Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
two follow-up posts: First: Yes, this is from my blog. Thanks for reading :). And yes, we can run Windows HVM on Solaris dom0 now. BTW, I did a little bit correction on the translation below... In our next step, we'll support nic/disk PV drivers for Windows HVM. At that time, the performance

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Did someone use Xen and is it possible to run MS-WIN on case that the host platform supports Pacifica or Vanderbilt? Jörg I found one of Sun's blogs (from Sun's Beijing team) that talked about running Windows in Solaris under zen: # 支持了HVM:如果你的机器上有合适的CPU(支持AMD-V

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I found one of Sun's blogs (from Sun's Beijing team) that talked about running Windows in Solaris under xen: The following is a Solaris Xen update quote in that article: http://blogs.sun.com/levon/entry/solaris_xen_update HVM support If you have the right CPU, you can now run

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-20 Thread Dennis Clarke
I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also investigating VMWare ESX running Solaris in a big way. (I wonder if there

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-20 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
It'd be great if we could run VMWare with Solaris as the guest OS. You mean with Solaris as a host OS? Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-20 Thread S h i v
On 8/20/07, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also investigating

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-20 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 8/20/07, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also investigating

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-20 Thread UNIX admin
I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. I find it funny that you use T2000 and commodity hardware in the same sentence. T2000

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'd be great if we could run VMWare with Solaris as the guest OS. You mean with Solaris as a host OS? For me, only Solaris as host OS would be of interest Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks. Did someone use Xen and is it possible

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'd be great if we could run VMWare with Solaris as the guest OS. You mean with Solaris as a host OS? For me, only Solaris as host OS would be of interest Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks. Did someone use

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, only Solaris as host OS would be of interest Does anyone have any experience on xen? thanks. Did someone use Xen and is it possible to run MS-WIN on case that the host platform supports Pacifica or Vanderbilt? Technically yes it is

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-19 Thread Manish Chakravarty
I beg to differ, as a Sun customer we are going commodity all the way. We haven't bought an Enterprise system since the 3800. Currently the majority of the Machines we are deploying are x4200s and T2000s. We are also investigating VMWare ESX running Solaris in a big way. (I wonder if there is

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
S h i v [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do! Until now, no lawyer did tell us that there may be a problem. Alan has already made references to the repeated discussion that has happened with the legal team. There is no reason

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem pretty confident in your interpetation of the law, and maybe you are spot on, I don't know. My interaction with the legal department has to do with CDDL/GPL/BSD interaction. I had several courses payed by my employer because I need to do some

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 12:59 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: I am not sure about copyright laws in less free countries, but in Germany/Europe, there is something called Recht auf das wissenschaftliche Kleinzitat. You may quote other people's work _without_ ever asking them for permission in

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
S h i v [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do! Until now, no lawyer did tell us that there may be a problem. Alan has already made references to the repeated discussion that has happened with the legal team. There is no reason

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
S h i v [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Derek E. Lewis wrote: and any lawyer worth the air he or she breathes to sufficiently dispute this in court, I think. On 8/10/07, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they have a specific side they err on, and this is one of those

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, S h i v wrote: On 8/10/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do! Until now, no lawyer did tell us that there may be a problem. Alan has already made references to the repeated discussion that has happened with the legal team. There is no reason

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Darren J Moffat wrote: S h i v wrote: *I* cannot, because I am not the owner of the copyright. Point was about mixing CDDL GPL and why it *is a problem* Sane thing is to follow legal advice by the qualified. It seems to have its good share of problems and need not be

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan has already made references to the repeated discussion that has happened with the legal team. There is no reason compelling enough for a second opinion :-) Sorry, he did not. Please carefully read hs mail, it does not include any quote fom a

