Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-29 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Glynn Foster glynn.fos...@sun.com [2009-04-28 03:40]: On 20/04/2009, at 9:25 AM, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey all, I'm starting to pull together the What's New in 2009.06 guide. I'll be looking through the list of new packages in David's release notes, along with Cyril's excellent blog

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-29 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Glynn Foster glynn.fos...@sun.com [2009-04-29 20:38]: 2. Isn't there a laptops page on opensolaris.com for the Toshiba systems? Could we also link to the Laptop community for discussions about other laptops? Yes, I believe so. I decided to call out Toshiba because it was an

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-29 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Apr 29, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote: 2. Isn't there a laptops page on opensolaris.com for the Toshiba systems? Could we also link to the Laptop community for discussions about other laptops? the growing community of netbooks too? fwiw - the Acer Aspire One mostly

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-29 Thread Glynn Foster
On 30/04/2009, at 9:19 AM, Jonathan Edwards wrote: On Apr 29, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote: 2. Isn't there a laptops page on opensolaris.com for the Toshiba systems? Could we also link to the Laptop community for discussions about other laptops? the growing community of

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-27 Thread Glynn Foster
On 20/04/2009, at 9:25 AM, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey all, I'm starting to pull together the What's New in 2009.06 guide. I'll be looking through the list of new packages in David's release notes, along with Cyril's excellent blog which details the changes going into Nevada. If you have

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-22 Thread Jennifer Pioch
On 4/20/09, Lurie y...@gmx.co.uk wrote: * Crossbow - Network Virtualization and Resource Management * Volo - Low Latency Socket Framework * Labeled branded zones * Event-based cpu power management + deep C state support for newer processors * Fast reboot feature * Fast clean

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-22 Thread Glynn Foster
On 21/04/2009, at 4:39 AM, Ghee Teo wrote: On 04/20/09 17:26, Ken Mays wrote: Glynn, Add some more info on CUPS, printer support, more precisely, newer version of CUPS and also CUPS print manager (or system-config-printer) http://blogs.sun.com/gheet/entry/cups_print_manager_in_build

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-21 Thread Jim Walker
It might be good to say a few things about the contrib repo and how to port your favorite pkg via sourcejuicer. Cheers, Jim ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-21 Thread Lurie
* Fast reboot feature We had Fast Reboot for 2008.11 - though now enabled by default I think. Ah, yes, I should've been more more specific, back then, only a few drivers implemented quiesce, now almost all drivers have it, the i915 driver still doesn't, but works if I use a workaround:

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-21 Thread Brian Cameron
Sorry, but the improvements to the totem plugins did not make this release. In GNOME 2.26, the totem-basic-plugin has been replaced with a much better set of plugins which will all be enabled once GNOME 2.26 is available. In GNOME 2.24, the basic plugin does support most free media formats.

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-21 Thread Dave Miner
Glynn Foster wrote: On 20/04/2009, at 10:59 PM, Calum Benson wrote: On 19 Apr 2009, at 22:25, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey all, I'm starting to pull together the What's New in 2009.06 guide. I'll be looking through the list of new packages in David's release notes, along with Cyril's

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Lurie
* Crossbow - Network Virtualization and Resource Management * Volo - Low Latency Socket Framework * Labeled branded zones * Event-based cpu power management + deep C state support for newer processors * Fast reboot feature * Fast clean shutdown/restart * asprintf/vasprintf (for devs...) * A lot of

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Calum Benson
On 19 Apr 2009, at 22:25, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey all, I'm starting to pull together the What's New in 2009.06 guide. I'll be looking through the list of new packages in David's release notes, along with Cyril's excellent blog which details the changes going into Nevada. If you have any

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Mays
Glynn, Add some more info on CUPS, printer support, and the new Nvidia 180.xx driver support for Nvidia Quadro 5800 video support. I can also think of Codeina, multimedia codec support, and Compiz features. A few other things are out-of-the-box ATI Radeon 48xx support (which I've reported on

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Brian Cameron
Glynn: elisa is an exciting new media application. Might want to highlight that since it uses OpenGL, it doesn't work on systems that don't support OpenGL (much like compiz). codeina is a new feature, which makes it easier for users to access popular multimedia codecs such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4,

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:26:49 PDT Ken Mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: Add some more info on CUPS, printer support, and the new Nvidia 180.xx driver support for Nvidia Quadro 5800 video support. I can also think of Codeina, multimedia codec support, and Compiz features. Talking about

