On 9/21/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
XFS?
XFS! In absence of ZFS, the best 'classic' filesystem out there, bar none, no
ifs, buts, or maybes.
My, my, touchy are we?
I do not see the serious error of not turning on
a filesystem
that is 1) not going to work properly with 4k
And I can tell you from first hand experience, in the server arena, *every*
Linux dsitro is different. Files are strewn in different locations all over
the place; files are named differently; file system hierarchy can look
completely different from one distro to the next. Core
the fact that to work around the differences from IRIX and Linux
has turned the XFS code into such a monster that quite a few Linux
kernel developers have publicly proclaimed that they want nothing to
do with XFS code.
that should have been: the fact that working around the differences
Well, Solaris 11 will be published in October 2007 ;-)
... see /etc/motd
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6536468
hehe. Okay, trust nobody until you see it with your own eyes.
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By the way, these devices will be designed and built in the People's
Republic of China. Sooner than you and I can possibly imagine. So get
rolling, because time is short.
Please, anywhere but China. I will take Taiwan but not China. Man,
they do not understand quality control. My dad visits
On 9/14/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Sun lovers! Looks like we will now become DarkSun
lovers. Got your dice?
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.200709
12.1.xml
Why the dark side parabole?
Why, quite a few people view Microsoft as the dark side.
It would
On 9/13/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Giles Turner wrote:
Nice. I hear Solaris 11 is coming out early next year.
You need to get a better source of info.
That was straight from a local Sun CDP Sales Manager, Partner Sales
Organization, Global Sales Services guy.
Maybe he
Nice. I hear Solaris 11 is coming out early next year.
You need to get a better source of info.
That was straight from a local Sun CDP Sales Manager, Partner Sales
Organization, Global Sales Services guy.
Since the engineering organisations don't know if the next release is
Solaris
On 9/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/09/2007, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Sun lovers! Looks like we will now become DarkSun lovers. Got your
dice?
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070912.1.xml
I know you're joking, but seriously
On 9/13/07, Ché Kristo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But we can't :(
Oh we can...when the EU gets Microsoft to release interoperability
specifications. Then we will be joining ADS domains as full members or
controllers and so we will definitely be part of the Dark Side maybe
more than we want to be.
That was straight from a local Sun CDP Sales Manager, Partner Sales
Organization, Global Sales Services guy.
Well, Solaris 11 will be published in October 2007 ;-)
... see /etc/motd
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_59 October 2007
Gah. Never trust Sales.
Hey Sun lovers! Looks like we will now become DarkSun lovers. Got your dice?
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070912.1.xml
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On 9/13/07, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/09/2007, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Sun lovers! Looks like we will now become DarkSun lovers. Got your dice?
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070912.1.xml
I know you're joking, but seriously, I don't
Running Vista on Sun hardware ... was last week :
No! Not that! I will take Window XP but Vista!?!?!? I need a drink.
http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/80
... if we look forwards with some far reaching visions we can expect to see
Solaris running on IBM Power hardware. Just
I'll just wait and see what happens out of this...
Back and forth they go. Now AMD has announced they intended to allow
access to the the 2D and 3D specifications *without* an NDA at today's
X Developer Summit in the UK:
The 2D specifications will be released very soon and the 3D ones will
On 9/13/07, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Running Vista on Sun hardware ... was last week :
No! Not that! I will take Window XP but Vista!?!?!? I need a drink.
If you check my blog you will see that I really don't drink the Microsoft
cool-aid at all.
:-)
... if we look
Good to know, thanks. Still a strange coincidence. The strangest
part I didn't even mention: I also had the same problems with
sol-nv-b71-x86-dvd-iso-b. The OP had probs with #70, I had probs
with #71 and #72. Always x86, always the b part. Really really weird.
Hate to do a me 'too' on
Sun's hardware comes with 3-yr warranty, sometimes this is more important
than price. Plus, the list price may not be the final price.
Most hardware you get from shops come with at least 3 year warranty
nowadays. Seagate disks under 5 and others are even under lifetime
warranty.
On 8/27/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have heard good reports about A-Bit motherboards
(on Linux) if you
want to try a cheaper alternative to those solid Tyan
boards.
