pps to review to get a baseline of what is available.
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You can use this file to assist you in building GCC 4.3.1 for OpenSolaris
distros. Check your 32/64-bit builds with the GCC 4.3.1 testsuite before
publishing the build.
http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/SFEgcc.spec?revision=971&view=markup
~ Ken
. Martux 0.2 (b37)
Superceded:
1. SXDE 01/08 (b79) - replaced by OpenSolaris 2008.05 binary distro
Standard C/C++ compilers:
1. Sun Studio 11 or higher
2. GCC 3.4.3 / 4.2.3
3. GCCfss 4.2.3
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production environments and love it! ;o)
This will hopefully answer questions about the new
OpenSolaris support contract and FreeBSD 7.x
comparisons. Maybe not.
~ Ken Mays
--- Alex Leverington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> FreeBSD vs OpenSolari
. NexentaCP 1.0 (b82+)
6. Milax 0.3 (b85)
Superceded:
1. Solaris Express: Developer Edition 01/08 (b79) -
replaced by OpenSolaris 2008.05
2. Martux 0.2 (b37) - now defunct
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http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
Version 1.2.0
Added support for RV620, RV635, and R680.
Added 2D acceleration for R5xx (including RS6xx), both
XAA and EXA.
Added support for DDIA block (second digital output)
on RS690.
Added support for interlaced modes
Added additional layers for splitting
OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distributions as of 04/08/2008
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1. Indiana DP 2 (beta, b79)
2. Solaris Express: Community Edition (b85)
3. Solaris Express: Developer Edition 01/08
OpenSolaris CD/DVD Distributions as of 02/28/2008:
1. Indiana DP 2 (beta, b79)
2. Solaris Express: Community Edition (b82)
3. Solaris Express: Developer Edition 01/08 (b79)
4. SchilliX 0.6.3 (b83)
5. BeleniX 0.6.1 (http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
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http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9600gt.html
The new video drivers might be v174.16 or higher - but
not officially posted on the web site yet for Solaris
x86/64 (only Windows XP or higher).
Test with SXCE 82 and Solaris 10 if possible.
~ Ken Mays
oring tools and apps to Solaris
dealing with these technologies is something people
should keep an eye on.
Make sure your Blu-Ray players are compliant to the
latest Blu-Ray spec or you may get bit!!
~ Ken Mays
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s.
I mentioned this about two years ago on getting OpenGL
2.1 API compliant support on OpenSolaris/Solaris 10
and submitted an RFE as well.
Wouldn't Mesa 7.0.2/7.1 benefit Xorg video device
driver 3D develop
ut to help businesses and academia migrate
*FULLY* FROM the Linux kernel - if needed or
requested. Cross platform application development and
portability needs in the commercial marketplace
outweight the "who's on first" mindsets.
This goes from development firms running massive
renderfarms, s
te
reviews!!
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x86 as well.
~ Ken Mays
->
Hello Andrew,
Friday, January 25, 2008, 8:13:46 PM, you wrote:
AW> I have been looking into this recently and I got a
reply from
AW> those Oracle people, which is not what I was
hoping for. Again it
AW> is d
Have you looked at the kernel build done by the
Nexenta team referring to Nevada b81/82 backported
patches to Nevada b80 that they used for Nexenta
RC2?!?
Otherwise, great to see 'Schillix' back in the game!
Maybe Ubuntu Server 7.10 equivalent... ?
consolidation would be available between
Jan 23-30,2008.
Other releases of interest:
1. Indiana Preview Milestone 2
2. SXDE 01/08
3. Solaris 10 Update 5
Hope that is helpful until we get the official word,
Ken Mays
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Derek,
I think it can be a good idea to giv
o get the best performance.
I've had some recent discussion with one of Sun's
engineers on the Intel X38/ICH9R support in Nevada.
Sun is working AMD and Intel on their latest
processors - but keep your eyes out on the latest in
chipset support as well.
~ Ken Mays
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I'm using SXCE b78, but awaiting SXCE b80+ for heavy
server load performance testing using the Intel QX9650
processor.
Ken Mays
"about 99% of all software available today is
programmed to run on a single core processor" - Sander
Sasse
ort to Solaris x86' issue.
~ Ken Mays
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compile current OpenSolaris kernels in under one hour.
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Solaris 10 08/07
first, then an officially tested and supported
OpenSolaris-distro (i.e. SXCE/SXDE).
See:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/apps/
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/scla.jsp
That will keep things on the right path for now for
most user
iana-based
distros and read up on the community evangelism
efforts.
