[OpenIndiana-discuss] Will OpenIndiana switch to SquashFS?

2021-01-08 Thread Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss
Most Linux distributions now employing SquashFS for their live system so they are blazing fast even though being run from a slow USB 2.0 stick. I'm posting this mail on one of such live system. I found OpenIndiana is using another technology:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dual screen setup with intel DRM & VESA

2021-01-08 Thread Araragi Hokuto
OK, apparently I've jumped into conclusion here, since the Skylake GPU is actually not supported by illumos DRM right now, so this setup is probably impossible. I'll update this after I've come up with another idea. Thanks anyway. On 1/8/21 5:44 PM, Araragi Hokuto wrote: Hello everyone. I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tasks to focus on

2021-01-08 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:57 PM Till Wegmueller wrote: > Hey Aurelian > > Nice to have you back! > > We had a Maintainer meetup yesterday aswell and I am still processing > the notes. And translating to English. (we where all German) > > But in short: > I will get myself a Physical host with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tasks to focus on -- firefox

2021-01-08 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 08.01.21 um 10:55 schrieb Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss: Am 08.01.21 10:25 schrieb "Joshua M. Clulow" : On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 23:34, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss wrote: On 07.01.21 23:47, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote: If you hit any trouble with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and USB webcam

2021-01-08 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hey Tony Here in the EU I always get myself a USB Gaming Headset for my Audio needs. They are Cheap(ish) and you can get yourself a Wireless Headset that has a dedicated receiver that needs no special driver, other than Audio. You might also get away by simply using the Mic, Headset on the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tasks to focus on

2021-01-08 Thread Till Wegmueller
On 08.01.21 01:15, Chris wrote: You might also be interested in what Oregon State University is offering (free to opren source && includes IPv6) https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/ That might actually be a good idea simply to have a IPS mirror outside the EU. Thanks for the tip. -Till

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tasks to focus on -- firefox

2021-01-08 Thread Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss
Am 08.01.21 10:25 schrieb "Joshua M. Clulow" : > > On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 23:34, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > > >On 07.01.21 23:47, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > > >>If you hit any trouble with Rust, I'd love to hear about it! We have > > > >>a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dual screen setup with intel DRM & VESA

2021-01-08 Thread Araragi Hokuto
Hello everyone. I'm trying to setup an OI installation for my illumos dev tasks. My system has a i7-6700 CPU and RX480 graphics card, with a dual monitor setup. Since there is no AMDGPU driver avaliable for illumos (Correct me if I'm wrong, but https://www.illumos.org/issues/8069 does not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tasks to focus on

2021-01-08 Thread Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 23:34, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > >On 07.01.21 23:47, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > >>If you hit any trouble with Rust, I'd love to hear about it! We have > > >>a good relationship with the Rust project itself, so we should be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

2021-01-08 Thread Jim Klimov
On January 8, 2021 1:27:34 AM UTC, Chris wrote: >On 2021-01-07 13:50, Guenther Alka wrote: >> In the end I do not think in these categories. >> >> A few years ago all my own servers were OpenIndiana and maybe 40% of >my >> users on >> Solaris. Now I am 100% on OmniOS beside a OI evaluation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox and USB webcam

2021-01-08 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hi Till, Thanks a lot for your reply. Well, it wasn't a kernel driver hogging the device. I could modunload the usbvc driver easily, but when I tried to attach the device in vbox, the kernel loaded the usbvc driver automagically again. But you did actually point me in the right direction,