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread S h i v
On 8/10/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless the putting the code into gpl tree is something we *badly want*, if there is ambiguity and scope for legal battle, err on the side that avoids litigation. No point in getting into litigations that distracts frustrates everyone.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
S h i v [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless the putting the code into gpl tree is something we *badly want*, if there is ambiguity and scope for legal battle, err on the side that avoids litigation. No point in getting into litigations

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
S h i v wrote: *I* cannot, because I am not the owner of the copyright. Point was about mixing CDDL GPL and why it *is a problem* Sane thing is to follow legal advice by the qualified. It seems to have its good share of problems and need not be done. There is no compelling need either.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread S h i v
On 8/10/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do! Until now, no lawyer did tell us that there may be a problem. Alan has already made references to the repeated discussion that has happened with the legal team. There is no reason compelling enough for a second opinion :-)

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Darren J Moffat wrote: S h i v wrote: *I* cannot, because I am not the owner of the copyright. Point was about mixing CDDL GPL and why it *is a problem* Sane thing is to follow legal advice by the qualified. It seems to have

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: [ ... ] You may quote other people's work _without_ ever asking them for permission in case this is needed for your work and as long as your work has enough own creation level to make it a separate

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-10 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: [ ... ] You may quote other people's work _without_ ever asking them for permission in case this is needed for your work and as long as your work has enough own creation level to make it a separate work. That might or might not be correct given

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Its just annoying - the low end graphics cards are nothing more than rebadged ATI stuff which has opensource drivers already - it would be a matter of rejigging the code to work on sparc. That's what Martin Bochnig did for Martux and we're looking at using his work for

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 11:38 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Just a follow up question; when will acpi appear in OpenSolaris by default? ACPI already is[1] it appeared as part of newboot on x86 and is regularly updated to the latest Intel reference code. However I

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 11:33 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: True - I'm had a look at the page, it would be cool if there was more documentation about future developments. The way the page is put there as if nwam is complete and no more development is going to occur.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 11:38 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Just a follow up question; when will acpi appear in OpenSolaris by default? ACPI already is[1] it appeared as part of newboot on x86 and is regularly updated to the latest Intel reference

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread Mario Goebbels
The only thing I would have done different given the limited resources in engineering, would have been to license under the BSD 3 clause so that anyone, any system, could have taken the code to incorporate into their system, even Linux. It seems that will happen if Sun does GPL2 and/or GPL3

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Derek E. Lewis wrote: If the text of the GPL was actually read, those concerned would understand that Linux could have ZFS and DTrace now, along with any other piece of code licensed under the CDDL. No, that is not clear, and IANAL and neither are you it seems. While

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: The fact that some people without legal knowledge claim a general unspecific incompatibility should not be taken for serious. What I know is that I must defer all the legal aspects to Sun's legal team, and have discussed several of these issues with

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread Brandorr
On 8/9/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Derek E. Lewis wrote: If the text of the GPL was actually read, those concerned would understand that Linux could have ZFS and DTrace now, along with any other piece of code

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-09 Thread S h i v
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Derek E. Lewis wrote: and any lawyer worth the air he or she breathes to sufficiently dispute this in court, I think. On 8/10/07, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they have a specific side they err on, and this is one of those issues that seems to be accepted by them.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can I suggest considering the following items? 1) a current, working and maintained port of eclipse 2) kde (much more powerful, lightweight and usable than gnome, IMO) 3) the Reply-to header in its lists :-) those are all topics that some kind third party

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is opensolaris. If you like it, do it! Jörg you explained yourself that doing it is one thing, integrating it in Opensolaris is a totally different thing that only the members of some board can decide. Since the ports of eclipse and kde

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Nico Sabbi wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] This is opensolaris. If you like it, do it! Jörg you explained yourself that doing it is one thing, integrating it in Opensolaris is a totally different thing that only the

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:57 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: Yes, it has changed - but I'm just frustrated at the lack of progress outside of the 'basics'. The next meeting of SVOSUG will feature a presentation by the Xorg group, notably Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 14:08 +0200, Mark Phalan wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:02 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: ... 2) kde (much more powerful, lightweight and usable than gnome, IMO) Someone has built 3.5.7 but unfortunately they seem to live under a giant size bolder - ignoring

