Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Rich Teer
This sounds like a job DTrace! [FX: sounds of feverish typing] :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list open

Re: [osol-discuss] GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean?

2005-07-01 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > questions, but the wheels of lawyers spin slowly. Of course--they probably charge by the hour... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/r

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris on SPARC sans piggies

2005-07-05 Thread Rich Teer
ris, we're used to modular kernels that load only the modules they require right now, without all that messy kernel compilation. ;-) (Disk space is cheap to counter your other point.) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: ht

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-06 Thread Rich Teer
reedom than the GPL, not less. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: vt's

2005-07-07 Thread Rich Teer
en protected by your screensaver/lock if you wander > away). Although I think the consensus then was that at it should at Sounds like an ideal use for my "lock" program that I'll be releasing any day now. Under the CDDL, of course! -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB m

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Rich Teer
why complain? If you want bash, use bash! Meanwhile, I'll carry on using ksh, and we'll both be happy. Choice is good. > How about linking the command editing library > that is used in zoneadm and other tools into /bin/sh ? Because then it would no longer the Bourne Shell.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Rich Teer
ng the cursor.) > > y reasons, but as a user, I make my shell /bin/bash. > > I suspect everybody does so why not just make this You suspect wrongly. Many of us prefer ksh. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Rich Teer
ot in my shared professional working environment) is install a .profile for root that runs ksh, because I like the features ksh has over sh. Do I find this any great hardship? No. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Rich Teer
it. There isn't any. Is there a section that demands that cursor keys are supported? > And is Solaris bourne shell really POSIX compliant now? It > wasn't traditionally and you needed ksh or xpg4 sh > for that. That is true. But the point about backwards compatibility still

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Rich Teer
great to hear. Perhaps they could persuade their colleagues in the NFS camp to do likewise... ;-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-08 Thread Rich Teer
e may vary, of course... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-08 Thread Rich Teer
's why I don't do it. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Sunil wrote: > that's what I end up doing...although its beyond me why safe mode doesn't > have bash. Repeat after me: Solaris is not Linux... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-12 Thread Rich Teer
means they care. Right. But we're talking specifically about an emergancy use only environment, that's cut down to a minimum for a variety of reasons. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.co

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-12 Thread Rich Teer
ave true Bourne SHell behaviour like it does on Solaris? You'd probably say "Linux is not Solaris". -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich __

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-12 Thread Rich Teer
> wanting linux? your logic disgusts me and I am gonna stop now. That's a pity; I thought we were making progress understanding each others' point of view... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. V

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-12 Thread Rich Teer
r an OSI-approved license. How else would you measure openness? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Articles

2005-07-13 Thread Rich Teer
cope, and each community could have their own docs page. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Articles

2005-07-13 Thread Rich Teer
ion community is desirable, the constituents being those inteersted in writing docs. The result of their efforts (i.e., the docs) would largely live elsewhere (in other communities). -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-14 Thread Rich Teer
John wrote: > Am I the only one that doesn't like the --something-or-other options > of GNU related software? Please don't do this to Solaris! No, you're not alone! -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638

Re: [osol-discuss] Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Rich Teer
ry. :-) Just out of curiosity, why do you say that (for Blastwave at least)? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-21 Thread Rich Teer
form-neutral device driver community. Issues like OBP aside, I don't see why a driver for x86 can't be targetted for SPARC and other platforms, and vice versa. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: h

Re: [osol-discuss] Installation of BFU and ON Tools

2005-07-23 Thread Rich Teer
t understand what an environment is. Can anyone just tell > me the commands to type in the terminal to get me started? I'm working on such a document, but it's nowhere near ready for external consumption. But the Developers Guide should contain enough hints to get you going. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop Power Management? GUI or Shell based?

