Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] link aggregating

2009-10-12 Thread Binu Jose Philip
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Arun Tomar wrote: > Dear all, > > I've a zfs box for storage and gigabit network. the max data transfer > speed that i could get is may be between 100-125 mbps need to check > that. > > I wanted to achieve close to 300mbps of data transfer speed. > > I remembered t

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] practical zfs implementation problem

2009-10-12 Thread Binu Jose Philip
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Arun Tomar wrote: > Dear all, > > I really love zfs. > > What i want to do is to create a zfs based storage solution say 15 TB > from commodity hardware. > > What I have: > software: opensolaris 0906, belenix and solaris 10. > > hardware: 2 normal machines == core2

Re: [osol-discuss] Python on Solaris Lacking Multiprocessing Support?

2009-08-02 Thread Philip Semanchuk
Hi all, FYI there are two Python IPC extension modules available that you might find useful. They're both less fancy than the multiprocessing module because they expose lower level primitives. There's a module for POSIX IPC: http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc/ And another fo

Re: [osol-discuss] in.ftpd does not show ls output if connected with browser

2009-06-22 Thread Philip Torchinsky
Steve, thank you for the advise! I resolved the problem. I had language setting in /etc/default/init: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 I changed it to LANG=en_US.UTF-8 after that everything works fine. Philip Steve wrote: Philip Torchinsky wrote: I successfully configured ftp service on OpenSolaris

[osol-discuss] in.ftpd does not show ls output if connected with browser

2009-06-17 Thread Philip Torchinsky
I successfully configured ftp service on OpenSolaris (snv_111b x86). It runs, I can connect to an ftp server, and if I connect with command-line ftp client, everything works fine. However, if I connect with browser using URL ftp://u...@my.ftp.server ftp server does not show me directory conten

Re: [osol-discuss] postfix package?

2009-06-03 Thread Philip Torchinsky
Postfix package is available from the repository of blastwave: pkg set-publisher -O http://blastwave.network.com:1 blastwave pkg install IPSpostfix -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@

Re: [osol-discuss] Linux/FreeBSD/(Open)Solaris survey paper

2008-12-25 Thread Philip Torchinsky
/)? There is a question from one guy at developers.sun.ru forum about possibility to use the technology. Philip ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Linux/FreeBSD/(Open)Solaris survey paper

2008-09-19 Thread Philip Torchinsky
Stefan, yes, this is close to what I am looking for, but I try to read this deeply. Thank you for the link, I lost it a year ago! If anybody has more links to point me on, please, let me know! Philip Stefan Varga: > >> >> I can find data spread across many books and paper

Re: [osol-discuss] Linux/FreeBSD/(Open)Solaris survey paper

2008-09-19 Thread Philip Torchinsky
Jim, yes, you are right - it's what I usually do :) Let's hope to find more articles - Max is widely known as Solaris very deep diver; I need the view from other side as well... Thank you! Philip Jim Grisanzio: > Philip Torchinsky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Many

Re: [osol-discuss] Linux/FreeBSD/(Open)Solaris survey paper

2008-09-19 Thread Philip Torchinsky
start for those who would like to make their own research. I am looking for the result of the research, because it seems to be a big amount of work, and just repeating it may be huge time wasting... Philip Jan Friedel : > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:18:44PM +0400, Philip Torchinsky wr

[osol-discuss] Linux/FreeBSD/(Open)Solaris survey paper

2008-09-19 Thread Philip Torchinsky
X examples would be benefit as well)? I can find data spread across many books and papers (like Solaris Internals for Solaris and some unknown to me yet for Linux and FreeBSD) but I believe there can be a paper with all the info gathered and analyzed already. Can you advise me one? Philip

