> "W. Wayne Liauh" wrote:
>
> > # For LibreOffice I don't see any builds for
> Solaris. So, when we #wouldn't care about "our"
> platform, what is then the foundation #doing? ;-)
> >
> >
> > I think your philosophy is fundamen
# For LibreOffice I don't see any builds for Solaris. So, when we #wouldn't
care about "our" platform, what is then the foundation #doing? ;-)
I think your philosophy is fundamentally flawed. No one is expecting the TDF
to port LibreOffice to Solaris.
If Oracle is not stubborn/stupid enough a
> OpenSolaris-based distributions based on older
> releases of the OpenSolaris kernel.
>
> Distros:
>
> belenix
> eon
> jeos
> korona
> martux
> milax
> nexenta
> openindiana
> schillix
> stormos
>
> Note: Solaris 11 Express (b151a) has the latest
> kernel build base
> > I think it's a lot worse. It's not just
> > non-production use, it's only licensed for
> software
> > development, and only for use by a single person.
> I
> > can't think of many places where you could
> actually
> > use it. All of my software developers need to
> allow
> > someone else onto t
> > production form),like, my desktop and laptop.this
> > means i can only use solaris 11 express only on
> one
> > of them. is their a lawyer around here;-)
>
> Wouldn't downloading S11e as many times as you have
> machines solve this?
Exactly. Anyone who has downloaded the S11e images should
> Hi,
>
> I was going through the OTN license and I noticed
> something that got me thinking
> that solaris 11 express can only be used on one
> computer. what if i have was running
> opensolaris on two or more computers at home (non
> production form),like, my desktop and laptop.this
> means i
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 18:33, W. Wayne Liauh
> wrote:
> > The following comment was cc'd from the GullFoss
> Forum, in case my posting was rejected:
> >
> > "
> >
> > I am unable to install OOo 3.3RC5 in the
> just-released Oracle Solaris
> please disregard this method, openoffice did install
> but also broke my solaris 11 install, this method
> worked on previous opensolaris release but no
> longer.
>
> Regards
> Edward
You are right, trying to install OpenOffice.org the hard way (i.e., directly
using pkgadd) will hose your
The following comment was cc'd from the GullFoss Forum, in case my posting was
rejected:
"
I am unable to install OOo 3.3RC5 in the just-released Oracle Solaris 11
Express. I have no problem installing it in Ubuntu. And I was able to install
one of the previous RC's in Solaris 10u9 (with som
Does anyone know whether iBUS will be available for Solaris 11 Express? If so,
is it possible to test it in Solaris 10u9? Thanks.
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> On 30 Sep 2010, at 02:44, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the
> update 9 of Solaris 10 has finally switched to
> OpenOffice.org. Thus, it seems that Oracle also
> silently RIP'd StarOffice (actually the dec
> > Not to mention more detail on a much earlier
> > departure:
> >
> >
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Java-
>
> > Creator-James-Gosling-Why-I-Quit-Oracle-813517/
> >
> > Keeping in mind that one tends to only hear one
> side
> > at a time, nevertheless,
> > it doesn't sound
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/and_now_page_2
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> > what's new in the latest release of Oracle Solaris
> > 10!
> > http://blogs.sun.com/OTNGarage/date/20100908
> >
> > Oracle upgrades Solaris with Sun Solaris 10 9/10
> >
> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/eye-on-oracl
>
> > e/oracle-upgrades-solaris-with-sun-solaris-10-910/
> > Downlo
> what's new in the latest release of Oracle Solaris
> 10!
> http://blogs.sun.com/OTNGarage/date/20100908
>
> Oracle upgrades Solaris with Sun Solaris 10 9/10
> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/eye-on-oracl
> e/oracle-upgrades-solaris-with-sun-solaris-10-910/
> Download link:
> http://www
> joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
> > "Dmitry G. Kozhinov" wrote:
> >
> >>> So perhaps Illumos/OpenIndiana will become the
> OurDelta or MariaDB equivalent of Oracle Solaris and
> outshine its predecessor. :)
> >> I am very doubtful about this. Oracle states
> (http://www.oracle.com/us
> while mentioning copyrights, i'm wondering if Oracle
> may also think it can sue illumos, like, it's suing
> google?
>
Please think--and read--before you wrote.
