[OpenIndiana-discuss] ACPI errors

2012-06-22 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
Hello, while testing OpenIndiana (and Solaris 11) on an HP xw8600 workstation, I noticed messages like this occurring regularly during bootup: May 17 21:13:48

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ACPI errors

2012-06-25 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
, Milan On 25.06.2012 09:17, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: Thanks a lot for the quick replies. According to Update manager, my system is up to date, so it seems the latest fixes you mentioned did not make it (yet) into OpenIndiana. Is there a chance this will happen in the neat future? Best

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ACPI errors

2012-07-01 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
machine), having these updates would be a significant plus for OI ;-) Oliver From: Weiergräber, Oliver H. [o.h.weiergrae...@fz-juelich.de] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 10:11 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ACPI errors

[OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM with Xeon processor

2012-07-18 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
Hello, as implemented in OpenIndiana, KVM is said to require EPT, which is available in Intel's Nehalem-based CPUs. My xw8600 workstation has Xeon E5440 processors which are not Nehalem-based but, according to Intel documentation

[OpenIndiana-discuss] managing repositories

2012-11-11 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
Hello, while setting up a fresh oi_151a7 system, I encountered a number of questions related to repository management: 1. In the default install of oi_151a7, the opensolaris.org publisher is still included as enabled and sticky. Is there any sense in that? Any good reason not to disable it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

2012-11-17 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
Hello, am I right thinking that the firefox version supplied with OI is the same as in Solaris 11, and updated more or less regularly together with the remaining userland? Does this mean it is safe to use? I generally don't care about new features in later firefox versions, as long as security

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
Moreover, providing security fixes has been a defined goal of OpenIndiana right from the beginning. See the FAQ: Q: Will OpenIndiana provide security and bug fixes to their stable releases? A: Yes, absolutely. We view this as one of the key missing features that prevented widescale adoption of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
PM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap On 02/19/2013 12:41 PM, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: Moreover, providing security fixes has been a defined goal of OpenIndiana right from the beginning. See the FAQ: Q: Will OpenIndiana provide

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-20 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
Hmm, maybe the situation is not that bad after all... Consider the recent OI releases, each containing hundreds of updated packages with respect to the previous one. I didn't track this in detail, but it seems very likely that many of these updates also addressed security issues. That would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?

2013-03-27 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
That's very impressive indeed. But how do you handle the lack of timely security fixes on this OS? I suppose your machines are running on a separate network which is inaccessible from the outside world ? Oliver From: Udo Grabowski (IMK)