[osol-discuss] Java Web Console in OpenSolaris 2008.05

2008-08-27 Thread Philip Torchinsky
$ pfexec pkgadd -d . SUNWmcon $ pfexec pkgadd -d . SUNWmcos $ pfexec pkgadd -d . SUNWmcosx Thank you! Philip ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-07 Thread Philip Brown
> This isn't good. Hopefully Dennis will drop a comment > our way soon. > > It'll be a sad day for everyone if blastwave closes > permanently. Dennis has apparently indicated, that he is no longer interested in 'hosting' the CSW packaging efforts for solaris, if he cannot dictate various things

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE 1/08 features

2008-01-06 Thread Philip Brown
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6521472 according to the above link zfs install is not possible at this stage and the last update on this was the 25th Oct. ian, thanks for flag days link, it's helping me peel another layer of onionSolaris rather than just making me cry. =) Thi

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE 1/08 features

2008-01-05 Thread Philip Brown
will this have zfs boot & install to zfs root? thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] B75: Running Windows in a Solaris xVM Host

2007-12-03 Thread Philip Brown
Hello, Just looking for a high level response on xVm and it's performance. With OpenSolaris now being able to run Windows as a host what is the performance like. I ask, as I do not have the required (core2duo) chip to test myself. I happily run OpenSolaris for 95% of me needs but need Windows

[osol-discuss] Cannot get RSA webagent to work under Solaris 10 08/07

2007-11-08 Thread Philip
Neither the Sun Java web server version nor the Apache version of RSA's web agent client (5.3) seems to work under Solaris 10 08/07. Both versions 5.2 and 5.3 of the Sun Java web server RSA webagent work on a pre-08/07 kernel, however. Under 08/07, both agents work from the command line (acetes

[osol-discuss] Re: How do I dual boot my machine?

2007-04-08 Thread Philip Brown
I have xp on a slave drive and found I had to put the map directive in /boot/grub/menu.lst ala #-- EDITED BY USER - OK TO EDIT -- title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd1,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 #-END BOOTADM This mes

[osol-discuss] solaris 10 installation failure

2007-03-28 Thread Philip Binu
solaris 10 failing on vista business, T60 2623p3u model number, created the iso image i'm ok upto the installing part, then i get this message no disk found , i have created partition with 20 gig, ntfs and FAT. well the this message disk error, this is really frustrating, anyone please HELP!

[osol-discuss] Re: ATA CompactFlash support

2007-02-17 Thread Philip Brown
has there been any movement on this in the last 11 months. thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] the grubby looking install process

2006-07-15 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:14:58PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > Yes; the install program should make more sense out of the keyboard > input; it doesn't do so now. Even with terminal properly set, it can't > use Fx keys on anything other than a Sun type terminal (not xterm, > usually) e

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-15 Thread Philip Brown
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 02:50:12PM -0400, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > > > Even the file itself describes itself to the user as, > > > > Dthello*string: Welcome to the GNOME Desktop Environment > > This file has been in use (under changeable names) since GNOME 1.4, > 5 years ago, so it w

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-15 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:01:00AM -0400, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > > Some default X resources are set in /usr/dt/config/Xinitrc.jds. > These ones seem to be related to dtterm: > > *XmText*background: seashell > *XmTextField*background: seashell > *background:#AE00B200C300 Hmm. This sound

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Cdrecord 2.01.01a11 in the latest snv ?

2006-07-15 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:01:20PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Dennis Clarke writes: > > The software package at Blastwave ( built by you ) is built on Solaris 8 > > such that we can rest assured that it runs as expected for users with > > Solaris 8 and 9 and 10 and Nevada. If the package doe

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Cdrecord 2.01.01a11 in the latest snv ?