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread S h i v
On 8/8/07, Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's far from what you want. You're not developing a kernel driver, a UN*X utility of a fix/enhancement to libc. You're simply requesting (some) (Open)Solaris distributions to include additional software. Which might have its own

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Phalan
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 18:03 +0530, S h i v wrote: On 8/8/07, Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's far from what you want. You're not developing a kernel driver, a UN*X utility of a fix/enhancement to libc. You're simply requesting (some) (Open)Solaris distributions to include

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 00:34 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: ... The way I read it, I would still need to travel to hell and back with the laundry list of GNU stuff I would need to install along with heaps I don't think thats really the case. Yes, there is some GNU stuff missing but most of it

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread S h i v
On 8/8/07, Mark Phalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh, Indiana, *the silver bullet* for every issue that is raised !!! Thats probably because Indiana is the umbrella for a lot of new technologies/projects being worked on. (I'm confused by the Sigh). Sigh = want to take a break (from the

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:45 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 04:19 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: I do wonder why we need to have a different GNOME desktop? Well, I know why we do it (i.e., JDS), but I'm not sure why we should. It only diverges us from the mainstream, and

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 12:11 -0700, Edward McAuley wrote: Uh, let's see. Beautiful interface (as attractive as the Mac or Vista), intuitively laid out, ease of use, UNIX (like), open source...it's already here. You can download it or buy it. Suse 10.2 Please look at this latest

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: 1) The new-boot architecture brought us into the modern age of booting. Which was great - but need I be negative, but what took so long? it took *that* long for Sun to realise their x86 booting royally sucked? This was one of the quicker project in

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Calum Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 04:19 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: I do wonder why we need to have a different GNOME desktop? Well, I know why we do it (i.e., JDS), but I'm not sure why we should. It only diverges us from the mainstream, and makes things different.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-07 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: Yes, it has changed - but I'm just frustrated at the lack of progress outside of the 'basics'. The next meeting of SVOSUG will feature a presentation by the Xorg group, notably Alan Coopersmith, showing the latest Xorg changes and/or what is in

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-07 Thread Nico Sabbi
Alan DuBoff wrote: The next meeting of SVOSUG will feature a presentation by the Xorg group, notably Alan Coopersmith, showing the latest Xorg changes and/or what is in store, but to also show Compiz. Your comments got me to thinking, and I have really come to the conclusion that Solaris has

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-06 Thread Mario Goebbels
Well, I've taken a look and the development of a Linux reader has pretty much stagnated the same time the Solaris SPARC, AIX and HP-UX builds have. All are stuck at 7.0.9, so I suppose Adobe simply just doesn't believe in *nix. -mg Flash was supplied via an agreement with Macromedia - Adobe

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-06 Thread Brandorr
On 8/6/07, Mario Goebbels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've taken a look and the development of a Linux reader has pretty much stagnated the same time the Solaris SPARC, AIX and HP-UX builds have. All are stuck at 7.0.9, so I suppose Adobe simply just doesn't believe in *nix. Unless you

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-06 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 07:32 -0700, Mario Goebbels wrote: Well, I've taken a look and the development of a Linux reader has pretty much stagnated the same time the Solaris SPARC, AIX and HP-UX builds have. All are stuck at 7.0.9, so I suppose Adobe simply just doesn't believe in *nix. True -

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-06 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:36 -0400, Brandorr wrote: On 8/6/07, Mario Goebbels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've taken a look and the development of a Linux reader has pretty much stagnated the same time the Solaris SPARC, AIX and HP-UX builds have. All are stuck at

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brandorr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/6/07, Mario Goebbels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've taken a look and the development of a Linux reader has pretty much stagnated the same time the Solaris SPARC, AIX and HP-UX builds have. All are stuck at 7.0.9, so I suppose Adobe simply just

