Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.3 @ Sunfreeware
Congrads Stefan and Steve C. !!! Any ETA for the KDE work to be ported to the Companion CD?!? ~ Ken Mays --- Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many Thank You's to Steve Christensen for making KDE 3.4.3 available at Sun Freeware and its mirrors: http://www.sunfreeware.com/ --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.3 @ Sunfreeware
On 12/28/05, ken mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congrads Stefan and Steve C. !!! Any ETA for the KDE work to be ported to the Companion CD?!? i don't know precisely _yet_, because there are at least two rather complex steps to be taken for KDE to make it on the Companion CD: 1. figuring out which of the *many* KDE requirement libraries go on the Companion CD as part of the core distribution, and which go as part of the KDE requirements dependencies only. 2 (a). building these libraries with the correct Companion CD RPATH and location 2 (b). building KDE with the correct Companion CD RPATH 3. testing thoroughly 2(a) and 2(b). As soon as we figure these out, we can have a more precise timeline. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: KDE, GNOME, etc.
The 'desktop' work at Blastwave is a bit broader in scope. Blastwave has provided not only KDE, but several of the other major UNIX desktop environments like Xfce *AND** GNOME - as well as many of the freedesktop.org software ported to Solaris. I mentioned before that Stefan and I do similar work with KDE/Solaris porting, yet my scope was for legacy support within the SPARCv8 (i.e. sun4m and above) and SPARCv9 platform realms - when it came to KDE for Solaris as well as Trolltech's Qt C++ development framework. Efforts are branched between people porting KDE with either GCC and Sun Studio compilers to Solaris and what hardware platforms they choose to support. At the end of the day, the end users get KDE on Solaris either way. The UNIX desktop environments, Scribus, and OpenGL development/gaming on Solaris x86 were a few of my biggest concerns back in 2002-2003. We've surpassed all of those milestones. Now, we are faced with just getting the latest JDS-GNOME 2.12.2 into the hands of people (which is Glynn's (GMan) area) and journalists. Then, it is just making consumers/end users 'aware' on how you can run KDE apps under JDS/GNOME and vice versa. I'd hope Y2006 starts with many end users having JDS/GNOME 2.12.2 and KDE 3.5 available on Solaris as a desktop option. Whether either one is better than the other is just another threaded subject of discussion... ;oP ~ Ken Mays --- Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/27/05, John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 27, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Ché Kristo wrote: IMO, the best way to make positive ground on KDE on Solaris is to latch on to Stefan Teleman's KDE work. Or you could latch onto Ken Mays work with KDE at Blastwave. http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0039/index.html Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris
If you've never heard of pkgsrc, have a look at http://www.pkgsrc.org/ Basically pkgsrc is a cross platform package management framework, that has support for many different Unix operating systems, not just NetBSD. I use pkgsrc quite successfuly on Solaris, however there is still a large number of packages that don't build on Solaris, due to a different operating environment and compilers (I use SunStudio 11 compilers). OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your favourite web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer precompiled Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. Also Solaris native packaging system sucks, compared to pkgsrc. I think some people at Sun are aware of pkgsrc (they even donated a few sparc machines to NetBSD project). I was wondering if Sun had any plans to adopt pkgsrc for OpenSolaris or put more effort behind it. The infrastructure is there, what's missing are the people who regularly build packages on Solaris, find and fix problems and submit patches. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 05:31 -0800, Roman wrote: OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your favourite web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer precompiled Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. Also Solaris native packaging system sucks, compared to pkgsrc. Actually, native Solaris's PKG system is quite advanced but not eye candy and hard to use. But today OpenSolaris users has another option besides pkgsrc. Its Debian's based Nexenta OS with 18000+ packages avaialable in source form and 3000+ in binary form. (as of today). And number packages is growing. Debian repository has everything latest/greates. And pretty much all of available Debian packages compiles on NexentaOS quite easily. (remember that Debian is platform-independent technology, i.e. it has ports on Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin and now SunOS). Its actually really cool to find out that on the second day after new version of mplayer is released, corresponding Debian package gets updated to the latest. Check out http://www.gnusolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] NexentaOS GUI configuration tools fully ported
Hi Guys, Just wanted to let you know that with help of system-tools-backends maintainers I was working on system-tools-backends and gnome-system-tools frontends to bring GUI tools up to the level when average user could easy configure NexentaOS, new exciting Ubuntu GNU/Solaris based operating system! I ported almost all system-tools-backends components and did quite a lot of bug fixing and SunOS-awareness fixes in gnome-system-tools frontends. Specific OpenSolaris/Nexenta features fully supported: * SMF management (start,stop,view) * dfstab NFS and Samba shares * native OpenSolaris Wifi network locator and configuration using wificonfig and native wireless drivers * native NIC interfaces configuration which utilizes existing configuration schema, i.e. /etc/netmasks, /etc/networks, /etc/hostname.$dev, etc * native NTP client and timezone support * disk administration with UFS partition support Backends are fully integrated into Nexenta desktop, for instance, missing NTP or Samba packages will be requested via Synaptic package manager and will be downloaded via popup GUIs. Nautilus integrated with disks-admin as well as the rest of tools spread out through the GNOME's menu and options. Check out screenshot at my homepage: http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/ErastBenson If you are not Nexenta OS user yet, than become one and help us make it the best OS environment available around! Enjoy and happy new year!!! Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?
