Re: [osol-discuss] Re: better Solaris Nevada scedule needed

2006-12-06 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Wes Williams wrote: In addition to the above request for build number identified on Solaris Express download page, I'd really like to be able to subscribe to a Solaris Express email list that notifies subscribers when the new Solaris Express build is posted and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sparc Ultra vs AMD Opteron...

2006-10-19 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: Shao Wu wrote: For persnal use, I would suggest to go with AMD -- you can swap the processor at a later time for a faster cpu or for quart-core chips without replacing the machine. Just make sure your machine is using AM2 socket (AMD ma

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: HPC Developer

2006-10-10 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Brad Lewis wrote: This discussion seems to have run it's course. I count 13 positive responses to my initial proposal and 0 negative. Can I get a CAB approval? If it's not good enough for the CAB people than drop me a note, I can provide space and bandwidth for

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: DMA Memory Infrastructure project

2006-09-13 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Eric Lowe wrote: I propose a virtual memory project, DMA Memory Infrastructure (DMI for short). This project will provide infrastructure to: - Allocate physical memory in contiguous [1], large page [1], or small page-size chunks within device address constraints

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-01 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Alan DuBoff wrote: This is merely to say I think we need to have some type of standards base, one that can try to align these different distributions with Solaris in a way that will make their OpenSolaris distribution complimentary to Solaris and allow the user

Re: [osol-discuss] Forcing Solaris to boot 32-bit

2006-06-18 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jun 18, 2006, at 3:46 PM, UNIX admin wrote: I don't know where I would rightly ask this, so I decided to stick it into the general discussion. I have an Opteron system, which is of course 64-bit. But I also have a qlogic ISP2100 HBA, for which only 32-bit driver is available on the i8

[osol-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-04 Thread Jasse Jansson
On May 4, 2006, at 9:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also no safe way to remove the "[XXX]" stuff. I've asked around on IRC and the common warning is that this will break "Subject:"- lines in non-ASCII encodings. Please simply leave the tags alone - IMO all the discussion turns

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community/Project Proposals Update: 4/19/06

2006-04-20 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Apr 20, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Dev Mazumdar wrote: Hi Jim, How about the audio newsgroup I had proposed a while back?. What about expanding the games group to cover audio and other computer aided leisure related activities too ??? Also I'd request pruning a bunch of newsgroups like some if th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-19 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Apr 19, 2006, at 7:18 AM, Stephen Hahn wrote: Given the circular nature of this particular proposal, I will at this point suggest that we either - repurpose opensolaris-code Yeah, go for this one, the name is pretty good. Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle The axioms

Re: [osol-discuss] technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-11 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Apr 11, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Eric Lowe wrote: Al Hopper wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Eric Lowe wrote: Peter Buckingham wrote: There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely intere

Re: [osol-discuss] Muskoka project proposal

2006-03-27 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:39 PM, Eric Lowe wrote: The Muskoka project is a collaborative technical bulletin board for contributors to post and archive any technical content which otherwise does not have a logical home on OpenSolaris.org. Currently, this content lives mostly in blog-space or on

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express 3/06 is now available for download.

2006-03-18 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Mar 18, 2006, at 1:01 PM, ken mays wrote: Solaris 03/06 is based on Nevada_b33. Ref: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2183/6n4g726uc?a=view Note: - You need NV_b34 for JDS GNOME 2.14 - You need NV_b36 for the latest ZFS patches sxcr-b35 has been available for about 12 hours, but some

Re: [osol-discuss] Message "amd64 kernel needs to detect AMD Opteron erratum 131"

2006-03-17 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Phil Plouffe wrote: Hi, I just got a new machine with 2 processors Dual-core(AMD Opteron 270) and I installed the SXCR build 34 on it. When it boots I have the following error message: -- WARNING: BIOS microcode patch for AMD Athlon(tm) 64/Opteron(tm)

Re: [osol-discuss] Replacement name for Band of Brothers

2006-03-17 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Sean Sprague wrote: Hello all, As Dennis suggested, "Band of Brothers" is not a suitable name for the DVD containing BeleniX, Nexenta and SchilliX; and that a replacement name should be sought. Well here's the thread, and a couple of kickoffs that my brain

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building the kernel with Studio 11 supported?

2006-03-06 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Felix Schulte wrote: On 3/6/06, Michael Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's recommended that you use Studio 10; perhaps you should try that first. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/ We only have Studio 11 installed as it is the only "

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris & GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jan 31, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Paul Jakma wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, UNIX admin wrote: This is what I am referring to, among other things: "7. License Compatibility. When you release a work based on the Program, you may include your own terms covering added parts for which you have, or can

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: Games

2006-01-15 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jan 15, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Brendan Gregg wrote: G'Day Folks, G'Day yourself. I'd like to suggest creating a Games community, for a couple of reasons: 1. To list available Games for OpenSolaris, to provide website links and installation instructions. Imagine games such as rogue, netha

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More questions.