2006-07-15 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:19:08PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > The original reason for /usr/sfw was to prevent users from wandering > into External (extremely volatile; not necessarily compatible from > patch to patch) software. But with GNOME integrating into /usr/bin as > External and with

[osol-discuss] Re: RE: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal :: JDS

2006-07-13 Thread Philip
could be good idea. I personally think that Sun could push a bit more on desktop market. JDS is very good for many customers as it is simple, reliable and secure. We've got customers using JDS from the first release on linux (2003) and they're very happy and satisfy. I know that there're many ot

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-20 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:26:51PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:45 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:00:28PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:46 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > > - ca

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:00:28PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:46 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > - can I request a specific version? > > yes Thats not exactly true. Only if the archive happens to keep old versions, or if its a "gcc3" vs "gcc4" thing, where people are e

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:47:20PM -0700, William D. Hathaway wrote: > One thing I'd like to see in Blastwave standards is the separation of bin/lib > from config/data. While I was a massive fan of CSW on Solaris 9, when trying > to build S10+ machines with large numbers of zones, it seemed I li

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:47:21PM -0700, Hugh McIntyre wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > >>> While blastwave does it, I can't use blastwave as a part of some > >>> other solution. And that's the problem with all the package > >>> management s

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Google Earth

2006-06-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:44:18AM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > no, it's still the java programmers fault > > Truth be told, I don't care whose fault it is, all I know is that it's >SLOW and that the language is complicated even for the simplest of things. It's not a scripting language. Compared

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is newfs and ufsdump so much slower in single user mode than in run level 3?

2006-06-18 Thread Philip Brown
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:16:38AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps we need to understand which OS release this is exactlyu and > how single user boot is done. > > (If it boots from a pre-S10 network image, SCSI options will be set > to "crawl") Also, certain boot image versions, had net

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Google Earth

2006-06-18 Thread Philip Brown
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:28:20AM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > Nice troll, but stuff like Looking Glass proves it's > > an unfounded > > bias. Bad programming makes apps slow. > > It's not a troll, it's a fact Sun marketing doesn't like to hear! Just run a > Java program in a web browser, then

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-17 Thread Philip Brown
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 04:05:47PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > ... > While blastwave does it, I can't use blastwave as a part of some > other solution. And that's the problem with all the package > management systems - they're fine, as long as you use them in > complete isolation. > > The underl

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-17 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:16:04PM -1000, David J. Orman wrote: >Sun just needs to pick something, stand behind it, and give it a bit of support (make sure things are up to Sun's high stability/etc standards.) Tee Hee... We've learned one or two things from sun's original companion cd distribut

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-17 Thread Philip Brown
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 04:17:42PM -0700, Hugh McIntyre wrote: > Potentially what would help here is to integrate a stub pkg-get command > into the base install, but out of the box this would just be a wrapper, > not linked to any specific back-end repository. > great idea. and actually, alread

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: IPsec Tunnel Reform

2006-06-16 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:51:31AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > > actually, it isnt all that great in non-tunnel mode either. We couldnt get > > it working between solaris 9 and windows xp servers, fyi. > > > > I'd like to see THAT be 100%

Re: [osol-discuss] Any IDE controller Solaris 10 driver?

2006-06-15 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 03:15:21PM -0700, YJ Fan wrote: > Is there any IDE controller driver availble in Solaris 10? yes. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: IPsec Tunnel Reform

2006-06-15 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:53:01PM -0700, Dan McDonald wrote: > Hello OpenSolaris folks! > > I would like to open an OpenSolaris project - IPsec Tunnel Reform. Please > read on if you'd like to learn more about the project. > > The IPsec implementation in Solaris interoperates very well with ot

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-09 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:54:50PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:47:27PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > > http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/vgatext.html > > > > > > has

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-05 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:01:42PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 16:54 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:52:48PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > > sound like debdelta which has been around for years is what you are > > >

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-05 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:19:50PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > >http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/vgatext.html > > > > >fstobdf(1) should be able to convert to BDF fonts if one is running a >fontserver. Thank you! I've

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-04 Thread Philip Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:47:27PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/vgatext.html > > has a link to a tarball I hastily threw together of the resulting code. PS: there are two points of interest in my code: 1. it theoretically allows use of other fo

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-04 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:24:11PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > ... > I'm too lazy to see if vgatext and ALL associated bits, are now CDDL'd. > If someone will confirm this (and email my regular address off-list to > prod me) > then perhaps I will remember to contribute