Indiana provides a great baseline for developers to
take a 'reference CD' and build upon. Hopefully, Y2008
will show more innovation and consumer acceptance of
the concept as the OpenSolaris community moves forward
on
t was meant to be a
conceptual prototype for developers to preview - not a
full production product or beta-quality prototype.
All the major issues like SysVR4 package management,
ZFS, ACL/trusted extensions, and RBAC/sudo are known
and under review. See indian
the tool you need (or modify it).
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s community management and
evangelism, seems like the boat is still sailing. A
few icebergs, but the boat is still sailing (see:
http://planet.opensolaris.org).
I'm sure the subconcious mind doesn't tell the
concious mind everything either or maybe it does
but we don't pay it
n/zone. That way you
can run ANY x86/x64 application in its own space and
not worry about an application ported to a specific OS
by the vendor (which might not have the in-house
resources/talent to support and maintain that effort).
~ Ken Mays
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If someone wanted it, then it would probaby be worth
asking Wolfram
Reserach if they would licence a student version on
x8
OpenSolaris on Itanium2 might be an interesting
project to pursue.
Why not start on it and see where it leads??
~ Ken
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cation between the
community, facilitators, and OGB seems lost in a
'battlefield' of threads...
We need people that will take a bit of ownership and
innovate ways to grow the community and ensure not
only success - but improved community involvement and
You know...
Can we actually use Jack as the mascot for now (till
we find something better)?!?
Even use a video or two of Jack in action?!?
:oD
Ref: http://www.antics.com/renegade.html
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try to appreciate the input.
Do this and we may stay and stand united. Don't do
this and things may end up like falling dominoes - one
community member and user group at a time...
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Hello,
After reading through many of the threads and emails,
I'd like to ask ow we can simplify things. We
discussed some of these things during the Developer
Summit (naming, branding, votes, non-participants,
etc) and it seems we need to make progress on these
efforts.
At least we have a new In
Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ubuntu != Debian
>
> My remarks were more to with Ubuntu derivatives than
Debian.
OK, but many people also believe that Ubuntu must be ~
Debian because
it uses a lot of Debian packages. As this is not the
case,I though I
should
mention it.
Jörg
--
not know much of the difference or
really care - as long as it is an Nvidia card as it
says on the box and works with Nvidia drivers (and
their games/demos...).
I think of this Indiana project kinda the same way
now...
~Ken Mays
les or Sun "management" other than
the common 'community' mindshare based on calling
something "Indiana-based", "Indiana-compatible", or
"based on OpenSolaris technology".
I'd think Sun management is here to only provide
guidance and not rea
By the way,
I should mention the newer 3-GHz Intel X6850 quad-processor before the sun goes
down on my little part of the world. That may be the current contender for the
AMD Phenom.
~ Ken
- Original Message
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To: Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL
Dennis,
The 8-core single processor market dominates. You also have the new Quad-core
AMD Phenom which will be officially out soon and the Intel Q6700 processor. A
dual Quad-Core processor server will be a very nice machine for someone with
the use.
As my wallet bursts into flames, I'd look in
Still not yet for x86, which is disappointing.
However, the formulation in the drop-down menu looks a
bit promising:
No longer just "Solaris", but "Choose Solaris version"
--->> "Solaris
SPARC" ...
So maybe a x86 version is in the works or at least
planned (pure
speculation)
%m
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Usually, if you have the compiler options set up the right way you won't have
as many problems with the Solaris linker. I don't advise using anything but Sun
ld for compiling open source apps on Solaris. The Sun assembler , aka "as",
should also be up to par for most needs.
Don't bother with GN
tween browsers and
desktop publishing with "web fonts" and such...
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ken mays wrote:
> The ATI v8.39.4 release of device drivers for
Solaris
> supporting the ATI X1900 series graphic cards???
As far as I know, ATI has no plans to release Solaris
drivers themselves.
> ATI mentioned they support the open source
developers
> wanting to work on ATI
graphics
solutions (currently, the Intel X3x00 series (which is
mainly the G965/GM965 chips)) are the next "supported"
choice. Matrox 3D graphic solutions are another. Then,
ATI 3D device drivers are supported by XiG graphics as
well as other alternate g
Erast,
This is an excellent mini distro as I just download
and loaded it on a test system. Glad to see bootable
ZFS integration.
Now I have to play with trusted extensions again
~ Ken
Looking
set of Sun Studio 12 (CLI-based only).
Take a look at the FreeBSD-mini.iso which is a decent
example of a 'reference' distro.
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I saw this comment below and thought I would respond:
The reason Blastwave has its own GNOME binary set was
due to historical events. Blastwave was the forerunner
of building newer versions of GNOME for Solaris before
OpenSolaris existed. No other major ISV was doing this
for Sun Solaris on a cons
s a common ground between distros.
