[osol-discuss] Re: Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
TECHNOLOGY ALERT from The Wall Street Journal. Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007 Sun and Intel have been negotiating an agreement under which Sun would buy Intel chips for use in server systems. Such a deal would be a blow to AMD, currently Sun's exclusive supplier for chips based on the popular

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Intel also agrees to endorse Solaris. Intel has a sizable contingent working on Linux compatibili ty. It should be expected that some of them will be switched to Solaris (in comparison, we still y et to hear ANYTHING about any work, or any promise therefor, on porting the proprietary ATI

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun (not SUN) did not refuse to port Solaris to Itanium; Sun *did* port Solaris to Itanium (I have a poloshirt commemorating the bringup of Solaris on Itanium, it says Sunrise on Merced). The falling out had other reasons, but that's all water under the bridge... It

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Sun (not SUN) did not refuse to port Solaris to Itanium; Sun *did* port Solaris to Itanium (I have a poloshirt commemorating the bringup of Solaris on Itanium, it says Sunrise on Merced). The falling out had other reasons, but that's all water under the bridge... It would be interesting to

Re: [osol-discuss] PMI patch for OpenSSH

2007-01-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
Vincenzo Sciarra wrote: I have just published a pre-alfa of a patch that has the goal to make OpenSSH aware with PMI. Reference site : http://nutmay.sourceforge.net What is PIM and how is this interesting to OpenSolaris ? I couldn't find anything actually saying what this was on the

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: help with finding the source

2007-01-22 Thread Ashok Nair
Thanks Spenser, I looked at usr/src/head/rpcsvc/mount.x, I couldn't find an explicit definition of xdr_mountres3() in that file, maybe thre is a bit of magic in how rpcgen generates common/mount_xdr.c that will then eventually have that definition. Thanks for the pointers. Ashok This

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: help with finding the source

2007-01-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Thanks Spenser, I looked at usr/src/head/rpcsvc/mount.x, I couldn't find an explicit definition of xdr_mountres3() in that file, maybe thre is a bit of magic in how rpcgen generates common/mount_x dr.c that will then eventually have that definition. Thanks for the pointers. Of course there

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what rumours you've heard about the Solaris/Itanium cancellation, but I've never heard 32 bit compatibility figuring in them. I heard that Intel did not ship real HW to Sun although Solaris was the first port because Sun did not plan to add 32 bit

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread De Togni Giacomo
Yes,It's probably true,LGPL is a less problem than GPL.In my perfect world every *GPL should be banned to the normal use.In a world where everything change in a day,we should speak about opportunities.In my opinion,an official project for KDE (I prefer to consider kde4) on OpenSolaris (that I

[osol-discuss] update on x86 suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk?

2007-01-22 Thread Ivan Wang
Hi all, Is there any update on suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk support on x86 platform? It has been a while since last time I heard about that. Thanks a lot! Ivan. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread James Carlson
John Sonnenschein writes: On 21-Jan-07, at 6:18 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: Let's not forget its GPL license either which means that I can't write CDDL software (logical since this is *OpenSolaris*) that uses it (unless I dual license which I refuse to do). Gtk's LGPL license is

[osol-discuss] Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread De Togni Giacomo
Yes,I'm reading,thank you.At the moment it seems a good accord for Sun and our community.I'm thinking about the mobile market.Tomorrow should be more simple take a full compatible notebook.Great Sun, +1 ! :-) Giacomo This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Install Solaris Express as a VMWare virtual machine?

2007-01-22 Thread Bill Rushmore
Yu-Hui Liu wrote: Problem - After all the configuration, went into “The system is being initialized, please wait…” and hung there. I have the same problem but on my physical machine with the 55b of SXCR. It locks up hard where the mouse won't even move anymore. I have another

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread Casper . Dik
And what do you know, the live webcast even works with Solaris/x86 (Solaris Nevada, b56, Fujitsu S2110; Turion :-) Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread De Togni Giacomo
This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what do you know, the live webcast even works with Solaris/x86 (Solaris Nevada, b56, Fujitsu S2110; Turion :-) Solaris Nevada, b54, Ultra 20, Opteron 152. :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online

[osol-discuss] Sun SunPCI I II Pro Second Processor Cards

2007-01-22 Thread Graeme Houston
Hi, Looking for the device driver and application source code to be made available, to enable porting to x86, PPC, etc. This would allow greater market place for these cards and increase useful life span! Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Shawn Walker
This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing That helps. The last I checked, they had not made it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
De Togni Giacomo wrote: This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing

[osol-discuss] 1/31 Inaugural Meeting of NEOSUG

2007-01-22 Thread Laura Ramsey
Are You Ready? The Inaugural meeting of the NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group) will be held on January 31, 2007 from 5:30-8:00 pm at the Sun Microsystems campus in Burlington MA. (Map courtesy of Google Maps)

[osol-discuss] 1/31 Inaugural Meeting of NEOSUG

2007-01-22 Thread Laura Ramsey
Are You Ready? The Inaugural meeting of the NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group) will be held on January 31, 2007 from 5:30-8:00 pm at the Sun Microsystems campus in Burlington MA. (Map courtesy of Google Maps)

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Bob Palowoda
De Togni Giacomo wrote: This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE

