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

2010-08-22 Thread Euan Thoms
> I downloaded it out of curiosity. Looks like it's > based on 2008.11 or close?! uname -a contains the > string "NexentaOS_20081207". The included FF is > 3.0.5. The forum posts indicate this is a one man > show. Upon boot of the live CD, it complains about > Gnome not being installed properl

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-03 Thread Euan Thoms
I'm so excited and I just can't hide it. I about to loose control.. and wait a minute, I can't attend the webinar unless I have Windows or Mac OS. "Add to your Outlook Calendar", WTF!!! Oh well, guess I'll just go to bed early and catch the news tomorrow on my OpenSolaris or Linux bo

Re: [osol-discuss] New to OSOL: Move from Linux/Xen: BrandZ, xVM, virtualBox?

2010-06-20 Thread Euan Thoms
Zones + ZFS ~= Virtualisation Perfection! Zones is the way to go, there so easy to set up, rock solid and the way they partition resources is unparalleled by any other virtualisation framework. After ZFS, I'd say zones are second best feature of Solaris. IMHO it's worth finding the right web, m

Re: [osol-discuss] scp no-clobber option??

2009-11-12 Thread Euan Thoms
Looks like rsync is my best option in future. Thanks Stewart for the good detail. So far, I have only used grsync (graphical frontend to rsync), before moving to unison, so will have to learn it proper (from command line). I do know that rsync is an excellent tool, however scp is easy because it

[osol-discuss] scp no-clobber option??

2009-11-02 Thread Euan Thoms
Is there an option for no-clobber (does not overwrite existing files) in the command scp? "man scp" doesn' t reveal anything. I got one hit in google which indicated that there was but perhaps that was the GNU version of scp. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] ZFS clone destroyed by rollback of it's parent filesystem... recoverable???

2009-08-05 Thread Euan Thoms
I created a clone from the most recent snapshot of a filesystem, the clone's parent filesystem was the same as the snapshot itself. When I did a rollback to a previous snapshot it erased my clone. Yes it was really stupid to keep the colne on the same filesystem, I was tired and wasn't thinking

[osol-discuss] Replace Windows Active Directory server with Solaris 10 and JES?

2008-10-03 Thread Euan Thoms
I'm just wondering if it's possible to replace a windows 2003 server that is only used to provide network file access (AD file sharing based on user login) with a Solaris 10 server running Java Enterprise System (JES). I will be purchasing a Solaris 10 server for hosting Java Communications Sui

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris rocks... and you know it!!!

2008-09-02 Thread Euan Thoms
Just got my SXCE build 95 fully working with Java Communications Suite 6, been a long hard road hacking the install to work on (unsupported) SXCE, but I think it's woth it, I've learnt a lot in the process. Still a noob, I have found it hard switching to Solaris (not had the buffer of linux that

[osol-discuss] CD & DVD burning - cdrecord not cutting it for me.

2008-08-01 Thread Euan Thoms
Why is "cdrecord" chosen for the nautilus burning tool? It just doesn't work for me, neither loose files nor iso's. "cdrw" works great for CD's and DVD's, however I have to use "mkisofs" to make an iso first. Currently I have to use command line to burn stuff. Also, in Linux the nautilus burne

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 (LiveCD) updated to build 90 - lots of problems!

2008-06-18 Thread Euan Thoms
Yes, I followed this procedure exactly and I still have the problems described. In addition, Evolution doesn't work either, it crashes whilst starting up, no screens get shown before it bails out. I have no problems with Nevada build 90 though. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris CIFS and Sun Java Directory Server, a powerful combo or not?

2008-06-14 Thread Euan Thoms
Thanks ux-admin. You have answered all my questions well. I know of rsync, best synchronization software I ever used, must look into Mercurial though. I just wanted to know if the technology in question was worth learning about, I spent a lot of time trying to set up an NIS solution and it's out

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 (LiveCD) updated to build 90 - lots of problems!

2008-06-12 Thread Euan Thoms
Updating to build 90 using 'pkg' command causes lots of things to break. This has happened to me on two different PCs, so it is not just a one-off. Vanilla install of OpenSolaris 2008.05 (Indiana) from live CD, then #pkg image-update from terminal will update the system to build 90, giving you

[osol-discuss] Solaris CIFS and Sun Java Directory Server, a powerful combo or not?

2008-06-10 Thread Euan Thoms
Just reading about Solaris CIFS. Wow, what a breakthrough, looking forward to testing it over the next few days. Background: I had a go at setting up a mock server client environment with Solaris 10 a short while back and the outcome didn't convince me that Solaris was the way to go. There wer

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-05 Thread Euan Thoms
Wow, never realized the OSS came with a cool tool like ossxmix. That's sorted my problem with one speaker and I think it's louder too (not had time to test it with multimedia yet). Thanks Shawn! Thanks everybody for replies, OSS and CUPS adoption pleases me much, really looking forward to testi

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-04 Thread Euan Thoms
Trapped between Linux and Solaris? I am. My *NIX journey began onll less than 2 years ago. I started with Solaris 10 when I saw "Java Desktop System" mentioned, I thought it was a hybrid of the solid and efficient Solaris engine with the beauty of Java. I am a huge fan of Java, and I thought if