2005-07-23 Thread Rich Teer
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Garett Spalo wrote: > Anyone got any packages for Laptop Power Management, or just Power Management > in general? Casper blogged about the availability of the APIC stuff recently. Give that a try (in my experience, it works well). -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Successful build on Ultra 3

2005-07-24 Thread Rich Teer
about 90 minutes on my Ferrari (2 GHz Athalon64 Mobile CPU, 2GB RAM, Hitachi 60 GB 7200 RPM drive)! -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolari

[osol-discuss] Etymology of BFU

2005-07-24 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, A quick question for you: what definition of BFU came first: Blindingly Fast Upgrade, or Bonwick Faulkner Upgrade? Just curious. Cheers, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Compiling errors with SunStudio

2005-07-27 Thread Rich Teer
I still don't think its a good idea. Persoanlly, I don't even have /usr/ucb in my PATH. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-31 Thread Rich Teer
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Dennis Clarke wrote: > down anytime soon. I feel that Rich Teer would be hunkering into his > chair and saying to himself "ha, Dennis has another opinion breaking > out of the gates, this will be good!" You know me too well, my friend! When Dennis wri

Re: [osol-discuss] LinuxWorld BoF & Booth this week

2005-08-08 Thread Rich Teer
t the same time. Hrm... Have fun guys, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Rich Teer
> "OpenSolaris Laptop Community" [Details snipped] +1 -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Shawn Walker wrote: > It's a Dell Inspiron 9300. The main devices I care about are the Intel > Pro Wireless 2200B Chipset (Centrino), SigmTel C-Major Audio, and the OK, I'll bite. WHy not a Ferrari or something better supported by SOlaris? -- Rich

Re: [osol-discuss] Build machines

2005-08-15 Thread Rich Teer
rom installing OpenSolaris on your own mahcine, and playing with the source there? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing li

Re: [osol-discuss] What types of training would you need or want for OpenSolaris?

2005-08-16 Thread Rich Teer
ailable in a unified location and format > would be very helpful I think that will be "Solaris Internals, 2nd Edition". :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http:

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Rich Teer
oesn't have that restriction. And putting it even more basically: choice is good! -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Rich Teer
me people might prefer more or less integration (see the vim sub-thread from a a couple of days ago): one distro for all the bells and whistles, and onother for more basic needs. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 8/17/05, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Ian Collins wrote: > > > > > True, but is duplication? > > I am entirely happy with the decision by Sun management to bring in > Steve Chris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-20 Thread Rich Teer
merely that the license be > modified to be GPL compatible. Personally, I think the GPL should be modified to be CDDL compatible. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: h

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does thismean? (round 3)

2005-08-22 Thread Rich Teer
, that's how I've interpreted your comments--and I also agree with your assertion that it is the GPL that is the problem, not CDDL. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: htt

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-22 Thread Rich Teer
But getting back to the main point: I don't think we're ever going to agree on SW licensing philosophy, but I don't think there's any way that OpenSolaris can be icensed under the GPL. The need and/or desire to link with 3rd party code that may or may not be open source prev

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Tech Lead

2005-08-22 Thread Rich Teer
Was that big enough? :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, S

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does thismean? (round 3)

2005-08-22 Thread Rich Teer
mmercial SW, Linux will slowly fade and Solaris will retake the datacentre. Well, that's my $0.02... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ ope

Re: [osol-discuss] CAB Meeting Notes

2005-08-23 Thread Rich Teer
ls as much as possible, the intent being that the CAB mailing list archives serve as "notes". That said, we *are* having a conference call tomorrow, to hammer out the remaining details of the first draft of the Charter, after which it'll be posted (on cab-discuss, IIRC) for comments

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris workshops/conferences?

2005-08-24 Thread Rich Teer
; to see things first hand. Early discussions on this topic are already happening, on the mktg-discuss list IIRC. I too would like to see a "SolarisCon". -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250)

Re: [osol-discuss] No kernel source updates?

