Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Ross
On 11/1/2005 at 6:24PM, Alex Ross wrote: Contact = If interested, please send e-mail to support at nexenta.com, and tell us a few words about yourself. We'll respond with a user/password. Guys, just send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], tell us a few words about yourself, that's all. There

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 11:50 pm, Joerg Schilling wrote: James Lick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what most people are frustrated with is that there is a disconnect between announcing the project far and wide, but then saying the site needs to be locked down because it's not quite

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful community. Any +1 votes from the CAB? +1 Great initiative Adam! Adam On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:16:01AM -0700, Adam Leventhal wrote: One barrier when adopting a new

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Casper . Dik
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful community. Any +1 votes from the CAB? +1 +1 Absolutely agree. I think we should also be open for those in exile such as South Koreans who may seen be exiled from Windows :-)

[osol-discuss] Re: trying to port hercules: equivalents for missing feature and Linux-isms

2005-11-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
Hints as to what the best equivalent to BLKGETSIZE might be would definitely be appreciated. The return value from lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) should work. But it does not work with character disk devices on old Solaris (10) releases. % cat devsz.c #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Stephen Hahn
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-03 08:46]: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful community. Any +1 votes from the CAB? +1 +1 Absolutely agree. I think we should also be open for those in

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Patrick Finch
In my opinion, a big part of the value of this community will be that it helps to explain the relevance of OpenSolaris to the wider Linux community. Extending the scope beyond Linux immigrants could threaten that. Patrick Stephen Hahn wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:06:34AM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-03 08:46]: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful community. Any +1 votes from the CAB? +1

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Casper . Dik
In my opinion, a big part of the value of this community will be that it helps to explain the relevance of OpenSolaris to the wider Linux community. Extending the scope beyond Linux immigrants could threaten that. wider Linux comminity? I think the value of OpenSolaris does not derive from

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Patrick Finch
Just to clarify: I'm don't mean the value of OpenSolaris as a whole (!), but the value of a specific discussion group within OpenSolaris.org. When I talk about a wider audience, I mean that there are a lot of people who have little or no consciousness of OpenSolaris or any of its

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Adam Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-03 09:36]: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:06:34AM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-03 08:46]: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Simon Phipps
My fear in tragetting Linux explicitly for migration like this is the name is an enduring hostile act just towards Linux. I prefer immigrants - nothing to stop it focussing just on the Penguinistas under that banner for now. S. On Nov 3, 2005, at 09:28, Patrick Finch wrote: In my