Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hange that the current constitution > says requires a community-wide decision -- i.e., a vote. I agree - if that change were desired, I think it would be somewhere between a large change to the constitution and a complete replacement. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [osol-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
opment of the OpenSolaris project. There is no legal contract signed with anyone requiring they do so, just community goodwill to be lost when they don't. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] Start Using SX*E, Or Just Wait?

2007-11-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
your wireless to work in Indiana if it works in SX*E. Indiana should be a subset of SXCE. I know of at least one major driver (nvidia graphics) which is in SXCE but not Indiana, due to redistribution restrictions. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] Start Using SX*E, Or Just Wait?

2007-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
entirety of the next version of Solaris, including not just ON, but all the other consolidations (X, JDS, SFW, NWS, GAN, etc.) as well. ONNV is the code name for ON for Nevada. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] Start Using SX*E, Or Just Wait?

2007-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tradition. If you follow it, you'll see there is no "Nevada Community" there, just an ON community group with a ONNV project. (It's one of several links I'd remove if I controlled the sidebar, along with the duplication of the "Portal" and "All Communi

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris architecture question

2006-04-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s time. Actually, most OpenSolaris distros are x86 (including x64) only. Other than the original Solaris, which supports both SPARC & x86, there is only one other recently started experimental distro with SPARC support. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsy

Re: [osol-discuss] a locate command for Solaris

2006-04-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Nader Amadeu wrote: Hi all, does anyone know any equivalent to the locate command for Solaris? "locate", installed as part of GNU findutils, if you add that package from your favorite freeware source. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsy

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Virtual Console

2006-04-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d with the Device Driver community, and would > have its own mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 vote from me -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] Controlling uname -r output to mask version value

2006-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
2404 http://blog.sun.com/roller/page/chrisg?entry=faking_the_release_name -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-dis

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sol-nv-b36 just released as Solaris Express 4/06

2006-04-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
blished on docs.sun.com. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] List of bugs fixed per SX release in text format?

2006-04-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
elogs/ I don't know about other consolidations. We haven't yet developed a standard process for all consolidations to handle these. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-05-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hout a config file 6420319: auto-config improve: i810 - Need to add built-in modes to validation list 6420320: auto-config improve: nv - Need to consider panel size in mode validation -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] how to make the server go "beep" !

2006-05-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is/sun_kbd.c?rev=1.7&view=markup (See sunKbdSoundBell function - short summary is ioctl on /dev/kbd of type KIOCCMD with arguments of KBD_CMD_BELL to turn on and KBD_CMD_NOBELL to turn off when done.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Virtual Console

2006-05-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
mware, not any part of the kernel, Solaris, or OpenSolaris. But then, Sun Ray already supports multiple X servers and has since day 1. It's just a smart card swap instead of a key press to switch between them. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: Sunray virtual console / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Virtual Console

2006-05-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ne in OpenSolaris/Solaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] BugZilla for OpenSplaris projects ?

2006-05-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
he work is happening outside Sun, I can see a desire to have a tracking system community members can update without having to mail every change to someone inside Sun and then wait 24-hours for bugs.o.o to resync. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsyst

Re: [osol-discuss] Percentage of Solaris now open source ?

2006-05-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nes of code ? Number of binaries ? Something else ? Lines of code would be hard since no one in the world has access to all the code used in Solaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Interesting blog entry on Solaris 10

2006-05-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
esource intensive task of creating patches that upgrade part of the OS from one build to another, which just isn't feasible. The number of moving parts is just too great and the test matrix would grow exponentially with each build. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-05-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rying each build as they appear hoping for the best. BTW: Nexenta alpha 4, does not exibit the problem. Have you filed a bug report for this problem via bugs.opensolaris.org? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System E

Re: [osol-discuss] Comparison and "usage share" of Xorg vs. Xsun ?

2006-05-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Xorg in future releases. How many (percentage) Solaris (10) installations are approx. run with Xorg and how many with Xun? I wish I knew - I've never seen any statistics. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] Comparison and "usage share" of Xorg vs. Xsun ?

2006-05-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Xorg is faster, has support for many new extensions/features not present in Xsun (Xrandr - dynamic screen resize, Xv - video playback acceleration, Composite, etc.) Xorg is required to use the nvidia accelerated driv

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: vi should pick up resize during shell escape

2006-05-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
(i.e., vi) and the job that's running, it's at least feasible to have vi check for changes when it starts back up. Shouldn't vi get a SIGWINCH? Are those blocked or lost while it is waiting? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Comparison and "usage share" of Xorg vs. Xsun ?