Google got sued because it didn't follow the terms of the GPL (and failed to
secure an alternative license from Sun). The IllumOS
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > Wikipedia says java is GPL. If you google around,
> you'll find that some
> > version of java was released under GPL in 2006.
> However, if you look around
> ... it is not readily available today, at least, not
> in all the places you
> would be most likely to loo
> Not only is this statement incorrect (lawsuit is not
> about GPL) ..
While the term GPL appears nowhere in the complaint, believe me (of course you
don't have to), this is EXACTLY what the lawsuit is about. And I also believe
that this is one of the main reasons that David Boies is taking thi
>
> But it does make it very difficult for FLOSS because
> every times you
> develop something, it is most likely someone else has
> already filed the
> patents, and you are at risks from being sued.
>
> -Ghee
Google is trying to hide under the FOSS umbrella. This is very deceiving.
Sun is
> Oracle sues Google over Java!
>
> Un-believable! Now it is proven what Oracle's
> intentions are! Is Java free??? What is the future of
> Java now??? So much for pro-open source attitude! It
> doesn't exist -maybe it never did after Oracle
> acquired Sun. Will anyone trust Oracle any more?
>
>
I don't think anyone will like me for saying this, but for those handful of us
"outside of Sun" who have been following OpenSolaris since day one, do we
really expect a different outcome?
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> Has anyone else taken note of the domain name of the
> law firm representing Oracle in the suit against
> Google?
Has anyone ever heard the name "David Boies"?
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Garrett D'Amore, the "Benevolent Dictator for now" of the IllumOS project, has
posted a slide show in pdf format:
http://www.illumos.org/attachments/download/3/illumos.pdf
At the present time, the only thing I cared is that these great slides are made
using Oracle's OpenOffice.org 3.2 (pls see
> > Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> > > SolarOS
> > >
> > > Rolls right off the tongue ;)
> >
> > And anything that looks close enough to the name
> of
> > an existing
> > trademark that it could be a typo for it, is
> likely
> > to get you
> > unpleasant mail from trademark lawyers.
> Trademark
> law
> Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> > SolarOS
> >
> > Rolls right off the tongue ;)
>
> And anything that looks close enough to the name of
> an existing
> trademark that it could be a typo for it, is likely
> to get you
> unpleasant mail from trademark lawyers. Trademark
> law protects
> against confusi
> I don't know if you're aware the marketing thread
> has been retired,
if that's the case, then maybe you can try to find an appropriate user group,
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> I'll explain on what i was doing. I thought by
> posting news artlcles about the changes
> racle is doing to solaris and opensolaris, i was
> helping fellow opensolaris users, so they can
> review it and see if they have to make any changes
> in their business, since oracle does not really
>
> > The installation takes no more than a couple of
> minutes. The boot time I measured was about 25
> seconds, as opposed to the 14 seconds advertised by
> Alex ( :-) ).
> This is VBox time, usually on SSD drive it's 14-16
> seconds..
>
> > Again, I am sure everyone is aware that this is
> on
> >Wayne said:
> >Now that you mentioned this great idea of putting
> together a minimalist >distro, has anyone ever
> thought about Milax? I have only taken a short cut
> and >tried to install it in VirtualBox, but have not
> succeeded. Has anyone >successfully installed and run
> Firefox 3.6.6 an
>
> In a world where Solaris 10/Next is only available as a 90 day trial . . .
This is completely UNTRUE, and I really hope that we at least don't repeat the
FUD here.
The 90-day trial language already existed in Sun's license. The reason that
Oracle specifically spells it out was probably in
> On 17 Jul 2010, at 18:07, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> > One of the biggest problems with all of our
> community distros is that they are not compatible
> with IPS. This problem is further complicated by the
> fact that Sun's own OpenSolaris distro does not allow
> multip
> You already have 'community distros' and forums like
> Nexenta, Korona (KDE4Solaris), and Belenix as the
> OpenSolaris-based communities currently providing
> recent updates to either the desktop environment or
> backporting kernel patches.
>
>
> ~ Ken Mays
One of the biggest problems with al
> The best of all worlds, IMHO, would be for us (the
> community) to build
> and maintain a website of our own that hosted a
> minimalist distro of
> our own, with IPS repos of our own, using only the
> master mercurial
> (and/or whatever) source repos mirrored from within
> Oracle.
