Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
f it is only to make it "just like GNU/Linux"? That's what Nexenta is for ;) -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Fresh Install Problems

2007-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
video card or video chipset you are using? -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
ve right now? GNOME is the best for accessibility, etc. KDE isn't an option due to licensing, C++, etc. XFCE and others aren't mature enough yet, and CDE is dead, long live CDE. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
v run or two -- *if* it has be compiled. If it's already compiled for you, it's usually as easy as something like running "pkgadd -d MYdriver.pkg". -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems An

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html Run the detection tool under Windows or Linux, then post the output of it here or somewhere we can "get to it". That will tell us what specific hardware you have, and hopefully help shed some light on this issue. -- "Less is only more where more is no good.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
ntical. That's slightly disturbing, though not terribly surprising. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [osol-discuss] SNV_59 doesn’t recognize linux partitions existing on second SATA HDD

2007-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
owever, have you trained using a "chainloader +1" style boot if you have grub installed on your Linux partition's MBR? -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/04/07, Jason King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/7/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 07/04/07, Andrew Pattison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Passwords on Solaris are not limited to 8 characters, but the default password hashing algor

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 07/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Doing a dist-upgrade for a new driver seems a > bit of >

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express Developer Edition (build 59) on ASUS P5B Deluxe AHCI mode

2007-04-08 Thread Shawn Walker
e/e_en/support/driver_searchresults.html?navanchor=&term=bs.SUN_Solaris+produkt.SK-9E21&produkt=produkt.SK-9E21&typ=&system=bs.SUN_Solaris -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ht

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-08 Thread Shawn Walker
an update manager that provides new driver, fixes, patches, etc. The Community and Developer releases do not; if you want to upgrade with those, you use the upgrade functionality provided by the installer with each new release. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd W

Re: [osol-discuss] Workspace tools

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
s is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing PHP on SunOS 5.8

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
n of OpenSolaris. Versions of Solaris prior to 10 are out of scope. Please discuss this topic on the Sun bigadmin forums. You can probably find PHP for SunOS 5.8 on www.sunfreeware.com or www.blastwave.org. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Wa

Re: [osol-discuss] Workspace tools

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 09/04/07, Manoj Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: > Teamware is Sun's internal code management tool. wx, wx, workspace, > bringover are all internal Sun tools. You don't need them to build > OpenSolaris. wx and ws are no longer internal only. It

Re: [osol-discuss] no CDDL on /bin/which

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
eaningful for people who need to know how to use the system. I really don't like finding ersatz advertising in the documentation. Indeed, and some programs may have files that fall under multiple licenses. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
tually, and why it works relatively well... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn Walker
tween them: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/#whatis -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Shawn Walker
se prevents use of the software without a subscription (thanks to control of their trademark). So, I assume you are talking about Fedora Core, in which case, that's bleeding (hemmoraging)? edge, or CentOS. Both of those projects are nothing like the Solaris official release. -- &quo

Re: [osol-discuss] Noob with a couple questions

2007-04-10 Thread Shawn Walker
Looking Glass is an experimental desktop environment project by Sun. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ o

Re: [osol-discuss] limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-10 Thread Shawn Walker
: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin or the Solaris x86 Yahoo Group mailing list here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/ -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - htt

Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-04-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On 11/04/07, I. Szczesniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think this will happen without a major shift to a more customer-friendly policy at Sun. When is "break my customer's stuff" seen as friendly? -- "Less is only more where more is no good."

Re: [osol-discuss] Need help getting audio driver to work

2007-04-12 Thread Shawn Walker
, etc.: http://www.opensound.com/ Plus, the install is dead easy. It's free for personal use. As far as decompressing that file, you should be able to do something like: bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar -xf - -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright S

Re: [osol-discuss] Spam mails...

2007-04-14 Thread Shawn Walker
that people subscribe and then spam. I suspect Casper's theory is true based on my own observations. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
you can of course download the srpms, alter the spec file, and rebuild the packages and then deploy as you see fit, but there are many caveats to that method. The current method that Blastwave, OpenPKG and others employ is the most hassle-free and least-likely-to-cause-a-package-nightmare way

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
part was setting up the repository with apt4rpm. Everything else was a rather painful experience for me. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
from RHEL's latest version and mashed the two together to work. Sure, everything you know how to do is easy to setup. Exactly. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 16/04/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > The only relatively easy part was setting up the repository with apt4rpm. > > Everything else was a rather painful experience for me. I've never messed with the rpm formats at all

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: MPxIO problem with metadb !!!