2007-01-22 Thread Shawn Walker
De Togni Giacomo wrote: This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing

[osol-discuss] qemu versus virtualbox

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
Dear (qemu@)opensolaris community, I played a bit with porting virtualbox.de to Nevada_x86. But I'm losing ways too much time there and will stop now. The ROI doesn't justify the effort required (at least not, if one has more urgent things to get finished, as most of us do). It can't be done in a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bob Palowoda wrote: De Togni Giacomo wrote: This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing

[osol-discuss] Building libc.a

2007-01-22 Thread Haris
Hi - I am trying to build a static version of the C library by following the directions in README.makefile found in /lib directory. That is I am defining LIBS = $(LIBRARY). I know that some of you would say that it is not recommended to build static versions of libraries, but the reason I want

Re: [osol-discuss] Building libc.a

2007-01-22 Thread Casper . Dik
I am trying to build a static version of the C library by following the directions in README.makefile found in /lib directory. There are many things in libc which require it to be a dynamic library. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: [qemu-discuss] qemu versus virtualbox

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
On a side-note: Precompiled vbox linux binaries might potentially work under LXrun or inside a linux zone (at least qemu does). However, since LKMs are not supported by those environments, you could never benefit from vbox's better performance (over qemu), as the speed can only be achieved by the

[osol-discuss] 1/31 NEOSUG Inaugural Meeting--Burlington MA

2007-01-22 Thread Laura Ramsey
Are You Ready? The Inaugral meeting of the NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group) will be held on January 31, 2007 from 5:30-8:00 pm at the Sun Microsystems campus in Burlington MA. The agenda for the evening will include an introduction to the OpenSolaris project, and a technical

Re: [osol-discuss] Building libc.a

2007-01-22 Thread Ian Collins
Haris wrote: Hi - Please try not to post the same question to several lists, you end up getting fragmented or duplicated replies, which is a waste of people's time. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] SVOSUG - This Thursday - Why Joyent doesn't fsck?, Jan 25, 7:30pm-10:00pm

2007-01-22 Thread Alan DuBoff
I'm happy to anounce that Ben Rockwood, Director of Systems, Joyent Inc., and long time Solaris/OpenSolaris supporter and advocate of OpenSolaris in our community, will tell exactly why Joyent doesn't fsck. In fact, Joyent uses OpenSolaris so they don't fsck! This will be the first time we hear

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Bob Palowoda
Bob Palowoda wrote: De Togni Giacomo wrote: This is an important issue for this project.I think,it should be cleared (eventually with trolltech) before start the project. http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/192/ http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/Licensing

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun SunPCI I II Pro Second Processor Cards

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
Graeme Houston wrote: Hi, Looking for the device driver and application source code to be made available, to enable porting to x86, PPC, etc. This would allow greater market place for these cards and increase useful life span! Thanks +1 That would be nice. --Martin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
Bob Palowoda wrote: Mixing different licenses in Solaris and OpenSolaris. Who would have thought that would ever happen. ---Bob Go back and close everything again (as much as still possible). A single license then. Will that help? Mhh, no. One has to be flexible nowadays, with that

[osol-discuss] Re: Building libc.a

2007-01-22 Thread Haris
I am trying to build a static version of the C library by following the directions in README.makefile found in /lib directory. There are many things in libc which require it to be a dynamic library. So, you say that is not possible to create a static version of libc or that source

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building libc.a

2007-01-22 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 1/22/07, Haris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to build a static version of the C library by following the directions in README.makefile found in /lib directory. There are many things in libc which require it to be a dynamic library. So, you say that is not possible to create

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Weekly News #45

2007-01-22 Thread Glynn Foster
OpenSolaris is community code. We're not going to do any major changes without talking first with the community. (That's you. :-)) - Stephen Harpster, replying to rumours that OpenSolaris would be dual licensed under GPLv3 == Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to use Intel chips was Re: AMD buys ATI....

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Zygmont
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Al Hopper wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: According to the rumor mill: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37089 (Major Intel, Sun deal to be announced Monday) Confirmed - but you need a subscription to read the WSJ URL below: TECHNOLOGY

[osol-discuss] Proposal for In-Kernel Sharetab

2007-01-22 Thread Tom Haynes
The proposal is to move the sharetab info out of /etc/dfs/sharetab and into memory. Users can still get to the data via a filesystem interface - think of the mnttab. Problem Statement The /etc/dfs/sharetab file is used to store the currently shared exports. It contains all of the security

[osol-discuss] ElReg: Is Solaris really a bright choice for developers?

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Bochnig
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/22/opensolaris_sun/ Please comment (and correct the bottom-most comment by Hetz Ben Hamo, which is FUD). -- Best regards, Martin Bochnig ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ElReg: Is Solaris really a bright choice for developers?

2007-01-22 Thread Eric Enright
I would post to the article itself but I don't want to register an account for one post... On 1/22/07, Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/22/opensolaris_sun/ Please comment (and correct the bottom-most comment by Hetz Ben Hamo, which is FUD). Hmm.

[osol-discuss] Release of OS/Net B56 source ?

2007-01-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone know when the B56 sources will be released ? Seems that this may be the version we'll pick for final code review of the ksh93-integration tree... Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix programmer /O