Re: [osol-discuss] acroread 8 available for Solaris SPARC download

2007-09-15 Thread Mario Goebbels
There were talks of a developer team working on the Solaris x86 version of the newer Adobe Reader 8.x. Shouldn't simple recompiling (and patching here and there) the Linux version be more than sufficient? I go from the assumption that the Linux, Solaris SPARC and other Unix builds compile from

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware published under GPL

2007-09-15 Thread Eric Lowe
Would it help to ask for a joint Opensolaris.org/VMware project to port the host OS kernel modules to Opensolaris? The biggest hurdle isn't porting the kernel modules, but rather the gazillion components that make up the UI, daemons, etc. Since these components need to build under the VMware

[osol-discuss] using kernel ctf with raw disk

2007-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just posted this to mdb-discuss... Hi All, I have modified mdb so that I can use ::print type with a raw disk. You can read this: http://www.bruningsystems.com/mdb.rdsk.txt for an example use. The changes to mdb that I made are essentially a hack, but they work... I modified source from

[osol-discuss] Small experiment with twitter.com and /var/adm/messages ...

2007-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Based on Glynn Foster's IRC request I hacked-up a small experiment/toy (see attached script shtwitter.ksh, the file needs Solaris 11 = B72 since it depends on the networking capabilities of the new korn shell) which allows to post messages to a twitter.com blog. twitter is some kind of