2005-08-24 Thread Rich Teer
uase I DO think that that email announcements for this sort of thing are useful), WITHOUT adding to the alreadey-too-busy osol-discuss. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http:

[osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-24 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, With the traffic that's being generated by the lack of recent source announcements, I think an osol-announce list would be useful. Such a list would contain the announcements people find useful, with adding to the already-overburdened osol-discuss. Comments, thoughts? -- Rich

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris on Fujitsu gear

2005-08-24 Thread Rich Teer
article I wrote on my home page. > Is OpenSolaris still binary compatible to Solaris 10? Would it be > possible to copy the Fujitsu binary modules from Solaris 10 over to a > OpenSolaris installation, making the system bootable? It will "probably" work. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, O

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris on Fujitsu gear

2005-08-24 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Felix Schulte wrote: > But I *need* 64bit gear (64bit kernel) OK, in that case look atthe Ultra 30, Ulra 2, Ultra 5 or Ultra 10. All of those should be within the range of the impoverished student, and all will run S10 in 64-bit mode. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSola

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-24 Thread Rich Teer
moderated list (althogh who would moderate it is a good question!), to make sure that it stays on track. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris on Fujitsu gear

2005-08-24 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Bart Smaalders wrote: > Ultra 60s are often available for less than $100 on Ebay > w/ graphics cards. That cheap? WOw, that would definately be the best bet. I have a dual 450 MHz Ultra 60 myself (which was only recently replaced by a dual 900 MHz SB 1000). -- Ric

Re: [osol-discuss] No kernel source updates?S

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Teer
org, an RSS feed, and the comp.sys.sun.announce newsgroup (as well as other useful venues). That way, the news is made available in a format that people would like to digest it in. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http

Re: [osol-discuss] New mailing list proposal

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Teer
; just 1 or 2 emails a day. (I'd volunteer.) I think I must have missed Simon's email--can someone please remind me of what it said? I know that he proposed a moderated CAB list, but the announcement list I'm proposing is something quite different. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] earlier deliveries on downloads page (was "New mailing list proposal")

2005-08-26 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Question for the wider community: how important is access to the > tarballs from prior deliveries? IMO having them is desirable, but not super high priority. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs

2005-08-29 Thread Rich Teer
by some entity other than Sun. I just hope that, unlike NFS, they get it right this time... ;-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-29 Thread Rich Teer
ical) reasons. 1. Companies can contribute proprietory code, safe in the knowledege that they can keep their IP to themselves. 2. Individuals who want their contributions to be open, yet don't want to restrict the rights of others, will be happy with the CDDL. -- Rich Teer, SCNA

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-29 Thread Rich Teer
the ways to counter. But Sun is doing just that; that's what the CAB is for. And we're included in the conversation Sun's development process team is having about how to move the code to a more open development model. It's not a quick process, and it's not an easy one. But

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-29 Thread Rich Teer
between Sun "forcing things" upon people and Linus doing the same? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list o

Re: [osol-discuss] Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-29 Thread Rich Teer
can make things happen, and they DO support us. Rome wasn't built in a day, so please, give us time and the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes the wheels of change turn slower than we'd like, but doesn't necessarily mean that change isn't desired or being worked on. -- Rich Teer

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-29 Thread Rich Teer
y one! :-) Seriously, stick around and add your input. It's much easier to guide a process towards your desires if you're part of the process. And more productive than not doing so and whining about the result afterwards! :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-31 Thread Rich Teer
of data and burning disk(s), so looky-loos will be less disinclined to try it. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-31 Thread Rich Teer
ne? But wasn't Bill involved with BSD before Kirk? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris handouts on a CD?

2005-08-31 Thread Rich Teer
ery different > places on the complexity/completeness spectrum. > > ... the complete source tree (implies OpenSolaris + distro > specific bits) > > ... a build environment that let me rebuild exactly the > bootable system above. > > ... d

Re: [osol-discuss] Does "Tern of Use" of OpenSolaris Web site allow commercial use ?qZZyqqq:q!

