Re: [osol-discuss] Push for Matlab on Solaris x86

2007-11-16 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Thu 11/15/07 at 23:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that does not work, just tell MathLab that you are going to go to Mathematica :-) It's not so much me but rather my users (I'm talking about a research university here) They already have years of built up Matlab programs and

Re: [osol-discuss] IA64laris, anyone ? (an RFC)

2007-11-12 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
I think this is a bit nuts, but if you really want to go down that path... You might want to look at Xen. The hypervisor has been ported to IA64 and Solaris has been ported to the hypervisor. There would still be a huge amount of work to do, but running Xen instead of bare metal might make the

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Thu 11/01/07 at 15:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While developing a proposal now is a positive thing to do, I suggest waiting until closer to when we actually need a decision (which would be the middle of next year) before we try to crystalise a veto like that. We may find our

Re: [osol-discuss] Write privileges in Sparse root zone

2007-07-20 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Fri 07/20/07 at 15:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I know that /usr directory is mounted as read-only in default in a sparse root zone. Is there no way to give specific users write privileges to /usr in a sparse root zone either using Solaris's role privileges or using sudo?

Re: [osol-discuss] Write privileges in Sparse root zone

2007-07-20 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Fri 07/20/07 at 10:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But is there a way to install zone with its own /usr that is not taken from globalzone right? Sure. That's a whole root zone. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592/6mhahuoor?l=ena=view

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Tue 05/15/07 at 17:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My larger point: There's a big difference between ABI breakage (something Linux does regularly, and you're absolutely right to criticize it for doing that--but that's OPPORTUNITY) and tweaking the default output of a utility that may be

Re: [osol-discuss] Spam mails...

2007-04-15 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Sat 04/14/07 at 19:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, gns wrote: Posting - Allow for members only Non-member postings - Should either get rejected or should go into a message queue and await the moderator's approval Are the spams inspite of the above !? Very

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: From Linux to OpenSolaris

2006-10-04 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Tue 10/03/06 at 02:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When you say that there is procedure to compile NON DEBUG. Does it mean that the distribution of Solaris Express Comunity Edition is DEBUG version? And likewise, the Solaris Express from SUN website is DEBUG version too? How slow

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: The FSF Website says not to use the CDDL

2006-09-28 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Thu 09/28/06 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas Linkert wrote: The question is: What can SUN do to put things straight? Because it desperately needs to get things straight. In terms of OSS not SUN is the authority, butr the FSF is. If that authority advises you not to use the

Re: [osol-discuss] The FSF Website says not to use the CDDL

2006-09-27 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Tue 09/26/06 at 22:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is fairly damning I think : http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses Clearly it dictates : Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) This is a free software license which is not a

Re: [osol-discuss] The FSF Website says not to use the CDDL

2006-09-27 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Wed 09/27/06 at 15:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given how much time and effort the FSF spends bitching about other licenses being incompatible with GPL, isn't it obvious that the GPL is buggy? Instead of modifying all the other Open Source licenses to work around the GPL's bugs,

Re: [osol-discuss] The FSF Website says not to use the CDDL

2006-09-27 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Wed 09/27/06 at 16:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nils Nieuwejaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed 09/27/06 at 15:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given how much time and effort the FSF spends bitching about other licenses being incompatible with GPL, isn't it obvious

[osol-discuss] BrandZ has integrated into the Solaris gate

2006-09-12 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
As of about 2AM (EDT) last night, BrandZ is in the mainline Solaris tree. Barring any hideously embarrassing disasters, it will be available in the snv_49 release. Thanks to everybody who has used and tested BrandZ as a pre-integration project, and for all the feedback you've sent in the past 10

Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL

2006-08-08 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Mon 08/07/06 at 17:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 August 2006 03:47 pm, Christof Pintaske wrote: CDDL is an OSI approved open source license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php). What other criteria are there to make an open source license a good open source