2005-11-27 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Nov 27, 2005, at 11:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What are the resource requirements for all this wonderful Solaris 10 software to work and perform reasonably well? Is it all available for x86 systems? Does it require a 64-bit dual or quad processor system, 4 GB of RAM and a 200 GB H

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sata support

2005-09-26 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Sep 26, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Jürgen Keil wrote: So, the question is: Is solaris express not able to access sata drives? How can I go about getting this to work? AFAIK, you must configure the SATA controller to emulate an old (P)ATA controller; then the Solaris ata driver (which probably kno

Re: [osol-discuss] New community proposal: Dynamic Linking

2005-08-30 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:28 AM, Rod Evans wrote: I'd like to propose the creation of a new community that focuses on Dynamic Linking. Primarily, this would discuss issues regarding the runtime linker (ld.so.1(1)), and link-editor (ld(1)). However, having supported these utilities for some time n

Re: [osol-discuss] GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Aug 19, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Robert W. Fuller wrote: Alright, I wonder about this myself as well. I read through all the threads discussing this issue at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa? forumID=13. I feel compelled to make a few comments and suggestions: 1. Instead of rampa

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-21 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 7/21/05, Darren Kenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Open Solaris is not aimed at just system admins - it's being targeted at the desktop user, more so now than ever - so live with it, you are going to have to accept that some people simply d

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 21, 2005, at 12:33 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 7/20/05, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and your sanity as well because it will duplicate many of packages already part of /usr or /usr/sfw, under /opt/csw. Which is a bad thing why? (Please don't say space.) Ok, I'll bi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-20 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 20, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Darren J Moffat wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:45, Jasse Jansson wrote: On Jul 20, 2005, at 10:26 PM, UNIX admin wrote: 1. you patch the source code if necessary Is there a 'recommended' format for patches in the Solaris environment?

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-20 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 20, 2005, at 10:26 PM, UNIX admin wrote: 1. you patch the source code if necessary Is there a 'recommended' format for patches in the Solaris environment? Is this the correct commands to create a patch: diff -u old_file new_file and to apply the patch: patch -i patch_file

Re: [osol-discuss] separation of forum and mailing list

2005-07-19 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 19, 2005, at 8:45 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: A lot of the traffic is in opensolaris-discuss. Would it make sense to try to move some of the traffic to topic-specific lists? +100 The traffic would decrease somewhat if people could resist to crosspost to both discuss and the specific lis

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express b15, Shillix, and OpenSolaris support

2005-07-17 Thread Jasse Jansson
Hi Ken... On Jul 17, 2005, at 5:30 PM, ken mays wrote: This is to also add the Comunity build (different links??) on NV-b18 of Solaris Express: x86 Platform - Solaris Express - Community Release Solaris Express Build 18, CD 1, English sol-nv-b18-x86-v1-iso.zip 280.74 MB Solaris Express Build

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 7/15/05, Jasse Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When someone has figured out how to the initial 'make' stage, then each distro-maker just has to fill in his part. This requires a central repository for these makefi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 16, 2005, at 12:47 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jasse Jansson wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 6:18 PM, James Dickens wrote: I guess what we need now is to hear from others besides Joerg, and at this point we aren't ready for technical discussion, we need to bu

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 15, 2005, at 6:18 PM, James Dickens wrote: I guess what we need now is to hear from others besides Joerg, and at this point we aren't ready for technical discussion, we need to build a community so we don't just have a community of 1 or two, we need others opinions as well and hope

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1: a small proposal

2005-07-14 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 14, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Blastwave has all of their own set of libraries, and Sun has many of their own in /usr/sfw even, Sunfreeware has their own, pkgsrc has theirs, and I imagine that gentoo/portaris has their own also.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Laptops Article

2005-07-14 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Conor Svensson wrote: Would any of these laptops turning up be Acer Aspire 5020 series? (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6293571) I found this line a bit down in the text: Tested on Acer Aspire 5024wlmi (Note: v. similar spec to Acer F

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting the source...

2005-06-29 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jun 29, 2005, at 1:04 AM, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, Okay, I know JDS hasn't been released as part of the OpenSolaris project. However, as a Solaris user, I obviously have the right to obtain certain parts of it because of the license they're under, such as Metacity, etc. Where can I get

Re: [osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-06-29 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Eric Schrock wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Brian Y Wong wrote: there was a short discussion last night about bite-size bugs in the OpenSolaris User Group. I took a look, and many of these bugs already have proposed fixes. Why not just apply