Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-09-02 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 2, 2010, at 4:07 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> > I am not sure what you expect. Less cloak & dagger bullshit. Either you're working on an _open_ source project or you're working on a top secret, fully buzzword compliant project that may or may not be based on Illumos, Solaris, SunOS, BS

Re: [osol-discuss] Tor for opensolaris

2010-09-05 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 5, 2010, at 11:15 AM, John Thompson wrote: > Anything else I can do? Yes, you could compile & install from source; http://www.torproject.org/download-unix.html.en -Gary ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork?

2010-09-06 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 6, 2010, at 6:36 AM, David Blake wrote: > is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork? What exactly are you looking for? A fully baked distribution based on Illumos? Have you read through the FAQ, looked at Schillix, NexentaCore, etc? If there's something important missing fro

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

2010-09-07 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 7, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Edward Martinez quoted: > Thanks to its strong support of the x86 hardware architecture, "in terms of > overall volume, Linux is just a much higher volume product than Solaris ever > was," says Al Gillen, an IDC analyst. Volume of licenses tells us nothing about the k

Re: [osol-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] [site - General Discussion - msg437] RE: Ilumos-based SchilliX release as a DVD ISO

2010-09-10 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 9, 2010, Mike Riley wrote: > I set it up as a 64-bit Open Solaris environment. Do you get the same error when trying to boot on a 32-bit VM? -Gary > ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10,Oracle Solaris Express new license

2010-09-11 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 11, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Kyle McDonald wrote: >> > They make it sound like they feel threatened by OpenSource software, the GPL > in particular. While I have no love for the GPL, I've never thought that any > OSS license would create the need for language like that. It's probably much less

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenIndiana - a new OpenSolaris Distribution!

2010-09-11 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 11, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Cia Watson wrote: > I have one question at the moment: Will there be ext3 and/or ext4 support? I > have a shared data partition in ext3 that I would need to be able to mount > periodically. There is already a read only filesystem package that allows mounting of NTF

Re: [osol-discuss] Anonymous NFS file permissions

2010-09-18 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 18, 2010, at 5:46 PM, valrhona wrote: > Also, is there a way just to put the command into the Nexenta gui? Are you using Nexenta core or Nexentastor? If the latter, you might find this more helpful but some info is equally applicable to any ZFS native NFS sharing: http://www.nexenta.com/

Re: [osol-discuss] now seems official- OpenSolaris name retired

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 21, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: > Well...Solaris 11 express support for production use will be made available > under the Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems program, maybe those > who are enrolled will have access to the source code. maybe not. For awhile, some MySQ

Re: [osol-discuss] Illumos loosing the SystemV heritage, fork (was: Re: Is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork?)

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Knut Reinert wrote: > Given the ongoing BSD'tification of Illumos userland utilities I'd say > it may be time to fork. Solaris and it's descendants should stay with > it's SystemV heritage and POSIX. How do BSD or System V have anything to do with POSIX or Single UNIX

Re: [osol-discuss] now seems official- OpenSolaris name retired

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:24 AM, "Dmitry G. Kozhinov" wrote: > Can Illumos developers spend 20 million person hours of development? There's much to be said for quality versus quantity. ;) -Gary ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@openso

Re: [osol-discuss] Illumos loosing the SystemV heritage, fork (was: Re: Is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork?)

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 22, 2010, at 5:02 AM, Cedric Blancher wrote: > This is news for me. Could you point me to the opengroup page which > lists FreeBSD, NetBSD or any other BSD operating system except Apple > OS X as SUS certified? Apple is the only one that can afford to pay for it but that means Darwin is as

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD Shares up on Oracle Takeover Buzz

2010-09-26 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 26, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > As IBM has officially stated that they are going to phase out AIX in favour > of Linux, it probably makes sense to sell off POWER. It's been seven years since they said they were going to discontinue AIX. Regardless, I find it highly unlikely t

Re: [osol-discuss] : - (

2010-09-30 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:50 PM, "W. Wayne Liauh" wrote: > Further discussions on this subject will be moved to the Taiwan OpenSolaris > Users Group. Speaking of which, who wants to pitch a Solaris port of Lotus Symphony Suite to IBM? It's developed in Beijing... -Gary

Re: [osol-discuss] virtual windows on a hot Osol machine

2010-10-12 Thread Gary Driggs
Are you running windows locally or across NFS? If the latter, be sure to use GigE interfaces and switch. Also, if you want a home NAS box consider NexentaStor's community edition that's free for up to 12 Tb of storage. -Gary ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] Cloud services: Amazon versus ...

2010-10-13 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 12, 2010, at 7:26 PM, JV711 wrote: > I'm no expert in the cloud space, but last time I looked, joyent.com was > opensolaris-based. Perhaps you could try them. If I understand their documentation correctly, they also maintain their own package repositories and security patches. Their pric

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Which is the best option: Nexentstor or Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-21 Thread Gary Driggs
On Nov 21, 2010, at 1:42 AM, carlopmart wrote: > Sorry for not clarify the issue of support. With support I meant to install > patches and upgrades between releases, not a commercial support. Yes but the community edition tops out at 12 terabytes so that should be sufficient for most home uses.

Re: [osol-discuss] "small" jbod tower?

2011-01-16 Thread Gary Driggs
You didn't specify SATA or SAS (or speed if the latter) and what kind of external connector (SAS or eSATA). I've built my chassis for Nexentastor with LSI HBAs and Promise chassis with mini SAS connectors (SFF-8088) and both 6G/s 3.5" SAS drives & SATA drives. But they only have rack-mount in 8

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Driggs
I'd recommend something like the HP Proliant Microserver that holds four drives. 8Gb RAM should be sufficient for your needs since you aren't using deduplication or if you are it's not likely to be an issue for the size of your pools. -Gary ___ openso

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-21 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > Intel Sandybridge, does it support ECC? Yes but not in every processor... http://embedded.communities.intel.com/community/en/rovingreporter/blog/2010/12/14/roving-reporter-sandy-bridge-features-will-match-embedded-application-requirements

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 22, 2011 Orvar Korvar wrote: > This means I have to buy a Xeon grade Sandy Bridge, which sucks. I would > prefer a cheap i5/whatever. Actually, the mobile core i5-2515E & i7-2715QE will allegedly include ECC RAM support so don't be surprised if some desktop class CPUs will also. -Gary __

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 2/22/2011 6:00 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: >> On Feb 22, 2011 Orvar Korvar wrote: >>> This means I have to buy a Xeon grade Sandy Bridge, which sucks. I would >>> prefer a cheap i5/whatever. >> Actually, the mobi

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-24 Thread Gary Driggs
Dual core Atom systems make for quite usable desktops -- even when playing video. Here's a Shuttle PC nettop with 40W power supply that I have in my home office with MeeGo Linux and is ready to use in 30 seconds from a full power on; http://us.shuttle.com/X350.aspx I haven't had a chance to try

Re: [osol-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana or what??

2011-03-12 Thread Gary Driggs
Perhaps it was "do not use OpenIndiana in a production environment?" -Gary ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2011-03-23 Thread Gary Driggs
FWIW, they list Linux and Mac clients as not supported as well... ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Networking with Zones an Crossbow

2011-03-27 Thread Gary Driggs
On Mar 27, 2011, at 9:31 AM, "Darko Hojnik" wrote: > They is no Bridge on the System configured. ... And everything should run in > one network only without bridging. In that case, your global zone will need to act as a NAT/routing device and all your VNICs will be able to see each other but th