Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote: But there's an enormous, tedious history of butthurt when it comes to giving back to a BSD project. There's more than ten years of whining about OS X. and several more about OpenBSD, OpenSSH, etc. The reality is that these

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-05 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Folks, I got on board the OI boat seriously back in April. I love it. It has pushed me to learn a lot about Solaris as an OS and certain technologies (like SAS, SCSI) that probably wouldn't have had a place on the Mac I sold. I want to work with it and use it in solutions I propose to Vet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Jan Owoc wrote: I don't think the drive's model number or revision will change with a system update. I don't know whether it detects sector size or simply uses ashift=12 always (using 4k data sectors on a 512b drive doesn't exactly have downsides). Either way it shouldn't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
I certainly hope you are right. But I also hope you are aware of survival bias that may color your past experiences. It is very easy to look at the successful projects that have managed to survive over the years in retrospect while forgetting about those project that died and fell into

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley
wrote: From: Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 9:13 AM I certainly hope you are right. But I also hope you are aware of survival bias

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 08:01:52 -0700 (PDT), Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: Offer as an install time option a configuration of OI w/ ZFS as a file server in a mixed MacOS, Windows *nix environment. That will require a better groomed Netatalk package SMF manifest. Right now that's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Open Indiana
Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com] Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2012 17:02 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns Is it really necessary to convince the freeNAS people to change? Mark Creamer's response to the thread

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: That would leave just a good HCL as an obstacle to wider use of OI. The issues with modern/pervasive 4K sector disks on Illumos may also stifle adoption. I am unware of 4K sector disk issues in Illumos. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread James Relph
That will require a better groomed Netatalk package SMF manifest. Right now that's a slightly messy thing to set up. This to some extent goes back to something I've been talking about recently. The current version of netatalk (v3) is actually excellent on OI. NetAFP added cross-protocol

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:53:10 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: I am unware of 4K sector disk issues in Illumos. http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:53:10 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: I am unware of 4K sector disk issues in Illumos. http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 Most significantly, the issue was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Magnus
On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I expect that this became available in oi_151a_prestable5 (however, oi_151a_prestable6 is out today!). Hi Bob, I'm looking at http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/ and it looks like 151a5 is the latest available to the public right now. Does

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Magnus mag...@yonderway.com wrote: On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I expect that this became available in oi_151a_prestable5 (however, oi_151a_prestable6 is out today!). I'm looking at http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/ and it looks like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to administer web-admin GUI that would encourage the average-Joe to use it as a home-NAS / virtual server is not a bad thing. It is not have to be fancy, but GUI is absolutely necessary. Well, I am an average-Joe in UNIX world

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Secondly I find it incredibly hard to start developing things on the operating system. I may be irrelevant here, but there are rapid application development tools in modern computing world. One of them could be packaged for OpenIndiana. I am talking about Lazarus - a RAD environment for Free

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Open Indiana wrote: I guess i sparked this discussion about the GUI. Thanks for that. I cannot ignore GUI discussion. most people that call OI a stupid OS are the people that only use a GUI to do things. ;-) +1 :))) 1. Who wants to help develop OI? I want. But unfortunately I do not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Open Indiana wrote: It's not that OI doesn't have to have a GUI, it's only that not all settings have to be set OVER a GUI. Of course it needs a decent GUI, but that doesn't imply that you can change/alter anything without getting deeper and into the commandline. Totally agreed. Though I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-03 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Michael Stapleton wrote: The future of OI is on the server, and it should have a usable GUIinterface. But in my opinion, trying to support every Desktop application is a bit futile. Exactly. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns - next steps

2012-09-03 Thread David Halko
See comments below, in-line. Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 11:29:48 +0200 From: Open Indiana openindi...@out-side.nl To: 'Discussion list for OpenIndiana' openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns Message-ID

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Open Indiana
. -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: zaterdag 1 september 2012 16:48 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to administer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Gary Gendel
On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But making OI look

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Open Indiana
[mailto:g...@genashor.com] Sent: zondag 2 september 2012 16:53 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Gary Gendel
that you can change/alter anything without getting deeper and into the commandline. -Original Message- From: Gary Gendel [mailto:g...@genashor.com] Sent: zondag 2 september 2012 16:53 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have been developing a virtualization product that runs on OI, It's written in Java but uses ZFS and Comstar so the server side has to be Iluminos/Solaris11 based. For me, development and testing has been much more efficient by running OI on my workstations and laptops. When I'm traveling, I can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-01 Thread Open Indiana
or an OpenSource hobby the choose is easy. -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 21:00 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns People come and go

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-01 Thread Robin Axelsson
someone needs to choose between his work or an OpenSource hobby the choose is easy. -Original Message- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 21:00 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-01 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Sat, 9/1/12, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: From: Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Saturday, September 1, 2012, 7:27 AM While I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to administer web-admin GUI that would encourage the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: And the farewell message (if you can call it that) here: http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/thread.html has the original message and responses on the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Open Indiana
- From: Dave Koelmeyer [mailto:dave.koelme...@davekoelmeyer.co.nz] Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 8:32 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/31/2012 08:31 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: And the farewell message (if you can call it that) here: http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/thread.html has

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 31/08/12 07:31 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I would hope OpenIndiana was never just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Open Indiana openindi...@out-side.nl wrote: It is a true nightmare that the hard work of a lot of volunteers and the people of the old Sun company dies because it has been sucked empty by the commercial snakes. How Is it possible that companies can take

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Gary
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012, Jan Owoc wrote: NB: just because you are using a copyleft license still doesn't mean the people using your code must work with you; they could create a fork and ignore you, only publishing the code as a whole when they have a finished product (apparently Android was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I would hope OpenIndiana was never just a single-person job. The main risk at the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Ron Dawson
I'm also sad to hear that* *Alasdair Lumsden has resigned as lead of the project. I was greatly heartened when Alasdair first announced the project and have been using OI ever since the early releases on both my personal laptop and as my new work desktop (my other work desktop is Solaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/31/2012 09:22 PM, Ron Dawson wrote: In my workplace we are still using some SPARC desktop applications on aging Sun SPARC workstations and Tadpole laptops. We also utilize Sun Ray technology extensively in our training environment. (As an aside, I remember talking to Garrett back when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Ivar Janmaat
Now we are talking! I have been deploying Sun Rays for over 14 years. It is a perfect solution and it needs rock solide virtualisation to handle the large numbers of VMs. ZFS and Comstar features would be great to use. I am hoping that the next version of Oracle VDI/Sun Ray software supports

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-30 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
And the farewell message (if you can call it that) here: http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ My response on this list forthcoming, once I get over the frankly deeply shitty way in which it's been communicated. Cheers, Dave ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: And the farewell message (if you can call it that) here: http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/thread.html has the original message and responses on the developer list. -- -Alan Coopersmith-