That's a nice tip to know. In principle though, as I build these not only for
myself but for my customers,
On 8/27/07, andrewk9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Asus BIOSes are buggy. They cause grief on Linux as
well with their
broken APIC tables. With Asus products, I have had to
set noapic or
acpi=off to get a stable box when running Linux. I
guess snv_61 has
stuff to work around buggy BIOSes?
On 8/27/07, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, up until snv_61, the ASUS
motherboard (A7V-133C) has given me nothing but
grief. Even with Windows XP.
The letter V in ASUS MB (e.g., A7V) means it uses Via chipset. Avoid
those. We have been very pleased with ASUS
On 8/26/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've heard got things about Tyan and AMD. (I have an
old ASUS SK8N myself)
TYAN + AMD combination works really well -- I build TYAN-based Solaris
systems exclusively nowdays.
On the other hand, up until snv_61, the ASUS motherboard
On 8/22/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:34 -0400, Brandorr wrote:
I am putting together an x96 server, and almost every component I look
at isn't listed on the HCL. (I'd prefer not to shop from the HCL)
Is there a list of what has been tested and
First we get the new T2 being GPL'ed.
Now it looks like we will have IBM servers preloading Solaris.
http://www.physorg.com/news106499717.html
Is Sun planning to leave the hardware market?
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On 8/14/07, Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
since I´ m not very well informed about the history of Unix, I just wanted to
ask: Could Novell come up one day and say parts of Solaris is ours ?
Thanks in advance?
No. Sun's license goes way back to ATT days with System V release 4.
Keep in mind that if you are tracking sales records. Blizzard just made an
all time sales record with a PC based game (The sequel to World of
Warcraft).
Yup, that's what the article I read a month or so stated. MMORPGs like WoW
are the most successful of the PC games anymore. Probably because
Wrong list and where is the proper Chinese version?
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On 7/12/07, Completely Illogical [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
B,
Thanks for the thoughts. I think individual USB enclosures would be double
power consumption, a serious consideration when doing 12 drives!
USB?!?! That really came out of the blue. I was thinking of things
like SOHOTank enclosures
.
So, I'm sold. But, now I need a hardware card to support 8-12 sata drives,
and finding one that Solaris can use is quite difficult. I was hoping to get
something more simple and less expensive than the 3ware cards, since the riad
control would now be strictly software.
Software 'raid'
On 6/29/07, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have an areca 16 port card. the ARC-1216 i believe it is.
supposedly it is supported nicely under solaris/OS too... (i have used areca
products under linux, windows and freebsd myself)
it is the only 3ware-like hardware available for Solaris...
On 6/26/07, Andrew R Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking to build a raid array consisting of up to 16 sata drivers.
Are there any cards out there that will work under OS that can handle
upwards of 16?
Yes. Once port-multiplier support is in the drivers. You could attach
4 4-bay
Will ZFS be more stable on its native OS or in userland on Linux? It
could be stable on both but I suspect a risk averse decision maker would
use ZFS on a Solaris and one of the more well-supported filesystems for
Linux...
Right now...I think I would not have much of a choice if you are
talking
Hello Gary,
Sorry to hear about your problems.
On 6/22/07, Gary Gendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Help! Where the heck to I look to track down what's happening.
Some other issues... If I make either of the boards PCI masters in the BIOS, I
can't boot. If I load both the boards BIOS ROMS, I
On 6/26/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[i]The advantage[s] of a stable ABI are all mitigated when binary packages of
proprietary drivers are available. [/i]
http://www4.osnews.com/permalink?250425
Can someone smarter than me comment on that post? :)
I believe that post refers to
On 6/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good fingerprint authentication is better than passwords in dare I say every
way, EXCEPT for whe
n you are a high profile target who might be stalked for finger access. The
hordes of people out t
here using simple passwords like
You can't dictionary brute force a fingerprint remotely, and you can't forget
your finger :)
no remote access...yet...
Good fingerprint authentication is better than passwords in dare I say every way, EXCEPT
for when you are a high profile target who might be stalked for finger access.
