Re: [osol-discuss] Garret D'amore:Please Be Patient

Based on his blog post, if it was a fear of being sued, I don't think he'd be saying stay tuned... Probably just not quite ready yet.. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > The strange thing is that Garrett D'Amore doesn't even seem to work at Oracle > any more. He joined Ne

Re: [osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

Does it mean we should be looking for extremely aerodynamic pork soon? :) On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, John Plocher wrote: > The comments *there* are pretty balanced - what a surprise :-) > >    -John > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Peter Tribble > wrote: >> >> And we just made Sla

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

Yes, a few drivers, plus the i18n bits for libc, and I think some nfsv2 stuff. IIRC the i18n is probably the biggest missing piece, and could probably get by without the rest (though I'd probably need to look again to be sure) On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > I haven't kep

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

Could always pool some money and take out an ad in the vein of the Solaris x86 one ('Shame on you Larry' ?) =] If their actions are truly driving away sales (or at least limiting themselves to customers who want to run Oracle DB), pointing it out in a forum used by both them and their big customer

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle torpedos HP's Solaris OEM contract

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:11 PM, bsd wrote: > So.  They had a developer working on "Polaris" too, and axed the project.   > Ever hear of the processor code-named the "Rock?"  After years and millions, > Sun also dropped that project. > > You don't think Oracle would drop an x86 project when they

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

A fast-track case is describing more the review/approval process than how fast it's being putback. I'm sure there are many examples of fast-tracks that weren't integrated for many months (if not longer) from when they were filed. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:05 PM, russell wrote: > Looking through

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Rob McMahon wrote: >  On 07/06/2010 13:00, Aurélien Larcher wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I think it's a bit boring having emails on this list every week, >> complaining about the release being "missing" for 1, 2, 3, 4 months. > > It is.  What I'd really like is step-by-s

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] This is how Oracle treats open communities and projects. Will OGB intervene?

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Albert Lee wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2010 08:08:45 -0700, Alan Coopersmith > wrote: >> Rob McMahon wrote: >>> On 10/05/2010 14:15, Dave Johnson wrote: > Here is the evidence: >>> Note the date on this one.  Wasn't this before the Oracle takeover ? >>>

Re: [osol-discuss] Someone please tell me I'm wrong

Can I have whatever you're having? =] On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Tim Scanlon wrote: > Oracle sales and marketing is all over this problem. Their plans will ensure > the sort of enthusiasm that will lead to greater product interest & more > sales successes. It really should be clear to yo

Re: [osol-discuss] Review of OpenSolaris at Desktop Linux Reviews

I would say at the very least, the slab allocator, dtrace, zfs, smf, are all things that would count as a 'significant' change, all of which were I believe after SVR4, but prior to Opensolaris. On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:20 PM, bsd wrote: > The way he states it in his article is that Sun made sign

Re: [osol-discuss] External contributions to Opensolaris (was: Re: So when are we gonna fork this sucker?)

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, I. Szczesniak wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Henrik Johansson wrote: >> What are you going to do with the fork? Solaris is dependent on the briliant >> engineers from what was Sun, no external coders have stepped upp and >> supplied many new features, m

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS encryption mentioned in two different books

IIRC, you can do encryption with loopback devices, which while not ideal, does work as an interim solution until encrypted datasets are available. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Peter Pauly wrote: > Why do OpenSolaris Bible and Pro OpenSolaris both mention that zfs has > encryption? I was under

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> >>> Oracle has stated that going forward OpenSolaris will NOT have all >>> packages from Solaris prime. >>> >> >> That's always been the case since the OpenSolaris distribution was created >> over 2 years ago. Again, nothing new, unless y

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Svein Skogen wrote: > On 30.03.2010 20:44, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:35 PM, bsd > > wrote: >> >>     Out of curiosity, since OpenSolaris is mostly open binary licenses >>     and not source code, what would h

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-help] Interface pcn0 has been removed from kernel.

I did port the fbsd driver for this (full gldv3 support, etc.) http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/emancipation/driver-gate/pcn/src/ It probably needs to be updated to the latest gldv3 bits (I can't remember if the gldv3 public interface stuff has been putback yet, but there were a few interfac

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

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 01/28/10 09:07 PM, Jason King wrote: >> >> I seem to recall the whole point of the project Indiana (now >> OpenSolaris the distribution) versus SXCE was to have a desktop >> oriented distribution (with t

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

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: > > On 29/01/2010, at 1:41 PM, Roger Savard wrote: > >> As much as I like OpenSolaris, I just migrated my FreeBSD (RockSolid) >> infrastructure to opensolaris with ease: Tomcat, CAS-SSO, OpenLdap, Bind, >> apache2, CIFS, Postgresql ... I think i

Re: [osol-discuss] building standalone modules

One other note, to a very large degree, the only difference for 32 vs 64 bit compiles is the flags you need for compilation and linking. If you are writing a device driver for a device capable of 64-bit addressing, there might be some slight changes wrt to dma attributes for 64 bit code, but outsi

Re: [osol-discuss] building standalone modules

I would just add, if the module is not something that is going to be added to the ON source tree, to be sure to stick to the documented DDI. Using functions outside of that is at a 'do so at your own risk' type thing -- they aren't guaranteed to be there, work the same way, etc. in future updates

Re: [osol-discuss] nslookup not consulting /etc/hosts?