[osol-discuss] Announcement: BrandZ build 43 now available

2006-07-22 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
Greetings, It's been quite a while, but a new BrandZ build is now available. This build brings us into sync with nv43, fixes more than the usual number of bugs, and introduces our new installer. The new installer will continue to support tarballs, but we can finally install Linux zones directly

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Google Earth

2006-06-14 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Tue 06/13/06 at 23:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried it in BrandZ? Adam Why? Do you think BrandZ is going to have a serious supported roadmap into Solaris? Are you asking if BrandZ is going to be integrated into Solaris? If so, the answer is yes. If that's not

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
Yes, and it works. I don't have native OpenGL drivers on my desktop machine, so the performance is pretty terrible. I'll have to find a machine with an Nvidia card and see how it performs then. On Mon 06/12/06 at 17:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried it in BrandZ? Adam On

Re: [osol-discuss] feedback requested: IRC applet on home page

2006-06-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Tue 06/13/06 at 13:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion would be to use mozilla, or get a copy of an IRC client appropriate for your platform-- the better IRC clients can use an HTTP proxy to help you get out. Xchat can do this. It runs under Solaris or (ObPlug) BrandZ. Nils

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Wed 06/07/06 at 14:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Ingenthron wrote: Sara Dornsife wrote: How about Turn up your environment with AMPS? Seems to fly in the face of that whole green computing/low power thing the hardware guys have going on. :) But it's catchy... AMPS: This one

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-06-01 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Thu 06/01/06 at 09:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solaris is a better Linux than Linux ?Marc Andreessen You know what...that ticked me off. I love Sun but such viral marketing campaigns? Anyways, here is a response on that topic http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/55094/index.html

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris updates?

2006-05-25 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
The BrandZ DVD is not part of the standard Solaris release flow. There are no patches issued for it, and patches issued for Solaris should not be applied to it. BrandZ will be integrated into Nevada within the next few months, and will become a part of the standard Solaris release cycle. Having

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: where to start?

2006-05-22 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Mon 05/22/06 at 12:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does rather beg the question of what expectations we're building from a customer point of view with the update releases - clearly they're not just bug fixes anymore. And with the possibility, as Glenn mentioned, of Solaris 11 not

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Having to subscribe to post considered obnoxious (Re: [zfs-discuss] OSOL mailing list issues)

2006-05-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Fri 05/12/06 at 13:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:32:43PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: Also, I'm getting tired of replying to some e-mail only to get a post awaits moderator approval reply. I understand why we do that for non-subscribers. And I guess

Re: [osol-discuss] Infrastructure clarification request, 4/13

2006-04-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Thu 04/13/06 at 09:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a couple of requests I need to get more specific instructions on. Specifically, unassociated mailing lists are expensive for support (because we hadn't intended to support any other than the top-level ones from the

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: Relax cstyle limit of 80 characters in OS/Net...

2006-04-01 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Sat 04/01/06 at 17:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By relaxing the limit to 132 characters you are *forcing* everybody to switch to 132 wide xterms. You are wrong. 1. Many of those tools support horizontal scrolling and continuation. 2. I did not say to

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: solaris-internals

2006-03-17 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Thu 03/16/06 at 17:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things were setup that way before projects existed and everything had to be a community. The Nevada community (which is misnamed to begin with), should become a ONNV project of an ON community which could also host your internals

[osol-discuss] Community proposal: solaris-internals

2006-03-16 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
We would like to propose a solaris-internals community. The initial leaders would be Jonathan Chew, Eric Lowe, Eric Saxe, and me. We hope to expand this list quickly, with engineers from inside of Sun and from the community. There are quite a few communities dedicated to specific parts of

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: solaris-internals

2006-03-16 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Thu 03/16/06 at 11:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nils Nieuwejaar wrote: The solaris-internals community would host one or more discussion groups. Initially there would just be a single group: solaris-internals. If the traffic warranted, we could create more specific discussions within

Re: [osol-discuss] Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-01 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Wed 03/01/06 at 11:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Rushmore wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:02 -0500, Laura Ramsey wrote: Just this week, Linux Format magazine has asked to bundle DVDs of either an OpenSolaris build or an OpenSolaris Distribution for a promotion with their upcoming

