On 12/27/2017 07:33 PM, Till Wegmüller wrote:
I have it running on a HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 and I know that
Gen8 works well too.
Really? I would think Gen 10 would be UEFI?
Does Hipster now support UEFI?
Michael
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On 01/25/2016 05:04 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
Googling for solaris hardware compatibility will find some (partly/mostly
crowdsourced, i.e. not authoritative) lists for commercial Solaris.
I'd expect that OpenSolaris derivatives would resemble Solaris 10, perhaps
minus some closed-source dr
On 01/27/2016 05:16 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
Hello,
This is an interesting topic. OpenIndiana has the device driver utility
which is capable of uploading the results of a compatibility scan.
Unfortunately that tool is configured to send those results to a server
side infrastructure which no
rther refined and improved.
Thanks!
Michael Kruger
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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:
http://hub.openindian
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 lim
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 absolutely irrelevant and could only
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&T 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
Hi All,
Based on feedback, I've reworked the FAQ a bit more.
Several sections have been reworded and re-ordered.
http://hub.openindiana.ninja/?q=content/faq
Feel free to comment
Michael
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Last night I went back and re-read the comments folks provided, and have
further updated the FAQ to include these.
Sections I worked on were the package manager, SPARC support, and
getting involved. A few more minor edits elsewhere as well.
Unless anyone finds glaring regressions, this is lik
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 n
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 not
Hello All,
In the latest iteration of the OpenIndiana FAQ:
https://github.com/makruger/openindiana-docs/blob/master/faq.asciidoc
It became apparent the list of contribution task entry points was a bit
outdated. For example, it mentions the distribution constructor, which
ALP kindly pointed ou
On 03/13/2016 07:56 AM, russell wrote:
Hi,
I upgraded to VirtualBox from 5.0.14 to 5.0.16 no problems found yet.
Regards
Russell
Hi Russell,
Is there a package for this, or did you roll your own?
If the later, do you have a procedure which could be added to the
OpenIndiana Handbook?
Mic
On 03/15/2016 03:44 PM, Nikola M wrote:
Either way they should, ideally, be recompiled for OI to test and
distribute.
+1
I too would really like to see Virtualbox as a maintained package for
Hipster.
It seems to me it would be a real help for new users coming from a
Windows environment a
Resending due to recent bounce back issue.
On 04/09/2016 11:59 PM, Michael Kruger wrote:
Hello all,
The FAQ that I have been working on has now been published. Being a
living document, it will improve and grow along with the project.
You can find the updated FAQ here:
http
Hello all,
The FAQ that I have been working on has now been published. Being a
living document, it will improve and grow along with the project.
You can find the updated FAQ here:
http://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/
Also, our Wordpress instance now has an interpreter for the Ascii
Just wanted to mention there is an alternate download mirror available.
http://ftp.vim.org/os/openindiana.org/dlc/isos/hipster/
If I am not mistaken, aren't both the primary and alternate mirrors
located in Europe? If so, perhaps soliciting a mirror in North America
would help reduce some of
On 04/23/2016 05:07 AM, Nikola M wrote:
I am additionally proposing adding official (not per-user made)
.torrent files and magnet links
for newly made ISOs, on the same place where sha256sum and file itself is.
Also publishing sha256sums in same documents when mentioning Disk images
it a good p
On 04/23/2016 08:26 AM, Сисадмин wrote:
Hi everyone,
to make the long story short - i 've spent 6 weeks trting really hard, read
tons of doc pages on the internet (get lots of knowledge to be honest)
so i can get very good results , however unfortunetely i cant get from
iscsi+zfs good resul
On 04/23/2016 05:07 AM, Nikola M wrote:
I am additionally proposing adding official (not per-user made)
.torrent files and magnet links
for newly made ISOs, on the same place where sha256sum and file itself is.
Also publishing sha256sums in same documents when mentioning Disk images
it a good
Hi Carl,
There is a torrent directory on DLC, but no torrents for the latest
release. http://dlc.openindiana.org/torrents/
Perhaps Xenol or Alp can help with this.
There is however, an unofficial torrent for the GUI desktop ISO. In fact
Distrowatch is 'giving back' to the community by hosti
Hello all,
Here is a little something I have been working to help showcase
documentation for the OpenIndiana project.
Currently hosted are:
OpenIndiana FAQ (Complete, but still growing and improving)
OpenIndiana Handbook (little more than a template at this point)
OpenSolaris Books (41 titles
Now that the dust has settled a little bit after my initial
presentation, perhaps I should elaborate a bit about my motivations and
intentions in creating this little proof of concept.
In the responses and discussions that followed, some feathers were
ruffled, and a number of points where rais
On 05/04/2016 06:52 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> Hi, Michael.
>
> Thank you for your work.
> To move further I think we should consider several questions...
>
> 1) Someone should look through the docs... So , reviewers are welcome.