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:12:07PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 16:59 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > for starters, the general community doesnt need to be able to > > "re-upload to unstable". Only maintainers do :-) > > I'm sorry, but

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Brown
(forgive me for changing the order of quotes a bit, but I think it makes sense, and still keeps original intentions...) On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:52:48PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 16:33 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > Nothing says that opensolaris has to hav

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:52:48PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > Switching gears a bit, though: last I heard, debian does not have a binary > > patching system. just a source code packaging system, that primarily exists > > as > > "original tarball + set of patches", as you noted. > > sound like

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - "Simplified Solaris Device Naming" (a.k.a Devname)

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > I think it is worse on Solaris because it looks like you can work it out > and it appears to be predictable :-( well, at least once you have a particular box's naming scheme worked out, it is reasonably predictable. "eri1" will AL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:19:23PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > The problem I'm seeing is that SVR4 packaging system wasn't developed to > inter-operate with upstream tarballs and patching system is not an easy > one to enable. At least it is not as easy as with Debian or RPM. That > means patches

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

2006-06-02 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:42:12AM -0700, Nicolas Linkert wrote: > What do companies want? Most of them want a product: > - that's independent from a vendor - that's why many choose Debian - and not > Red Hat or SUSE - > - they need a business desktop / they need a reliable server > - they want p

Re: [osol-discuss] What would it take to run Solaris x86 on a SunPCi card?

2006-06-01 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:28:53PM -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > What would be needed in the way of additional drivers, boot support, etc to > make > that happen? Is sufficient info available from publically available > OpenSolaris code, > etc? you shouldnt need any extra drivers, etc, et

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

2006-06-01 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:19:22AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote: > Agreed, although I have some concern about the marketing aspects. Keep on > marketing to the converted, but I think the biggest challenge for Sun's > marketroids is converting the uninitiated, i.e., creating more Sun/Solaris > brand awar

Re: [osol-discuss] Lightweight ZFS NAS requirements?

2006-05-31 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:26:13AM -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > Hi. I've been thinking about building a SOHO NAS project using ZFS as > some others have suggested doing but I'm curious how lightweight I can make > Solaris (from a processor, memory, and install disk space) perspective and > still have

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-27 Thread Philip Brown
bahahaha Im reviewing changes to vgatext since my hacks, and was amused to find the following: if (happyface_boot == 0) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Virtual Console

2006-05-25 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:42:59AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > In the case that actually replaced the console driver, the VT support was > described by the project team as little used and unnecessary: > > c) "VT" support. [...] > mechanisms. These users can either use utilit

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-25 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:36:49PM +0800, Riny Qian wrote: > > sure, if you're willing to recompile the vgatext driver. ;) > > > > Then you can also change the console window size from 25x80 to others. > This seems a good opensolaris project :-) I'm too lazy to see if vgatext and ALL associated

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

2006-05-11 Thread Philip Brown
One thing that I dont see mentioned in this thread, that is semi-related: it would be nice to keep the [] tags, BUT, have intelligent mailserver-side stripping of "Re" addons. If you're going to auto-add-on [] tags, the software should first strip out initial "Re:" lines. In other words. S

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:09:26PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > > Solaris patching isnt particularly bad. [It has its faults, but its been > > in use for over a decade now] Debian's, from what I here, is the > > "fragile" one. > > &g

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:50:35PM -0400, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:44 -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > Interesting. > > > > This is not a deliberate thing. Apparently, it's just a side-effect of > > using sun compilers with the -fast

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:57:42PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: > > I'm not sure Nexenta's implementation is the way to go though. It seems > > to me that Phil's pkg-get -- being designed around Sun's implementation > > of the SVr4 packaging standard -- seems like the better c

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:10:31PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > Sun has staff now to handle most of what they do, but this doesn't > allow Sun to work with the community. btw: there's a difference between "working with the community", and "meeting the needs of the community". you dont have to do

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:10:31PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > Blastwave essentially dropped their stable tree anyway, didn't you? Just the opposite. We finally found someone to step up to the plate and do the hard work, for free. James Lee is our official stable tree maintainer, and we've been

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-18 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:54:15PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > >The thing about all that, is that it forces the machine to be closer and > >closer to a linux machine, until eventually, it becomes nothing more than a > >linux machine with a user-inv

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-18 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 04:23:17PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > So, how would it be possible to build a large set of libraries that everyone > could update and use together? Is this at all possible? Sun has basically > proposed to work with the community, and that is happening, albeit > slowly...

