Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-11 Thread Greg Palmer
Harry Putnam wrote: Emmanuel De Paepe writes: Idem over here. I paid it only 28.5 Euro, which is an excellent price if you see the '50 US dollar' on the back of the cover. The only issue is the quality of the book. I was surprised that Wiley uses such low quality phone book paper. This

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-04 Thread Greg Palmer
Luke L wrote: This isn't spam, this is a legitimate recommendation from a real user. Same here, if I'd had this when I start up it would have saved me a lot of pain. I spent a lot more time digging up and reading the resources for each area instead of getting all the basic information bundl

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get root terminal during install

2009-03-02 Thread Greg Palmer
Harry Putnam wrote: But, shouldn't that information be made obvious... at least in the supplied `getting started' documents? It is in the release notes... ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Thunderbird and 107

2009-02-19 Thread Greg Palmer
Rob McMahon wrote: I did an image-update from 106 to 107, opened thunderbird and tried to detach a (fairly large, 3MB) attachment. The entire machine ground to a halt. I killed the X session with CTL-ALT-DEL, and tried the same thing again, and it's completely reproduceable. I've had to back

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-18 Thread Greg Palmer
ken mays wrote: They reported the apps they used were 'out-of-the-box' with no tweaking on their (i.e. Phoronix) part. Whatever was on the CD is what they used. A few of the 'optimized libraries and apps' are over at Blastwave.org so we can easily retest the benchmarks to see if GCC optimizat

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread Greg Palmer
ken mays wrote: Hi Jörg, The performance differences might be 100% due to the version of the compiler and optimizations used. My point would be in what way is this significant to a user who sees their audio files take 50% longer to encode on one product versus the other? Do you think the averag

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread Greg Palmer
Martin Bochnig wrote: wrote: Hi Jörg, The bottom line is it doesn't matter who made the mistakes or why, in the end the user sees them as negative marks on OpenSolaris. If incorrect optimizations on OpenSolaris are causing a negative perception of OpenSolaris then we need to change that

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread Greg Palmer
Joerg Schilling wrote: Greg Palmer wrote: The performance differences might be 100% due to the version of the compiler and optimizations used. My point would be in what way is this significant to a user who sees their audio files take 50% longer to encode on one product versus the

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread Greg Palmer
Joerg Schilling wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Hello Greg, no: I cannot agree. Because I only could if a few Linux distros would have been compared to one another, or a few OpenSolaris distros to one another. Not an arbitrary mix of it. How do you compare apples to potatoes to strawberries? T

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-16 Thread Greg Palmer
Martin Bochnig wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Rich Reynolds wrote: Martin - I firmly beg to differ... the tests were done with out of the box released versions in that there is no mention of doing ubuntu package upgrades. this is just an artifact of Sun's release engineering sched

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT vmware + opensolaris] Big mess after install as guest

2009-02-14 Thread Greg Palmer
Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam writes: My problem seems pretty severe since after installing from the osol-11.iso and on reboot, I get a big mess of several different ascii char with each keystroke. And that is trying to boot from what I guess is the gui kernel. Problem not solved

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

2009-02-04 Thread Greg Palmer
Anil Gulecha wrote: > Greg: have you seen the response at > http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_mojo&Itemid=153&p=7 > Nope, that was what I was hoping for. If there's an issue, bring it out in the open and get both sides input on it. Thanks for the link Anil! Regards, Greg _

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

2009-02-03 Thread Greg Palmer
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Greg Palmer wrote: > > >>> http://www.nexenta.com/blog >>> >>> >>> >> The quote below is rather interesting, though it would have been nice if >> he included the specifics of his charge rather than ju

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

2009-02-03 Thread Greg Palmer
Erast Benson wrote: > 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 > > The quote below is rather interesting, though it would have been nice if he included t