fixes Developers and Users - join official Nexenta IRC #nexenta now! Enjoy! The Nexenta Team. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:26 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > ...and I never said that wasn't a good thing. I'm just pointing out > that Nexenta is different. in a good, practical and positive way... :-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:08 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 12:49 PM, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:44 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > Thus, I stand by the claim that Nexenta, at the very least, is a fork. &g

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:44 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > Thus, I stand by the claim that Nexenta, at the very least, is a fork. You deeply mistaken here. As far as OpenSolaris is concerned - Nexenta is NOT a fork. We share the same code base. The integration part of userland IS a bit different, b

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC4 available

2008-02-03 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC4 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * OpenSolaris build 82 (non-debug) + critical fixes from b83 [1]: * Storage consolidation updated with build 82 * More Network drivers (sfe, igb) * NFS and CIFS server fixes * Xen Dom0

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaCP and X

2008-01-28 Thread Erast Benson
you could start your own APT repository and share it with others. If you are just a user - simply wait till somebody else will jump in and produce it for you. On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 04:50 -0800, Martti Hamunen wrote: > Erast how can I go on... > > 1. X-works, but there are messages:..

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaCP and X

2008-01-27 Thread Erast Benson
NCP ships Xorg with foundation libraries only - no GUI applications, no GNOME, no KDE, no XFCE, no GUI integration... Complete Desktop-oriented distributions will appear later as a network of NCP derivatives. On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:18 +0800, Robin du wrote: > On 1/28/08, Erast Benson <

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC3 available

2008-01-27 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC3 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * OpenSolaris build 80+ (non-debug) + critical fixes from b81-b83 [1]: - critical fixes for native CIFS server - critical fixes for ZFS - critical bug fixes for SATA and networking stacks

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaCP and X

2008-01-27 Thread Erast Benson
for RC2, switch to unstable, than do: apt-get install x-window-system-core On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 12:16 -0800, Martti Hamunen wrote: > I try install NexentaCP. > Where is X or how can I get it? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > op

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.6 ready

2008-01-25 Thread Erast Benson
Great job Joerg! wrt. Ubuntu/Nexenta NCP roadmap is here: http://www.nexenta.org/os/DevelopmentRoadmap NCP 1.5 will be Hardy-based. Hardy is upcoming next LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu repository. In April this year. On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:56 -0800, ken mays wrote: > Have you look

[osol-discuss] NexentaCP APT repository status: completed!

2008-01-22 Thread Erast Benson
Glad to announce that Nexenta team completed APT repository for Nexenta Core Platform release! This repository will become primary official for upcoming NCP 1.0 release after it is propagated to stable branch: http://archive.nexenta.org/elatte-unstable/ It contains 2624 officially supported by c

[osol-discuss] Integrated transactional upgrades with ZFS

2008-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
Hi guys, new article available explaining details on how enterprise-like upgrades integrated with Nexenta Core Platform starting from RC2 using ZFS capabilities and Debian APT: http://www.nexenta.org/os/TransactionalZFSUpgrades What is NexentaCP? NexentaCP is a minimal (core) foundation that ca

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
what about it? (Italian accent) On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 14:21 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Glad to announce that popular Solaris third-party repository Blastwave > > 'CSW' now integrated with Nexenta APT. > > > > To enable it on RC2, edit /etc/apt/sources.list like this: > > > > - deb http://apt.

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:33 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > good point. I marked download links with blinking icon.. > > > > though, web site is wiki based and features open edit policy for > > everyone, so if someone on the list find something on web site which > > needs fixing, don't hesitate -

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
This is great, thanks Dennis! In our turn, we will continue CSW polishing in Nexenta and maybe one day will make it default. It still needs fixing on our part, all bugs should be reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nexenta and discussed on #nexenta IRC channel if time permits. On Tue, 200

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
ee > > + deb http://apt.nexenta.org elatte-unstable main contrib non-free csw > > > > And use as you would usually do on normal Debian server: > > > > $ sudo apt-get install cswgdb > > > > Many credits to Nexenta & Blastwave Communities for this! >

[osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
Glad to announce that popular Solaris third-party repository Blastwave 'CSW' now integrated with Nexenta APT. To enable it on RC2, edit /etc/apt/sources.list like this: - deb http://apt.nexenta.org elatte-unstable main contrib non-free + deb http://apt.nexenta.org elatte-unstable main contrib non