What does 'getent hosts tivo' show? nslookup has never consulted /etc/hosts, it is strictly a DNS query tool On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Stephen Green wrote: > I've just done a fresh install of snv_129, and I'm seeing a behavior that I > can't figure out. > > I'm using DHCP to get an addre

Re: [osol-discuss] MP3 player client

Have you considered submitting it to jucr so that it could eventually be put into /contrib? On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Darran Kartaschew wrote: > Just finished writing a GUI client for MP3 players that use MTP (and not UMS) > to upload/download files to/from a PC. > > Media Transfer Proto

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:46 AM, wrote: > >>Ghee Teo wrote: >>> So what is your 'supports' for doing the things the ways you are doing >>> that are supposed to be helpful to Solaris users to migrate/upgrade to >>> OpenSolaris. Have you considered also the hundreds of ISV for Solaris >>> will now t

Re: [osol-discuss] Ksplice equivalent?

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Brandon Barker wrote: > Brandon Barker > Phone: (607) 262-6009 > brandon.bar...@gmail.com > http://brandon.barker.googlepages.com/home > > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Alan > Coopersmith wrote: >> Or those that involve a change of the defined arguments to a fu

Re: [osol-discuss] java performance

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Jason King wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestions. I'm using u14. (Actually I think I'm using 1.7 >> at this moment, but normally 1.6.0u14.) We're moving to u14 in production

Re: [osol-discuss] java performance

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I'm using u14. (Actually I think I'm using 1.7 at > this moment, but normally 1.6.0u14.) We're moving to u14 in production, in > hopes of beginning to test G1. (We're going to be *very* conservative about > tha

Re: [osol-discuss] java performance

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote: > As far as I know the only build tool is Maven. I'm using the same versions. > It can't be ZFS, as I tried with everything on a ram disk. > > Yes, I see > > Jun 20 13:50:42 basel unix: [ID 954099 kern.info] NOTICE: IRQ18 is being > shared b

Re: [osol-discuss] No gdm login screen in OpenSolaris 2009.06

Try reinstalling the guest additions. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Ron Halstead wrote: > GDM is running, but no login screen. avahi-bridge-dsd is also running. This > may be because of the increase in the timeout from 30 to 60 seconds. Or, it > may be the dreaded "June 1 " syndrome, or the

Re: [osol-discuss] new release

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Jürgen Keil wrote: >> Does anybody know when the new release scheduled for >> 5/2009 will actually be released? > > I don't know; but the name was changed to opensolaris 2009.06 > so my guess is that it will be released at the end of june. Actually everyone I've t

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: > > It's not over. But if the rumors are correct, there are two movements in the > board of directors. One led by Schwartz who believes Sun should sell and the > other led by McNealy who doesn't. I'll side with McNealy for keeping Sun > inde

Re: [osol-discuss] libumem.so problem in Solaris 8

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Anandram wrote: > Hi All, > I am using sybase 12.5.3 on solaris 8. When i run > > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libumem.so > > and try running isql command, i am getting the following error: > > ld.so.1:isql : fatal : /usr/lib/libumem.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 >

Re: [osol-discuss] Enterprise-grade Directory Server

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Mykola Maslov wrote: > > Hi, > >        I work as linux/solaris sysadmin in a large enterprise. We have > Netscape Directory Server, way too old and outdated. Sometimes it crashes, >                   with no info in logfiles. > > > >                                

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Poor interactive performance under heavy system load

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > VM2.0? it's not the first time i've heard something like that, is > there any information about it? It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma :) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing l

Re: [osol-discuss] [perf-discuss] Memory leak somewhere, maybe in libc (libc_hwcap2.so.1 / SXCE b105 x64) ?

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Jason King wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: >> Hi! >> >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Bob Friesenhahn >> wrote: >> >>> Your 'top' program obviously has some sort of bug but o

[osol-discuss] Using alloca(3c) safely (relatively speaking)

I'm wondering if I can get some feedback on this to see if this would be a viable technique to use alloca(3c) safely. The reason for this is for passing data (and making sure it's freed) from a door server, and I'd like to avoid the complexity of creating another door server, passing the fd, and t

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Dave Miner wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Dave Miner wrote: >> >>> My opinion is that the GNU utilities should be modified, with >>> modifications fed back upstream, so that we get maximum leverage going >> >> The utilities in question do not support Linux spe

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:03:12 +0100 > Mika Borner wrote: >> We should not forget that Apple welcomes users with a BSD userland. Many >> developers also use Mac OS X as their preferred platform. And almost >> everybody seems quite happy with it..

