Re: [osol-discuss] [i18n-discuss] iconv GB18030 problems?

2012-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
governments. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What happened to genunix.org?

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of whom may have decided that it was no longer fulfilling it's original mission of supporting an active open source OS project, but until they speak up, all we can do is guess at why it's gone now. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform

Re: [osol-discuss] Change host name on ora-Sol 11

2011-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/15/11 18:43, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there some different way to change host name in oracle-solaris 11? http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E24456/glilb.html#scrolltoc -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/11/11 09:37, Andrew Watkins wrote: Now on Solaris 11 it does not: == grep andrew /etc/user_attr andrewprofiles=Primary Administrator;roles=root Solaris 11 no longer includes the Primary Administrator profile. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] x86 repository - Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
) Download Download Part B SPARC, x86 (2.6 GB) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [osug-leaders] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
they'll be posting similar files for the recent release ASAP. Yes, we're working on that, but that only contains the third party sources for which the licenses require we provide them, such as all the GPL'ed GNOME GNU utilities we include in the OS. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Configuration

2011-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) in snv173

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
). Is there an option to disable it ? Did you try the workaround listed under Screen Corruption on Intel Graphics Devices in the S11EA release notes? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/documentation/solaris11-relnotes-ea-495320.rtf -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) in snv173

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/documentation/solaris11-relnotes-ea-495320.rtf -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) in snv173

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/17/11 13:30, Ian Collins wrote: Is there still a public list of heads up and flag day messages? No. [Fixed your typo for you - even the heaviest smoking Brits I know don't take off a whole day for it.] -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, you need to download and set up your own local copy of the repo to be able to install any packages that weren't part of the base install - there is no public repo for it. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that to update to a release using these new pkg features, and that wasn't done in the EA release timeframe. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 release date

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
details well in advance. We're playing with Solaris 11 Express and it looks absolutely amazing, so we need to know when Solaris 11 will be released. We're glad you like it. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] libopts required on 2009.06

2011-04-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is build 111, so it can't install it. Either upgrade the entire system to build 134 or stick to installing build 111 packages (which still mostly had the SUNW* style names.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] Linking to Source Browser OK?

2011-04-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of the source. How you satisfy requirements for people without good internet depends on the terms of the licenses in question. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Linking to Source Browser OK?

2011-04-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that builds over 800 packages. Having something like pkg get-source ping download the entire kernel source would be quite surprising to most users. Think more like BSD's make World than a Linux package build. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle

Re: [osol-discuss] Graphic cards for SPARC

2011-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/ seems to still have a few. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, are the only incompatibilities I know off hand for GNU sort. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] lpr dumps core when called from firefox in snv_160

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/11/11 01:51 PM, Bill Shannon wrote: When printing from firefox using lpr in snv_160, lpr dumps core: Is this a known bug? Yes. 7010842 lp segfaults when asked to print stdin -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
releases, since development builds are not generally available. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be until a future release, probably couldn't say even if I did know, since I am not authorized to be announcing future OS release dates to the public). -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 : The new pkg command does not take http_proxy shell variable

2011-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. You are using setenv or export right, not just set as your original e-mail described? It must be an environment variable, not a shell variable. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nowdays. No, mostly just nvidia. For AMD/ATI we currently only just pass through the open source 2D driver, without the support provided by the DRI driver in other OS'es for Kernel Modesetting (KMS) or hardware acceleration. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/22/11 08:46 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: On 2/22/2011 8:28 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/22/11 07:47 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: If you care about 3D, don't use the Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer on-die GPUs. Get a add-in graphics card. They're better supported all around. Both AMD

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2011-02-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the combined Xorg 1.9 + KMS solution working well instead with the newer drivers. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Intel DRI driver updates. Sorry, as I said on xwin-discuss yesterday, I don't think the kernel driver binaries needed to test that will be available to the public until the next full release on the Solaris 11/Express train. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracles support SUCKS

2010-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
things to complain about Oracle doing without making up new false ones. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express repository.

2010-12-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. Is there a text based install tool? How do you install from the repository to sparc based platforms? You use the text installer to install the system, then pkg install to install additional packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express repository.