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC2 is available

2008-01-14 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC2 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * OpenSolaris build 80+ (non-debug) * Project integration: NWS, AVS, COMSTAR, in-kernel CIFS client * apt-clone: ZFS-integrated safe upgrade via remote APT repository. Support for in-plac

Re: [osol-discuss] make softwares up to date

2008-01-12 Thread Erast Benson
depends on which OpenSolaris distribution you are talking about.. For Nexenta, you can use Debian APT, its been around for 2+ years now.. Its the only option (as of today). But there is nothing preventing distro creators to build RPM based OpenSolaris too, so Yum could be used. On Sat, 2008-01-12

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-25 Thread Erast Benson
have you disabled samba? svcadm disable samba On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 22:39 -0800, MC wrote: > > 2) Unstable APT integrated with ON build 79, give it > > a try! > > I tried "svcadm enable -r smb/server" from > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/cifs-server/gettingstarted.html in > nexentacp and i

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-21 Thread Erast Benson
: > Il Wednesday 19 December 2007 23:57:07 Erast Benson ha scritto: > > Hi All, > > > > This is the road to NCP 1.0... > > > > Our motto: > > > > """Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best > > Debian Server/Storag

[osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-19 Thread Erast Benson
Hi All, This is the road to NCP 1.0... Our motto: """Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best Debian Server/Storage platform.""" Some latest Nexenta related news: 1) Official Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) repository now is http://apt.nexenta.org 2) Unstable APT integrated

[osol-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test3 available

2007-07-05 Thread Erast Benson
http://www.gnusolaris.org/unstable-iso/ncp_beta1-test3-b68_i386.iso Changes: * ON b68 based * man pages updated -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-28 Thread Erast Benson
ptic package manager is really impressive > is there a way to transform Sun package to a synaptic package? > > selim > > On 6/22/07, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: > > > > > New unstable ISO of NexentaCP

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual

2007-06-22 Thread Erast Benson
en the time comes? Incremental ON/NWS upgrades have been provided started from A5+.. i.e. a year ago. However, on you own risk. This is Alpha software, but technology is there. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-22 Thread Erast Benson
/var/lib/apt/* $ sudo apt-get update -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integratedinstaller

2007-06-09 Thread Erast Benson
s. > > I just installed it on my MBP using Parallels... > > What is "Parallels"? VMWare-like software for MacOSX > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > opensolaris-

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:26 -0400, Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:51:08PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > More details on NexentaCP will be available soon... > > Is it based on Alpha7? Alpha7 is the Desktop-oriented ISO, however they share the same main

[osol-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-06 Thread Erast Benson
installer supports ZFS/Boot type of installations on single disk or 2+ mirror configuration. For now, only "Auto" partitioning mode could be used for ZFS root partition creation. More details on NexentaCP will be available soon... -- Erast ___

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

2007-06-06 Thread Erast Benson
ing on this feature and building their variants with modified .config files. As far as Embedded OpenSolaris is concerned (if any), in my opinion it should just single option in bld-env which strips down existing components and produces reduced fat proto. > Currently all kernel components are

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Open Solaris Distributions

2007-05-17 Thread Erast Benson
o create a distribution as none did exist before. > > Why did other people create _different_ distributions? Same reason. Because Debian-based GNU/OpenSolaris never existed before. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
ing many other things will be solved > before the summer is out. You reading my mind. I just wanted to suggest that we need an accent on project emancipation. Jump start it... It would also make sense if Sun would help Google to pay some $$$ to the students involved... -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris Distributions

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
milarly, has done much for SPARC and Xorg - can't he drive that? > > Moinak's team clearly has expertise in LiveCD and the 'friendly' Xfce > environment - and a 'noob friendly' userspace - can't they drive that? > > Erast and Alex have a cle

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

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:32 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 16/05/07, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:37 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > > > > One problem I have is that whenever corporate gets their minds around > > > > pr

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaOS Alpha 7 is now available

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
__ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > > -- > > yours, > Rick > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Erast

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

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
r problem is closed binaries. Only Sun has source code for it.. How do you think "any other vendor" can offer support independently from Sun? -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NexentaOS Alpha 7 is now available

2007-05-15 Thread Erast Benson
from opensolaris.org > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS at OSDEVCON demos

