[osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-20 Thread James Simonsen
I've been using linux for two years, but recently got tired of the constant bugs. My main use is building ruby on rails applications. Is there a Ruby on Rails port for OS? How about MySQL? I have a widescreen 22 inch monitor at 1680x1050. Some Linux distros have problems with the resolution. H

[osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread Amanda Waite
forgot to cc the alias -- Forwarded message -- From: Amanda Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 Dec 2007 08:54 Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions To: James Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi James, Coolstack includes a p

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-20 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Hi Welcome :-) > Is there a Ruby on Rails port for OS? How about > MySQL? Both exist for Solaris. mysql is in default install. RoR is available through Netbeans 6.0 + Sun Java App Server 9.1 (glassfish V2) + JRuby. JRuby is currently the fastest implementation of Ruby 1.8 (i.e. one that would

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread Orvar Korvar
I use OpenSoliars build 67 and it automatically identified my 20" monitor: Nec 20WGX2 and my Geforce 6200. Everything went fine. Auctually, OpenSolaris is becoming similar to a modern Linux, just as SuSE or Red Hat. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Phalan
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 06:11 -0800, James Simonsen wrote: ... > So with the NTFS partitions I can read them just fine, but as of right now I > cannot write to them? > If you are feeling adventerous and don't value your data you could check out fuse -> opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse. We'd be ve

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread James Carlson
James Simonsen writes: > Thanks for the info! I have a few more questions: > > I use a wireless USB to connect the computer running it to the internet and > network. Does O/S have a ndiswrapper on the DVD so that I can connect without > having to plug in an actual cable? > (I recently ran into a

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread James Simonsen
Thanks for the info! I have a few more questions: I use a wireless USB to connect the computer running it to the internet and network. Does O/S have a ndiswrapper on the DVD so that I can connect without having to plug in an actual cable? (I recently ran into a catch-22 with Fedora in which I co

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On Dec 21, 2007 11:11 AM, James Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the info! I have a few more questions: > > I use a wireless USB to connect the computer running it to the internet and > network. Does O/S have a ndiswrapper on the DVD so that I can connect without > having to plug

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
> Thanks for the info! I have a few more questions: More replies here http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=47721&tstart=0 in case you missed them. "Traditional" builds of ruby are available... but of course I'm partial to JRuby after seeing that it passes *all* test cases some

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread James Simonsen
I think I'm becoming convinced to use O/S. :) I will give it a shot tonight. Besides web development I'd like to become a Unix administrator in my job duties and this will be a great way to learn it. The O/S community seems to be dynamic and a bit more mature than some of the Linux ones I've b

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread Orvar Korvar
Please keep up us updated! :) And I can recommend the Nvidia Solaris forum for graphic issues. But my experience is that everything gets identified automatically. My 1680x1050 screen did. Sound, network, too. Just like Ubuntu or so. And Compiz and Beryl is available for Solaris too, works like

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-22 Thread Mario Goebbels
> Its pretty trivial to get ntfs-3g to compile which gives you read/write > support for ntfs. Since when's that? Last time I've tried it, it failed due to unimplemented mount flags or whatever it was. When I've commented out the various flags, where they were set, ntfs-3g seemed to do some work an

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-22 Thread Brian Gupta
Feel free to join the system-administration community group... That would be a good place to ping people. Also check out: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Open_Solaris_New_User_FAQ -Brian On Dec 21, 2007 12:21 PM, James Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I'm becoming convinced t

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-23 Thread Orvar Korvar
To mount ntfs you can use some fswmisc... program. Look here for more info:http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html In my opinion that works best under Solaris x86 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Phalan
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 14:51 +0100, Mario Goebbels wrote: > > Its pretty trivial to get ntfs-3g to compile which gives you read/write > > support for ntfs. > > Since when's that? Pretty recently. > Last time I've tried it, it failed due to > unimplemented mount flags or whatever it was. When I'