Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-05 Thread Euan Thoms
Wow, never realized the OSS came with a cool tool like ossxmix. That's sorted my problem with one speaker and I think it's louder too (not had time to test it with multimedia yet). Thanks Shawn! Thanks everybody for replies, OSS and CUPS adoption pleases me much, really looking forward to testi

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Euan Thoms wrote: > Graphics (X): At a 2D level I'm very happy, screen is crisp, more fonts > available, it's pretty quick and surprisingly clean (no spurious flashing and > colours when switching between X and command line UI or when adjusting screen > res). However my ATI still doesn't support

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-05 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/4 Euan Thoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sound: have to install OSS driver and even on full volume it's not very loud > at all, sometimes only one speaker works. In addition to driver support, we > really need a proper and pwerful unified sound server, I suggest adopting > pulse audio as the d

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-05 Thread Calum Benson
On 5 Jun 2008, at 02:46, Euan Thoms wrote: > > Printing: We need CUPS, either by default or a really easy switch. It's on the way. CUPS was integrated into Nevada build 87; OpenSolaris is based on Nevada build 86. > Multimedia: This is one area I was really hoping Indiana would work > on, t

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > ~$ /usr/gnu/bin/ls --colour > /usr/gnu/bin/ls: unrecognized option `--colour' > Try `/usr/gnu/bin/ls --help' for more information. > > > Irk... > It should be ". . ./ls --color", not ". . ./ls --colour". Sorry for the "American" English. :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-05 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Alfred Peng wrote: > Euan Thoms wrote: >> Command shell; Being quite new to *nix, I probably shouldn't comment in this >> area. I really like the adoption of bash as default shell, and single quotes >> when drag and dropping from nautilus. What about colour coding of output >> from ls though? >

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-04 Thread Alfred Peng
Euan Thoms wrote: > Command shell; Being quite new to *nix, I probably shouldn't comment in this > area. I really like the adoption of bash as default shell, and single quotes > when drag and dropping from nautilus. What about colour coding of output from > ls though? With the command below: #

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2008.05 - feedback of progress

2008-06-04 Thread Euan Thoms
Trapped between Linux and Solaris? I am. My *NIX journey began onll less than 2 years ago. I started with Solaris 10 when I saw "Java Desktop System" mentioned, I thought it was a hybrid of the solid and efficient Solaris engine with the beauty of Java. I am a huge fan of Java, and I thought if