> Explicitly NO
> There is no direct, visible commercial benefit for
> oracle to try to
> displace ubuntu in the desktop market. There is
> however a drawback
> for Oracle's commercial success in case that Solaris
> is no longer viable
> on the desktop.
>
>
> Jörg
>
Heartily agreed! But I am also looking at t
> "W. Wayne Liauh" wrote:
>
> > > BTW: The problem with the US law system is that
> you
> > > cannot cancel a patent
> > > separately. This needs to be done during the main
> > > hearing of the trial.
> > >
> > >
> BTW: The problem with the US law system is that you
> cannot cancel a patent
> separately. This needs to be done during the main
> hearing of the trial.
>
> Jörg
>
Actually in the US, you can file a re-examination request with the Patent
Office to invalidate an issued patent. NetApp's COW
> > Thanks. Oracle also provides a VirtualBox Solaris
> 10
> > 10/09 Appliance Image in Open Virtual Format
> (OVF):
> >
> >
> https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-
>
> >
> CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?Produ
>
> > ctref=virtualbox-s10u8-x86-...@cds-cds_smi
>
> Based on what Paul said
>
> I don't think 'us' as the community that use Solaris
> or OpenSolaris-based distros
> should feel shafted if Oracle is focused on releasing
> Solaris 11. I'd hope we'd want this
> as the end goal as most of the OpenSolaris-based core
> snapshots were not considere
> Thanks. Oracle also provides a VirtualBox Solaris 10
> 10/09 Appliance Image in Open Virtual Format (OVF):
>
> https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-
> CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?Produ
> ctref=virtualbox-s10u8-x86-...@cds-cds_smi
>
> This is a standard defa
>
> On Jun 28, 2010, at 1:40 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> > That said, many of my friends are amazed to learn
> that they can so effortlessly run such a highly
> revered OS (the Solaris proper, not OpenSolaris--most
> of them really don't care about the latter and I
> > From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org
> [mailto:opensolaris-
> > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of
> Edward Ned Harvey
> >
> > You suck, quit whining unless you're being
> productive somehow.
>
> I apologize for using this language.
>
> This is a discussion list, wher
> On my Mac (under VirtualBox, since it's
> tedious to set up a
> Mac to triple-boot, and I already have to have XP on
> there for a few
> gadgets that only can be updated from XP, plus the
> service manual on
> CD for one of my cars, that can only be viewed with
> IE), OpenSolaris
> seems about
> On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:36 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh
> wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > Sorry for forking the question, but have you
> recently had any success in booting Milax 0.5 from
> its vdi image? I keep getting the "WARNING: init(1M)
> exited on fa
Hi Alex,
Sorry for forking the question, but have you recently had any success in
booting Milax 0.5 from its vdi image? I keep getting the "WARNING: init(1M)
exited on fatal signal 9, restarting automatically" message? Updating Oracle
VirtualBox to the 3.2.6 did not help.
No problem booting
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> Phone: x17195
> Santa Clara, CA
> Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800)
Thanks, I am actually more interested in seeing that Safra (Catz) answered
questions relating to Sun (which could mean that she the highest Oracle
executive u
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/confcall/streetevents/SIG=133mnknrs/*http%3a//web.servicebureau.net/conf/meta?i=1113167739&c=2343&m=was&u=/w_ccbn.xsl&date_ticker=ORCL
or
http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/7/114227.html
The above is the link to the earnings conference call, it is still working
hours here (1
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:15 -0700, Orvar Korvar
> wrote:
> > I would love to come, but it is a bit too far for
> me. :o)
> >
> > If you have any slides, it would be great if you
> later posted them on the net so everyone got up to
> date about the current status.
>
> I can't make it either, I a
>
> Money would be better spent on receiving a degree
> from an accredited college or university. Everyone
> knows what my BA and MS degree abbreviations mean.
> When my PhD is completed, they also recognize that.
