Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Distributions

2010-04-20 Thread john kroll
Could you better explain the tie-ends of nexenta OS to open-solaris kernel ?? I get that the OS turns into ubuntu and for a client gui service its hard to beat. Also with apt-get servers it can immediately acquire kde software. Not sure if or how blastwave might figure into this ?? -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Distributions

2010-04-20 Thread Ken Mays
Gilles asked: Shouldn't the platform ports be called just projects since they could be integrated in the ON ? Or do they offer different packaging options as well ? If these distributions are patching the ON (eg. kernel improvements not making it back to onnv-gate), should they be considered

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Distributions

2010-04-20 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM, john kroll jek0...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Could you better explain the tie-ends of nexenta OS to open-solaris kernel ?? I get that the OS turns into ubuntu and for a client gui service its hard to beat. Also with apt-get servers it can immediately acquire kde

Re: [osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-20 Thread Ken Mays
Mike, For business, commercial, and 'some' government projects - the answer is YES. Originally, I was working with someone to review Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 and CATIA on OpenSolaris. We starting porting over CAD/CAM/CAE and game development/rendering tools to OpenSolaris due to the Nvidia

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_134 panics

2010-04-20 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
Albert Lee wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:33:39 PDT, Yariv Graf ya...@walla.net.il wrote: Hi Cyril, /var/crash/opensolaris isn't created. I assume it will be created in the next crash, right? Thanks You'll have to create the directory manually, then running savecore with no

[osol-discuss] Co-creator of ZFS, Bill Moore joins Nexenta advisory board

2010-04-20 Thread Erast
Good news for Nexenta and OpenSolaris community in general: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/blog/2010/04/06/bill-moore-joins-nexenta-advisory-board/ Nexenta invites talents and hiring OpenSolaris Kernel/API engineers. If you are in SF bay area and you think you are qualified, send your resume by

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-20 Thread Edward Martinez
I was wondering if i would be voiding the laptop warranty by erasing windows and installing opensolaris either on a m10 or a portege ? On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:10:38 -0700, Edward Martinez wrote: Hi, were the Toshiba preinstalled OpenSolaris laptops discontinued? I was

[osol-discuss] High Available Storage

2010-04-20 Thread Ryan Holt
Hello All, I'm doing some preliminary research on replacing our NetApp FAS2020 with a ZFS based solution. The NetApp currently runs our VMWare ESX VMs via iSCSI. The main reason we'd move to another solution revolves around cost; it's expensive to expand this unit and even more expensive to

Re: [osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/20/10 09:26 AM, Ken Mays wrote: Mike, For business, commercial, and 'some' government projects - the answer is YES. Originally, I was working with someone to review Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 and CATIA on OpenSolaris. We starting porting over CAD/CAM/CAE and game development/rendering

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-20 Thread Albert Lee
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:45:01 PDT, Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com wrote: I was wondering if i would be voiding the laptop warranty by erasing windows and installing opensolaris either on a m10 or a portege ? Warranties for general-purpose computer hardware that dictate what

Re: [osol-discuss] MythTV

2010-04-20 Thread Travis Tabbal
I used NFS because I mount the storage on the frontend machines that way as well. iSCSI would certainly work, probably quite well for recordings. The other nice thing is that I can expand recording space by just changing the quota, the VM doesn't need to do anything to use it. If I used iSCSI,

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-20 Thread Norm Jacobs
I seem to recall that some hardware vendors reluctantly offered refunds for the unused MS Windows software under the right circumstances. You might look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund -Norm On 04/20/10 10:49 AM, Albert Lee wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:45:01 PDT, Edward

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-20 Thread Alan Steinberg
Another alternative is to dual-boot, moving the current Windows aside with gparted (which is on the LiveCD), and installing OpenSolaris on a separate partition. -- Alan On 04/20/10 09:04 AM, Norm Jacobs wrote: I seem to recall that some hardware vendors reluctantly offered refunds for the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_134 panics

2010-04-20 Thread Yariv Graf
Thanks for the info. I'll check 10 On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Albert Lee tr...@opensolaris.org wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:33:39 PDT, Yariv Graf ya...@walla.net.il wrote: Hi Cyril, /var/crash/opensolaris isn't created. I assume it will be created in the next crash, right? Thanks

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Distributions

2010-04-20 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Ken Mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of April 19, 2010: [...] Great list! I'm a bit confused about the distribution meaning that's

[osol-discuss] Messages on the console

2010-04-20 Thread Juerg Reimann
How can I prevent that any messages appear on the console when there is nobody logged in? I've found out that in syslog.conf was a default setting that would send some messages to /dev/sysmsg, but when I remove that there are occasionally still some messages appearing. Where else do I have to

Re: [osol-discuss] Messages on the console

2010-04-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Juerg Reimann j...@jworld.ch wrote: How can I prevent that any messages appear on the console when there is nobody logged in? I've found out that in syslog.conf was a default setting that would send some messages to /dev/sysmsg, but when I remove that there

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-20 Thread Casper . Dik
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:45:01 PDT, Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com wrote: I was wondering if i would be voiding the laptop warranty by erasing windows and installing opensolaris either on a m10 or a portege ? Warranties for general-purpose computer hardware that dictate what

Re: [osol-discuss] Messages on the console

2010-04-20 Thread Juerg Reimann
To be more precise: I'm looking for a solution to only have the login prompt and nothing more on my console and that the machine remains silent if nobody has logged in... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Messages on the console

2010-04-20 Thread Juerg Reimann
Giovanni, great, thanks a lot! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-20 Thread Edward Martinez
it appears the so called writers,reporters from many well respected news sites are actually in a way wishing the demise of opensolaris. almost every article written on opensolaris nowadays are about how it's finished,doomed,etc. I think if this keeps up, it will actually discourage

Re: [osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-20 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
It's called Schadenfreude, a not uncommon human emotion, and sensationalism. Headlines about demise are going to get more hits than articles about the delay of a release due to showstopper bugs. I think things will calm down once 2010.1H gets released. It will be interesting to see how much

Re: [osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com wrote: it appears  the  so called writers,reporters  from many well respected news sites are  actually in a way  wishing  the demise of opensolaris.  almost every article written on opensolaris nowadays are about how  

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle products via IPS

2010-04-20 Thread alan pae
The current trend seems to revolve around VM templates. http://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/2010/04/rapidly_deploy_oracle_applicat.html alan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] In iSCSI hell...

2010-04-20 Thread Ron Mexico
I have a storage server with snv_134 installed. This has four zfs file systems shared with iscsi that are mounted as zfs volumes on a Sun v480. Everything has been working great for about a month, and all of a sudden the v480 has timeout errors when trying to connect to the iscsi volumes on the

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Armstrong
Except that Simon resigned. It was his decision not Oracle's. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-20 Thread Alan Hargreaves
Title: signature I would seriously recommend this. Some of the warranty experiences that I have had require you to show the error exists with the tools that the vendor provides for windows. Regardless of the fact I had Solaris spewing messages about unwritable blocks on a disk, they still

Re: [osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-20 Thread Stephen Bunn
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com wrote: it appears the so called writers,reporters from many well respected news sites are actually in a way wishing the demise of

Re: [osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Stephen Bunn scb...@sbunn.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com wrote: it appears  the  so called writers,reporters  from many well respected

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Paul Armstrong opensola...@otoh.org wrote: Except that Simon resigned. It was his decision not Oracle's. Who says that? Who or what are your sources?? If I recall correctly, he told the opposite:

Re: [osol-discuss] articles about opensolaris demise becoming annoying

2010-04-20 Thread Stephen Bunn
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: snip Sorry. My reply was directed twoard Edward. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org