Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: Yes, it has changed - but I'm just frustrated at the lack of progress outside of the 'basics'. If you could be more considerate to folks that subscribe to this list, more of the engineers will offer more support and think better of you. I mean

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread UNIX admin
On games, I'm not sure everyone knows this, so I'll point it out. Games are a killer app for PCs, and they have been for years. (They make people buy computers.) This is true, at least in my case: I built my first PC *ever* (which I still use today) seven years ago - just to play games.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread S h i v
On 8/3/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Gardiner wrote: x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve the user experience in either hardware support or software availability. You think nvidia video drivers, wifi drivers, Macromedia Flash, and

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread UNIX admin
So you're saying you may know what Indiana actually is? It seems to be a moving target, changing from day to day. How could that mean anything to anyone at this point I wonder? I'm writing that it means something to a certain profile / group of people. As is evident from the ensuing

Re: [osol-discuss] Install opensolaris onto a 2G disk

2007-08-03 Thread Lu, Baolu
So any suggestion? Thanks. On Friday, August 03, 2007 11:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does core system contain X stuff? I did not do like your ways, so maybe lose some dependency in your system. Halton. On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:17 +0800, Lu, Baolu wrote: I installed the gnome build

Re: [osol-discuss] Install opensolaris onto a 2G disk

2007-08-03 Thread Halton Huo
Install Solaris Express Developer, http://developers.sun.com/sxde/download.jsp But not sure your 2G is enough or not. Halton. On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:05 +0800, Lu, Baolu wrote: So any suggestion? Thanks. On Friday, August 03, 2007 11:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does core

Re: [osol-discuss] Install opensolaris onto a 2G disk

2007-08-03 Thread Lu, Baolu
The installation of Solaris Express Developer Edition will occupy more than 4G disk space. My 2g space is not enough. On Friday, August 03, 2007 3:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install Solaris Express Developer, http://developers.sun.com/sxde/download.jsp But not sure your 2G is enough

[osol-discuss] Regarding CDDL - using ufs code

2007-08-03 Thread amol
Hi, I want to use the struct direct datastructure from the file ufs_fsdir.h - just that data structure in a proprietary code. I read the CDDL CDDL FAQ and i know I am allowed to do that, but I am not sure how much source code I need to release under CDDL. Am I allowed to do the following?: -

Re: [osol-discuss] Regarding CDDL - using ufs code

2007-08-03 Thread amol
Thanks Darren for the suggestion. I'll anyways have to get in touch with my superiors for this case, decide on the options, and then go ahead. Amol This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Burlison
Matthew Gardiner wrote: When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number of products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to provide specifications to those who want them? When you stop trolling, and start coding? -- Alan Burlison --

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/3/07, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Gardiner wrote: When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number of products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to provide specifications to those who want them? When you stop

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 23:05 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: Yes, it has changed - but I'm just frustrated at the lack of progress outside of the 'basics'. If you could be more considerate to folks that subscribe to this list, more of the engineers

Re: [osol-discuss] mail from opensolaris.org

2007-08-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I notice that some people (all of whom, I believe, work for sun), have an opensolaris.org email address. So, does opensolaris.org support email accounts? If so, how do I get one? The work for Sun is a complete Red herring. The original email from Stephen Lau

[osol-discuss] mail from opensolaris.org

2007-08-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I notice that some people (all of whom, I believe, work for sun), have an opensolaris.org email address. So, does opensolaris.org support email accounts? If so, how do I get one? thanks, max ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana Wish List

2007-08-03 Thread Colin Zou
-web cam Works to some extent already with Ekiga. True, but many new cameras are UVC compliant but require firmware to be uploaded to it before it can operate using the generic UVC driver. The world of webcams are very diverse. There are so many different chips that are vendor private.

[osol-discuss] User defined functions call from Dtrace...!

2007-08-03 Thread rps
Hi, How I do check how many times a user defined function is called, by using dtrace. I did from the command line by passing library and system call as arguments to dtrace: $ dtrace -n PID:libc:malloc for example, I defined a function called fun1() and I 'd like to debug

Re: [osol-discuss] Install opensolaris onto a 2G disk

2007-08-03 Thread Michal Pryc
Lu, Baolu wrote: Hi folks, I decide to intall the opensolaris onto a classmate PC, which has the memory size of 256M and 2G NAND flash storage space. The aim is to have the system run some kind of desktop system, like Gnome, and a browser, like firefox. I have installed the

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:56 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Matthew Gardiner wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Matthew Gardiner wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:17 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [osol-discuss] Regarding CDDL - using ufs code

2007-08-03 Thread amol
Thank you Frank for the pieces of information. I found the solution. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Regarding CDDL - using ufs code