Been there. Done that. But son, if I were 30 years younger, I would be more
t
r Principal Engineer, Solaris Core OS Engineering
President, Trusted Computing Group
Phone: +1 650 786 6309 (Internal x86309)
On Jun 20, 2010, at 12:36 PM, "W. Wayne Liauh"
wrote:
>
> During the installation of Solaris Express, shortly after the kernel is
> loaded, a Java virtual
>
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Hi Erik,
Thanks a whole lot for taking time to post your thoughts. Different people
will react differently. I am sure you are aware that the stronger a person is
devoted to Solaris, the
I believe this project started as the "Open Solaris" Project (with a "space" in
between), from which it was evolved the SXCR DVD iso image, which those of us
outside of Sun must download in a multiplicity of compressed iso segments (one
segment at a time at a "whopping" 100 KB per second max), a
> --
> -Alan Coopersmith-
> - alan.coopersm...@sun.com
> Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window
> ow System
>
You have just inadvertently answered an important question that many of us are
wondering: Will OpenSolaris survive? I think the answer now is terribly clear,
even f
> > I believe anyone expecting any engineer to know
> all
> > the parts of
> > the system is woefully underestimating just how
> much
> > software we
> > have and what you consider to be "common
> knowledge"
> > is not as
> > common as you think.
>
> Yeah, except I am not an ARC member. I don't k
> I believe anyone expecting any engineer to know all
> the parts of
> the system is woefully underestimating just how much
> software we
> have and what you consider to be "common knowledge"
> is not as
> common as you think.
Yeah, except I am not an ARC member. I don't know about you, but if I
> On 03/ 8/10 01:04 AM, Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun
> Microsystems wrote:
> > This case has been approved with +1.
> >
>
> I did give this case a +1, but there is still an
> unanswered question
> (see my mail from the 3rd). Please answer that
> question before
> approving the case.
>
> -Seb
> __
> BTW, have you done anything about > running the OpenOffice.org
> plugin in NetBeans? > > /blockquote> >
> No, haven't done anything with the Openoffice > NetBeans plugin.
>
> Paul
>
Just a note to self-- Geertjan has a brief blog entry on integrating
OpenOffice.org into the NetBeans Platform:
> On 03/ 2/10 11:58 PM, Paul Gress wrote:
> > On 03/ 2/10 07:59 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> It gets just past grub and then just
> >>> hangs indefinitely.
> >>>
> >> >>
> >
> Compared to other Linux distros, the IIIMF in
> OpenSolaris also comes with an on-screen keyboard.
> For users who have to use a non-US keyboard (e.g.,
> the bopomofo keyboard for traditional Chinese
> speakers), this is really handy. It is sad that
> this advantage was never widely advertised.
> The fact that the state of the art appears to be ibus
> and that it is not
> the default on Solaris is a detriment to projects
> such as this that are
> integrating new features for ibus.
>
> Hasegawa-san, I believe you were both the case owner
> and the project
> team for the ibus integrat
> I downloaded and installed OpenOffice 3.2 last night
> on my snv_133 x64 system, the only hiccup I saw was
> the "Next" button being grayed out on the initial
> setup screen - but clicking the "Help" button, then
> returning to the initial setup screen resulted in it
> becoming available (weird),
> I also had a problem, but with Openoffice 3.0 Dev m72
> version. It
> hosed Opensolaris b133 so it wouldn't boot. I
> had to BE to 132, delete
> 133 and re-upgrade.
This is exactly what happened to me, except that the BE that was hosed was a
clone of b133. All I needed to do was "beadm
My take is this, I read all the 300+ messages posted at Slashdot, and found it
amazing that one could surmise what Oracle may or may not do wrt one of its
most important assets without seriously entering Chairman Larry into the
equation. (As we all know, Chairman Larry owns about one quarter
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:34:08 -0500, Michael Lee
> wrote:
>
> > Ultimately the slashdot link points to a short
> article on Phronix about the not-so-bright future of
> OpenSolaris at Oracle, albeit the article is a bit
> weak on real content--still something about
> OpenSolaris made it on slashd
> Is the next formal release still planned for 2010.03
> and based on build 134?
After very disappointing failures from previous builds, my hope was very high
on b133, especially since it is so close to the os2010.03 official release.
But b133 (LiveCD) still failed to boot from two of our three
> In any case, there's plenty of reason for folks
> outside Sun/Oracle to
> build their own distro to cater to their needs
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> Phone: x17195
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>
One of the most significant but often overlooked advantages of
> I'll ask any question I want, so GFY!
>
> Chinese using a Western name talks about using real
> names!
