Re: [osol-discuss] Another delay in release cycle ?

2006-01-30 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dennis Clarke wrote: On 1/30/06, Cyril Plisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas why there is no source drop for b32 and no ISOs for b31/b32 ? I was thinking the same. In any case .. I have a new mirror site ready to go .. I think I will post that just as soon as all is synced up.

[osol-discuss] Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Is Jonathan Schwartz going to repeat the License mistake (made with OpenOffice) with OpenSolaris? http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan Thinking about GPLv3 While this may sound nice, it would open the new problem that contributors may license new stuff for OpenSolaris under the GPLv3 only making

Re: [osol-discuss] Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread Casper . Dik
Is Jonathan Schwartz going to repeat the License mistake (made with OpenOffice) with OpenSolaris? http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan Thinking about GPLv3 While this may sound nice, it would open the new problem that contributors may license new stuff for OpenSolaris under the GPLv3 only

[osol-discuss] SuperG

2006-01-30 Thread Kenneth Gullberg
Has anyone heard if there will be any SuperG conference this spring? No word on the homepage http://www.sun.com/datacenter/superg This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
Joerg Schilling wrote: Is Jonathan Schwartz going to repeat the License mistake (made with OpenOffice) with OpenSolaris? http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan Thinking about GPLv3 While this may sound nice, it would open the new problem that contributors may license new stuff for

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Install

2006-01-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:59, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 11:26 am, Dave Miner wrote: It's also only supported for installing from flash archives at this time. But we allow a network install, no matter what the protocol. Over

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Install

2006-01-30 Thread Rainer Orth
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:59, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 11:26 am, Dave Miner wrote: It's also only supported for installing from flash archives at this time. But we allow a network install, no matter what the protocol. Over

Re: [osol-discuss] Draft Article - Installing OpenSolaris on VMware

2006-01-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/30/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: It just so happens that I have a VMWare 5.5 setup here and I need to create a S10U1 install as well as a SX install. So .. I can help with this by getting some pictures. I'll convert then to

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Network Install

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Joerg, Monday, January 30, 2006, 2:34:38 PM, you wrote: JS Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:59, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 11:26 am, Dave Miner wrote: It's also only supported for installing from flash archives at this time.

Re: [osol-discuss] Draft Article - Installing OpenSolaris on VMware

2006-01-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/30/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: It just so happens that I have a VMWare 5.5 setup here and I need to create a S10U1 install as well as a SX install. So .. I can help with this by getting some pictures. I'll convert then to

Re: [osol-discuss] Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While this may sound nice, it would open the new problem that contributors may license new stuff for OpenSolaris under the GPLv3 only making it impossible for Sun to include the stuff in Sun Solaris. But isn't it the case that GPLv3 has far fewer restrictions (is

Re: [osol-discuss] Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread Richard Lowe
Joerg Schilling wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While this may sound nice, it would open the new problem that contributors may license new stuff for OpenSolaris under the GPLv3 only making it impossible for Sun to include the stuff in Sun Solaris. But isn't it the case that GPLv3 has far

Re: [osol-discuss] Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But isn't it the case that GPLv3 has far fewer restrictions (is more CDDL like) than GPLv2? It has fewer restrictions, but it still does not explicitly allow to merge code that is under another OSI aproved license. And even iff, one important

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Newsletter

2006-01-30 Thread Jim Grisanzio
As some of you know, we publish a monthly newsletter: https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=5456tstart=0 For now, we put it on the program-team alias, but we're looking for a higher profile place for it to live as it grows and improves. Also, we'd like to expand the newsletter,

Re: [osol-discuss] Draft Article - Installing OpenSolaris on VMware

2006-01-30 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Dennis Clarke wrote: On 1/30/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: It just so happens that I have a VMWare 5.5 setup here and I need to create a S10U1 install as well as a SX install. So .. I can help with this by getting some pictures. I'll

[osol-discuss] Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread UNIX admin
Is Jonathan Schwartz going to repeat the License mistake (made with OpenOffice) with OpenSolaris? Sure looks like it, doesn't it? While I believe Jonathan had some truly reovlutionary ideas, like open sourcing Solaris, this is starting to turn into marketing insanity. I studied the GPL v3

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, UNIX admin wrote: Yes, this may very well turn out to be the case. The GPL v3 license expressly states that, when a product with a different license is bundled with a GPL'd product, the whole MUST be licensed under the GPL. That's not true. These are the old GPLv2

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 10:15 -0800, UNIX admin wrote: While I believe Jonathan had some truly reovlutionary ideas, like open sourcing Solaris, this is starting to turn into marketing insanity. To be honest, I think you /sometimes/ have to take what Jonathan blogs about with a pinch of salt...