2007-04-24 Thread Erast Benson
3 little demos by Martin Man. Available as of today. http://martinman.net/software/nexenta Thanks Martin. Enjoy! -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris parted

2007-04-15 Thread Erast Benson
.org > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris - build 61 upgrade

2007-04-11 Thread Erast Benson
if i'm not mistaken synaptic suppose to do that auto magically.. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris - build 61 upgrade available

2007-04-11 Thread Erast Benson
ON/NWS build 61 is now available for your regular APT upgrades. To upgrade your Alpha 6 NexentaOS box do: a) Switch your /etc/apt/sources.list to elatte-unstable. d) Do upgrade: # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade # reboot Enjoy! -

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: NWS (Network Storage)

2007-03-23 Thread Erast Benson
> opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Really .. its so great to see Mr. Debian here. :-) +1 :-) -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:22 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Erast Benson wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:18 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > >> > >> But that just brings us back to Joe's original point: > >> > >> Isn

Re: [osol-discuss] apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
I don't think you really care about .deb packages either, what I *think* > > you're saying is "give me a packaging system that works like apt does!", > > But that just brings us back to Joe's original point: > > Isn't that Nexenta? > > Not

Re: [osol-discuss] What is OpenSolaris success?

2007-03-14 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 21:25 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > I would like to see OpenSolaris buildable on OpenSolaris. > This needs that some more pieces of code need to be at least > redistributable. +1 -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Nexenta/format/fdisk

2007-02-14 Thread Erast Benson
om opensolaris.org > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaOS: Introducing 'unstable' testing releases

2007-02-02 Thread Erast Benson
all targeted bugs will be closed: http://www.gnusolaris.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=Elatte+Unstable+Beta+1 This really depends on capabilities of our community. -- Erast ___ ope

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS: Introducing 'unstable' testing releases

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
swiki/Bugs Thank you. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
> primary focus at first will be to remove libc_i18n.a, and that must be > integrated without delay, but ultimately I'd like for closed bins to > disappear completely. +1 -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
; rules code may be checked in. > > It's all moving slower than I want, but it's moving. There's a lot of > infrastructure required to do all of this, and we're bumping into some > issues. (Ask Stephen Lau about the automounter sometime. :-)) But, > what you as

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
rnel hackers. Not only it will increase community's input but also will stimulate outsiders to commit more often. This would also help outsiders to understand ON code and will create certain discipline among developers. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discu

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
unfortunately, I do not see up-and-to-the-right type of numbers, but at least numbers are steady, this gives me more hopes that it is not to late to fix that if at all possible/needed. On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 19:28 +, Peter Tribble wrote: > On 2/1/07, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
ribed/unsubscribed during certain period? Number of downloads may be? On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:55 -0800, John Plocher wrote: > Erast Benson wrote: > > I didn't say we are dead community. :-) And I said almost zero > > participation from outside of Sun > > > What are you

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
ave no plans to open > source the associated code. Perhaps that's not good enough, but it's > the best we can do. > > I will put it on my list to update the page listed above now that an > open source version of e1000g is available. > > Bonnie > > &g

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
uot;pending review" (so that an e1000g release > does not surprise those working on cloning it) but in many cases we > can't even tell why we can't open the source. This is a great idea, this way we could avoid double efforts. > Lawyers are funny that way. no, that is fine. -- E

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
> > Casper > > ___ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > > So will Stallman ask us to call it GNU/Solaris? It obviously doesn't ap

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
cense that Debian (you?) will > fork a GNU only version. whatever it proves, it wasn't a good experience... And if I'm not mistaken Joerg refused to dual-license cdrecord. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 13:19 +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > > Alan Burlison wrote On 02/01/07 09:11,: > > Erast Benson wrote: > > > >> Isn't the fact that after almost 2 years of existence we still > >> considered a minority community with almost zero

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
g at ON consolidation. And yes, we are growing, but not fast enough to me... -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] e1000g opensourced!

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
Kudos to Sun who made it possible! :-) http://hg.genunix.org/onnv-gate.hg?cs=b2b402e6f340 -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:14 -0800, Shawn Walker wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:28 +, Darren J Moffat > > wrote: > > > Erast Benson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:57 -0800, John Plocher > > wrote: > > > >> As Dennis, Casp

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 00:24 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:57 -0800, John Plocher wrote: > > > As Dennis, Casper and others have said: What is the problem that > > > dual licensing is

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