2006-05-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
an End of Support warning that the older non-XF86 drivers for Xsun are not likely to be included in the next full (non-update) release of Solaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Having /usr/ports on OpenSolaris

2006-05-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
vious releases, then there is no point in holding any rational discussion with you. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: where to start?

2006-05-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
imes a year, Sun offers updates to the Solaris operating system. The updates are designed to provide new functionality in a controlled, compatible fashion." - http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/solarisVersions.html (written for Solaris 8 releases) -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sequencers/music editors on Opensolaris

2006-05-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ore modern introductions, such as things like strlcat that are common but not yet universal. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list o

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: where to start?

2006-05-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in terms of end user usability, its a sad day indeed. And you have what proof of this? There are a number of people in the desktop group working very hard on this, and thankfully they are ignoring your insults and continuing to do so. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[osol-discuss] NVIDIA drivers DO NOT WORK on nv_39 and later

2006-05-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nd it easiest to handle this when live upgrading before activating and rebooting into the new boot environment - after the upgrade completes, lumount the new BE, replace the ld.so file there, luumount, and then luactivate and reboot as normal. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [osol-discuss] Download Archives

2006-05-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I got from stevel did.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Virtual Console

2006-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
for character terminals.) It appears the ARC accepted this explanation since it the case was approved. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris 5.11 x86 Patch Cluster

2006-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- it destroys your ability to do real upgrades that upgrade the entire OS instead of just the tiny subset (ON) which BFU handles. Live Upgrade or an OS install upgrade are much much better for people who aren't working directly on ON (and even for those who are in many cases). -- -Alan C

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Virtual Console

2006-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Philip Brown wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:42:59AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: In the case that actually replaced the console driver, the VT support was described by the project team as little used and unnecessary: c) "VT" support. [...] mechanisms. These

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rich Teer wrote: We have gpdf, but I don't know how "good" it is, and ISTR something called evince (sp?) is the way forward in that arena... evince should be replacing gpdf in Nevada Build 41 with the GNOME 2.14 integration. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d in years. Hiring a whole new team to start up that business again for the incredibly competetive PC graphics card market just wouldn't make sense - the established players are consolidating already and have been dropping like flies for years. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: And the Linux version has been upgraded to use GTK+, Same with the Solaris/SPARC version when Acrobat 7 was released last year. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Comparison and "usage share" of Xorg vs. Xsun?

2006-05-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Roland Mainz wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: If you're referring to Xsun's usage of mmap'ed anonymous segments for large pixmaps, we don't have particular plans to port that to Xorg either. Why was that idea dropped ? It wasn't dropped as much as simply not added

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rtunately, past experience may have convinced them otherwise: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,6357,00.asp -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rich Teer wrote: We have gpdf, but I don't know how "good" it is, and ISTR something called evince (sp?) is the way forward in that arena... evince should be replacing gpdf in Nevada Build 41 with the GNOME 2.14 integration. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d in years. Hiring a whole new team to start up that business again for the incredibly competetive PC graphics card market just wouldn't make sense - the established players are consolidating already and have been dropping like flies for years. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: And the Linux version has been upgraded to use GTK+, Same with the Solaris/SPARC version when Acrobat 7 was released last year. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Software for Solaris (was Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
who, quite frankly, is dying/dead/gone. In fact, it's many times more than the amount of cash SCO got that year, proving that you are simply making up such numbers. A simple google search shows how incredibly far off your numbers are from any sort of reality. http://ir.sco.com/releasedeta

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: honestly, how many companies would turn down free money? Pretty much every responsibly run company will, if they feel they can get a better return for investing their time & resources elsewhere. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: The first thing Sun could do is this; get rid of Xsun - blam, first Working on it, but if we dropped it today, there'd be useless black screens on all our SPARC workstations and Sun Rays. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on't do it that often. We build Xorg multiple times a day with Studio compilers and keep a CVS HEAD tree updated to make sure that builds as well. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On 6/1/06, *Alan Coopersmith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > The first thing Sun could do is this; get rid of Xsun - blam, first Working on it, but if we dropped it today, there'd be usele

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e old build system still - the change between that and 7.1 is not that major. What are you looking for that you don't already have? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Software for Solaris

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rence between it and the current Xorg 6.9 we ship now - except that if we released it today, we'd break the nvidia binary drivers, which aren't compatible with 7.1 yet. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: GCC Issues, was (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86)