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-06 Thread Brandorr
On 8/6/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandorr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/6/07, Mario Goebbels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've taken a look and the development of a Linux reader has pretty much stagnated the same time the Solaris SPARC, AIX and HP-UX builds

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-06 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:23 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Brandorr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/6/07, Mario Goebbels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've taken a look and the development of a Linux reader has pretty much stagnated the same time the Solaris SPARC, AIX and HP-UX builds

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-05 Thread Mario Goebbels
Adobe alternatives: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/contentcreation/0,101068,39286832,00.htm Homesite: http://www.osalt.com/nvu MYOB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboCASH Quicken: http://www.linux.com/articles/49400 See, I'm a recent Windows convert. I wasn't a fan of it, until I

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-05 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 04:52 -0700, Mario Goebbels wrote: Adobe alternatives: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/contentcreation/0,101068,39286832,00.htm Homesite: http://www.osalt.com/nvu MYOB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboCASH Quicken: http://www.linux.com/articles/49400

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-05 Thread Mario Goebbels
My impression is that a current Nevada build with Gnome desktop will not work decently if it has less than 2 GB of RAM. This is really bad. Firefox + Xserver will soon consume 1.3 GB together and a 1 GB system will start excessive paging. Is this really needed? My system runs since

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-05 Thread Mario Goebbels
More on the OS and why Solaris has the technology to beat Windows as a game and other application development platform: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story 14918 On a related note, what I'd like to see is all various operating systems agreeing on a standard core API, on

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-05 Thread Mario Goebbels
Regarding GIMP, 2.4 will apparently take more of a Photoshop look - but ultimately the only real possibility is for Sun to work with wine and improve Windows compatibility - Adobe has flat out refused to support Sun and Solaris. There is very little Sun can do when Adobe is unwilling to

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-05 Thread Michael Jones
Ok To start off. I have read this entire thread. I want to simply say, there is alot of closed minds in this , as well some brilliant thoughts. If you really wanted to take OpenSolaris to the wide vast market. 1. Make a developer version and a end user version (ease of use)) 2. Set up support

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-05 Thread Brandorr
On 8/5/07, Mario Goebbels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding GIMP, 2.4 will apparently take more of a Photoshop look - but ultimately the only real possibility is for Sun to work with wine and improve Windows compatibility - Adobe has flat out refused to support Sun and Solaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-05 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 11:41 -0700, Mario Goebbels wrote: Regarding GIMP, 2.4 will apparently take more of a Photoshop look - but ultimately the only real possibility is for Sun to work with wine and improve Windows compatibility - Adobe has flat out refused to support Sun and

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: Yes, it has changed - but I'm just frustrated at the lack of progress outside of the 'basics'. If you could be more considerate to folks that subscribe to this list, more of the engineers will offer more support and think better of you. I mean

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread UNIX admin
On games, I'm not sure everyone knows this, so I'll point it out. Games are a killer app for PCs, and they have been for years. (They make people buy computers.) This is true, at least in my case: I built my first PC *ever* (which I still use today) seven years ago - just to play games.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread S h i v
On 8/3/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Gardiner wrote: x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve the user experience in either hardware support or software availability. You think nvidia video drivers, wifi drivers, Macromedia Flash, and

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread UNIX admin
So you're saying you may know what Indiana actually is? It seems to be a moving target, changing from day to day. How could that mean anything to anyone at this point I wonder? I'm writing that it means something to a certain profile / group of people. As is evident from the ensuing

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Burlison
Matthew Gardiner wrote: When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number of products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to provide specifications to those who want them? When you stop trolling, and start coding? -- Alan Burlison --

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/3/07, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Gardiner wrote: When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number of products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to provide specifications to those who want them? When you stop

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 23:05 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: Yes, it has changed - but I'm just frustrated at the lack of progress outside of the 'basics'. If you could be more considerate to folks that subscribe to this list, more of the engineers