2005-09-02 Thread Rich Teer
pliers. Looks like a standard legal disclaimer to me, and about as meaningful and useful as those stupoid disclaimers many people have in their signatures (no doubt their corporate lawyers told them to do that too). But, (thankfully) IANAL, so take with as much salt as you deem necessary... :-) -

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-07 Thread Rich Teer
re (e.g., California) to protect my rights in a court of law. A better example would be Casper, who lives in the Netherlands. Why can't he, as the author of a piece of CDDL-licensed code, chose the venue for lawsuits? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Onli

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-07 Thread Rich Teer
;re suggesting, we'd have no choice but to go to Santa Clara (say). At least with the CDDL as it currently stands, you, as the original author, get to chose the venue for any lawsuits. I'm betting you'd pick pick Sweden over Santa Clara anytime. :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, Open

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-07 Thread Rich Teer
, I think you'll find that most often, it is the person who starts the suit that gets to pick venue. > Well. but if the UK then refuse to aknowledge the Swedish judgement, what have > you gained ? Huh? I'm, hoping the Swedish authorities will enforce the judgement. But I think y

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL & CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-07 Thread Rich Teer
properly? Agreed. It could be that this is all just an innocent misunderstanding. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing li

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-shirts have shipped]

2005-09-07 Thread Rich Teer
And I KNOW I must've been amongst the first handful coz I was hitting refresh every few seconds right up to the launch and clicked on the T shirt icon as soon as it appeared! -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.r

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Porting iBurst drivers to OpenSolaris

2005-09-09 Thread Rich Teer
It's called slashdot.org... ;-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] No CDE in OpenSolaris

2005-09-11 Thread Rich Teer
on the Solaris DVDs/CDs as much as possible. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-shirts have shipped]

2005-09-15 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > Get it yet? Please let me know when you do; I'm still waiting... You and me both. :-( -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

2005-09-23 Thread Rich Teer
question is > > "Are OpenSolaris and Solaris 11 the same ?" The answer is much the same (forgetting for th emoment that there's no such thing as S11 just yet!). S11 will be a distro based on OpenSolaris, and will no doubt have Sun value-added bits. -- Rich Teer, SCNA

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-shirts have shipped]

2005-10-03 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > Get it yet? Please let me know when you do; I'm still waiting... My T-shirt (finally) arrived today! Hopefully my Pilot Program stuff isn't far behind... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online In

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison

2005-10-07 Thread Rich Teer
Solaris 10 is the only OS that comes near to saturating a 10 GBE link. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Rich Teer
GNOME, is to get GNOME from www.blastwave.org. HTH, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: international help a noob day

2005-10-09 Thread Rich Teer
The Ultra does indeed have a 64-bit processor, but it is NOT x64. HTH, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Sparc ? x86 Comparison

2005-10-10 Thread Rich Teer
een booting on N CPUs, and using those N CPUs effectively such that the throughput with N CPUs is very close to N * T, where T is the throughput of 1 CPU. So if N is 512, but the throughput is only 200 * T, I'd argue that that OS doesn't scale very well. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA

Re: [osol-discuss] inode numbers on ZFS

2005-10-12 Thread Rich Teer
ire a Dysan Sphere sized data center! :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Wireless on SPARC?

2005-10-23 Thread Rich Teer
could always attache one of those RJ45 to WiFi adaptors to it. That device would transparantly convert from hme to Wifi (no additional drivers required). Probably not quite what you're looking for, but maybe an acceptable compromise... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President

Re: [osol-discuss] Studio 11

2005-10-27 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Sean Sprague wrote: > LKR has recently told us about the record performance of > Studio 11. I would very much like to cut down my current > 12-hour+ build time for OpenSolaris (OK, I should buy some 12+ hours?! WTF are you using man, an abacus?! -- Rich Teer, S

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: OpenSolaris storage

2005-10-27 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Derek Cicero wrote: > It looks like there are no objections to the creation of this community > at this point. Do we have any +1 votes from the CAB? +1 from me. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-16

Re: [osol-discuss] Kernel Internals Documentation?

2005-10-28 Thread Rich Teer
m Mauro and Richard McDougall. A 2nd edition, covering Solaris 10, is due to be published sometime next year. HTH, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [osol-discuss] Kernel Internals Documentation?

