Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-31 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
However, the open source version of the QQ client is known to have limited features (though it should be good enough for inclusion in OpenSolaris). But as I am sure you are aware, Tencent actually provides QQ clients for various platforms, including Linux. Most Linux distros avoid the

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The only bug report I find was closed by one of the pidgin maintainers from Sun's Beijing office as not possible since the QQ network owners don't allow third-party clients: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7767 Thanks Alan (as always), but plse see the attached screenshot

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread Ginn Chen
It is not a technical issue, but a legal one. I don't know if it is legal to ship a QQ client created by using reverse engineering. But I know, in 2006, Tencent filed a copyright lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soff), the author of Coral QQ, whose redistributing modified Tencent QQ was ruled

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread Uros Nedic
The current plan is for 2010.03 to be based on build 134. Builds 133 134 are bug-fix-only builds to try to improve the stability and fix the critical bugs for 2010.03 - any decision about slipping the release because the quality isn't good enough would likely not be made until we see

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread Tomas Bodzar
quote The only bug report I find was closed by one of the pidgin maintainers from Sun's Beijing office as not possible since the QQ network owners don't allow third-party clients: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7767 /quote ICQ is not allowed on 3rd party clients too and voala

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
It is not a technical issue, but a legal one. I don't know if it is legal to ship a QQ client created by using reverse engineering. But I know, in 2006, Tencent filed a copyright lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soff), the author of Coral QQ, whose redistributing modified Tencent QQ was

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: But the main issue is, practically speaking, OS2010.03 is coming out in just little over a month, and most of us outsiders still don't have any idea of what or how it may look like. We release new builds every two weeks - if you don't know what it will look like, it's

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
You can see just as much as most Sun employees can. -Alan Coopersmith- - alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System em Engineering Most of Sun's employees don't even use OpenSolaris! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread Shawn Walker
On 01/27/10 11:40 AM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: You can see just as much as most Sun employees can. -Alan Coopersmith- - alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System em Engineering Most of Sun's employees don't even use OpenSolaris! I'm not certain what source you

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
BTW the webcast of the Oracle/Sun strategy session is still going on: http://tinyurl.com/os-012710 I have to take off now. If anyone hears anything about OpenSolaris, please let us know. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Griffith
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:54 -0800, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: BTW the webcast of the Oracle/Sun strategy session is still going on: http://tinyurl.com/os-012710 I have to take off now. If anyone hears anything about OpenSolaris, please let us know. Thanks. I just missed the OS/Visualization

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
It is not a technical issue, but a legal one. I don't know if it is legal to ship a QQ client created by using reverse engineering. But I know, in 2006, Tencent filed a copyright lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soff), the author of Coral QQ, whose redistributing modified Tencent QQ was

[osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-26 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The OS2010.03 LiveCD is supposed to be released in 03, 2010. As such, the final RC should be out by the end of February ( based on the previous releases, the official release will be binary-identical to the final RC). However, based on what I read and from my own experiences (it won't even

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-01-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: The OS2010.03 LiveCD is supposed to be released in 03, 2010. As such, the final RC should be out by the end of February ( based on the previous releases, the official release will be binary-identical to the final RC). However, based on what I read and from my own