> Have you changed "OpenSolaris Redistributable Books" in any w
On 05/11/2016 02:34 AM, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote:
Hi Toasterson,
I did unpacked MATE to separate directory, and navigated there, then:
$ ls -la
total 22K
drwxr-xr-x 11 rootroot 11 May 11 08:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 predrag_zecevic admin 3 May 11 08:23 ..
dr
Hello All,
Reporting my progress so nobody gets the idea this little technology
demonstration project has been abandoned. Far from it, there has been
continued development.
See it all here: http://makruger.github.io/website/
This weekend the contribution page was reworked with a slightly mo
On 05/16/2016 08:41 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
Some notes:
http://makruger.github.io/website/pages/docs/faq.html:
1) Sun/Oracle’s proprietary OS/NET consolidation has been replaced with
illumos-gate. => Sun OS/NET consolidation, closed by Oracle, has been
replaced... I mean, OS/NET was open..
Hello All,
Given the topic of licensing has come up several times in recent
discussions, I thought this might be a good time to talk a little more
about the PDL license and the terms it imposes on authored works subject
to this license.
Below I have cobbled together a few things I found on t
On 05/17/2016 09:33 PM, Michael Kruger wrote:
So, if the content found on openindiana.org or wiki.openindiana.org were
PDL licensed, then it would also follow that any document created from
such content would then need to include all the contributor names in
it's PDL notice.
And if a
Hello All,
I am happy to announce further development of the OpenIndiana Docs
static HTML website concept. This latest demonstration site uses the
MkDocs content authoring and static website generation framework. MkDocs
uses Markdown as the text markup used for content authoring.
The website
On 06/12/2016 12:27 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
Wow Michael,
That's awesome. Thank you.
Jerry
Hi Jerry, it gets even better
This afternoon we automated everything with Travis-CI. Now upon commit
the site automatically runs through a series of validation tests. If
everything passes, the sit
On 06/12/2016 03:59 PM, Nikola M wrote:
So doesn't look nice , not solving any issue and not needing any
"Organizing" into "Roles" right now, thank you.
Nikolam,
All criticisms set aside, you have to admit this new site looks simply
fabulous on an iPhone.
Try that sometime with the OI wiki
Update on this.
We're fully automated with continuous integration (via Travis-ci) and
have enabled HTTPS. And just today added a new script that checks for
broken URL's.
The updated site URL is: https://makruger.github.io/website-2.0/
Currently we have 3 contributors, but we definitely w
On 06/15/2016 04:37 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
Hi, Michael.
Let's consider things which should be done to make documentation site
official:
- provide quick links to the latest OpenSolaris 2009.06 documentation
collection, hosted on github or our servers;
- move all actual and relevant content
On 06/15/2016 05:31 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
Since the new version of the docs is coded now, it should be
possible to add some javascript that detects users device
parameters and render the sites accordingly. There are
a lot of examples and ready to use code how to do that in javascript.
On 08/09/2016 03:59 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
After this, I checked with OpenSSL version, but it is 1.0.2g. Now, we
should upgrade to 1.0.2h which is the latest one.
I can see the latest one when I typed the command like pkg info -r
openssl. How can I update this anyway?
The command should
For the sake of any folks new to OpenIndiana (such as myself), I wanted
to loosely document the process of installing the mate desktop and
enabling lightdm.
1) Install the MATE desktop meta package (sudo pkg install mate_install)
2) Close out running applications and boot into single user mode
On 08/21/16 04:06 AM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
Hi
Am 21.08.16 um 02:51 schrieb Michael Kruger:
For the sake of any folks new to OpenIndiana (such as myself), I
wanted to loosely document the process of installing the mate desktop
and enabling lightdm.
1) Install the MATE desktop meta package
On 08/21/16 04:18 AM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
Am 21.08.16 um 02:51 schrieb Michael Kruger:
For the sake of any folks new to OpenIndiana (such as myself), I
wanted to loosely document the process of installing the mate desktop
and enabling lightdm.
1) Install the MATE desktop meta package
Hello,
I have a rather strange problem with viewing CIFS shares.
Both client and server machine are running OI Hipster.
On the server I have 3 zfs datasets shared out via CIFS, but the CIFS
client can only see one of them.
From the OI Hipster server, everything looks OK to me.
And I am able to
Just did a pkg update on an instance of the Mate experimental release
installed into vmware and it no longer boots to the desktop.
SSH apparently isn't running so I cannot ssh or scp to obtain the logs.
I didn't see anything obvious in the Xorg.0.log or in dmesg.
Anything else I should be looking
On 09/12/2016 04:50 AM, Till Wegmueller wrote:
Hey Michael.
Can you check which version of illumos you have ?
There are reports on Irc that there is a smf bug where services are not started.
See https://www.illumos.org/issues/7369 for details.
Greetings
Till
Thanks Till,
That looks to be th
On 09/13/2016 07:55 AM, Francis.D wrote:
Hi,
Actually I can boot on BE Openindiana-1
but I don't have Mate desktop environnment. Only mode console. It's seen a
bug from Illumos
thank
Hi Francis,
Yes, there is a SMF related bug causing the desktop to fail to load.