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since it was seen as a "NetBSD" OS at that time (i.e.
runs on any hardware) by way of the benefits of its
HAL subsystem.
Honestly, MS Windows still exists for 'other' target
platforms. Just not sold to the general public...
I can see OpenSolaris distros heading down
people who just want to provide a 'service' or use the
CLI for programming/sys admin tasks.
Ken Mays
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GPS? Comic books?
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Hello,
Well, that isn't bad news. There are a few ways to go
about getting the 64-bit versions of those products.
If you like to 'roll your own' packages then get the
stats on how the Oracle libs were compiled and build
accordingly for proper linkage.
Of course using the 'glass half empty' model
.3.16, KDE 3.5.7, and Evince 0.9.0
will be a MAJOR benefit to Belenix 0.6.1. The
educational and scientific apps that come with KDE
3.5.7 will spearhead the UNIX desktop capabilities on
Solaris.
Reference:
http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/Linux_vs_Solaris/summing_up.shtml
Ken Mays
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t managers experience
in Linux/*BSD/BSDI/IRIX/HP-UX(you get the
idea?!?). Professional solutions right at your
doorstep or virtual portal.
Not many free "OS" solutions or commercial ones
provide you with that level of service in user forums
or scholastic enviro
. Xfce is nice for users/ sys admins/ sofware
engineers/programmers not really needed a full desktop
environment and just want the basics of a desktop GUI.
There is also JDS...
~ Ken Mays
Curious: What is the motivation behind supporting both
Xfce and KDE?
For the user
inventory...
~ Ken Mays
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* Full Modular Xorg 7.2 based on the Solaris X
Consolidation sources
The full modular sources are available at:
http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/X-src-20070410-full-modul
approach instead of manual.
I'd think its more of asking Jorg what he needs or
requires to keep developing Schillix (if HE want to)
and go from there instead of pulling out the almighty
sledgehammer and bashing his head.
Back to those days
ssue. We tend to point fingers at Solaris for
not having this or that, but sometimes this is more of
a development or product management issue.
Bad development coding is just bad development
coding... :o)
K
e out FreeBSD.
Why can't we use Solaris as a training OS over Minix??
;)
Ken Mays
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ns of the
jPhone versus the iPhone.
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configuration
(maybe Presto!)
This brings Belenix up to most of the Linux distros
today for demo purposes.
The Solaris installation GUIs need *more*
modernization as they seem the same as they were back
in Solaris 2.6-2.7.
Ken Mays
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rchitectures where
Linux has dominated.
I'm not saying Sun is not doing this (I know better),
yet Solaris needs to become the next 'household word'
that relates to enterprise-class UNIX operating system
in every young entrepreneurs mind with or without an
MBA. I hope to see that i
You'll have to confirm this but the last build of
Vermillion (vermillion_b64) is based on GNOME 2.18.1.
I believe GNOME 2.18.1 is what is going into the
SXCE/SXDE snv_b65 distro.
~ Ken Mays
Get your ow
-audio.com) like the
Hammerfall DSP 9632 soundcard then we have to look into more specs. I also had
to look further into this for the Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro card and M-Audio
AudioPhile and Revolution series.
Fluendo also has nice plugins for GStreamer so look there as well.
Ken Mays
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ercial solutions - but
it seems Gstreamer is picking up momentum as well as
OSS.
Ken Mays
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ken mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was asking if you needed immediate access to a
> Blu-Ray drive and/or workstation for development
> purposes.
> I'd gladly donate some funds for hardware if you're
> willing to provide the solution.
Do you have a Blu Ray dr
ken mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As stated before, it seems we need the hardware and
> specs available to the right software engineers that
> will provide the solution.
>
> 1. Sony has a workstation (130G, $1500 USD) and
> Blu-Ray drives (BWU-100A and BRU-100A (extern
and move forward with
this project
I have immediate access to the hardware - if needed.
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and double-layer (DL) media support, along with the
ability to master images for DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-18."
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>
> This may have been true (I don't know) with previous
Fujitsu gear;
it's
> certainly not the case for these machines.
Hello,
Although I can't speak for Sun or Fujitsu, they
certify the OSes on their platforms. I'd hope to see
that 'st
d
servers/workstations as well as content creation.
Also, cross platform development projects where
Solaris is used on desktop/workstations.
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- Apple has the UNIX desktop GUI platform.
Shake the two together... and you might have
something.
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Bored stiff? Loosen up...