2010-12-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mike DeMarco wrote: Are there any documents on how to add our own packages to the local repository? man pkgsend and related man pages. There's also some docs in http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/doc/ and of course the pkg-discuss mailing list archives. -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express: xterm very slow

2010-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, as those vendors have put in a lot of effort to provide accelerated graphics drivers for Solaris for their products. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, and some mice do have extra features beyond the standard that simply aren't supported. The mouse being reported as going online and offline several times a second seems like the much bigger problem. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Solaris 11 dead on new desktops. Core i5

2010-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
either. So, the question Solaris 11 is dead on desktops is becoming true Nope. There's always been and will always be issues with certain systems, given the wide range of components and fast pace of change in the PC hardware space. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/songbird-singing-a-new-tune/ http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/jds-review/2010-December/004042.html (Of course, the sources spec files are available for those who build from spec-files-extra or if anyone wanted to maintain prebuilt packages to share with others.) -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't bring windows back to or from to solaris 11

2010-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Restart the Xserver by either logging out and logging back in, or manually if the Xserver was started from the command line. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris licenses for small one-man companies?

2010-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
... But you would be ineligible for system updates, unless you pay. If you don't already have Solaris deployed, the license terms for new Solaris installs are the same for Solaris 10 11/Express. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform

Re: [osol-discuss] Black magic

2010-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that someone may be running. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Debabrata Debroy wrote: Hi We cant use QT or GNOME here as we are using Xorgs ... That makes no sense. Qt GNOME are both written to work with a variety of X servers, but generally work best on/target Xorg. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
++ compilers, and support for the various versions of ISO/ANSI C++ standards, really have a hard time. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
should open a support call, not rely on a post to a free discussion forum. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express download

2010-11-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
john kroll wrote: but no one : Genunix offers it mirrored or something ? Unlike OpenSolaris, Solaris 11 Express is not offered under a license that allows free redistribution mirroring. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade from a dev build?

2010-11-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ta wrote: On 18/11/10 05:37, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: Hello! I am running build 146 (from internal/SWAN rep). Please let me know the steps for upgrading to Solaris 11 Express. Thanks Follow the steps shown in the internal release notes at: http

Re: [osol-discuss] Where do I post a problem/bug report on Solaris 11 express?

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/ (One of the FAQs points there.) Note that the way to set the keyboard mappings changed a bit: http://static.opensolaris.org/on/flagdays/pages/20100720182505.html -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] xwin and services

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
builds - 133 or later - the package names were different on the older builds). 4/ ls it easy to upgrade kernel as linux? eg: using yum pkg image-update, though there are no more updates being published for the OpenSolaris distro, so it really doesn't matter much. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] python 3 not want to compile on solaris 11 express, returns an error

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
./Modules/python.c:3: Include/pyport.h:282:76: math.h: No such file or directory If you're missing math.h, then you failed to install some of the system header packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade from a dev build?

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/snv_151a.txt -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Andrew Watkins wrote: On 11/16/10 04:45 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Dave Koelmeyer wrote: Sean M. Brannon wrote: What is the update/patch policy for Express? i.e. is an Oracle support contract required to gain access to Solaris 11 Express software/security updates? Yes. Oh, awesome. More

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mike Brancato wrote: Really? That seems to disregard the license. Does buying support then modify your license to include non-development or prototyping-related activities? Yes. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Versions

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, and the new Solaris 11 Express which is based on what used to be OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get Solaris 11 GPL/LGPL Source Code from Oracle

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that's the offer required by the GPL, the easiest way for most of it is still to simply checkout the JDS, SFW, X gates from the hg svn repos, since that's where most of the GPL/LGPL sources will be found (not all, since there's a few bits like grub in other consolidations, but most). -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Versions

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
releases under that name.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Versions

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is the product line based on the 5.10 kernel. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that package support and tools? I have as little idea about that as you do. I can just tell you what is, not why it is - I'm an engineer, not a VP or marketing analyst, and ranting at me is wasting your time, there's nothing I can do but sympathize. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express and xvm

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Map snv_ versions into release versions

2010-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the OpenSolaris 2010.0x release, but it was never released as a separate version. snv_151a was just published today, but under the new name, license, release model of Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Sean M. Brannon wrote: What is the update/patch policy for Express? i.e. is an Oracle support contract required to gain access to Solaris 11 Express software/security updates? Yes. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, production use requires support contracts. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing Username Default Length from 8 to 32 or more

2010-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/view_bug.do?bug_id=4109819 and the details of the proposal to fix them at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/library/long_usernames/ -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is happening is the Usenix System Adminstration conference: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10/ -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-10-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to soon hike MySQL pricing!

