Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Alex Caudill
On 11/1/12, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > If this is holding up someone else who wants to do real work of porting > dependency software (Gnome 3, etc.) contact me off list and I'll see if I > can either allocate some weekend/evening time to do the work myself, > or provide guidance to someone else who

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-11-01 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 1, 2012, at 1:24 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2012-11-01 01:47, Richard Elling wrote: >> Finally, a data point: using MTU of 1500 with ixgbe you can hit wire speed >> on a >> modern CPU. > >> There is no CSMA/CD on gigabit and faster available from any vendor today. >> Everything today is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/ 1/12 02:20 PM, Irek Szczesniak wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: >> from what I remember of the conversations of the time, we cannot move >> to Gnome 3 because of certain Linux dependencies ... >> >> Gnome 2 is no longer changing, and no longer being patched ..

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Irek Szczesniak
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > from what I remember of the conversations of the time, we cannot move > to Gnome 3 because of certain Linux dependencies ... > > Gnome 2 is no longer changing, and no longer being patched ... The problem with Gnome 3 is AFAIK mostly a probl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Yet I remember OpenWindows... Quite distinctive. WindowMaker sounds good. Used it for a while a few years ago. Been thinking about looking at it again. :) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
I do not feel similarly :) if it didn't feature a GUI we wouldn't notice or care. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to disable local/remote login, still allowing access to smb share?

2012-11-01 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Thank you for the suggestion. I have not tried this yet, but I have tried to make user a role, which effectively disables login. Don't know whether smb share is still working in this scenario. Actually I am not able to connect to smb share from Windows machine in *any* case :( The http://wik

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Magnus
On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > Gnome 2 is perfect (apart from a few annoying bugs), Gnome3/Unity > would be a drawback indeed, and nobody here wants to go back to > such basic stuff as xfce and other incapable desktop systems (KDE > may would be an option). As long as g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> > +1.  There are alot of very useful desktop operating systems already, > so i see no point in OI trying to compete with them.  In business This way of thinking is responsible for what happened to Solaris. No OI should be a server and a desktop system. Otherwise, OI will die pretty soon. A

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 1 November 2012 14:56, Ron Parker wrote: > Maybe I'm the oddball in the bunch. But I've been running OpenIndiana > as my "desktop" OS on my laptop at work since OI-147 was released two > years ago. Why? > I would like to butt in and say that I'm one of the mad ones that use OI on a laptop, it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 11/ 1/12 03:56 PM, Ron Parker wrote: Maybe I'm the oddball in the bunch. But I've been running OpenIndiana as my "desktop" OS on my laptop at work since OI-147 was released two years ago. ... > There is no reason OI could not make a good working desktop. It's been fine for my needs for two y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Ron Parker
Maybe I'm the oddball in the bunch. But I've been running OpenIndiana as my "desktop" OS on my laptop at work since OI-147 was released two years ago. Why? I don't care about shiny new UI gloss, but I have to have a stable system. What do I mean by that? One that can run stably without rebooting

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 64-bit PCI space

2012-11-01 Thread Pavel Zakharov
**Disclaimer: I've posted a similar question in illumos-team mailing list, however I'm reposting here since this mailing list seems much more active** Hello, I've been trying a new feature on my BIOS that allows to memory map PCI device registers to spaces above 4G. However, when I booted in S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-11-01 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-01 01:47, Richard Elling wrote: Finally, a data point: using MTU of 1500 with ixgbe you can hit wire speed on a modern CPU. There is no CSMA/CD on gigabit and faster available from any vendor today. Everything today is switched. Ok then, I'll stand corrected by the practice, altho