>
> Message was edited by: gpatrick
It is way beyond my dignity to even read your post, but my great great grand
father immigrated from China to Maui some time after the Civil War, & I am
p
> No, on the contrary, nightly builds are only against
> OpenSolaris.
Thanks, it always helps to know this is the case.
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> For some reason Firefox 3.6 (tar.gz version) won't
> start in b132 (it worked in b131).
Looks like the nightly build was built only against S10? Please this not be
the case; so many people have worked so hard on OpenSolaris!
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> To put this to rest then. OpenSolaris is not a
> different operating system than Solaris 10. Just a
> different name, not a fork like OpenBSD from NetBSD
> in any way. Strictly a name change to reflect that
> it's open source?
If you want to continue to post stupid comments, please use your r
For some reason Firefox 3.6 (tar.gz version) won't start in b132 (it worked in
b131).
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> > However, the open source version of the QQ client
> is known to have limited features (though it should
> be good enough for inclusion in OpenSolaris). But as
> I am sure you are aware, Tencent actually provides QQ
> clients for various platforms, including Linux. Most
> Linux distros avoid t
> What happens to JavaFX?
Larry Ellison rarely, if ever, commented on any specific product of the
companies that he acquired. JavaFX is probably the only exception. The words
he used were that he encouraged OpenOffice.org developers to "write
OpenOffice.org libraries in JavaFX".
Many comment
> Thanks to Emily Chen for putting together the seminar
> photos and slides at:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/bj-oracle
>
Oops, "下载" means "download" (the seminar slides). But I don't see anyone on
this forum should have any problem guessing that.
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http://tinyurl.com/bj-oracle
(As you can see, English is still the language of choice.)
> 可否请演讲者将他们的讲义post到网站上，让我们不住在北京的也可以共享？ Thanks
>
> (Could you please ask the speakers to post their
> seminar notes on the web so
> I hope Oracle will not rebrand OpenSolaris / Solaris
> look and feel, which tends to be blue/silver to
> something bright red. It would be just too annoying.
Bright red will do very well in the greater China market. Very very well,
indeed.
Thus, quite contrary to what probably everyone else i
> While OpenSolaris is already open source (mostly),
> there were some plans within Sun to open source more
> technologies, but Sun didn't get to it because of the
> merger. In particular - Sun Studio, C++ compiler etc.
> Interesting what are Oracle intentions in regards to
> keeping those plans?
> It is not a technical issue, but a legal one.
>
> I don't know if it is legal to ship a QQ client
> created by using "reverse engineering".
> But I know, in 2006, Tencent filed a copyright
> lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soff), the author of
> Coral QQ, whose redistributing modified Tencent Q
> Oracle is not exactly known as being
> friendly to open
> source software
This statement is not exactly fair. Oracle has been one of the major
contributors to the Linux kernel. Also, Oracle was "the" first elite company
to port its mainstream products to the Linux platform (this move gave Li
BTW the webcast of the Oracle/Sun strategy session is still going on:
http://tinyurl.com/os-012710
I have to take off now. If anyone hears anything about OpenSolaris, please let
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> You can
> see just as much as
> most Sun employees can.
>
> -Alan Coopersmith-
> - alan.coopersm...@sun.com
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System
> em Engineering
"Most" of Sun's employees don't even use OpenSolaris!
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> It is not a technical issue, but a legal one.
>
> I don't know if it is legal to ship a QQ client
> created by using "reverse engineering".
> But I know, in 2006, Tencent filed a copyright
> lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soff), the author of
> Coral QQ, whose redistributing modified Tencent Q
> The only bug report I find was closed by one of the
> pidgin maintainers from
> Sun's Beijing office as not possible since the QQ
> network owners don't allow
> third-party clients:
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7767
>
Thanks Alan (as always), but plse see the attached scree
> The only bug report I find was closed by one of the
> pidgin maintainers from
> Sun's Beijing office as not possible since the QQ
> network owners don't allow
> third-party clients:
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7767
>
Thanks Alan (as always), but plse see the attache
The OS2010.03 LiveCD is supposed to be released in 03, 2010. As such, the
"final" RC should be out by the end of February (& based on the previous
releases, the "official" release will be binary-identical to the final RC).
However, based on what I read and from my own experiences (it won't even
>
> Here's a quick dump on how to get Solaris 10 and
> OpenSolaris
> on the same rpool.
