[osol-discuss] Re: Cannot play audio cd

2006-06-29 Thread peter murray
I have the same problem in b40 on a Sun v1100z.. JDS 4 Gnome 14.x It will mount cd-rom's with data on them... open folder and all... but when I put a music cd in the drive I get the error: "Sound Juicer could not find any CD-ROM drives to read." Arrg This is why I think JDS and gnusol

[osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-01-31 Thread peter murray
http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/ Would it not be cool if we could get google to use OpenSolaris instead of linux. Solaris has much better security and offers many features that Linux does not. End users should not care as long as the desktop looks nice and it wo

[osol-discuss] Solaris support for SpeedStep Pentium M, etc ?

2005-10-04 Thread peter murray
Does Solaris 10 or 11 support the speed step / power saving technologies for theses CPU's? Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: RE: [osol-discuss] Admin tools coming?

2005-09-01 Thread Peter . Murray
Yes. Their also needs to be more "user friendly" admin tools for the "casual" user like in Windows or Mac. When this happens adoption will become higher. Think of all the collage students who would like to use OpenSolaris but managing it is just to expensive (time). Get the collage/high school

[osol-discuss] Admin tools coming?

2005-09-01 Thread peter murray
Linux has a bunch of tools for admin of the system. i.e. YaST2, etc.. Are there any in OpenSolaris or S10 builds that are close to this? Many of us want to use OpenSolaris but do not want to become an SA to use it. i.e. setting up network cards, video, etc. How about a port of YaST now that it