On 6/16/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now it just focuses on the fingerprint. The design is required to be
able to easily extended to other biometrics. If the resources in
opensolaris are enough, the bioAPI may be considered to be imported to
cover all the biometrics.
What if I wanted to use pam_bioapi instead of pam_fpr before bioapi is
imported?
I have to say no before bioapi is imported. But it doesn't matter
since the security services (such as login, xscreensaver, etc) work upon
the PAM APIs. pam_fpr or pam_bioapi is just a pluggable module in
Why do you want fingerprint authentication? You can fool these sensors
easily with a piece of wax or latex. You'd better write the root
password on the backside of the keyboard - that's more secure than
fingerprint authentication
Exactly why I want to see bioapi in instead of some fingerprint
Have you considered bioapi? Will libfpr be bioapi compatible?
Does OpenSolaris want a Solaris specific library/interface when
something already exists?
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is available for Solaris.
Even better if pam_bioapi is used and so we have a crossplatform tool
that works in GNOME or whatever.
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 15:20, Giles Turner wrote:
Have you considered bioapi? Will libfpr be bioapi compatible?
Does OpenSolaris want a Solaris specific library/interface
On 6/14/07, Gaopeng Chen - Sun China [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:24, Giles Turner wrote:
What if I wanted to use pam_bioapi instead of pam_fpr before bioapi is
imported?
I have to say no before bioapi is imported. But it doesn't matter
since the security services
4) Sun (Ian/Indiana/Others) wants a second Solaris distro that will be
the Fedora to Sun's RHEL (Solaris). They wish to do this and still leave
a clear migration path from one distro to another. (Unlike Fedora).
Yes! I think we can all get behind this sort of vision. But making a better
I also propose that if you are in favor of this distro coming to be,
that you respond to this thread. Please do this even if you can not
contribute. It will give other like minded individuals moral support.
;)
aye
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On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I am leaning towards BeleniX with all the
Blastwave software
bolted in because ALL of that happened with community
people. Just my
thoughts.
I concur.
Not what I want.
Are we building an open community, or are we
creating an open process.
I disagree. Those developers need input. To get input they need a user
base. Right now, that user base almost entirely consists of Solaris
users and not OpenSolaris users which means things are skewed in a
particular direction.
On 5/31/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED
On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/31/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I threw in my -1 for a very specific reason, and that's that I don't
think that this project benefits us ( where us
I'm interested in doing what needs to be done to move forwards and without
losing those users that run Solaris 8 and 9 and 10. That is a bit of a
challenge to say the least.
Which may or may not be possible since Solaris 8/9/10 are under a
different mandate than OpenSolaris.
On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/31/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I am leaning towards BeleniX with all the
Blastwave software
bolted in because ALL of that happened with community
On 6/1/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I am leaning towards BeleniX with all the
Blastwave software
bolted in because ALL of that happened with community
people.
That would be great. And if that isn't what Ian's crew is looking for, both
could happen. Nothing stopping group x
My initial hostility towards ian's distro is that it reeks of
something just given to us by on high by The Great Managers at SUNW
(cathedral model) rather than any sort of community effort (bazaar
model) and I fear that'll translate in to the product being just some
advertising campaign for Sun,
I do think that if it goes ahead, calling the reference distribution by the
name OpenSolaris is dangerous ( does that mean that Belenix /isn't/
opensolaris? ).
Even if it is called by another name, if it is prominently featured on
opensolaris.org without others being represented...
I also
On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/1/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I feel that you will never ever get what Ian is going to do from the
OpenSolaris community. Not from Solaris users. Period.
This doesn't strike you as a bad thing? That's a sign of a lack
I also propose that if you are in favor of this distro coming to be,
that you respond to this thread. Please do this even if you can not
contribute. It will give other like minded individuals moral support.
;)
aye.
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On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A big -1 from me
We don't need YetAnotherDistro to jump start the community ( some might argue
that Ian-diana does the opposite, since it's entirely a Sun initiative ), we
need open development.
Open development agreed and things are
On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
with rising tide sometimes comes storm.
Is it going to benefit others, or is it smoke and mirrors to wrestle control
away from the community?
Right...enough with the conspiracy theories.
Will it attract new users to OpenSolaris, or
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