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
our system up to 6.9.0 + fixes. It will also be included in the next Solaris 10 update release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss ma

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
since we'd have to tie it to Sun Studio and lock out all g++ users or pick one of the generations of the g++ ABI and lock out all other versions of g++. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
GNOME were from Sun's Desktop team out of the Dublin, Ireland office. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
seamlessly integrated into OpenSolaris? We don't - OpenSolaris is just source code - you can download a tarball with ON source, another with X source, another with JDS source, and so on. They are integrated together by the various distros. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROT

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
evice drives they need? Maybe the SPARC miniroot can be brought down in size that way so it can fit easily on a CD. It's always fit on a CD - CD based install couldn't work if it didn't. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, In

Re: [osol-discuss] StarOffice 8 and Solaris Express

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ate it! Yes, I could download OpenOffice, but that's besides the point... StarOffice in SX should be the latest StarOffice 7 patch release which includes ODF support. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun lost one of it's biggest and =?utf-8?q?oldest x86 customer?=

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
less part of OpenSolaris? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/etc is because I thought OSOL is what becomes SX is what becomes Solaris. It seems I was horribly mistaken. No - you're both right - it's different things to different people. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsy

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ty much all the code you see on opensolaris.org is included, since the JDS "Vermillion" project (GNOME 2.14, Firefox 1.5, etc.) that's been on opensolaris.org for a while has integrated into that build. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan DuBoff wrote: When JDS and X are putback into the OpenSolaris components of Solaris. then to me they will be a part of OpenSolaris. That's the point - we did that months ago! -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window S

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ically bad. "ON = Solaris" is a horrible mental defect that sadly afflicts many in Solaris engineering - please don't try to spread it to the OpenSolaris community as well. We need to stamp out such misconceptions before they take hold. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAI

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?

2006-06-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
upstream tarballs, apply patches, and build packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: CIFS client

2006-06-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
environment. desktop-discuss would be the place to ask those - technical discussion here gets lost in the noise. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR 41 + Nvidia driver

2006-06-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n't let you in. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hines. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] OpenSolaris - VMware - VMwareTools?

2006-06-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/etc/X11/xorg.conf (without the initial dot) then the server probes hardware and uses appropriate defaults. (More and more appropriate as time goes on - there's a whole series of fixes in progress starting to appear in Nevada builds with more coming soon.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] absent CDDL on X Window System Consolidation

2006-06-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e Sun copyright & X11 license statement, as seen at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/sources/licenses/ If it's missing from any files that Sun created or modified more than just a little bit, send me e-mail or file a bug against the xserver/source category at bugs.opensolaris.org.

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is the “community” in Solaris Express Community Release?

2006-06-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
James Dickens wrote: Firefox Firefox is already in there starting in last week's release of build 41, which due to the JDS refresh now has GNOME 2.14, Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5, and a whole bunch of other new stuff. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to create the ~SCommun ity In Project~T

2006-06-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ctually realize there was until I just looked - don't we announce any more when new project pages are created? This isn't the first one I was interested in and was waiting to see the page go up, but saw no notice it was actually created and not one of the many still in the

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris: How many lines of code?

2006-06-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
code actually built:8,242,687 lines That's not counting any of the makefiles, packaging files or other required structure to make those lines of code into installable binaries, nor the non-code data files such as fonts, keytables, bitmaps, etc. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sol10u2 (6/06) vs nightly builds

2006-06-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ken mays wrote: The question is if we'll get JDS/GNOME 2.14.x in the next Solaris 10u3 update (or sooner). No - it's going into Nevada only for now. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System E

Re: [osol-discuss] no agpgart driver available on solaris10 06/06???

2006-06-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ed for S10 6/06, but slipped to the next update release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Cannot play audio cd

2006-06-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
laris Express distro already does? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] the grubby looking install process

2006-07-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
install completes - the question is how to get that also into the grub on the install CD's. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] the grubby looking install process

2006-07-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
numlock on in the OS would be fatal to laptop users. Having the terminal used in install map the numeric keypad keys to numbers when used would be far more sensible. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ype fonts won't even have the same appearance, much less spacing, since GNOME/GTK+ apps will be using the open source FreeType font engine to render the font, while CDE uses the commercial Bitstream font engine built into the X server to do the same. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f our Xorg release for which source is not available on opensolaris.org.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting dtterm to play nicely with GNOME 2.14...