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR/onnv status

2006-02-28 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Tue 02/28/06 at 10:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, I should be able to deliver it today. Though, while you're all waiting eagerly in anticipation, might I suggest reading this: http://whacked.net/2006/02/28/when-a-nightly-that-closes-on-a-build-date-isnt-a-build/ to explain why a

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR/onnv status

2006-02-28 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Tue 02/28/06 at 11:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, we could base our releases on the OpenSolaris source tree rather than on the final snapshot tree. To make that work, we would just need you to give us a pointer to the full teamware workspace you base your release on. If

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building 20060208

2006-02-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Mon 02/13/06 at 07:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J?rgen Keil wrote: Btw. what happened to the A. Changes since MMDD part of the releasenotes file? In previous opensolaris source releases it contained a hint on the corresponding Solaris Nevada build, for the source drop. Like this:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building 20060208

2006-02-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Mon 02/13/06 at 08:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nils, We do intend to still keep delivering builds synchronised with build-close dates. I just felt that we could increase the frequency of deliveries from every 2 weeks to every week. Sounds good. Right now you have to do a

[osol-discuss] Re: SVOSUG - Tues. Dec. 20, BrandZ (and annual potluck)

2005-12-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
Will the presentation be available on line for those of us who can't be there? I'm sure there will be a lot of interest in this. Yes. I'll put the slides up on the BrandZ community site. Oh, did I mention? We just went live about 15 minutes ago. Please visit us here:

[osol-discuss] The BrandZ community site has arrived

2005-12-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
Welcome to the BrandZ Community! Today we are opening the Branded Zones (BrandZ) community and starting to move the BrandZ development to opensolaris.org. You can find the community at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz There is a new brandz-discuss forum available at:

[osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-12-05 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
- a verification that the proposed community's leads and the Zones community leads were not able to share the Zones community with the union of those sets of leads, and While it would be possible for BrandZ and Zones to share a single community, the amount of overlap would likely be fairly

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-12-05 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Mon 12/05/05 at 14:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Al and Nils. Now that some consensus has been reached, the BrandZ community will be created. Community leads can make the decision to make the community visible when their content is ready. monty_burns Excellent.

[osol-discuss] Re: New forum proposal/wish

2005-11-29 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
Hi There. What about a new forum regardig the Redhat linux binary execution in solaris zone feature, which are realeased very soon according to Sun ? The community will be coming very soon. The timeout on the naming proposal expired over the weekend, so hopefully we'll have a 'brandz'

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Containers for Linux Applications

2005-11-29 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
is there a solaris containers for linux apps (SCLA?) thread/forum/whatever here somewhere? Not yet, but the timeout on the naming proposal expired over the weekend, so hopefully there will be a community within a few days. You can find the naming discussion archived on opensolaris.org:

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: New Community Request

2005-11-20 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
It appears that BrandX as a name is not going to fly as somebody already has that name trademarked. We have an alternative name in mind, and I'm told the lawyers are doing their lawyerly stuff with it now. We have gotten all the sign-offs we need to go with the new name: BrandZ. This is

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: New Community Request

2005-11-09 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
I think it makes sense to create this as a top-level community now, and then to move it into an overall Virtualization meta-community (or whatever) along with Zones and Xen if/when that capability exists. It appears that BrandX as a name is not going to fly as somebody already has that name

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Mon 11/07/05 at 21:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 07 Nov 2005 at 11:57AM, Adam Leventhal wrote: Dan, I think the type of discussion and interest around BrandX is likely to be orthogonal to that of Zones. Without completely spoiling the surprise, BrandX hopes to publish

[osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-04 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
to support Tim's request for a community to discuss the creation and support of non-Solaris zones. Since the framework to support this will be called BrandX, I suggest that the community also be called BrandX. Nils Nieuwejaar, Solaris Kernel Development This message posted from opensolaris.org