Re: [osol-discuss] /bin/sh was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-07 Thread Shawn Walker
to the current /bin/sh: http://icculus.org/~eviltypeguy/sh_export.patch Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] /bin/sh was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On Feb 8, 2008 6:01 AM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, any changes to the existing shell, whether its outright replacement or otherwise need a lot of testing. I myself even created a patch to add support for export BLAH=FOO syntax

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Shawn Walker
for /sbin/sh will cause widespread Windows Update-style brokenness then this should be a clear This test verifes no more than that there is no unique behavior with /bin/sh on other platforms (in contrary to what was claimed by Shawn). I have made no such claim Joerg. You misunderstood me. -- Shawn

Re: [osol-discuss] CIFS vs SAMBA for home NAS: Who is faster?

2008-02-10 Thread Shawn Walker
On Feb 10, 2008 5:27 AM, Orvar Korvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DCLARKE, Just curiuos, which desktop GUI are you using? Your desktop looks nice. Any special downloads, or is it pure Opensolaris? Orvar, Dennis is showing screenshots from a Windows Vista Desktop. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Shawn Walker
is now: /usr/has/bin/sh ...since it is a hasbin :) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Shawn Walker
worked anyway. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Shawn Walker
coming soon to Solaris will break that anyway :) Still, it isn't difficult to find programs that will break or have unexpected behaviour. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben

Re: [osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community, because we don't control our Trademark and Website. (And it's not Sun's fault).

2008-02-13 Thread Shawn Walker
, not encourage the fragmentation of our community. This silly battle over a trademark that is Sun's to control seems a waste of time at best when there are far more important and valuable things to be doing. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-14 Thread Shawn Walker
rules that say you can't. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community, because we don't control our Trademark and Website. (And it's not Sun's fault).

2008-02-14 Thread Shawn Walker
by these principles. I hope we all at least try. To me they are as best as I can expect right now. I don't believe some things should have taken so long, but they are in progress and that is good enough for me. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Shawn Walker
and engineering don't always have the same message -- you know that :) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Shawn Walker
an experiment. Maybe because it costs Sun too much money to maintain multiple release preview trains? Dunno. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Trying to install Indiana (My Observations)

2008-02-16 Thread Shawn Walker
preview 2. You can get it here, if you are able: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/getit/ I'm sure that some of these issues have been fixed, but if not, I have contributed. I know the members of the Indiana project always appreciate this feedback! -- Shawn Walker, Software

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

2008-02-18 Thread Shawn Walker
, at the very least, in October 2007. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] No sound with OSS on Solaris 10

2008-02-18 Thread Shawn Walker
time now. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] What's in a name? Re: [ogb-discuss] Should the OGB respond to Sun's OpenSolaris name-use decision?

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Joerg Schilling This is why the OpenSolaris cummunity proposed Sun to use a new trademark for an OpenSolaris based distro

[osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success Re: [ogb-discuss] Should the OGB respond to Sun's OpenSolaris name-use decision?

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn Walker
community with sustained growth? * Nearly instant name recognition among anyone that knows there are other operating systems than Windows? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert

Re: [osol-discuss] MultiBoot Anyone Any time Sometime?

2008-02-23 Thread Shawn Walker
for details. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] MultiBoot Anyone Any time Sometime?

2008-02-23 Thread Shawn Walker
. As for the type of multiboot support you might be used to, that is being worked on, but it is not a priority at this stage from what I've read. It will eventually be done though. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame

Re: [osol-discuss] Long usernames greater than 8 chars

2008-02-24 Thread Shawn Walker
://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/6n4m1vlb0?l=ena=viewq=UID+numbers Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Long usernames greater than 8 chars

2008-02-25 Thread Shawn Walker
+ terminating null charcter. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-25 Thread Shawn Walker
them up. Otherwise, I'm not certain how your problems can be resolved. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-28 Thread Shawn Walker
that makes any result a passing fancy at best. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-28 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Considering we have several thousand registered members on opensolaris.org; I think that makes any result a passing fancy at best. I always treat the total registration count

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE build 84 *only* seems to be out

2008-03-09 Thread Shawn Walker
is coming back. I do know that the disk layout (to a certain extent) will return. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Shawn Walker
: /usr/sfw/bin/wget /usr/local or /opt/local is where programs you compile and install yourself should go. Just add /usr/local/bin to your PATH. and /usr/local/man to your MANPATH -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame

