Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-23 Thread Euan Thoms
I downloaded it out of curiosity. Looks like it's based on 2008.11 or close?! uname -a contains the string NexentaOS_20081207. The included FF is 3.0.5. The forum posts indicate this is a one man show. Upon boot of the live CD, it complains about Gnome not being installed properly, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-23 Thread Edward Martinez
I downloaded it out of curiosity. Looks like it's based on 2008.11 or close?! uname -a contains the string NexentaOS_20081207. The included FF is 3.0.5. The forum posts indicate this is a one man show. Upon boot of the live CD, it complains about Gnome not being installed properly, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-23 Thread Edward Martinez
oops, i forgot to add that apt-get update needs to be executed first to be able to install from the repos:-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew Stormont
Hi, I'm the guy that created StormOS and apart from a friend of mine that does the graphics it's a one man show. All ~2000 packages in the repository were put there by myself. The ISO's on the site are _very_ out of date since I decided that my effort would be best spent fixing the underlying

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-22 Thread Edward Martinez
want to add it seems with a chage in env var users get the opensolaris userland. note: SUN_PERSONALITY execve() system call logic implemented and it is finally allows Solaris-centric scripts to be executed in NexentaOS without modification file:///tmp/wiki.html#Personalities Personalities

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-22 Thread William Bauer
OK, someone 'splain me somethin' I get how Solaris and OpenSolaris work, what packages are, IPS, how to install stuff, and all that. Been doing it for a couple decades. And by the way, I'm still holding out hope for the Solaris 11 developer release to effectively replace OpenSolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-22 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:48 PM, William Bauer bqba...@gmail.com wrote: OK, someone 'splain me somethin' I get how Solaris and OpenSolaris work, what packages are, IPS, how to install stuff, and all that.  Been doing it for a couple decades.  And by the way, I'm still holding out hope

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-22 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
OK, someone 'splain me somethin' I get how Solaris and OpenSolaris work, what packages are, IPS, how to install stuff, and all that. Been doing it for a couple decades. And by the way, I'm still holding out hope for the Solaris 11 developer release to effectively replace OpenSolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-22 Thread William Bauer
I downloaded it out of curiosity. Looks like it's based on 2008.11 or close?! uname -a contains the string NexentaOS_20081207. The included FF is 3.0.5. The forum posts indicate this is a one man show. Upon boot of the live CD, it complains about Gnome not being installed properly, and I