2006-07-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ing CDE? Just wait for the CDE EOF announcement, and watch the demand go up. (Of course, many of the big customers on CDE are also the ones still happily running Solaris 8, so it may take a while to get the real demand.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mi

[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal :: JDS

2006-07-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
+ StarOffice + a few other small projects, so what would the differnce be? Are you saying you just want to exclude the Mozilla & office & other non-core-GNOME software from the project? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal :: JDS

2006-07-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, I'd like to propose that the Java Desktop System, JDS, be an official OpenSolaris project. Can any non-Sun distros use the Java Desktop System name? Would a non-trademark-restricted name be better for an OpenSolaris project? -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal :: JDS

2006-07-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t;J" stands for in their distro - Sun Java(tm) for Solaris, others may ship the "Joyous Desktop System", or the "Jazzy Desktop System" or the "Jakarta Desktop System" or whatever. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsy

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal :: JDS

2006-07-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t; is tempting, but the acronym would be confusing. Maybe the "Desktop for the OpenSolaris Environment".) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal :: JDS

2006-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ase of JBoss, though that's server side, not desktop.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal :: JDS

2006-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
27;s support it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ONNV -> ON community renaming proposal

2006-07-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Danek Duvall wrote: I'd like to propose that we rename the "onnv" community to be the "on" community. The original name is more suitable for a project (a proposal for which is to be made shortly), but we didn't have the infrastructure at the time to do the right

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: ONNV

2006-07-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
In terms of the opensolaris.org website, "leader" == "person who can edit the community/project web pages".(It looks like a wiki, takes custom syntax like a wiki, but has far more restrictive permissions than most wikis.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAI

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: ONNV

2006-07-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
keting won't change their mind before release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Formal Proposal : Port OpenSolaris to PowerPC

2006-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
other choice is there when the current ksh is a closed binary? Will Sun be building the closed binaries for PPC? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Formal Proposal : Port OpenSolaris to PowerPC

2006-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
er or library on either one. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Formal Proposal : Port OpenSolaris to PowerPC

2006-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d by NDA's with the vendors we buy them from - only the older Sbus & UPA boards were Sun creations.) In the X group, we'd love to see Xorg on all SPARC graphics boards so we could start phasing out Xsun on SPARC too, but it's out of our hands. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Formal Proposal : Port OpenSolaris to PowerPC

2006-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x27;t gotten around to deciding on it. I've tried to explain that they're just continuing to push all OpenSolaris distros/users away from SPARC, but they just don't seem to care. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: problem with Installing web browser opera 9

2006-07-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
create yourself a non-root account for tasks like web browsing which have no business running as root. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenWindows - How much is lost forever ?

2006-07-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x27;s deprecated in favor of the current, already open source, GNOME-based desktop." -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenWindows - How much is lost forever ?

2006-07-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t announced which release the CDE EOF will occur in, but plans are well underway for it to occur. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenWindows - How much is lost forever ?

2006-07-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Polaris as long as you keep the rest of Polaris open source, since it's "Free to use only on open source OS'es." See http://www.openmotif.org/ for details. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

Re: CDE users problems with JDS/GNOME (was: [osol-discuss] OpenWindows - How much is lost forever ?)

2006-07-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Sun has not yet announced which release the CDE EOF will occur in, but plans are well underway for it to occur. I hope the issues I (and other CDE users) have with GNOME/JDS are resolved before that happens. See my blog entry

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenWindows - How much is lost forever ?

2006-07-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
pdate their intro to stop saying "ON is 90% of the Solaris source and 100% of what matters." (Said fully tongue-in-cheek, as I believe the above quote was also intended, since it's long been trivially disproven. Last I checked, ON was a bit less than 20% of Solaris by volume

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
one belt and one pair of sneakers? If they're both yours, they match, right? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Support for Cell accelerator boards?

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
bout adding an open source driver for those boards to OpenSolaris, this is the place to come, but it's the wrong place for discussing what Sun hardware systems should support or be sold with (and I doubt any of the people who would be involved in deciding that are subscribed here). --

[osol-discuss] Possible OSUG project: setting up NTP pool servers?

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
or other services for the User Group.] -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenGL Solaris x86/64 status

2006-08-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
don't know if/when they would be backported to Solaris 10.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenGL Solaris x86/64 status

2006-08-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
OpenGL libraries with their drivers - but otherwise, yes, that should be it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: OpenGL Solaris x86/64 status

2006-08-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
libGLU is provided by the Mesa packages included in Solaris 10 1/06 and later. glut is not open source - you can download it if you want it, but we will not be including it with Solaris. -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

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