2007-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
On 17/04/07, shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what it the best way to upgrade from solaris 10 (update 3/05) to solaris 10 (update 11/06) ? liveupgrade, or boot from the CD and choose the "upgrade" option. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
k it is unfair for you to be critical of it. Upgrades are easy right now, especially using liveupgrade or flash archives. Heck, even running the upgrade option from the installer is pretty easy. I'm fairly certain you're still talking about updates in a *non*-production environment. -- &q

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
from google searches that were from docs.sun.com many times. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
On 17/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you. the concept of apt/yum repositories > seems > > to be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
that tools such as Norton Ghost are wildly popular are proof that it is a better way... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
vim7.0 has no extra dependencies. a base SXDE install is enough) See http://icculus.org/~eviltypeguy/pkg/ -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusa

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
. Depending on which theme you're using it can look just fine. I don't know why anybody ever cared if an updater was pretty though... And guess what? I did not renew my subscription. Having timely updates and support obviously did not matter to you. -- "Less is only more where more

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
n. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, xiaoming zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/18/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solaris 10 already supports that feature if you use Sun Update > Manager, if you're talking about updating. I have a question please: Does Solaris 10 support

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, Thomas Rampelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: > On 17/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That is not my problem. I would not bother about this >> if I was more than happy to drop in a DVD or a bunch >

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
eeded to make those things happen are not free and are better spent on the production release. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: solaris 9 with xp

2007-04-18 Thread Shawn Walker
luding NTFS. and so if you do not setup even just a small partition the XP for FAT32 and then Solaris fails the install to see the XP on boot menu. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6223894 -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walk

Re: [i18n-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt Then follow the normal liveupgrade process... I've done it myself a couple of times. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, Lucky Forumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, can it mount ReiserFS? No. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusa

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
incorporate changes into older versions of Solaris, not worry about current licensees, etc. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
in point). Some code does compile fine with C++ using either compiler, mozilla/firefox/thunderbird are cases where that works on large code bases, AFAIK. The major bit that seems missing to me is objective-c support for the Sun compiler suite. That's one area where gcc significantly excel

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > The major bit that seems missing to me is objective-c support for the > Sun compiler suite. That's one area where gcc significantly excels... Shawn, I've always considered the

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-24 Thread Shawn Walker
On 20/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 19/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True, and I don't have a problem with that. However, I will also > > grant an irr

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 25/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:55:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 20/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > On 19/04/07, Ceri Da

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 25/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:43:14PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 25/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:55:55PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > On 20/04/07, Ceri Da

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
p. if it could also support the native audio hardware (CS4231, in my case). And that might ease porting Linux audio or MIDI apps too. MIDI was purposefully left out from the initial OSSv4 release. http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=6 -- "Less is only more where more is no good." -

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
might ship this: http://www.4front-tech.com/solaris.html? Looks like it: "In addition some companies like Sun and SCO have already licensed OSS for their operating systems." http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=7 -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright S

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
hem. I know ATi used them for a long time with their driver... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-30 Thread Shawn Walker
of NDAs they've had to sign over the years, but I suppose it is possible. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-10 Thread Shawn Walker
ly, and that is rather pointless. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] USB disk on Solaris on Parallel Desktop on a MAc

2007-05-11 Thread Shawn Walker
s FAQ: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/usb/USB-Faq.html#Storage -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ openso

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Shawn Walker
ing Linux, so I'm being far more careful about what I say till we figure out how to get the message just right. That seems like a reasonable approach to me, and what my own sentiments are personally. However, I don't think the inverse would apply to Solaris :) Thanks for joining

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Shawn Walker
ds compliance and documentation were the two areas the stood out the most when I started using it. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Shawn Walker
non-portable software and never be motivated to make their software truly portable because there is no "compelling" alternative environment? Possibly a moot point, but one that concerns me nonetheless. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn W

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Shawn Walker
uot; experience with nVidia is great in my view. Greatly improved sound support is already on the way with the apparent soon-to-be-included OSS drivers from 4Front Technologies. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Softwar

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Shawn Walker
On 12/05/07, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: > As long as there is a way for users to get a fully standards-compliant > environment when they need / want it, I'm happy. Solaris' strict > standards compliance is one of the things I liked a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Shawn Walker
are referring to, if you're speaking of versions prior to the latest 4.x series, then I would suggest trying it out again. The 4.x series is a large improvement in my personal experience. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
pen: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/svr4_packaging/ http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/current/ http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/current/install-src-20070410.tar.bz2 -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, S

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
erent format? Change for the sake of change is not beneficial. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
e are the responsibility of the two parties instead of getting the community stuck uncomfortably in the middle. Trying to do a bounty thing or something else is likely to end in the unpleasant situation detailed above. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wrigh

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
the strictest (understandably) process in my experience. I don't know of anyone outside Sun having direct commit access to that yet. The main overhead there is the sponsor process which I know is being worked on among other things. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --F

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
I'm not sure that ATI will deliver on better open source drivers. We can only hope, but my personal experience doesn't instill great confidence in that. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
change which means kernel changes are not an issue unless the kernel changes something (not very common). Actually, it's very common. I'm on a private beta driver list for one of the big two graphics card companies. Almost every kernel upgrade breaks their driver. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
quot;Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Mobile FX & Sun's jPhon