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Brian Smith wrote: > Jason King wrote: >> As I think has been mentioned before, I seriously doubt if you talk to >> most any UNIX user they are one bit about GNU grep vs Solaris grep vs >> BSD grep (or gnu tar vs solaris tar vs bsd tar

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:56 AM, wrote: >> It would be better to go with the ATT AST tools >> (http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/). AST supports many of the >> BSD and GNU command line options missing in the native Solaris >> userland and conform to POSIX. > > If those tools are truly comp

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Test Farm Development Zones and Open Access

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jim Walker wrote: > Development Zones > > The OpenSolaris Test Farm virtual machine interface is ready for > use by OpenSolaris contributors. This interface allows users to > reserve whole root development zones where they can build and test > software prior to cont

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 31/10/2008, at 3:58 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: >>> >>> But shipping FF3 as default browser undermines efforts like this (in >>> your own distro

Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jim Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > > > > Hey! This sounds great. Sounds like I can take down my hungry Blade > > 2000 and Ultra 20 and rather work from a green Blade-Hundred to access > > your build servers (?). > > Electricity bills *a

Re: [osol-discuss] Simple Panels

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > I worked on the Sun Management Center project from 1999-2001. > > You would admit that on a public fora? *gd&r* > > -- > > Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group > ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dennis Clarke writes: > >> As for the driver ... there is nothing I can do with a closed driver. > > > > You (or anyone not tainted with knowledge of the closed > > implementation) can write or port an open one.

Re: [osol-discuss] kernel holding too much memory

On Jan 7, 2008 3:39 PM, Eric Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a system that generates large numbers of files in many directories and > the size of the kernel keeps growing until it's over 99% of physical memory > Kernel 120011-14 starts small on boot but after 2 weeks it crashes, "mdb -k

Re: [osol-discuss] need equivalent for some linux commands.

On Dec 26, 2007 3:58 AM, A.Belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > I am new to solaris, but my knowleges on linux ( debian ) is good, i need > equivalent for some linux commands. ( a summarize doc is welcome, I > downloaded one: Linux to Solaris from treklogic, but not complete enough, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Driver for broadcom 5787 NIC

On 10/16/07, S h i v <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16/10/2007, Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am looking at purchasing a laptop with > > > Broadcom 5787 Network chip set and > > > Realtek ALC 268 Audio. > > > > > > Is there

Re: [osol-discuss] Single sign on equivelent for OpenSolaris

On 8/23/07, Ché Kristo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am posting this to [i]discuss[/i] as it covers topics across a few > communities. > > I am wondering whether anyone has thought about the possibility of > OpenSolaris acting as a replacement for a Windows domain controller. > Typically the re

Re: [osol-discuss] Perl 6 on snv_55b x86

Interestingly, I saw someone have the exact same error messages while trying to link Oracle on a reasonably recent Nevada build (might want to check in database-discuss for details). Don't know if there is a connection, but just seems a bit odd. On 6/5/07, Rod Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sparc Dissassembler

On 5/9/07, Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jason, we offer a service to our partners that might help you. The EZQual Virtual Lab provides remote access to SPARC and x64 servers, complete with Solaris 10 OS and development environment. Have a look at http://partneradvantage.sun.com/partne

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sparc Dissassembler

On 5/2/07, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got a couple of sparcs (more actually, but two that run without difficulty): a Sun Blade 2000 running 5.11 snv_41, and a Sun Blade 100 running 5.9 Generic_122300-04; both have access to Studio 10 and Studio 11, as well as full develo

Re: [osol-discuss] Sparc Dissassembler

On 5/2/07, Mike Kupfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> "Jason" == Jason King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Unfortunately, I don't have access to Sparc machines outside of Jason> work, so sort of starting to manually assemble sparc instruct

[osol-discuss] Sparc Dissassembler

I have a prototype sparc disassembler I've put together available at http://www.madhack.com/~jason/dis_sparc.c There are still some things left to do (mostly implement support for most of the standard synthetic instructions), plus whatever shows up during testing. Unfortunately, I don't have ac

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fresh Install Problems

On 4/7/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 07/04/07, Andrew Pattison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Passwords on Solaris are not limited to 8 characters, but the default password hashing algorithm only looks at the first 8 characters, with the result that passwords which have the same f

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

On 2/20/07, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: UNIX admin wrote: >> On a personal workstation, you would expect >> pkgadd >> stall things in (say) /usr/bin where you can use them >> directly in your PATH. > > This will work for Sun and Sun packages, but will actually break for a

[osol-discuss] Re: [sparks-discuss] LDAP Enhancements

On 2/13/07, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:18:44AM -0600, Doug Leavitt wrote: > Can you explain what you mean by this? > > The anonymous credential level is defined as don't bind to the DS. > The Self-credential level is defined as bind to the DS with t

[osol-discuss] TV/FM Tuner Support in Solaris

Not sure if there's a specific place to ask this (if so, I'll move my questions there)... Looking at the HCL, I didn't see anything about TV/FM tuner card support in Solaris (or in the case of those integrated w/ a video card, explicit support for the tuner functionality). Was wondering if I

[osol-discuss] Re: New Community Proposal: Naming Services

I'd love to see this take place. I've been working on slowly migrating 2000+ servers to LDAP (where previously each system maintained its own /etc/passwd file), and having a few battle scars, would love to be able to interact w/ those that work on the LDAP client support to offer suggestions,