Re: [osol-discuss] Directory /usr/local present in default Solaris

2008-03-11 Thread Shawn Walker
should be able to set the prefix to /usr instead of the default /usr/local. You can try ./configure --prefix=/usr Installing unpackaged software under /usr is asking for trouble if you later try to install other packages. I would highly discourage doing that. -- Shawn Walker, Software

Re: [osol-discuss] [solarisx86] Picking a Laptop for S10/x86

2008-03-13 Thread Shawn Walker
happy. Somehow I doubt they will do what you suggest. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Download Center and wget

2008-03-13 Thread Shawn Walker
that require otherwise? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Download Center and wget

2008-03-13 Thread Shawn Walker
people can choose to redistribute on other download websites, etc. that does not excuse Sun from their legal responsibilities as a public company. While I agree with your views, they do not reflect the responsibilities Sun has to their licensors, shareholders, or the government. -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] disk usage

2008-03-15 Thread Shawn Walker
this as it is not actually taking the amount of space listed. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE install into single root partition

2008-03-15 Thread Shawn Walker
, shouldn't you have just one main partition with several zfs filesystems? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE install into single root partition

2008-03-16 Thread Shawn Walker
come with snv_87? Sorry, I guess I was thinking of Indiana :) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Shawn Walker
in years past before xfce was really known at all, so it makes sense for them to stick with their investment. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Ken Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:46:38 -0500 Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Ken Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used both Gnome and KDE off and on since 0.x days but ditched

[osol-discuss] Pointless KDE vs. GNOME discussion was Re: [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Ken Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:10:24 -0500 Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Ken Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:46:38 -0500 Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Pointless KDE vs. GNOME discussion was Re: [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Ken Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:32:18 -0500 Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Ken Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:10:24 -0500 Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Longest uptime?

2008-03-21 Thread Shawn Walker
, or hardware reliability and system administration policies? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Shutleworth on PulseAudio

2008-04-23 Thread Shawn Walker
Shuttleworth admits having four separate audio systems is a messy situation: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/22/shuttleworth_hardy_heron/page3.html -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben

Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected

2008-04-24 Thread Shawn Walker
partitions (readonly!) on Solaris/OpenSolaris: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mount-ntfs/ -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Compatibility - Developing Products for Solaris

2008-04-28 Thread Shawn Walker
of GNOME. -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] will there be an sxce build 88 ?

2008-05-07 Thread Shawn Walker
are being discontinued, as far as I know. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] will there be an sxce build 88 ?

2008-05-07 Thread Shawn Walker
, but I see nothing here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/86-90/ ...that indicates something amiss. In addition, there is a source release and release notes already up here: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b88/ Cheers, -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE versus 2008.05 etc

2008-05-09 Thread Shawn Walker
as quickly (every six months instead of every two weeks). The advantage is that the system will have more features (i.e. modernization) than Solaris 10, but be more stable than SXCE. -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE versus 2008.05 etc

2008-05-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Guido Berhoerster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Simon Breden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding from what I've seen is that SXCE is a release made approximately every 2 weeks, and is based on the Nevada

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE versus 2008.05 etc

2008-05-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Guido Berhoerster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: *If* that is what Sun chooses to do, it would essentially be the same thing RedHat does with Fedora, and I think it would be quite fair. I suspect we'll find out more on May 13th. That would

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE versus 2008.05 etc

2008-05-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Guido Berhoerster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: No, CentOS only exists because RedHat was extremely restrictive about any usage of their trademark. The CentOS folks weren't even allowed to reference the fact that their packages came from RedHat

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE versus 2008.05 etc

2008-05-09 Thread Shawn Walker
or reasonable. -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE versus 2008.05 etc

2008-05-10 Thread Shawn Walker
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Guido Berhoerster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: I'm just going to have to disagree in general. Maintaining software is expensive, especially lots of software. Your belief seems to be that Sun should support the cost of the distribution

Re: [osol-discuss] will opensolaris ever be released under the GPL?

2008-05-10 Thread Shawn Walker
can provide a link to a quote where Sun has promised this, I would be interested to see it. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] will opensolaris ever be released under the GPL?

2008-05-10 Thread Shawn Walker
the one we have already. Maybe that will change someday, but today is not that day. -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] will opensolaris ever be released under the GPL?