>
> ttp://blogs.sun.com/mrj/entry/solaris_10_and_opensolar
> is_on
>
>
>
> MRJ
>
Thanks for the plug, will give it a try.
ps. Currently, I have Sol10 installed on the bare metal and OpenSolaris on an
e
可否请演讲者将他们的讲义post到网站上，让我们不住在北京的也可以共享？ Thanks
(Could you please ask the speakers to post their seminar notes on the web so
that those of us who are not living in Beijing can also enjoy the learning
experience? Thanks.)
> 大家好，
>
> 北京OpenSolaris用户组第三十四次会议将于1月 28日在北京清华科技园创新大厦A
> 座7层SUN公司会议室举行。同时，
> Oh I agree, but I bet there's a lot of us who have
> been using, live
> upgrading, testing and providing feedback on SXCE
> since it was a stroppy
> teenager and haven't made the leap into the
> OpenSolaris realm. It's
> been too stable for its own good.
>
> --
> Ian.
>
Of course! I have
> The time you need to install OpenSolaris is much
> larger than installing
> SXCE, mostly trying to find which packages you've
> missed this time.
>
> Casper
>
This kind of "extra" effort is NOTHING compared to what those of us who are
moving from Linux to Solaris/OpenSolaris have to go throu
> I really need to get on with my honours project -
> which is on Solaris Zones btw. Instead I've spent the
> past day filing nice new bugs in OpenSolaris. I guess
> that's the price I pay for being on the bleeding
> edge. ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew.
My take is, thanks to AlanC's info in a separa
> Check out this bug
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/
> 2009-December/017158.html
>
> Scroll down to the description for:
> 12380 image-update loses /dev/ptmx from
> m /etc/minor_perm
> for more information and instructions to fix.
Yes, snv_129 seems to have solved this kn
I was happy (at least for a while) to see that the following problem was solved
in snv_129:
" . . . using terminal programs such as gnome-terminal(1) or xterm(1) may
result in characters not being echoed or commands unable to be typed."
However, after playing with input methods with the gnome-t
>
> Is expressing amusement "language that causes
> resentment"?
>
> Or is the bad language you are talking about the
> reference to "A$$" in
> the subject line?
>
> Has our forum come to this?
>
> Brian
I believe you have answered your own question. (&thus then why bothered to
ask?)
--
Th
> I'm amused that you think that re-writing IPS in the
> C language would
> make it run that much faster.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Shawn Walker
Hi Shawn,
You are, of course, a very respectable member of this forum (an
understatement), but please refrain from using languages that may cause
resen
> I want, like about 90% of the more literate home
> computer users to put together a zfs file server for
> my ever-growing home network.
Very recently, one of Sun's bloggers started a blog about building a small and
energy-efficient OpenSolaris/zfs-based home server:
http://blogs.sun.com/cons
> On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 00:07 -0800, W. Wayne Liauh
> wrote:
>
> > Why can't we try to duplicate the Ubuntu desktop if
> this is not already being considered?
>
> Because I do not want Ubuntu? And with me many others
> (I hope).
>
When Yong Sun (the "Ala
> W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> >> W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> >>> I am running OpenSolaris in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.06)
> >> now Kamic (Ubuntu 9.10) under VBox (fully updated,
> >> now to 3.0.10). Here's a brief summary of the
> >> problems:
> W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> > I am running OpenSolaris in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.06)
> now Kamic (Ubuntu 9.10) under VBox (fully updated,
> now to 3.0.10). Here's a brief summary of the
> problems:
> >
> > 1. no problem with os08011 liveCD and subsequent
> insta
> Try harder - which new Xorg version?
>
> snv_107 - Xorg 1.5.3
> snv_116 - Xorg 1.6.1
> snv_120 - Xorg 1.6.2
> snv_121 - Xorg 1.6.3
> snv_126 - Xorg 1.6.5
>
I am running OpenSolaris in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.06) now Kamic (Ubuntu 9.10) under
VBox (fully updated, now to
> it's so slow, that I need to wait ~1min to see the
> cursor movement for moving my mouse.
>
> Message was edited by: yongsun
I have run into a different kind of problem; I wasn't even able to boot from
the b122 image (AMD quad-core, Nvidia video, 8 GB RAM, trying to boot from VBox
3.0.4 under
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