2007-08-03 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, amol wrote: Hi, I want to use the struct direct datastructure from the file ufs_fsdir.h - just that data structure in a proprietary code. I read the CDDL CDDL FAQ and i know I am allowed to do that, but I am not sure how much source code I need to release under

Re: [osol-discuss] Regarding CDDL - using ufs code

2007-08-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
amol wrote: Hi, I want to use the struct direct datastructure from the file ufs_fsdir.h - just that data structure in a proprietary code. I read the CDDL CDDL FAQ and i know I am allowed to do that, but I am not sure how much source code I need to release under CDDL. Am I allowed to

Re: [osol-discuss] mail from opensolaris.org

2007-08-03 Thread Jim Grisanzio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I notice that some people (all of whom, I believe, work for sun), have an opensolaris.org email address. So, does opensolaris.org support email accounts? If so, how do I get one? Explained here:

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-03 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Matthew Gardiner wrote: When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number of products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to provide specifications to those who want them? When you stop trolling, and start coding? The distinction between talk

[osol-discuss] An open reply to the Open letter to the Solaris Community

2007-08-03 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Wussboy, I am a total newcomer to the open source community, I am here as a person who grew up with Microsoft Windows, as a person who still admires Windows ( I have not used Mac ) for its ease of use features. With this background, WITH ADMIRATION FOR THE EASE OF USE OF FEATURES OF

[osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
By standalone I mean a computer that is not part of a LAN, not even on a peer-peer connection, but one that gets on to the Internet. I have a desktop with Sun Solaris and I have this problem. Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network with a thousand users or more. I need to

Re: [osol-discuss] An open reply to the Open letter to the Solaris Community

2007-08-03 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:12 -0700, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: Dear Wussboy, I am a total newcomer to the open source community, I am here as a person who grew up with Microsoft Windows, as a person who still admires Windows ( I have not used Mac ) for its ease of use features. With

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread UNIX admin
It is ok for me if it allows another person called root who I figure out is a someone who is knowledgeable enough to get down to the root of the computer, it is not going to be me, It has to be you. You are the system administrator of your own system now, whether you wish it or not, whether

[osol-discuss] File Events Notification API - PSARC/2007/027

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello opensolaris-discuss, Can anyone shed some light on it? Maybe PSARC materials can be made publicly available? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] An open reply to the Open letter to the Solaris Community

2007-08-03 Thread Manoj Joseph
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: not play. Hey, I can't download the yahoo messenger. My MP3 player and my PDA does not synchronize. Solaris is useless. Why do you need to download yahoo messenger? Pidgin/Instant Messenger supports those protocols out of the box. Pidgin does not support voice chat -

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread James Carlson
UNIX admin writes: UNIX is not a single user system like Windows. The computing model is different. That is what it was designed for. As MacOS has shown, it's entirely possible to make a fundamentally multi-user system behave quite reasonably as a single-user desktop. I think the request to

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread Ian Collins
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: Why does Solaris wait for the root user to log in to shut down my computer ? I can log out as Shiva, but I don't see the controls to shut down. Which distribution have you installed? Recent Solaris Express distributions offer shutdown as an option form

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-08-03 Thread Jon Trulson
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:01 -0600, Jon Trulson wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: ken mays wrote: http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html#2 We also actively assist developers in the Open Source community with their work,

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
If you wish to use Solaris effectively, you will have to do some reading. For a thing so powerful, complexity is inherent; and while some things can be simplified, some level of understanding will be required. Agreed. It is IMNSHO truly amazing that something (Solaris) so powerful and

Re: [osol-discuss] File Events Notification API - PSARC/2007/027

2007-08-03 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 19:42 +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, Can anyone shed some light on it? Maybe PSARC materials can be made publicly available? The way I interpete it, it is something like FAM which allows things like nautilus to know when something has

Re: [osol-discuss] An open reply to the Open letter to the Solaris Community

2007-08-03 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 00:55 +0530, Manoj Joseph wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: not play. Hey, I can't download the yahoo messenger. My MP3 player and my PDA does not synchronize. Solaris is useless. Why do you need to download yahoo messenger? Pidgin/Instant Messenger supports those

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris thinks that my standalone desktop is a huge network....

2007-08-03 Thread Ché Kristo
I think you should look at whether your 'admin' is competent, you say you are using Solaris as a desktop and that you have to call support to log in as root and have them shut it down...why don't you ask them to assign the permission to do so to your user? This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] An open reply to the Open letter to the Solaris Community

2007-08-03 Thread Manoj Joseph
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 00:55 +0530, Manoj Joseph wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: not play. Hey, I can't download the yahoo messenger. My MP3 player and my PDA does not synchronize. Solaris is useless. Why do you need to download yahoo messenger? Pidgin/Instant Messenger