2008-05-10 Thread Shawn Walker
more feed back if you can. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8979755794.html http://www.osnews.com/story/16973 In both cases, there were rumours, nothing more. unnamed sources claimed it was going to happen. If you want to know what Sun will do, I suggest emailing them. Cheers, -- Shawn

Re: [osol-discuss] Are there plans to make more official packages available for 2008.05?

2008-05-11 Thread Shawn Walker
from the SFE and SFW projects. -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-05-12 Thread Shawn Walker
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as ON does not compile on any opensolaris based distro (and Indiana is such a distro), shuting down SXCE would shut down the possibility to compile

Re: [osol-discuss] ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet

2008-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
-9843V2.0system=term=typ.treiber+produkt.SK-9843V2.0typ=typ.treiber -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet

2008-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:31 AM, prabit mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please suggest where I would be able to find a Ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet Card?? On this page: http

Re: [osol-discuss] ethernet driver for Broadcom netlink Gigabit Ethernet

2008-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:40 AM, prabit mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry but the link says they dont offer links for sun solaris Which is weird, because they do: http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/driver-sla.php?driver=570x-Solaris -- Shawn Walker To err is human

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris cluster opensolaris2008.05 libDtTerm issu

2008-05-17 Thread Shawn Walker
it. As a result, you will not be able to run software that relies on these libraries. -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] How a (wrong) accent can lock you out of your server

2008-05-23 Thread Shawn Walker
file? Or are you talking about the fact that it wouldn't allow you to type yes/no? -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Poor disk performance (nForce4 board)

2008-05-23 Thread Shawn Walker
: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v8/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/admin/t0004971.htm Perhaps you mean a different kind of raw device? -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-27 Thread Shawn Walker
. -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Installation of OpenSolaris 2008.05?

2008-05-28 Thread Shawn Walker
idea. Not yet. But this will happen eventually. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] how do I install openoffice.org and other sw

2008-05-28 Thread Shawn Walker
pkg.opensolaris.org on port 80 from your system. If you have a proxy that you have to use to obtain outside access, set your http_proxy environment variable appropriately and then try running it again. -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben

Re: [osol-discuss] new opensolaris site

2008-06-01 Thread Shawn Walker
from there (and pull out the CD drive). Here's what you need: http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/05/15/fun-with-usb-sticks-how-to-make-one-bootable-with-opensolaris-200805/ -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

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

2008-06-05 Thread Shawn Walker
are just teasers, like dangling candy in front of kid. Disappointed with lack of progress here. As others have mentioned, legal entanglements prevent much from being done here. In the meantime, you can buy a few legal codecs from fluendo. -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] I give up.

2008-06-05 Thread Shawn Walker
/ ...for OpenSolaris 2008.05, etc. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/ ...for Solaris Express editions. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Media Distributor

2008-06-10 Thread Shawn Walker
. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimal Install of OpenSolaris 2008.05

2008-06-11 Thread Shawn Walker
is not yet available. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Congratulations. We're 3.

2008-06-17 Thread Shawn Walker
://opensolaris.org/os/community/distribution/ Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 200805 pkg install SUNWgcc failed behind the firewall

2008-06-17 Thread Shawn Walker
and the client. Supporting a on-disk method of installation is coming in the near future. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to replicate http://pkg.opensolaris.org to a local repositary server?

2008-06-18 Thread Shawn Walker
available and no mechanisms are currently in place to directly support copying pkg.opensolaris.org. However, if you look at the pkg-discuss mailing list archives, you may find scripts others have provided that are of use. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrw command burning CD

2008-06-18 Thread Shawn Walker
. How do you call it? He's probably talking about the nautilus CD burner. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Used IPS, now system won't boot.

2008-06-19 Thread Shawn Walker
environments that the cli provides you. If you use the cli, you'll get a boot environment created so you could have safely recovered from this scenario. It is unfortunate that you ran into this issue, but please note that this will be addressed in the gui soon. Thanks, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] OS2008.05, OpenOffice: Fonts, License?

2008-06-24 Thread Shawn Walker
to the rest of the applications. Is there a reason for that? How to get along with it? Check the Font tab in the Appearance control panel. You'll want to enable the subpixel setting more than likely. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-24 Thread Shawn Walker
does have dependency resolution, though there are currently restrictions on what it supports. Remember that pkg is still a work in progress. I would encourage you to provide any constructive feedback to the pkg-discuss mailing list. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] OS2008.05, OpenOffice: Fonts, License?

