[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Why we should have an OpenSolaris Hosted binary set. [OSH-thread]

2007-06-02 Thread Joseph Kowalski
Brian Gupta wrote: The first reason listed is a big one. In my mind, it is 99.44% of any reason for doing this. In all honesty, it may be a big enough reason by itself. If this is reason enough, why does it need to be limited to this? It was in what you elided from the

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-02 Thread Paul Gress
Brian Gupta wrote: This would be great, except that blastwave is built for Solaris 8, not OpenSolaris. It probably not best to be dependent on what Solaris 8 does not have. What is needed is a Blastwave II (OpenSolaris Edition) which combines the current work done in

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-02 Thread Doug Scott
Brian Gupta wrote: This would be great, except that blastwave is built for Solaris 8, not OpenSolaris. It probably not best to be dependent on what Solaris 8 does not have. What is needed is a Blastwave II (OpenSolaris Edition) which combines the current work done in

[osol-discuss] Hi

2007-06-02 Thread Paul Tran
Hi Everyone I am totally new to Unix. So that means I am new to Solaris. I have chosen Solaris as my unix OS and that explains why I am in this forum. I am unsure what is appropriate to post on this forum. I am using Solaris 10 from Sun instead of Open Solaris. Would it be appropriate for

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On 6/1/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel that you will never ever get what Ian is going to do from the OpenSolaris community. Not from Solaris users. Period.

Re: [osol-discuss] Hi

2007-06-02 Thread Ian Collins
Paul Tran wrote: Hi Everyone I am totally new to Unix. So that means I am new to Solaris. I have chosen Solaris as my unix OS and that explains why I am in this forum. I am unsure what is appropriate to post on this forum. I am using Solaris 10 from Sun instead of Open Solaris. Would

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I threw in my -1 for a very specific reason, and that's that I don't think that this project benefits us ( where us is the opensolaris community ), and is at best a distraction a sink for developer talent that could be better used

[osol-discuss] Re: Hi

2007-06-02 Thread UNIX admin
Hi Everyone Hello I have posted questions on Sun Solaris Forum. However their response were too slow and at time none at all. And if they do response, it is in too technical terms for me to understand. I am hoping this forum can help me learn and understand about Solaris and Unix. If

Re: [osol-discuss] New IRC from Mexico

2007-06-02 Thread Michal Pryc
Alfredo wrote: Hi from Mexico I want to know how can register de new irc #opensolaris-mx in the opensolaris site There was information about that on the ug-discuss mailing list: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-discuss/2007-May/001903.html -- best Michal Pryc

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCE Build 65 available

2007-06-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Please find the links to SXCE Build 65 at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/. - Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCE Build 65 available

2007-06-02 Thread Al Hopper
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Please find the links to SXCE Build 65 at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/. - Derek Wow, I am getting 525 KB/s. Sun now really means business (to spread OpenSolaris)? Oh - so you're the one sucking up *all* the bandwidth! :) Regards,

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCE Build 65 available

2007-06-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Wow, I am getting 525 KB/s. Sun now really means business (to spread OpenSolaris)? Look forward to testing GNOME 2.18 ( a non-garbled GNOME desktop on zh_CN locale)! Sorry for the non-sense. But not too long ago, the download speed was artificially capped at 100 (then increased to 200)

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-02 Thread ken mays
The OpenSolaris reference binary can be what everybody says is needed. People gripe about the desktop, they want KDE and XFCE. Why couldn't these be part of the distribution? The only catch is any binary added should be from an OpenSolaris project or source. It would be great to get

[osol-discuss] isainfo on PPC

2007-06-02 Thread UNIX admin
Will someone with access to a Solaris PPC system please paste the output of `isainfo` on 32-bit and 64-bit PPC processors? Thanks in advance! (Yes, I know Polaris isn't done yet, but I'm hoping to be able to be forward compatible when it is released.) Also, 64-bit SPARC and AMD are known to be

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Suggestion: PCFS Open Development Project

2007-06-02 Thread Martin Cerveny
Hello, I've put a webrev of the so-far tested part of the rewrite here: http://cr.grommit.com/~frankho/webrev-pcfs/ if you're curious. There's far more to come, trickling in ever so slowly. Can you make webrev compare against ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate ? Many things

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: {Solaris} Chargeback Community

2007-06-02 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Isaac Rozenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-31 14:38]: This comes up now and then, yet I honestly believe it can benefit from being a community effort. I guess I would expect that discussion with either the Resource Management Project http://opensolaris.org/os/project/rm/ or its

[osol-discuss] Do anybody know, if there is a roadmap of Suns compiler as OSS?

2007-06-02 Thread Patrick S.
Hi! I have read at http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/90435 that Sun plans to publish version 12 of Sun Studio for Linux and Solaris free of charge on 4.6.2007 at http://developer.sun.com/sunstudio This also then includes again its C/C++ and Fortran Compiler for

Re: [osol-discuss] isainfo on PPC

2007-06-02 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 6/2/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will someone with access to a Solaris PPC system please paste the output of `isainfo` on 32-bit and 64-bit PPC processors? Thanks in advance! (Yes, I know Polaris isn't done yet, but I'm hoping to be able to be forward compatible when it is

Re: [osol-discuss] New IRC from Mexico

2007-06-02 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Michal Pryc wrote: Alfredo wrote: Hi from Mexico I want to know how can register de new irc #opensolaris-mx in the opensolaris site There was information about that on the ug-discuss mailing list: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-discuss/2007-May/001903.html Got it:

[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Why we should have an OpenSolaris Hosted binary set. [OSH-thread]

2007-06-02 Thread Brian Gupta
Joseph, I have made an effort to incorporate your comments into a new list. Primary Drivers: -- 1) There is a desire for a minimal/core OpenSolaris distro, that other distro packagers can leverage to create their own distros. Building a distro from this core *may*, in the

[osol-discuss] How do you set up Solaris 10 character echoes at the login screen password

2007-06-02 Thread John Seaton
On Solaris 10 01/06 I am having a problem when logging in and after the screen locks and I have to enter the password to unlock, I can't tell how many characters I have typed or if I mistype I can't tell how many times to hit the backspace key. My system is set up to lock after 3 failed login

[osol-discuss] How to set up number of failed login attempts notification

2007-06-02 Thread John Seaton
Does anyone know how to set up Solaris 10 01/06 to notify you of how many failed login attempts you have when you fail to enter the password correctly? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] How do you set up Solaris 10 character echoes at the login screen password

2007-06-02 Thread Ian Collins
John Seaton wrote: On Solaris 10 01/06 I am having a problem when logging in Then you have mailed the wrong alias, this is an OpenSolaris list. Try Usenet or another generic Solaris forum. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list