[osol-discuss] Re: Re: I wish Sun would open-source QFS... / was: Re: Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-17 Thread UNIX admin
If you think that ripping the feature sets from two different products and architectures and merging them together is easy or makes sense then, yes, its a no-brainer. ;-) I did not write that. As a former system engineer, I know full well how much work something like that would be. But

[osol-discuss] Comparison and usage share of Xorg vs. Xsun ?

2006-05-17 Thread Thomas Stein
In Solaris the admin can choose between Xorg and Xsun as server. What are the pros and cons of the two servers? How many (percentage) Solaris (10) installations are approx. run with Xorg and how many with Xun? Just to get an idea about the Solaris usage. This message posted from

[osol-discuss] Re: Thoughts on freeware ports and GUI librarysub-stacks

2006-05-17 Thread Eric Boutilier
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 01:55 pm, Eric Boutilier wrote: Yeah, in my opinion it should be easy to conceive a set of packages that even eschews Firefox in favor of something more efficent (which is to say, less complex to maintain, as well as smaller/faster), like Dillo

[osol-discuss] Utility to blink X4100/X4200 LEDs?

2006-05-17 Thread Matty
Howdy, We are looking to purchase numerous Sun X4200 servers, and I was curious if there is a hddlocator-like utility to blink the LEDs on the front of the X4200s? Being able to blink teh LEDs would allow our support folks to locate a machine in a sea of servers, and to validate that a

Re: [osol-discuss] Utility to blink X4100/X4200 LEDs?

2006-05-17 Thread Casper . Dik
Howdy, We are looking to purchase numerous Sun X4200 servers, and I was curious if there is a hddlocator-like utility to blink the LEDs on the front of the X4200s? Being able to blink teh LEDs would allow our support folks to locate a machine in a sea of servers, and to validate that a

Re: [osol-discuss] Comparison and usage share of Xorg vs. Xsun ?

2006-05-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Thomas Stein wrote: In Solaris the admin can choose between Xorg and Xsun as server. What are the pros and cons of the two servers? Xorg is faster, has support for many new extensions/features not present in Xsun (Xrandr - dynamic screen resize, Xv - video playback acceleration, Composite,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: I wish Sun would open-source QFS... / was: Re: Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-17 Thread Torrey McMahon
UNIX admin wrote: If you think that ripping the feature sets from two different products and architectures and merging them together is easy or makes sense then, yes, its a no-brainer. ;-) I did not write that. As a former system engineer, I know full well how much work something like

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris at JavaOne2006--Meet You In SF!

2006-05-17 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Laura did an excellent job at organizing this event at the Thirsty Bear, good to see all that were in attendance. While this turned into more of a social event, it was good to talk to some of the folks that attended from other parts of the world and get feedback from you folks. Some

[osol-discuss] 2 new request-sponsor putbacks: 57 total

2006-05-17 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thanks to Richard Lowe and Yann Poupet for these two fixes below and to Steve Lau and Pete Dennis for sponsoring the work through to putback: Putback 56 ID: 6425426 Desc: usr/src/Makefile 'setup' target not enough for external developers Submitted by Richard Lowe on 5/11/06 Sun Sponsor:

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-17 Thread Larry Becke
Not sure if it's been considered or not. If you have disk that can be physically shared between two hosts, either via SCSI, iSCSI or FC or some other mechanism, why not just create a metaset out of the disk, share the metaset to the 2nd box. Now, this doesn't allow full R/W + R/W on both

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-17 Thread David Burge
What you describe is what Sun Cluster provides as well as the ability to access the data concurrently from both systems.On 5/17/06, Larry Becke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Not sure if it's been considered or not. If you have disk that can be physically shared between two hosts, either via SCSI, iSCSI

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-17 Thread Larry Becke
Got a response from David Burge, which hasn't shown up yet... Basically stating that the functionality that I suggested can be had in Sun Cluster, with the addition of being able to share R/W between multiple systems. In response to that message, I have the following Yet in the past, the

[osol-discuss] OpenOffice.org native build for OpenSolaris (NexentaOS)

2006-05-17 Thread Alberto Escudero Pascual
Hi, I just subscribed to the list and I will like to introduce the work i am doing by announcing the release and future integration of a native OpenOffice.org 2.0 in NexentaOS. The build of OpenOffice.org in NexentaOS has been challenging as there are a few but tricky differences in the working

[osol-discuss] Re: Disable Sun Update Manager Registration Wizard ?

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen Harpster
Or delete the marker file /usr/lib/breg/data/.lreg This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] 7000

2006-05-17 Thread Alex Ross
7000 packages is a big number. At the time of this writing the exact count is 6495 but there's no question that we'll hit 7000 very soon, most likely tomorrow. The distro package counter is updated in real time on our homepage [1], along with the list [2] of latest added packages. There are

Re: [osol-discuss] Comparison and usage share of Xorg vs. Xsun ?

2006-05-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg is faster, has support for many new extensions/features not present in Xsun (Xrandr - dynamic screen resize, Xv - video playback acceleration, Composite, etc.) Xorg is required to use the nvidia accelerated drivers or OpenGL on x86 platforms.

[osol-discuss] Subject: Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2006-05-17 Thread Eric Boutilier
For background on what this is, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=24416#24416 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=25200#25200 = opensolaris-discuss 05/01 - 05/15 = Threads or

Re: [osol-discuss] Comparison and usage share of Xorg vs. Xsun ?

2006-05-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg is faster, has support for many new extensions/features not present in Xsun (Xrandr - dynamic screen resize, Xv - video playback acceleration, Composite, etc.) Xorg is required to use the nvidia accelerated drivers or

[osol-discuss] Congratulation OpenSolaris--CODIE AWARD WINNER for Best Open Source Solution!

2006-05-17 Thread Laura Ramsey
I'm thrilled to tell the community that we were awarded the SIIA Codie Award for Best Open Source software. Many folks worked late into the evenings during Christmas break to meet with the reporter and reviews editors. Special thanks to Stephen Lau, Karyn Ritter and Stephen Harpster for