Is anyone taking any interest in OpenSolaris' power management and carbon
emissions?
If not this would be a matter to take to the press, they would be interested to
learn about Sun's commitment to controlling IT hardware impact on global
climate.
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I just run a simple test comparison on a dual Opteron 275 system (dual core
with frequency scaling AMD PowerNow!)
1) OpenSolaris build 128: idle 200-220 Watts, browsing the Internet with
firefox 200-220Watts
2) Fedora 12: idle 75Watts, Browsing the Internet 110-120Watts, compiling the
kernel
Is it just me or the OpenSolaris site is hard to search and browse through?
For example, I am looking for information on Brandz, left navigation pane has
nothing. Run a search for brandz in the search field above, and I find a number
of disconnected finds, hard to tell if they are relevant to
Title:
Opensolaris releases unsecure by default, or:
Why are Opensolaris stable 2009.06 users forced to
pay for security updates?
If it were a company of fat cats I would have a problem too, but Sun, unlike
its many competitors, has instead contributed a great deal to the community
without
Something in xwiki also often crashes my IE7 and NO I cannot upgrade because I
have a corporate build on my laptop.
I adopted xwiki too for my personal wiki long time ago and cursed the time
since. Extremely heavy on Java, extremely convoluted code. Deisgned for
technical masturbation, not
[...]
my own *nix machine for a couple of years. I
regularly build machines from parts and an assortment
of corpses found in the workshop. I'm familiar with
OS's and hardware from user level right down to the
bare metal. But I don't do this every day, and I have
[...]
I have a few tips:
1)
Do not bother if you have a sparc workstation.
Even if you had a bootable DVD, Xorg, the only available X server, will not
support your Sun graphic card.
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For years I have been using Linux, first RedHat, then Fedora. I tried other
distributions, but they are the same thing, only with a messier configuration
from my perspective. I have grown to hate Linux. Too many components are
tightly linked to each other requiring to update most if not all of
What build of OpenSolaris are you running? Can't
The latest. 126, I will give a go to 127 then I will have to free the disk
space.
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Any progress on setting up the project?
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Jensen Lee wrote:
Certainly I want to keep using my Sun Blade. Will
Sun next commercial release of Solaris at least
support the legacy 3D Labs cards?
Because like every other computer company in the
world, including Sun for
the past 25 years, hardware is not supported forever
and at some
Windows 7: Requires at least 1Ghz CPU, 1 GB RAM,
MacOS Snow Leopard: only supports Intel Macs - no
WinXP? That is hardly the latest Windows - I doubt
that machine runs Vista
or Windows 7. You'll be able to run Solaris 10 for
many years to come on
your workstation - that would be
Who said anything about software patents? Copyright
contract
law are enforceable in Europe, but frankly, European
law is irrelevant,
since the contract is between two US-based companies,
and is thus
governed by US law, and would result in lawsuits in
US court if we
decided to break it.
Sun's been selling ATI cards for SPARC workstations
for a while,
the XVR-100 (PCI) and XVR-300 (PCI-E) - both of which
are supported
under OpenSolaris Xorg - sales are not exciting in
the least.
Is this perhaps because they are 2D and too expensive for what they offer?
Developing new
Frankly, it's a better idea to see if we (or some
other helpful soul)
can implement support for the various cards into Xorg
(which comes with
t's own challenges, but is a more sure bet).
Thank you, we are beginning to be constructive here, better than a NO NO
So what it the plan? Who is
I doubt you'll find any vendor who'll promise the
video card you buy today
will be supported in new OS versions coming out ten
years from now.
True, but as a consumer I have a choice to buy the video card that has open
drivers, at least for x86.
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It is a shame that Sun does not support XVR-500, XVR-1000, Expert 3D and
several other graphic cards on OpenSolaris because of copyright/NDA/patent
issues.
I think that Sun should make an effort to liase with 3D Labs to open their
drivers source to allow for implementation into OpenSolaris.
Has anybody (Sun) actually asked 3D Labs to open their graphic cards drivers
source? Because 3D Labs are no longer in the business of producing graphic
cards, and I do not see why they would not do that if asked.
If they did it would only make good publicity to their name.
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I understand that even though Sun posted binary drivers for OpenSolaris, Xorg
will not work with them and Xsun is not bundled with it.
To reply to those who suggested OpenBSD, that is out of topic, I have Sun
because I want to run Solaris, if I wanted openBSD I would have had a cheap
intel
I posted a message to ziiLabs' customer support which is the new company formed
from 3DLabs.
Please join me in inondating ziiLabs with requests to open the drivers for Sun
frambuffer cards following this link:
http://www.ziilabs.com/aboutus/contactgeneral.aspx
The power of the Internet
1) Sorry for the multiple posts, I recevied a server error each time.
2) Posting here a private reply, please reply to the forum not by eMail:
Sun has never supported any piece of hardware forever - all of
them eventually have support dropped. sun4c support was dropped
from Solaris 8, sun4d
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