Re: [osol-discuss] Planet OpenSolaris is now live!

2006-11-15 Thread Menno Lageman
Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, Planet OpenSolaris is now live and unleashed! http://grommit.com/pos You'll notice a couple of things from the outset. The current blogroll only includes a small selection of people right now. We obviously hope to expand this list in the future, but any additions

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-15 Thread Dick Davies
sorry, CCed to wrong list (should have been zfs-discuss). On 15/11/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, we have considered this. On both SPARC and x86, there will be a way to specify the root file system (i.e., the

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-15 Thread Casper . Dik
I suppose it depends how 'catastrophic' the failture is, but if it's very low level, booting another root probabyl won't help, and if it's too high level, how will you detect it (i.e. you've booted the kernel, but it is buggy). If it panics (but not too early) or fails to come up properly?

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-15 Thread Huub
You'd need to use newfs /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0. s0 refers to the first slice within the Solaris2 partition. The list you posted above is the list of slices inside the Solaris2 partition. ...p0 in Solaris refers to the entire physical disk. So if you dump 512 bytes from the start of

[osol-discuss] Password MAXWEEKS in Solaris 10

2006-11-15 Thread Steven Sim
All; To implement password expiry in Solaris 10, I modified the following entry in /etc/default/passwd; MAXWEEKS=13 The above works out to be 7 * 13 = 91 days. However, my customer insist on a strict 90 day expiry. Is there a syntax to use DAYS instead of WEEKS in /etc/default/passwd?

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Caiman, Solaris install revisted

2006-11-15 Thread Steven Stallion
+1 -- Steven Stallion Project Leader OpenSolaris Ports Collection ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: About graphical desktops and Solaris future

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Howkins
rlhamil wrote: Sure would be good if that petition (to TOG) to open CDE got somewhere. Very little Sun could do unilaterally... For those that are interested the petition is here, please consider signing it if you agree with its sentiments. http://www.marutan.net/cde/ and here

[osol-discuss] mercurial repo?

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Durrant
Seems that the On mercurial repo is not responding: [EMAIL PROTECTED] onnv-clone]$ hg pull ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate abort: no response from remote hg! remote: abort: repository hg/onnv/onnv-gate not found! Has it been (re)moved? Paul -- Paul Durrant

Re: [osol-discuss] Password MAXWEEKS in Solaris 10

2006-11-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
Please post this question to security-discuss at opensolaris dot org. PLEASE do it without the trailer on your email that says it is confidential information, if you an not remove the trailer please put in the body information that says the trailer should be ignored for your message.

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread ken mays
OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several reasons: 1. Stable hardware platform 2. Simplied device driver support 3. Modern features (Blu-Ray, Cell processor, Nvidia GPU, HDMI/HDTV, Bluetooth, 20GB HD, Networking) 4. Global distribution 5.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread James McPherson
On 11/16/06, ken mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several reasons: 1. Stable hardware platform 2. Simplied device driver support 3. Modern features (Blu-Ray, Cell processor, Nvidia GPU, HDMI/HDTV, Bluetooth,

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
If the Linux sources can be useful in any way we have them here along with the Gentoo overlay: http://www.powerdeveloper.org/playstation.php RB On Nov 15, 2006, at 8:09 AM, ken mays wrote: OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Venky
That was fast! :) +1 Venky. On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:09:24AM -0800, ken mays wrote: OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several reasons: 1. Stable hardware platform 2. Simplied device driver support 3. Modern features (Blu-Ray,

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
Ken, you're always out there on that bleeding edge. Gotta love ya man. :-) I have two things to say .. see below : OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several reasons: 1. Stable hardware platform 2. Simplied device driver support 3.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
ken mays wrote: OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several reasons: 1. Stable hardware platform 2. Simplied device driver support 3. Modern features (Blu-Ray, Cell processor, Nvidia GPU, HDMI/HDTV, Bluetooth, 20GB HD, Networking) 4.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
That was fast! :) +1 It was. All enthusiasm aside, what is the specific processor model? Are there any changes to the instruction set ? What is the Memory Architecture? Cache levels and types ? Memory controller ? Bus is what? PCI ? Proprietary ? Serial IO ports ? How do we

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
ken mays wrote: OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several reasons: 1. Stable hardware platform 2. Simplied device driver support 3. Modern features (Blu-Ray, Cell processor, Nvidia GPU, HDMI/HDTV, Bluetooth, 20GB HD, Networking) 4.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
YDL has no more than what we posted the links for on this list... We have already sent an email off to Sony. We will keep you posted on the feedback. OKay, seems spooky that this cell processor is a PowerPC chip and runs at 4GHz. I think that it *has* to be something more. In any case ..

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:25:08AM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: YDL has no more than what we posted the links for on this list... We have already sent an email off to Sony. We will keep you posted on the feedback. OKay, seems spooky that this cell processor is a PowerPC chip and

[osol-discuss] Launch event in Geneva will be located at Univ. of Geneva on Dec. 8th

2006-11-15 Thread Karim Riad MAZOUNI
Dear all, Just to inform you all that we re-located the Geneva CHOSUG launch event to the Univ. of Geneva. For details: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/chosug/next_meetings/ Cheers, Karim This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Noah yan
it is well known that Cell and XBox CPU are all powerpc ISA. Cell is gaining popularity in not only the gaming computing, but in others, such as the coming road-runner, a hybrid opteron-cell supercomputer; terra soft is building the first cell-based supercomputer, IBM is selling cell blade and

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Casper . Dik
OKay, seems spooky that this cell processor is a PowerPC chip and runs at 4GHz. I think that it *has* to be something more. It's a PowerPC + 8 Additional Processing Units (specifically for FPU as needed for games) and 2 memory controllers. In any case .. if its a PPC then it falls under the

Re: [osol-discuss] mercurial repo?

2006-11-15 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Paul Durrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-15 05:38]: Seems that the On mercurial repo is not responding: [EMAIL PROTECTED] onnv-clone]$ hg pull ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate abort: no response from remote hg! remote: abort: repository hg/onnv/onnv-gate not found! Has it been

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: and what the heck is this crud below ? Did the OpenSolaris project pick up a new sponsor that no one saw coming ? :-\ Sponsored Link Look at his from address - they're sponsoring his

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] ON nightly 20061113

2006-11-15 Thread Stephen Lau
Cyril Plisko wrote: On 11/15/06, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's up at the usual place: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current Did I miss it or there was never source drop for b52 ? Sorry, I've been trying to regenerate the Hg onnv-gate repository first, since I can't

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke wrote: and what the heck is this crud below ? Did the OpenSolaris project pick up a new sponsor that no one saw coming ? :-\ Sponsored Link Look at his from address - they're sponsoring

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Casper . Dik
All the use graphics cards as vector daughter boards (see Nvidia's latest announcements for the nv8800 as well) methods are very interesting for HPC, and in that aspect highly-parallel vector units (such as Cell, such as any multi-pipeline floating-point vector shader graphics card) create a

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 library information

2006-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Gary Gendel wrote: We still have X11 libraries in /usr/openwin/lib and /usr/openwin/share/lib. Then there are libs in /usr/sfw/lib. Since we're only using Xorg, are these the same now? Is there plans to consolidate this? It trapped me for a bit before I figured out that I was picking up

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: The site is down

2006-11-15 Thread Andrew Pattison
Apologies - I was forgetting the web forums are just a mirror of the mailing list. Cheers Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Noah yan
Frank, thanks for your comments ... On 11/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Noah yan wrote: it is well known that Cell and XBox CPU are all powerpc ISA. Cell is gaining popularity in not only the gaming computing, but in others, such as the coming