Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running OI as a guest in KVM
On 11/11/12 04:04, Anil Jangity wrote: I am not able to run OI as a guest in SmartOS/KVM. Are there virtio drivers I can install to get it to recognize the disks? Are there plans to integrate official drivers into upstream? Use "ide" for the disk model and "e1000" for the nic model. Performance won't be great, it it will install and run. -- Ian. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Thunderbird 16.0.1 and 16.0.2
Hmmm... for me 17.0 works fine! On November 23, 2012 10:51:47 PM EEST, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: 17.0 crashes all the time :( Windows version works fine. What about Preferences dialogue in 16.x - never tried. Worked without problems under OI. please tell me if 17 works for you. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Thunderbird 16.0.1 and 16.0.2
17.0 crashes all the time :( Windows version works fine. What about Preferences dialogue in 16.x - never tried. Worked without problems under OI. please tell me if 17 works for you. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Scientific Software for OpenIndiana
Excellent idea! Myself, I use the R statistics software, ImageJ and MIPAV, but I'd really like the ease of use of searching for an IPKG package and downloading it... Nowadays I find I mainly look for java apps for the ease of portability. R is available, although old, from CSW. Bryan On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Aurélien Larcher < aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I would like to enquire whether someone would be interested in > developing some kind of scientific software packaging initiative ? > > I am a post-doc researcher in applied and computational math and I am > using OpenIndiana on my workstation and personal computing nodes. > To the question "Why ?", I would reply that it's mainly about having the > possibility to setup a RAIDZ on the workstation and then benefiting from > better data "safety" (few horror/corruption stories with ext3...), using > snapshots for my data sets and results, as well as the possibility to > rollback if a new version of numerical libraries breaks something (or > even just an upgrade). > Another good point is the good support of Nvidia graphic cards and the > fact that something on the system is not breaking after every single > upgrade... > > To this regard OpenIndiana is a very good working environment for a > researcher. > The main drawback is that it requires lots of "manual" installations > which any researcher/engineer cannot afford. > Before considering using optimized libraries, one is mainly concerned > about just doing his research work :) > > As the compilation and upgrade of numerical libraries and application > tends to be tedious and as I need to upgrade PETSc and friends, I am > taking the time now to package any software I am using at work. > > I am currently packaging TeXLive, LaTeX Gedit plugin, Scilab, Paraview > and linear algebra and PDE solver software which have been using in the > past years. > > I am using pkgbuild and SFE and here is a link to a sandbox where I > started pushing spec files I wrote this week: > > https://bitbucket.org/alarcher/oi-scientific/wiki/Home > > Related to this, I have then few questions: > > - - What can be a good way to collaborate on packaging scientific software > ? > - - Should we provide the packages through the OI SFE repository or a > separate one ? Then how ? > - - Should we focus on using GCC 4.6.3 provided by SFE ? (I personally > don't have the time to handle SUNCC gotchas if any :S) > - - Where should the "OI Scientific" project by hosted ? > - - How should we handle dependencies to OI packages ? (for instance Ant > from OI is too old for some software I am using). > > Moreover, if there are enough people interested I would advocate having > a system similar to Debian Sciences with few maintainer per package and > for each a separate repository with spec files, copyright, patches, > etc... (something like Redmine ?). > > So if you are interested in a joint effort in that direction, I would be > glad to hear you suggestions. > > Best regards, > > Aurélien > > > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQr69qAAoJEA/MOW1tOCCga/8H/i6anp+u01ZtrcGRXymouxmv > 5DodCaOUPMXsflEnRMnkmQnup7dPPoEBvMGOS1GtMeHzWIrQfATst5dxLyxetwNL > zPX83g9ychjAq/8xaHMt/ADt0isjhGXoofKR0UAvzPyy5eXhbvIfB2wxVHe9e/GC > zJbwAd984K5iAtEyp/AE7TpqGlx1Z1Tdt5aTyYs3BMxPSIEp7CUbjVecp/0kShoh > UmnqErmpTUEe+cVRw9EV5R4LTpBDcdahNzcm0F2cogMbKxxMn2EgGeqHh8Jkd2I6 > zvHp4ROUfkqE6x1Sfr4yzXHyMnw30Ul58ye5JUYOxChY2JRc5MFDhqbP3YZjkms= > =nKLb > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > ___ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Scientific Software for OpenIndiana
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to enquire whether someone would be interested in developing some kind of scientific software packaging initiative ? I am a post-doc researcher in applied and computational math and I am using OpenIndiana on my workstation and personal computing nodes. To the question "Why ?", I would reply that it's mainly about having the possibility to setup a RAIDZ on the workstation and then benefiting from better data "safety" (few horror/corruption stories with ext3...), using snapshots for my data sets and results, as well as the possibility to rollback if a new version of numerical libraries breaks something (or even just an upgrade). Another good point is the good support of Nvidia graphic cards and the fact that something on the system is not breaking after every single upgrade... To this regard OpenIndiana is a very good working environment for a researcher. The main drawback is that it requires lots of "manual" installations which any researcher/engineer cannot afford. Before considering using optimized libraries, one is mainly concerned about just doing his research work :) As the compilation and upgrade of numerical libraries and application tends to be tedious and as I need to upgrade PETSc and friends, I am taking the time now to package any software I am using at work. I am currently packaging TeXLive, LaTeX Gedit plugin, Scilab, Paraview and linear algebra and PDE solver software which have been using in the past years. I am using pkgbuild and SFE and here is a link to a sandbox where I started pushing spec files I wrote this week: https://bitbucket.org/alarcher/oi-scientific/wiki/Home Related to this, I have then few questions: - - What can be a good way to collaborate on packaging scientific software ? - - Should we provide the packages through the OI SFE repository or a separate one ? Then how ? - - Should we focus on using GCC 4.6.3 provided by SFE ? (I personally don't have the time to handle SUNCC gotchas if any :S) - - Where should the "OI Scientific" project by hosted ? - - How should we handle dependencies to OI packages ? (for instance Ant from OI is too old for some software I am using). Moreover, if there are enough people interested I would advocate having a system similar to Debian Sciences with few maintainer per package and for each a separate repository with spec files, copyright, patches, etc... (something like Redmine ?). So if you are interested in a joint effort in that direction, I would be glad to hear you suggestions. Best regards, Aurélien -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQr69qAAoJEA/MOW1tOCCga/8H/i6anp+u01ZtrcGRXymouxmv 5DodCaOUPMXsflEnRMnkmQnup7dPPoEBvMGOS1GtMeHzWIrQfATst5dxLyxetwNL zPX83g9ychjAq/8xaHMt/ADt0isjhGXoofKR0UAvzPyy5eXhbvIfB2wxVHe9e/GC zJbwAd984K5iAtEyp/AE7TpqGlx1Z1Tdt5aTyYs3BMxPSIEp7CUbjVecp/0kShoh UmnqErmpTUEe+cVRw9EV5R4LTpBDcdahNzcm0F2cogMbKxxMn2EgGeqHh8Jkd2I6 zvHp4ROUfkqE6x1Sfr4yzXHyMnw30Ul58ye5JUYOxChY2JRc5MFDhqbP3YZjkms= =nKLb -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