2007-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
was a fully open platform. There are going to be a slew of uCLinux based phones coming to market within the next 12 months. Why would I buy one from Sun, when I can get one from an established cellphone vendor? Why would it be from Sun and not an established vendor? -- "Less is only more

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 15/05/07, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/12/07, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shawn Walker wrote: > > As long as there is a way for users to get a fully standards-compliant > > environment when they need / want it, I'

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Shawn Walker
ful" or "short-lived." -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Shawn Walker
r" can offer support independently from Sun? The same way Linspire and other distributions support users that have binary-only Linux drivers? You do the best you can I suspect. It is all a matter of how they choose to do that support, etc. -- "Less is only more where more is no good.&

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Shawn Walker
compatibility while good is not a total nirvana in the field, and not universally trusted. Yet, I know most of them would agree that the stability within the Solaris platform is still far better and greater than almost any other one. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Fran

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Shawn Walker
d be informed well in advance in any changes that could affect their scripts. Scripts have nothing to do with it. The point is that the output of those programs and the command-line options, etc. are part of a defined interface standard and that does have certain guarantees that accompany it. -- &quo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Opensolaris and usage rights

2007-05-16 Thread Shawn Walker
n Sun have anything at all to do with this? You are missing the point. The original question was about an appliance with Solaris on it. Someone else pointed out that to redistribute any official versions of Solaris from Sun (such as Solaris, Solaris Express, etc.) you must have a redi

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana - let's talk APIs

2007-05-16 Thread Shawn Walker
ery stable, supported interface. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris Distributions

2007-05-16 Thread Shawn Walker
??? How is that different from chosing (say) Red Hat over Ubuntu, or at an even more macroscopic level, UNIX over Windoze? That is part of the problem. Imagine how much wasted and duplicated effort there is... We need to find some way to minimise that within reasonable limits. -- "L

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Stable interfaces (was: About Project Indiana)

2007-05-17 Thread Shawn Walker
ore than just a few small changes, and in some cases, a simple update would not work. You also need to be specific by what you mean by "updating via the network," notably that you mean (I'm guessing) "online update mechanism similar to Ubuntu." Because if I take your

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Shawn Walker
y pay for support for machines "that mattered." Of course, it would help if the pricing on updates-only support was actually reasonable, but that's off topic... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems A

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging and package format modernization goals. (Top Priority)

2007-05-17 Thread Shawn Walker
discussing implementation within this thread. Once we get this list hammered out, we should be ready to discuss implementation Not sure what you mean exactly... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Syst

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging and package format modernization goals. (Top Priority)

2007-05-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 17/05/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/05/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > In order to do that we need a set of common goals, > defining what we > > expect

Re: [install-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging and package format modernization goals. (Top Priority)

2007-05-18 Thread Shawn Walker
uot; for Solaris 10: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0406 Specifically, the Package Components page will be of help: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0406/6mg76stcv?q=pstamp&a=view -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Shawn Walker
del, > mostly via CDs or DVDs. The whole development model is because there is no other way to do it since the packaging tools will not allow anything else. There is no choice but to create the patch system. Likewise the distribution model. I have not seen any proof of that, nor have you offered any. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-18 Thread Shawn Walker
and/or copyright holders. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Shawn Walker
pt for localisation. I think that is the one lacking thing at the moment that RPM and deb handle better... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusa

Re: [osol-discuss] live upgrade s10 to s11

2007-05-19 Thread Shawn Walker
ris 10 Update 3 to a newer Solaris Express build (i've done it), but I don't think it works with older Solaris versions. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://b

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: opensolaris-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 140

2007-05-19 Thread Shawn Walker
is may just be a research failure on my part, but I didn't see a location for longer, sentence/paragraph length descriptions. This is the one failing I know of. Of course when installing a package you can have a significantly longer description shown in the "copyright&quo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Shawn Walker
and such command" and then wonder why my parsing wasn't working... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/05/07, Doug Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: > On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hugh McIntyre schrieb: >> > You can use (n)awk in the case above. For example, what happens with >> > "cut" in the c

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shawn Walker schrieb: > On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Compatible formatting if stdout is not a terminal. >> Optimized formatting if stdout is a terminal. > > Which would be really anno

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Shawn Walker
or case in point :) I've never liked popularity contests since long term popularity fades. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Shawn Walker
attributable to monopoly market power and market economics than anything else. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Shawn Walker
OS, so what's the point in using anything else? Let's just all pack up and go home... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Re: Re: And that would break... what, exactly? (Re: Sun to make Solaris more

2007-05-22 Thread Shawn Walker
s is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: And that would break... what, exactly?

2007-05-22 Thread Shawn Walker
gs during their lifetime. This thread has outlived its usefulness, please let it die. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Unix wizard pissing contest...

2007-05-22 Thread Shawn Walker
le...* -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Whats wrong with GNU tar

2007-05-24 Thread Shawn Walker
NU tar, then we can close this thread now :-) Its performance sucks compared to star? Seriously. I can't think of any reason why I would use gnu tar instead of star if I had a choice. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walke

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