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. Matthew Gardiner wrote: x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve the user experience in either hardware support or software availability

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. Matthew Gardiner wrote: x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve the user experience in either hardware support or software availability. You think nvidia video drivers, wifi drivers, Macromedia Flash, and all

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Matthew Gardiner wrote: When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number of products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to provide specifications to those who want them? When you stop trolling, and start coding? The distinction between talk

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Orvar Korvar
OpenSolaris will have to get it's users from the Windows world, and not the Linux world? But the Linux users come from the Windows world. And the Linux users have a mentality closer to Solaris, than any Windows user. Imagine there was only Windows and Solaris. For a winuser to switch to

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gerald Henriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu, and more importantly Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) are NOT American. They are based in Europe, which means so far they can get away with doing things that an American based company cannot. Red Hat has had their lawyers look into this

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Gardiner
; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:09 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. Gerald Henriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu, and more importantly Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) are NOT American. They are based in Europe, which means so far

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Gardiner
- Original Message - From: John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:21 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. On Aug 1, 2007

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread John Martinez
On Aug 1, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:34 -0700, John Martinez wrote: I thought I read somewhere (can't find the source) that the market for PC games is shrinking and the market for console games is growing (Wii/PS3/Xbox 360). The only exception being

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Edward McAuley
Which desktop are you running? KDE (as a user) and Gnome (a rare root session, occasionally as a user) and xterm (skills playground) with no problems so far. It works for you but when it comes to stability I've found it lacking. That's fine. It's very likely explained by the difference in

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: Something that *NIX, let alot Solaris isn't doing very well - lack of will of companies concerned one could say. Kinda like the defeatest attitude to Microsoft dominance on the desktop. How would you gauge that yourself? Do those companies contact

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, MC wrote: It comes with their PCs because it is technically the best desktop OS. Dell doesn't sell Windows PCs instead of OS/2 Warp PCs because of a coin flip. Windows is simply the best. (Better than all the rest!) Being ignorant or dismissive of the market leaders

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, UNIX admin wrote: Those that Indiana means something to are computer enthusiasts in one form or another. So you're saying you may know what Indiana actually is? It seems to be a moving target, changing from day to day. How could that mean anything to anyone at this

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: What can the opensolaris community do? nothing, it has no money. What can Sun do? it has $4billion, you can do alot with $4billion. I would think a sharp guy like you could reverse engineer most of those protocols. That doesn't require money. --

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: What can the opensolaris community do? nothing, it has no money. What can Sun do? it has $4billion, you can do alot with $4billion. I would think a sharp guy like you could reverse engineer most of those protocols. That

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you still need a license to ship it. Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those mentioned protocols for a Linux distribution snatching off a server in

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve the user experience in either hardware support or software availability. First of all, Solaris on x86 has been around for about 15 years, so I'm not sure of the 2 years you

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Gardiner
- Original Message - From: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, MC wrote: It comes with their PCs

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Gardiner
- Original Message - From: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 6:38 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote: Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those mentioned protocols for a Linux distribution snatching off a server in another country. Why should Solaris be the same? *shouldn't* is what I meant. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: When Solaris has the same level of hardware support both out of the box and official, and software availability in the form of off the shelf boxed products from big name vendors, then Sun and its minions can be judgemental over Windows. Until

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Matthew Gardiner wrote: x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve the user experience in either hardware support or software availability. You think nvidia video drivers, wifi drivers, Macromedia Flash, and all the other drivers software appeared on their own

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you still need a license to ship it. Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those mentioned protocols for a Linux distribution

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you still need a license to ship it. Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Gardiner
- Original Message - From: Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Gardiner
Original Message - From: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Gardiner
] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve the user experience in either hardware support or software availability. First of all, Solaris on x86 has been around for about 15

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Gardiner
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community. Alan DuBoff wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you still need a license to ship it. Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get

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