Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new community for Chinese users

2005-08-19 Thread Tao Chen
On 8/19/05, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beijing users group: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/bjosug/ Ouch, missed that.The user group community is here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/Also, the Chinese Users Community is being set up now. Siyuan

[osol-discuss] Re: console driver for Permedia3 graphics card

2005-08-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi Indro, You need to tokenize your fcode to bytecode, using an fcode tokenizer such as Toke - http://www.openbios.org/development/toke.html Toke allows you to create a flash rom image that can be burned using the vendors' flash update tool or other firmware flashers. There is some module in

Re: [osol-discuss] Conference Presence

2005-08-19 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Teresa Giacomini wrote: Hi everyone, I'm working on a plan for participation by Sun engineers at various conferences in the coming months. Here is a list of conferences at which we *hope* to have an (Open)Solaris presence (now through June 2006). What do you think?

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris community activity - some volumes

2005-08-19 Thread patrick finch
All, For those interested, some measurements of the last 2 months' activity on OpenSolaris.org. Weeks are defined as follows (Opening Day was a Tuesday, hence weeks run Tuesday-Monday!) WeekStart-End 1 06/14/05-06/20/05 2 06/21/05-06/27/05 3 06/28/05-07/04/05 4

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Andy Tucker
On 8/19/05, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Lick -- 黎建溥 wrote You are right though that there hasn't been a comprehensive explanation of how the GPL is incompatible with the CDDL though. Since CDDL is based on MPL, some of the incompatibilities are explained in Larry Rosen's

[osol-discuss] Re: Conference Presence

2005-08-19 Thread Richard Elling
Having worked the Sun @ Supercomm booth several times, I know that we usually do have a presence and a booth in the vendor area. Check with GSO marketing to find out what the current status is. Cebit is very important, too. -- richard This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Lick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all BSD style licenses are compatible with the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#OrigBSD If you read that whole FAQ, you can see that the GPL has problems with a lot of licensing systems. You can also see that there are ways to gain

Re: [osol-discuss] GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Stephen Lau
Joerg Schilling wrote: James Lick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all BSD style licenses are compatible with the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#OrigBSD If you read that whole FAQ, you can see that the GPL has problems with a lot of licensing systems. You can also see that

[osol-discuss] Status of 3rd party packages

2005-08-19 Thread Schmidt, Nicholas (Contractor)
Is it possible at this time to install OpenSolaris and use pkgsrc/portage/pkg-get to get a complete working system. I am working at a new job and need to learn solaris but miss bleeding edge BSD/Linux. Any help and answers would be much appreciated Nick The views expressed on this message are

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Conference Presence

2005-08-19 Thread Teresa Giacomini
Thanks Richard. Will do. Joerg also mentioned CeBIT a while back. When I checked into it, it seemed to be more of a tradeshow than a conference. That is, lots of booths and pods, but not a lot of talks and BoFs. Do I have that right? T Richard Elling wrote: Having worked the Sun @ Supercomm

Re: [osol-discuss] Conference Presence

2005-08-19 Thread Teresa Giacomini
Al Hopper wrote: Since we're discussing OpenSolaris I think you should expand the scope of this discussion beyond Sun engineers and look at it from the perspective of OpenSolaris participation at various conferences. Absolutely. I tried to get that idea across in my original note, but

[osol-discuss] ksh88 - ksh93

2005-08-19 Thread Markus Gyger
FYI, here is a comment from dgk: | Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:22:39 -0400 (EDT) | From: David Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I do not know Sun's ARC process, but I have added some comments anyway. | Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help. | I get a lot of mail from users complaining

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/19/05, Robert W. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet, I seem to have missed the forest for the trees I'm inhabiting. Indeed, the cross pollination at the operating system level makes an even stronger case for compatibility between the GPL and CDDL licenses. I don't follow the cross

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Robert W. Fuller
Shawn Walker wrote: If opensolaris ever went GPL, I'd be gone in an instant, and I suspect others would as well. Because at that point, it would become useless Nobody was suggesting that Open Solaris go GPL, merely that the license be modified to be GPL compatible.

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does thismean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Simon Phipps
Shawn Walker wrote: If opensolaris ever went GPL, I'd be gone in an instant, and I suspect others would as well. Because at that point, it would become useless Nobody was suggesting that Open Solaris go GPL, merely that the license be modified to be GPL compatible. But what would that

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does thismean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/19/05, Simon Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: If opensolaris ever went GPL, I'd be gone in an instant, and I suspect others would as well. Because at that point, it would become useless Nobody was suggesting that Open Solaris go GPL, merely that the

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Robert W. Fuller wrote: Nobody was suggesting that Open Solaris go GPL, merely that the license be modified to be GPL compatible. If you can find one (i.e., GPL compatible), you really should patent it. :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Dumb Question Time

2005-08-19 Thread James G. Stallings II
Greetings All! I'm pretty stoked that this is happening, I've been waiting for it for years. Hopefully its not too late to make a difference. All that aside, I'm preparing to evaluate opensolaris on an intel box, and have a few goofy questions that I haven't been able to gather from the faq or