Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-05 Thread Marty Scholes
2010/8/3 Günther a...@hfg-gmuend.de: and the winner is...      IllumOs Unfortunately. Good project, dreadful name. We live in an age where the success of a project seems to be proportional to how disconnected the name appears to be from the product / service. Look at the big companies

Re: [osol-discuss] ISCSI SAN......

2010-07-13 Thread Marty Scholes
But the problem is all LUNs are visible to all hosts which i dont want. I want to restirct LUNs to particular host only.. This is purely on LAN, I have no FC HBA Installed in my scenario. I am stumbling through the same for PXE-gPXE-iSCSI boot with host-specific LUNs. There are several

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris/Opensolaris, for a Server, or Desktop?

2010-07-06 Thread Marty Scholes
Yes to both. I run OSol on a home, non production server. It performs many server tasks: file sharing via CIFS, iSCSI storage (including various boot images for laptops), time server, VirtualBox server, backup server, media server for the Tivo and, most importantly, a desktop server via Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] newbie need HELP just an update for all

2010-04-10 Thread Marty Scholes
choochoo wrote: I am being critical here but I'm not angry. Just not really impressed. several years ago Sun was kind of promoting Open Solaris as being a viable alternative to MS Windows. But they didn't really inform people that it really was not user friendly, plug and play and for the

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle commits to SPARC + SOLARIS!!!

2009-09-10 Thread Marty Scholes
Sure do hope they look at releasing a mini-me entry-level SPARC box (T3120 where art thou??), i.e. affordable. If folk such as myself learning the ropes want to play with SPARC the only practical options are some used thing, or very expensive new units. You can do that now on the used