Boot back into the previ
On 09/17/2016 02:12 PM, IT@Mitutoyo wrote:
What's weird is from my home system over vpn, I'm able to see the testing
share, but no others. I tried setting abe=false on one of them, and that didn’t
help. I tried setting the permissions back to everyone full control, and that
didn't help either.
On 09/21/2016 03:17 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
In hipster 16.04, can you specify a full two-disk mirror for root
right at the start of installing from live DVD media??
No, but you can follow
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+Creating+an+rpool+manually
Hi Alp,
While the article
On 09/25/2016 02:09 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
Hello,
I kust wanted to check ntfs-3g and I downloaded and installed the packages from
http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html
There is also a package in the hipster repo:
system/file-system
On 09/25/2016 04:24 PM, Adam Števko wrote:
HI,
out of curiosity, how was the NTFS created? When I tested this last, I was able
to mount ntfs properly. However, the partition was created by ntfs-3g tools.
Adam
I don't recall as it's been a while since I tried. It was either created
under Win
Hi Glenn,
Sounds like you ran into this:
https://www.openindiana.org/2016/08/29/possible-ssh-update-issue/
Michael
On 10/01/2016 12:11 PM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
What does it mean? What should I do?
root@shoggoth:/root# pkg update --be-name 2016-10-01
Packages to remove: 7
This is a request for comments for an updated OpenIndiana-Welcome doc...
Did a quick update of the doc which ships with OI and is presented the
first time Firefox is run.
Please review and if you have suggestions for what else should be added
to this, or would like to see something changed, p
On 10/25/2016 02:15 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
=
Yes I was able to get a working system from this ISO in three
VirtualBox instances last month.
Each of them has 3GB RAM and 24GB disk.
That's about what I would recommend for resources when running OI as a
virtual guest with a GUI. Although in
Whoops...sent an old version. Here is the latest version with the fix.
Michael
On 10/23/2016 10:54 PM, Michael Kruger wrote:
This is a request for comments for an updated OpenIndiana-Welcome doc...
Did a quick update of the doc which ships with OI and is presented the
first time Firefox is
Hello All,
I've committed the updates to my fork of openindiana-welcome.
https://github.com/makruger/openindiana-welcome
So, at this time I would like to invite the community to submit
translations.
Translations reside in the folder data/html. Each translation requires a
subfolder (for exam
Update:
We have the following translations now:
French
Greek
Russian
And Francis is currently working on the Portuguese (Brazil) translation.
Translation wish list (in no particular order):
Slovenian
Serbian
Italian
Chinese
Japanese
Spanish
I've attached the US English version as an attachme
.net <http://irc.freenode.net/>
Licenca
Podatki o licenciranju OpenIndiana
On 30. okt. 2016, at 01:35, Michael Kruger wrote:
Update:
We have the following translations now:
French
Greek
Russian
And Francis is currently working on the Portuguese (Brazil) translation.
Translatio
On 10/31/2016 05:03 AM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
Hi,
I am in the process of translating/adopting it to Serbian language.
With best regards.
Predrag Zečević
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Great, looking forward to it.
Michae
Hello All,
Lots of activity to report on the new Hipster Handbook.
http://docs.openindiana.org
This past week I've updated the docs site to include details for:
* Using the new FreeBSD boot loader
* Using the new ZFS rpool options provided by the text installer
* Added a basic Git usage gu
On 12/30/2016 06:56 PM, Full Name wrote:
I've 2GB RAM on the system. The system has 32-bit intel processor.
how do i check swap/raw partition?
Pulled this from my personal notes for future docs to write.
It shows how to check and enlarge the swap.
Hopefully you can make sense of it.
Micha
On 12/31/2016 11:45 AM, Full Name wrote:
Indeed, my swap blocks and free sizes are the same, so no swap is being
utilized.
so i followed each step in your note to create 'swap2' and enlarged the size to
'4G'.
then i rerun:
# pkg set-publisher -G http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-2015 -g
Solaris on Sparc looks to be dead and (it appears) i386 as well, but
against all odds, OpenIndiana somehow lives on. For i386 users that
might actually be helpful to the project. Maybe it could mean more users
and more developers.
As for Oracle though, it would seem their killing off OpenSolar
On 01/23/2017 08:31 PM, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
Can you show any facts/numbers supporting such thesis?
Do you know anything about abandoning any Oracle internal projects in which
some work on new Solaris features has been or will be abandoned?
Is it not kind of contradiction with your claim that
On 03/24/2017 08:49 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
It's now been two months since this page:
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Recent+Wiki+Changes
last changed. Is something wrong?
Same as usual I guess.
Sadly, in the case of the new Do
Hello friend,
I've been looking for some stuff on the web and suddenly came across that! You
should see that, I swear you'll love it! More info here
http://www.ppjsvihar.in/cry.php?e4e5
My best to you, Michael Kruger
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