2008-06-24 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/24 Kristian Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Shawn; first off, thanks for your help / hints on that. Shawn Walker schrieb: (a) No matter how often I start any of the OOo components, I am each and every time promted to go through the whole accept-license / provide username / already

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-24 Thread Shawn Walker
://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/ They'll help explain why many choices were made. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-26 Thread Shawn Walker
with ips directly, so I surmise that is indeed the path. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
dependencies work is very much still being discussed. This has definitely not been ignored. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
to participate in that discussion on pkg-discuss. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/ There's nothing to look at yet, but there will be soon. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
2447 2771 Can't you format your USB stick in ufs2? I believe most Linux distros can read and write ufs partitions. Correct? Not the Solaris ufs at last check -- just ufs as seen in older BSDs. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/6/27 Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a fairly well sized USB drive to hold data so far to share between Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] can you create a Solaris 10 zone in Indiana (open solaris 2008.05) ?

2008-06-30 Thread Shawn Walker
from ETude, the capability of Indiana (Solaris 11) to contain Solaris 10 zones would be desirable. Any insights ? Not currently. Zones are currently limited to ips branded zones. I believe this is in progress and should be available in the relatively near future. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-07-02 Thread Shawn Walker
a sane way, however it would need to then also be used by those building the packages, i.o.w. making blastwave less standalone and closer tied to the main distribution in case of OpenSolaris... I believe similar dependency mechanisms are being implemented for ips. -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC channel

2008-07-02 Thread Shawn Walker
does not provide everything rbac does and likewise rbac does not provide everything sudo does. There is room for both solutions. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Integrating Masayuki-san's drivers

2008-07-02 Thread Shawn Walker
BSD license so, apparently there shouldn't be any problems. Yes, someone has been working with him to get his drivers integrated. That is happening, but it is a slow process. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING: No randomness provider enabled...,

2008-07-04 Thread Shawn Walker
new to open source, and am searching for alternatives to microsoft. Any help and info would be appreciated. http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=38 -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-10 Thread Shawn Walker
and that you install Solaris after. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] how to set IPS from web server to my local box?

2008-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
is not a install image when I use the command pkg refresh and so on . Iwant to how to solve it . is so slow when I use the website pkg . Unfortunately, this is not yet supported. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Any lsof tool for nv ?

2008-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
a wrapper script that emulates lsof to put around pfiles. -- Shawn Walker | Solaris Kernel | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blogs.sun.com/srw ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
. But be prepared for CDE to disappear completely in future builds. -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-code] Public accessible OpenSolaris based build servers

2008-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code This is already in the works. See here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/testfarm/ -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-code] Public accessible OpenSolaris based build servers

2008-07-20 Thread Shawn Walker
I don't, you should email the testing-discuss list. Palle Lyckegaard wrote: Hi Shawn, thank you for the link - it says that the Test Farm will be officially launched soon... do you (or anyone) known when ? On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Shawn Walker wrote: Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:40:09 -0500

Re: [osol-discuss] Is OpenSolaris FireFox snooping on its users ?

2008-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
first and make accusations later... -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Where can I find a document describing OpenSolaris commands?

2008-07-24 Thread Shawn Walker
Varuna Seneviratna wrote: Where can I find a document describing OpenSolaris commands? You might find some helpful information here: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/getst1.html -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] mount solaris2 partitions

2008-07-30 Thread Shawn Walker
a ZFS based filesystem. What is wrong? How can I mount an opensolaris's partition under opensolaris? Which FS type is used for opensolaris? Since they are likely ZFS datasets, you need to use ZFS to mount them. Something like: pfexec zpool import -f -R /tmp/rpool rpool -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Gui does not load, stuck on Console

2008-07-31 Thread Shawn Walker
unfortunately. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!. Once you've logged in, try this: pfexec svcadm clear gdm pfexec svcadm enable gdm If that fails, try: pfexec svcs -xv ...that should tell if you there were any services that failed to start. -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-01 Thread Shawn Walker
Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] HOME and END keys not active in term ?

2008-08-03 Thread Shawn Walker
should be useless in term... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/20027 -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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