Auto Reply: LINUX-390 Digest - 16 Aug 2010 to 17 Aug 2010 (#2010-199)

2010-08-17 Thread Jeff Savit
This is an auto-replied message. I am out of office right now. If you need support from the Operating Environments Infrastructure S/W Pillar, please contact my manager, Dawit Bereket at dawit.bere...@oracle.com -- For

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Savit
a closer look at IPS before you dismiss it out of hand, too. It's not just the packaging, it's also the ability to build a boot environment based on a snapshot that can be rolled back, and only consumes disk space relative to the previous version. Very nice, IMO. cheers, Jeff -- Jeff Savit

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Savit
David Boyes wrote: On 3/26/09 2:13 PM, Jeff Savit jeff.sa...@sun.com wrote: I'm going to avoid partisan issues, or at least attempt to do so :-) but some corrections on Sun-specific stuff: The first part of that is correct, but not some of the other parts, including the bit about

Re: Recompiling MySQL

2009-01-30 Thread Jeff Savit
anywhere called d. Note that Makefile.am, which is (at 5.1.30 level) contains AM_YFLAGS = -d --verbose which looks similar to the error message Thomas reported. regards, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Field Technologist Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 2398 E

Re: byte-code-interpreting CPUs [was Re: How to virtualize Windows]

2008-11-18 Thread Jeff Savit
David Boyes said: On 11/15/08 8:28 PM, Jeff Savit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A similar machine was the Lilith, created at ETH Zurich, and oriented around Modula-2. I never saw one personally, but I recall reading that it had a very stylish teak wood cabinet! Very heavy, as well. Takes two

Re: byte-code-interpreting CPUs [was Re: How to virtualize Windows]

2008-11-18 Thread Jeff Savit
group on Yahoo, as some people there expressed interest once upon a time. regards, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Field Technologist Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium Drive Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somerset, NJ 08873 http://blogs.sun.com

byte-code-interpreting CPUs [was Re: How to virtualize Windows]

2008-11-15 Thread Jeff Savit
stylish teak wood cabinet! Anyhow, language based processors seem to be a seductive design pattern that hasn't really gained momentum for general purpose computing. Anyone else want to 'fess up to having worked with UCSD Pascal or Modula-2? cheers, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Field Technologist

Re: Java and Sun

2008-03-18 Thread Jeff Savit
Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium Drive Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somerset, NJ 08873 http://blogs.sun.com/jsavit/ -- For LINUX

Re: Java on zLinux

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Savit
to hear from you. Stay in touch. /ahw Thanks, and nice to hear from you as well. regards, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium Drive Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somerset, NJ 08873 http://blogs.sun.com

Re: Java and Sun

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Savit
gah [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Savit wrote: Sun has open-sourced Java - under GPL - so an enterprising soul can do the port themselves if they want, just as we open-sourced Solaris. Get the Java source here: Is it GPL? Last I knew (not so recently) Sun had its own

OpenSolaris on System z [Was: re: Java on zLinux]

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Savit
faster than GDP ever can). We plan to serve those customers. I hope this is a helpful response. Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks this is too long (I know I ramble on), too OT, wrong religion, whatever. regards, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone

Re: Java on zLinux

2008-03-15 Thread Jeff Savit
scheduler sensitive to guest OS dispatch state, drum to disk page migration, and minidisk migration. Lest we forget... -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium Drive Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somerset, NJ 08873 http

Re: OpenSolaris

2006-11-18 Thread Jeff Savit
John McKown said: Isn't that the 128-bit filesystem? shakes head I don't even have enough DASD to create a real 64-bit filesystem. 128-bit is just plain overkill, for me. Does ZFS have any other enhancements that I'm not aware of? 128 bits is overkill for everyone! That's pretty much the