Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-14 Thread Michael Kruger
On 02/10/2016 06:14 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. I have several notices. "Some notable features of OpenSolaris were the introduction of the all familiar GNOME desktop, GNU userland tools, and a new network based package manager (IPS)" It seems comma before "and" is not necessary, but I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-10 Thread Peter Tribble
> "At this time, the following distributions are known to support the SPARC > platform:.." > I think it would be good to reorganize the list in alphabetic order. I should have chosen a different name, I always seem to end up last on the lists :-( More seriously, I wouldn't necessarily call out

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-10 Thread Michael Kruger
On 02/10/2016 06:14 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. I have several notices. "Some notable features of OpenSolaris were the introduction of the all familiar GNOME desktop, GNU userland tools, and a new network based package manager (IPS)" It seems comma before "and" is not necessary, but I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-10 Thread Aurélien Larcher
> I need to try inserting an escape character to fix that...the wiki creole > interpreter somehow thinks it's a link. > Use {{{ }}} to avoid formatting. I had the same issue with manpage sections. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-10 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hi. I have several notices. "Some notable features of OpenSolaris were the introduction of the all familiar GNOME desktop, GNU userland tools, and a new network based package manager (IPS)" It seems comma before "and" is not necessary, but I'm not a native speaker. In Feature/Description

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ (3rd draft)

2016-02-10 Thread Aurélien Larcher
Hi. I have several notices. > > "Some notable features of OpenSolaris were the introduction of the all > familiar GNOME desktop, GNU userland tools, and a new network based package > manager (IPS)" > It seems comma before "and" is not necessary, but I'm not a native speaker. > Starting an Oxford

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-02-03 Thread cpforum
 Hi, > Both OpenIndiana and BSD are true unix operating systems, whose roots > trace back to the original AT Unix. True Shortly (I used all theses Unixes (even Edition 7 in the eigthies on a Perkin Elmer 3220) and all solaris release excepted SunOS 5.1 AT System V -->

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-02-03 Thread Michael Kruger
On 02/03/2016 04:30 PM, cpforum wrote: Hi, Both OpenIndiana and BSD are true unix operating systems, whose roots trace back to the original AT Unix. True Shortly (I used all theses Unixes (even Edition 7 in the eigthies on a Perkin Elmer 3220) and all solaris release excepted SunOS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-31 Thread Michael Kruger
On 01/31/2016 03:31 PM, Johan S wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:33:24 +0100 Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hello, I don t find the comparison useful ... i mean how useful is it ...? Linux was written from scratch ... by Hp Ibm SGI and lot of companies . This is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-31 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Michael Kruger писал 31.01.2016 17:17: On 01/31/2016 01:26 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. Again I don't like "Linux in contrast, was created from scratch to provide an open source alternative to proprietary Minix". This sounds strange now, when Minix is open sourced. Perhaps, change it to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-31 Thread Michael Kruger
On 01/31/2016 01:26 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hi. Again I don't like "Linux in contrast, was created from scratch to provide an open source alternative to proprietary Minix". This sounds strange now, when Minix is open sourced. Perhaps, change it to something like "to Minix, which license

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-30 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hi. Michael Kruger писал 30.01.2016 21:16: Hello All, I have taken the original OpenIndiana FAQ from the website and wiki, and created an updated draft ready for your review. You'll find it here: http://hub.openindiana.ninja/?q=content/faq Please take a few moments to review it and kindly

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-30 Thread Michael Kruger
On 01/30/2016 02:50 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: BTW, can we use echelog to log oi-documentation channel? It also should be mentioned on the wiki. Hi Alexander, I've modified everything you've suggested, and improved a few other areas as well. Please have another look:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Updated OpenIndiana FAQ

2016-01-30 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hi. Again I don't like "Linux in contrast, was created from scratch to provide an open source alternative to proprietary Minix". This sounds strange now, when Minix is open sourced. Perhaps, change it to something like "to Minix, which license limited it to educational use only". ---