Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 25/05/2010 17:10, Paul Gress wrote: On 05/25/10 10:01 AM, Andrew Stormont wrote: Is Oracle really closing OpenSolaris? I didn't read that anywhere. My opinion, no. Opensolaris 2010.06 will be released soon. Then the development gate will open again. To clarify - the development

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-25 Thread James Grisanzio
Apologies for the profanity earlier on this thread. I suspended the account and the mail will be removed from the archives. This is a violation of the TOU. Jim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-25 Thread Andrew Stormont
Is Oracle really closing OpenSolaris? On 25 May 2010 15:21, James Grisanzio jim.grisan...@sun.com wrote: Apologies for the profanity earlier on this thread. I suspended the account and the mail will be removed from the archives. This is a violation of the TOU. Jim

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Gress
On 05/25/10 10:01 AM, Andrew Stormont wrote: Is Oracle really closing OpenSolaris? I didn't read that anywhere. My opinion, no. Opensolaris 2010.06 will be released soon. Then the development gate will open again. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-25 Thread Matthias Pfützner
Not, that anybody here knows anything w.r.t. that... You (Andrew Stormont) wrote: Is Oracle really closing OpenSolaris? On 25 May 2010 15:21, James Grisanzio jim.grisan...@sun.com wrote: Apologies for the profanity earlier on this thread. I suspended the account and the mail will be

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-25 Thread Bayard Bell
Seems like you could answer your own question if the claim were credible, doesn't it? This is an unsourced claim from an anonymous poster whose account name violated the terms of service. I'd say this is something out of sorts, but nutters disputing climate science can get the Times of

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-24 Thread Fuck Oracle for closing opensolaris
fork, please. it will be my second time to abandon SunOS. first time, it was solaris almost six yrs ago. it will be opensolaris this time if oracle is not going to act right. i will not purchase another product from oracle if they do anything evil to opensolaris. oracle, don't make me hate

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Tomas Bodzar
You mean something like this? Provide the best development platform possible. Provide full source access to developers and users, including the ability to look at CVS tree changes directly. Users can even look at our source tree and changes directly on the web! Integrate good code from any

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:43 AM, John Plocher john.ploc...@gmail.com wrote: Re: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=129430tstart=15 As Dennis said, We are in a situation after some five years of the OpenSolaris community where one can not simply download sources and build

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
To all who missed the original message: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/distribution-discuss/2010-May/000727.html [distribution-discuss] A community based distro Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave.org Mon May 17 16:38:15 UTC 2010 * Previous message: [distribution-discuss] Grub

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: Everybody can join one of the existing distros, such as BeleniX or MilaX. Recommended: Certain parties should just start reading those websites and associated Blogs first, for the first time! We need code that is commonly accesable and we need the code

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: To all who missed the original message: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/distribution-discuss/2010-May/000727.html Well, the idea of the OGB is currently not to create a new distro but to encourage people to create free replacements for parts that

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of John Plocher Re: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=129430tstart=15 Join us! That's just what we need! No corporate sponsorship! To heck with all those full

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-20 Thread Bayard Bell
It sounds like there are really three separate strands here being elsewhere mistakenly characterised as community forking or distribution: 1) source-based distribution to shadow source changes more closely than the fully releases, where there is some concern expressed about this being an

[osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community driven distro...

2010-05-19 Thread John Plocher
Re: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=129430tstart=15 As Dennis said, We are in a situation after some five years of the OpenSolaris community where one can not simply download sources and build something runnable. We can not even bootstrap the kernel without special corporate