Still having problems, both from work and home.. can anyone confirm this? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?
I just tried to download at Solaris Express and I saw the 4 iso files for build 28 but when I click on any of them, I got a File Not Found error. Does that mean we have to wait till next week for a fix? --Vincent On 12/28/05, Kenneth Gullberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still having problems, both from work and home.. can anyone confirm this?This message posted from opensolaris.org___opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?
Vincent Yau wrote: I just tried to download at Solaris Express and I saw the 4 iso files for build 28 but when I click on any of them, I got a File Not Found error. Does that mean we have to wait till next week for a fix? I don't know if we have to wait a week. There seems to be an equivalent post at yahoo groups: Anyone else having problems downloading the CD ISO's? I keep getting file not found errors when clicking on the individual files to download. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] KDE Translucency
I'm trying to configure my KDE environment for its translucency. I'm using 3.4.3 compiled with Suns compilers, basically the latest version available at http://www.solaris.kde.org/. The requirements state: 1) Xorg or =to 6.8 Done, Solaris 10, Update 1 installed 2) GPU hardware-accelerated Xrender Done, Nvidia Quatro 3000, with latest graphics driver (v8178) 3) Entries into xorg.conf. Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection Option RenderAccel true Done, manually entered 4) Installed the kompmgr that came with kwin. Problem. Searched the whole installation for this file, not there. Where do I retrieve this file? Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] KDE Translucency
On 12/28/05, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Installed the kompmgr that came with kwin. Problem. Searched the whole installation for this file, not there. kompmgr cannot be built (yet) on S10 because the S10 Xorg 6.8.2 does not yet support XComposite, and kcompmgr requires XComposite. i have built XComposite on my own (from the Xorg sources), but it is extremely unstable and i decided against releasing it, since it would have been of very little use anyway. the situation is identical on SPARC. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] KDE Translucency
Stefan Teleman wrote: On 12/28/05, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Installed the kompmgr that came with kwin. Problem. Searched the whole installation for this file, not there. kompmgr cannot be built (yet) on S10 because the S10 Xorg 6.8.2 does not yet support XComposite, and kcompmgr requires XComposite. i have built XComposite on my own (from the Xorg sources), but it is extremely unstable and i decided against releasing it, since it would have been of very little use anyway. the situation is identical on SPARC. The XComposite is an Xorg library. Shouldn't this be Sun's responsibility to add. Are they going to have it in Xorg 6.9? Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] KDE Translucency
On 12/28/05, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The XComposite is an Xorg library. Shouldn't this be Sun's responsibility to add. Are they going to have it in Xorg 6.9? i really don't know. maybe AlanC could shed some light on this when he gets back from vacation. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?
I think Sun employees are off between Christmas to New Year, which meansthis problem may be addressed till next week.On 12/28/05, Bruce Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Vincent Yau wrote: I just tried to download at Solaris Express and I saw the 4 iso files for build 28 but when I click on any of them, I got a File Not Found error. Does that mean we have to wait till next week for a fix? I don't know if we have to wait a week.There seems to be an equivalent post at yahoo groups:Anyone else having problems downloading the CD ISO's?I keep gettingfile not found errors when clicking on the individual files to download. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