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Ghee Teo
On 04/20/09 17:26, Ken Mays wrote: Glynn, Add some more info on CUPS, printer support, more precisely, newer version of CUPS and also CUPS print manager (or system-config-printer) http://blogs.sun.com/gheet/entry/cups_print_manager_in_build Thanks Ken. -Ghee and the new Nvidia 180.xx

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Lurie
I wouldn't even recommend using extra at all, it still ships a flash plugin with a critical security vulnerability, apparently nobody cares (yes, a bug has been filed quite a while ago...) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Andras Barna
yep.. so you wouldnt use opensolaris at all! they dont update /release with sec fix' On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Lurie y...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I wouldn't even recommend using extra at all, it still ships a flash plugin with a critical security vulnerability, apparently nobody cares (yes, a

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Shawn Walker
Lurie wrote: I wouldn't even recommend using extra at all, it still ships a flash plugin with a critical security vulnerability, apparently nobody cares (yes, a bug has been filed quite a while ago...) People care, but the necessary resources haven't been available to update it yet.

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Shawn Walker
Andras Barna wrote: yep.. so you wouldnt use opensolaris at all! they dont update /release with sec fix' The logistical and technological processes needed to update /release with fixes, etc. has not yet been developed. Nor has what updates will be placed there yet been determined. Thanks

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Shawn Walker
Guido Berhoerster wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: The logistical and technological processes needed to update /release with fixes, etc. has not yet been developed. Nor has what updates will be placed there yet been determined. Thanks for bearing with us as this gets worked out. Can you share

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Lurie
yep.. so you wouldnt use opensolaris at all! they dont update /release with sec fix' good thing I'm using /dev then, eh ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey Glynn. In addition to what everyone else has already said: 1. I'd definitely highlight Elisa and Codeina as Brian suggested. I've got a primary OpenSolaris media center and a secondary OpenSolaris box doing many media centery things. Both JustWork(tm) -- and work far better than

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Glynn Foster
On 20/04/2009, at 7:23 PM, Lurie wrote: * Crossbow - Network Virtualization and Resource Management * Volo - Low Latency Socket Framework * Labeled branded zones * Event-based cpu power management + deep C state support for newer processors * Fast reboot feature We had Fast Reboot for

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Glynn Foster
On 20/04/2009, at 10:59 PM, Calum Benson wrote: On 19 Apr 2009, at 22:25, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey all, I'm starting to pull together the What's New in 2009.06 guide. I'll be looking through the list of new packages in David's release notes, along with Cyril's excellent blog which

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Glynn Foster
On 21/04/2009, at 4:26 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: Glynn: elisa is an exciting new media application. Might want to highlight that since it uses OpenGL, it doesn't work on systems that don't support OpenGL (much like compiz). Exciting until it somehow does a server grab and you can't get

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Glynn Foster
On 21/04/2009, at 4:35 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:26:49 PDT Ken Mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: Add some more info on CUPS, printer support, and the new Nvidia 180.xx driver support for Nvidia Quadro 5800 video support. I can also think of Codeina, multimedia codec

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Bob Doolittle
Glynn Foster wrote: On 21/04/2009, at 4:26 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: Isn't this release also the first release that SRSS will run on? Might be worth a mention. Certainly sounds like we've got the majority of the packages available to make that possible - however, I don't believe SRSS is

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Sriram Natarajan
For a web developer, OpenSolaris 2009.06 includes * Additional DTrace probes within PHP as well as MySQL 5.1 * version updates for Tomcat, Ruby, Apache and PHP. Also, MySQL 5.1 database is included as well. Component version informations - MySQL 5.1 , Apache 2.2.11 , PHP 5.2.9 - Ruby 1.8.7 -

Re: [indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-20 Thread Glynn Foster
On 21/04/2009, at 1:37 PM, Sriram Natarajan wrote: For a web developer, OpenSolaris 2009.06 includes * Additional DTrace probes within PHP as well as MySQL 5.1 * version updates for Tomcat, Ruby, Apache and PHP. Also, MySQL 5.1 database is included as well. Component version informations

[indiana-discuss] What's new in 2009.06? (submit your suggestions!)

2009-04-19 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey all, I'm starting to pull together the What's New in 2009.06 guide. I'll be looking through the list of new packages in David's release notes, along with Cyril's excellent blog which details the changes going into Nevada. If you have any ideas of what should be covered, send them