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-18 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:02:20PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 22:08 -0700, ken mays wrote: > > Going back to the comments about Nexenta build system: > > Nexenta build system == Debian build system > > The equation above means that NexentaOS following > Debian Policy[1] as

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-18 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > PB> [really, it should give the patches to openssl.org. but barring that, > PB> it would be nice to see a patch set just posted somewhere, like > PB> opensolaris.org] > > > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/com

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-17 Thread Philip Brown
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:35:52AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > Saturday, April 15, 2006, 2:27:45 AM, PB writes... > > PB> Basically, blastwave packages are set up to be binary distributions, not > PB> developer distributions. > PB> If you want to compile other stuff against our packages, y

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Philip Brown
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 02:13:11AM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello James, > > Thursday, April 13, 2006, 2:06:40 PM, you wrote: > > JC> Hugh McIntyre writes: > > JC> That's also what Debian does. That fixes the dependency problem, but > JC> doesn't fix the path problem. > > JC> The path

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-13 Thread Philip Brown
Hi folks, I was informed there was a bit of a broohaha over here, about packaging up open source binaries for solaris and opensolaris. So, as the author of pkg-get, and the creator/leader of the CSW packaging efforts living on blastwave.org, I thought I'd poke my head in and wave. *wave*. I've b

[osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: Appliances

2006-01-06 Thread Philip G. Harman
I blame ZFS for this one, but it was inevitable anyway. I love my Sun Cobalt Qube 3 to bits, but it is getting rather long in the tooth. A while back I migrated most of my home network services to Solaris 10 on my son's old Athlon PC. It now has four large IDE drives serving our house with over

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris on Dell OptiPlex GX520?

2005-10-25 Thread Philip Machanick
Does anyone have experience of installing and running on a GX520? I have a GX280 handy as well I've found that one mentioned a few times which looks promising, but I would have to move my Linux installation off it and so would prefer to put OpenSolaris on the new machine if I can. This message p

[osol-discuss] Re: Dell and HP notebook options?

2005-10-23 Thread Philip Machanick
>From what I've seen so far, a current-model Dell should be OK except wireless >may be a while off ready. I have a budget I have to spend this year (in >practice this means by end October) but my serious use will start next year so >provided wireless is being worked on that would be OK. Anyone

[osol-discuss] Dell and HP notebook options?

2005-10-20 Thread Philip Machanick
I am thinking of getting a notebook to run OpenSolaris. Our tech people prefer to buy Dell or HP. There are a few models at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/views/laptop_all_results.page1.html if this is the right place to check compatability. Does anyone have experience of curr

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

2005-07-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:24:14PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > I have to admit to knowing almost nothing about Ret Hat Inc's position > (in theory or practice) on POSIX. i think its about the same as most other linux places: "We'll follow POSIX as much as possible... or until we dont feel l

[osol-discuss] Re: can't sign in to opensolaris.org ... and I'm notalone!

2005-07-02 Thread Philip G. Harman
Ok, I'm in now ... but I had to change my password yet gain ... only this time it worked. Thanks, Phil This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Boot CD problem

2005-06-28 Thread Philip Hansen
A little more information about this issue. I am trying to do this install on a Dell C840 Laptop. I have also tried this same media on a Dell C600 Laptop and it installs fine, so the media appears to not be the issue. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Boot CD problem

2005-06-28 Thread Philip Hansen
lly a programmer but from the msgbuf output it seems to panic upon loading the pci_autoload module. Philip This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]