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Network Install

2006-01-30 Thread Dave Miner
Darren J Moffat wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 12:37, Stephen Potter wrote: How much of the WAN boot code is directly in software and can be released? Other than what is in the OBP itself the code is already on opensolaris.org. There are some missing bits form the package and install

Re: [osol-discuss] re: upgrade path from solaris 9 to solaris 10 01/06

2006-01-30 Thread Dave Miner
Zhisong Jin wrote: new to solaria 10, I would appreciate somebody could help clarify this 1. is there a upgrade path from solaris 9 to solaris 10 ? any tips and traps? any documentations? Boot the install media, it'll offer the opportunity to upgrade if you have the space and so on. It

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 2 released

2006-01-30 Thread Alex Ross
NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 2 is now available for download at: http://www.gnusolaris.org/Download This is a major release, with 84 bugs fixed and 829 packages added since Alpha 1. In particular, Alpha 2 provides: * New Installer. The new Installer is ncurses/dialog based, user-friendly, and

[osol-discuss] Needs maintenance - metastat

2006-01-30 Thread Anderson Ferreira
In metastat comand out I have output below. What can I do ? The advice of command says that I have to invoke metasync d10, etc.Is need umount the disk before to invoke metasynk ?Thanks,# metastat | more d10: Mirror Submirror 0: d11 State: Needs maintenance Submirror 1: d12 State: Needs

Re: [osol-discuss] Draft Article - Installing OpenSolaris on VMware

2006-01-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/29/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have posted a draft article on installing Solaris on VMware on my blog. I would really appreciate any feedback any of you might have. http://brushmore.blogspot.com/2006/01/installing-opensolaris-on-vmware-draft.html I am going to start

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-30 Thread Jim Grisanzio
The OpenSolaris Content Project is open: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/content/ Sign up to content-discuss here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/content/discussions/ Jim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/26/06, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the discussion and interest around this project. If anyone is specifically interested in being a co-lead on the project, let me know. I'll start writing up some ideas for the page. I'll let you know when we can open it along

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-30 Thread max
Hi, I am interested in being a co-lead, and/or reviewer, and/or occasional contributor. I have been following the discussion about an articles project. I am concerned about quality and making sure articles are up-to-date. I don't think there is a good way to control quality, but I would hope

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-30 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 30 January 2006 02:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am interested in being a co-lead, and/or reviewer, and/or occasional contributor. I have been following the discussion about an articles project. I am concerned about quality and making sure articles are up-to-date. I

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 2 released

2006-01-30 Thread ken mays
Thanks for a wonderful OpenSolaris distro. i only have two concerns right now: 1. Mesa 6.4.1 2. LiveCD ? I'm concerned that Mesa 6.4.1 is not at least in Nexenta-unstable, moreso that it is not on this CD either. I was hoping to evaluate Xorg 6.9/7.0 and the latest Freedesktop work but it seems

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 2 released

2006-01-30 Thread Erast Benson
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 15:36 -0800, ken mays wrote: Thanks for a wonderful OpenSolaris distro. i only have two concerns right now: 1. Mesa 6.4.1 If you do not see it at http://packages.ubnutu.com than we don't have it yet... We are planning to move on Xorg 7.0 in the next few months or so as

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris and OpenSolaris within VMware

2006-01-30 Thread Bill Rushmore
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:15, Dennis Clarke wrote: Things are progressing well on the screen shots finally. I lost my NT4 PDC but gained a Solaris 10 virtual machine. More than a fair trade I guess. http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/stuff/VMWare/VMWare_006.jpg I am still grabbing

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris and OpenSolaris within VMware

2006-01-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/30/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:15, Dennis Clarke wrote: Things are progressing well on the screen shots finally. I lost my NT4 PDC but gained a Solaris 10 virtual machine. More than a fair trade I guess.

[osol-discuss] Re: Build 30, Solaris Express - Community Release available

2006-01-30 Thread Peter Lees
Build 31 should be available soon, as well. is there any update on this release? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Build 30, Solaris Express - Community Release available

2006-01-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/30/06, Peter Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build 31 should be available soon, as well. it has been a week ... maybe some lawyer got in the way ? Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Pattison
I would just like to make the general point that I think th eestablishment of a content project for OpenSolaris is a fantastic step in the right direction. There is a whole load of Solaris knowledge out there on the web in blogs and so on, and it would be really useful to have somewhere where

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris and OpenSolaris within VMware

2006-01-30 Thread Bill Rushmore
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: So .. let's assume infinite memory and zero response time IO with near infinite CPU speed and we hit some internal limit in the VMWare product at 96 or so ? Or is it possible to get a massive Galaxy box and install RHEL ( or what? ESX on top of ?

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris and OpenSolaris within VMware

2006-01-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/30/06, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: So .. let's assume infinite memory and zero response time IO with near infinite CPU speed and we hit some internal limit in the VMWare product at 96 or so ? Or is it possible to get a massive

Re: [osol-discuss] Community/Project Update: 1/30/06

2006-01-30 Thread Sean Sprague
Hey Jim, Just a very small point wrt: Naming Services Community * Proposed 1/20/06 by Anup Sekhar * Community consensus: yes * CAB vote: no +/- vote yet * Opening date: not currently scheduled On 1/20, John Beck suggested that this should in fact be named (sic) Name Services Community, and

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread UNIX admin
That's not true. These are the old GPLv2 'aggregation' / 'system libraries' argument held against Nexenta by some. Groundless even according to Eben Moglen, the FSF chief counsel. The v3 draft has modifications to explicitely make these 'issues' in v2 clear to all. This is what I am

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-01-30 Thread UNIX admin
To be honest, I think you /sometimes/ have to take what Jonathan blogs about with a pinch of salt... part of his job (and hence part of the reason for his blog's existence) is to get people talking about Sun, and Sun's software in particular. And if there's one surefire way to get the