Download and play hundreds of games for fr
quality
1080p playback (1920x1080p) which was my initial test
display for the Sun Ultra 40 workstation. The
video/audio CODECs used with Mplayer 1.0rc2 and some
proprietary ones provide you with most of the tools
yo
>
> Note: Sun's CDE is AFAIK _not_ CDE 2.1, although it
has many but not
> all of the features, as well as a lot of
Sun-specific add-ons and
> improvements (or at any rate changes).
>
thats too bad, I maybe one of the last people left to
say I prefer CDE.
--
2c. T
creased as well.
You even have other commercial UNIX giants accepting
Solaris on their hardware.
Every champion has to give up the title sooner or
later. So, I think its Sun's time to shine this round.
~ Ken Mays
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- When you no longer have to ask if OpenSolaris is
successful, you just know it.
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stable), built on
the JDS CBE using
> Sun Studio 11.
+1 .. most definitely.
Ken Mays
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I was think initially of the windows CE space, rather
than the embedded
Linux one.
If not, is there enough interest for an embeddable
Open Solaris
project?
Cheers,
Ian
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Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > ken mays wrote:
[snip]
> >> 5. Support for PowerPC G4 to G5 (PPC750GX)
> >
> > Will Apple G3 machines still be supported ?
>
> probably not for a lng time
Why (I still have the chance to get an older Apple
G3-based IMac...
question
press peripheral links, DDR2 memory
controller and multiple Gigabit Ethernet ports."
as well as merge,compile, and test kernels for those
architectures.... ;o>
Ken Mays
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"We're off to
1. Usable version of the Polaris (Solaris for PPC port) - Not at the level of a
"distro" or true "boot disk" as there is more work needed. Yet, several people
(i.e. Cyril, Dennis Clarke, Tom Riddle, others) have demoed Polaris so it does
exist in some perspective. GCC toolchains are being update
s to discuss to 'would-be' and
existing users of Solaris.
I see a need to update the OpenSolaris website and
Wikis based on the newer SXCR b55 release.
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the StarOffice 8u5 integration. Both GNOME
2.16.1, StarOffice 8u5, and Solaris Express 12 beta
(OpenMP, thread analyzer, G++ compatibility!!) are
important features to discuss to 'would-be' and
existing users of Solaris.
I see a need to update the OpenSolaris website and
Wikis based on th
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/slashdot_interview.html
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keep the new versions of
KDE on the Solaris Community (aka CCD) DVD as an
unsupported product build or will this be a
OpenSolaris specific-build project never to be forked
into the main Solaris product as a officially
supported desktop
The announcement of this device SATA AHCI device
driver is a great thing.
Any specific motherboards this was tested on, like a
D975XBX2 reference motherboard, to compare notes?
~ Ken
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legacy Solaris versions and support Sun's CDE based on that Sun's info.
~ Ken Mays
- Original Message
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To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:43:07 AM
Subject: [osol-discuss
post follow up
information over on the powerpc-discussion board, unless Sun thinks it should
be its own project.
Ken Mays
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. Very Large developer community
6. Large financial backing
An OpenSolaris project built around Sony Playstation 3 allows use of the
advanced sound and powerful graphics capabilties - and well as a portable
multi-purpose platform.
Something to think about,
Ken Mays
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Sun's
CDE.
A lot of attention is on KDE and GNOME, but support for CDE and OpenMotif is
very possible.
Ken Mays
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- Original Message
From: Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:34:54 PM
Glynn,
Tools like hwinfo, NICtools, Sun VTS, SCSItools, and PCIutils are invaluable
for hardware/software engineers for Solaris SDK/DDK work. Some of the tools
were implemented on Knoppix for Live CD/DVDs and now Ubuntu.
Ken Mays
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- Original Message
From: Glynn
Hanzo,
You may want to look at ZFS as that is the new filesystem for OpenSolaris and
Sun Solaris 10.
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I'd like to know if this would fall in line with the proposed Xorg/Xsun v7.2
(RC*) release for SXCR? In light of the Intel X3000, Matrox Parhelia, and
Radeon R300 device drivers, a bit of developer gift-giving may be very
beneficial if this was delivered with a current Direct Rendering Infrastru
Anyone for OpenMotif v2.3 ?
~K
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sty legal issues. of course there
could be some sort of loose trademark agreement so we
wouldn't feel our lollipops tasted 'less sweet'...
See what happens when you start saying OpenA*X 5L for
SPARC...
~ Ken Mays
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DVD images.
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Solaris operating systems.
Disclaimer : There are still many things we need to
review and update, so don't expect everything and the
kitchen sink yet
Enjoy,
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