Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
...I read again the WayIn post, don't know if you can read it without being registered: http://www.wayin.com/#!/games/727ef756-1a8a-48f5-82c9-0e3c10b077d6 well, these are few words by Scott McNealy: Solaris is not on Intel, so if Sparc goes, Solaris suffers too What do you read??

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Volker A. Brandt
http://www.wayin.com/#!/games/727ef756-1a8a-48f5-82c9-0e3c10b077d6 well, these are few words by Scott McNealy: Solaris is not on Intel, so if Sparc goes, Solaris suffers too What do you read?? Sorry Gabriele, please do not be angry at me, but this is just confused gibberish to me. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any openindiana based website hosting ?

2012-01-07 Thread Open Indiana
What kind of hosting do you need or want? Why should it run on OpenIndiana? What specs do you need for the uplink? You may private mail me if you like. BR, Roelof -Original Message- From: Sriram Narayanan [mailto:sri...@belenix.org] Sent: zaterdag 7 januari 2012 7:48 To: Discussion

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Open Indiana
So many pure SUN/Solaris/OpeninIndiana professionals and one rumour puts us back to The Sun gossip. ;-) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Nikola M.
On 01/ 7/12 10:46 AM, Open Indiana wrote: So many pure SUN/Solaris/OpeninIndiana professionals and one rumour puts us back to The Sun gossip. ;-) Its not rumor actually. It does not mean what it is said (x86 kill) but it is close enough, regarding Openindiana. I don't care if our commodity

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any openindiana based website hosting ?

2012-01-07 Thread Gary Driggs
in no particular order: http://entic.net/Servers http://www.everycity.co.uk and the illumos/OI variant, SmartOS: http://www.joyent.com/products/smartmachines ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 7, 2012, Nikola M. wrote: It means Oracle not willing to make x86 hardware to run non-Oracle software on it. Then why did they send me a Windows driver disc with the X4170 M2 we bought last year? Maybe it's explained somewhere in their Windows 2008 Server install guide for the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Nikola M.
On 01/ 7/12 12:22 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Jan 7, 2012, Nikola M. wrote: It means Oracle not willing to make x86 hardware to run non-Oracle software on it. Then why did they send me a Windows driver disc with the X4170 M2 we bought last year? Maybe it's explained somewhere in their Windows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any openindiana based website hosting ?

2012-01-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Thanks for the inputs, everyone. The reason I'd wanted to opt for an openindiana based hosting is because it'd be ideal for an illumos based distro's website to be hosted on an illumos based distro. We've got some hosting space at v12.su from russaine39. Still, it'd be interesting to know if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Jan 7, 2012, at 4:42 AM, Andrew McRae wrote: If you read the whole statement, and its context, rather than just pulling out a few words like this, then it's clear that what he means is if SPARC was cancelled, then Oracle would not control the CPU that their OS (Solaris) runs on, and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How will this change affect any future source from Oracle ?

2012-01-07 Thread Mark
This looks to be a major change to how ON/net is being built. http://blogs.oracle.com/ali/entry/much_ado_about_nothing_stub Will this be a show stopper when integrating any future source released by Oracle ? Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How will this change affect any future source from Oracle ?

2012-01-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Should not be, since using stubs for dependencies when compiling and testing individual components has long been an accepted practice. We certainly need to adopt similar approaches in case we need to move toward continuous integration between sub components. -- Sriram On 1/8/12, Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How will this change affect any future source from Oracle ?

2012-01-07 Thread James Carlson
On 1/7/12 10:43 PM, Mark wrote: This looks to be a major change to how ON/net is being built. http://blogs.oracle.com/ali/entry/much_ado_about_nothing_stub Will this be a show stopper when integrating any future source released by Oracle ? It certainly would not be. At least among former

[OpenIndiana-discuss] PS2 keyboard problems

2012-01-07 Thread Mark
Does anyone else have constant problems getting a ps2 keyboard to work ? I have struck it on at least 4 different servers from as many vendors, and not one has a working ps2 keyboard once OI (or any other flavoured Solaris) has booted. All my OI servers now run ps2 to usb adapters. I