2005-10-29 Thread Rich Teer
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote: <http://invisible-island.net/critique/APUE-SSP.html> might help. Not in the least. The sooner that libellous rubbish gets taken down, the better. Prentice Hall's lawyers are on the case. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS forum yet?

2005-11-01 Thread Rich Teer
. But a ZFS community wouldn't be a bad idea. I think the wheels are in motion to "make it so". -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

[osol-discuss] When will JDS move to GNOME 2.10 or newer?

2005-11-02 Thread Rich Teer
GNOME? I'm keen to try out the latest goodies to see if I can be convinced to migrate... Cheers, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Is opensolaris express completely opensource?

2005-11-10 Thread Rich Teer
this true? Not any more. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Open Minds - the OpenSolaris story

2005-11-11 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Peter Eriksson wrote: How about actually creating a video that can be *viewed* on a Solaris system...? +1 -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Minds - the OpenSolaris story

2005-11-11 Thread Rich Teer
tations use some sort of Java movie player. Why not get SUn to standardise on that? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] milestone "none" really means "nothing" running at all really

2005-11-16 Thread Rich Teer
/sbin simply overwriting anything that was there. Ah yes, I remember that story well. :-) If he hasn't been already, that guy should be caught and shot. Now. And the IT Directory needs a long meeting with a cluebat. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-17 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Alan Coopersmith wrote: and putting it all in /usr/bin & /usr/lib directly, because the FHS What's FHS? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-23 Thread Rich Teer
s and very much would like to > continue on conquer existing GNU/Linux users hearts and believe in our > final success! Same here, but there will always be some Linux hold-outs. But also, there's room for both OSes--just not on any of my machines. :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSo

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express DVD?

2005-11-23 Thread Rich Teer
nt the .iso file). -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-25 Thread Rich Teer
allest of environments. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care?

2005-11-26 Thread Rich Teer
; and the ancient aperture driver ended up working with very few > changes. I'm neither impressed, surprised, or amazed. Why? Because it is exactly what I would expect from a world-class, properly engineered OS. Solaris clearly passes this test with flying colours. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More questions.

2005-11-27 Thread Rich Teer
only software. Because of this policy, how long do you think it will be before companies like Nvidia take a look at their Linux vs Solaris maintenance costs, and decide to srop support for the former as a cost saving measure? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last rel

2005-12-07 Thread Rich Teer
27;ve never encountered any problems with running my various Ultra 1s in 64-bit mode, so I think that bringing back support for the US-I (in 64-bit mode only) would make a neat OpenSolaris project. OTOH, much as I love my SPARCstation 20 (running Solaris 9), I think it is time to let sun4m rest in peace

[osol-discuss] Which version of GNOME?

2005-12-12 Thread Rich Teer
compile form scratch)? TIA, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member . * * . * .* . . * . .* President, * . . /\ ( .

Re: [osol-discuss] Time of Day clock error: reason [Stalled]

2005-12-15 Thread Rich Teer
ris 10. I've seen that too (on my Ferarri, but not my Ultra 20); it's a known issue. HTH, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member . * * . * .* .

Re: [osol-discuss] 3 new request-sponsor putbacks

2005-12-15 Thread Rich Teer
d. Apparently mine is the first OpenSolaris non-Sun community ARC-level contribution, so I'm pretty excited. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member . * * . * .* .

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting more modules added to /usr/apache/libexec2?

2005-12-15 Thread Rich Teer
ing services without adding extra software packages (e.g., > pkg-get). Hopefully Sun will consider doing this for the web folks in the > opensolaris community. :) +1 -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, Open

Re: [osol-discuss] Is anyone else using the Nvidia binary driver?

2005-12-16 Thread Rich Teer
(it's apparently fixed in build 30). I usually use the NVidia driver (-81xx is out now, BTW), but with build 28 I'm using the X.org nv driver. It works for my limited 2d work, but is a bit slower than the NVidia driver (but not unacceptably so). HTH, -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SC

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