2010-10-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Octave Orgeron wrote: Yeah it was my hope back in those days that Sun would buy out PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. There is/was no PostgreSQL, Inc. to buy out that owned the code rights, so there's no comparison to buying MySQL. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] Copyright and License Terms (was Re: Solaris 11 Express)

2010-10-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martti Hamunen wrote: Only question, ...and is it, Solaris 11 Express already possible download? No, it is not yet released. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] dtcalc grabs mouse and won't let go

2010-09-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
? That and xcalc are the two I know of available in opensolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.2 is out and makes OpenSolaris self hosting

2010-09-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
2009 patch set exactly is required. Nothing later has been found to work yet - Studio 12 update 1 is being tested, but again, a certain set of patches will be needed, not the original release version. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.2 is out and makes OpenSolaris self hosting

2010-09-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: Ken Mays wrote: Recently patched versions of Sun Studio 12.1.x (Fall 2010) won't compile ON_147 and higher?!? Nor Sun Studio 12.2? Guess updating those docs would help... What docs need

Re: [osol-discuss] now seems official- OpenSolaris name retired

2010-09-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
those people were working at Sun/Oracle when they spent those hours. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] now seems official- OpenSolaris name retired

2010-09-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
are still actively in use. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Who should we report bugs to?

2010-09-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
something that looks like a web forum, get a gmail account, subscribe it to the lists, and it will look similar. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Who should we report bugs to?

2010-09-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/18/10 11:14 AM, Dan Pitic wrote: Who do we report OpenIndiana bugs to? http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2010-September/000122.html We really need a forum site like this one for Openindiana. Mailing lists exist for it already. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to OpenSolaris distro releases with the .cshrc I've been using since Solaris 2.4. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Who is testing Solaris 11?

2010-09-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. In the future, everyone who participates in the recently announced (but not yet released/launched) Solaris 11 preview release programs will be testing it as well. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Who is testing Solaris 11?

2010-09-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
or any other OS that I'm aware of. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Who should we report bugs to?

2010-09-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tool/process legacy.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenIndiana - a new OpenSolaris Distribution!

2010-09-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in trademarks. (Ask a trademark lawyer or Google to explain those, as they're complicated.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] [perf-discuss] XVR-2500 - will it work on a sun blade 2500?

2010-09-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
boards Sun sold that can fit into a Sun Blade 2500. Other distros may support more cards - check their HCL's/documentation.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kyle McDonald wrote: On 9/2/2010 10:41 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: illumos is roughly equivalent to ON by itself. An OpenIndiana distro would have to add the other 80% of the OpenSolaris distro that comes from outside ON/illumos - SFW, X, JDS, etc. Hi Alan, Where can I find

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
command on each of those listed incorporations to find out which packages each includes. Ok. So is there a 1:1:1 relationship between an 'incorporation' and a 'consolidation' and a source 'repository'? No. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [illumos-Developer] SchilliX-0.7.1 based on b147+ available

2010-08-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of that is closed source binaries released under licenses like the OSBL. All packages containing code which is not redistributable are isolated to the /extra repository. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] [illumos-Developer] SchilliX-0.7.1 based on b147+ available

2010-08-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
binaries that were not included in the redistributable downloads - I don't recall if studio was one of the packages that had to be changed that way for the pkg repo.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.1 based on b147+ available

2010-08-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the same way as always, nothing has changed for them. The snv_148 tag for the X repo was pushed a few hours ago to ssh://a...@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/x-cons/xnv-clone for instance. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on, the names were chosen by the people who decided to create them or who lead them, again, not by spectators on mailing lists. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Will this forum shut down?

2010-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Peter Jones wrote: Is the forum controlled by Oracle or independent? The opensolaris.org website is owned and operated by Oracle. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on mailing lists. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] @Oracle employees: OpenSolaris updates up to Solaris 11

2010-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
this year - you should be able to use those until Solaris 11 comes out instead of moving back to Solaris 10. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] @Oracle employees: OpenSolaris updates up to Solaris 11

2010-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
should be out later this year - you should be able to use those until Solaris 11 comes out instead of moving back to Solaris 10. But what about after Solaris 11 reaches FCS? will Solaris Express become a persisting program then? I don't know what the plans are then. -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in Linux releases. Today, if you go to sun.com, oracle.com, or java.com, to download JRE, JDK, or the source code for them, you'll find that the source code is released under SCSL, Try http://www.openjdk.org/ -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
that gives rights back to Sun/Oracle, not the CDDL. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in the mass licensing by OS device manufacturers. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersm...@oracle.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:11 AM Edward Ned Harvey wrote: #3 It does not make sense to discontinue development of opensolaris. Some day they'll have to make a solaris 12, you know. But they're

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
their will? This thread is just people being silly without any point. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
says 2010, not 2011, or did you miss that part of the webcast? -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
stated goals, most end users should never need to know it exists, just as most OpenSolaris users today have no idea what ON is.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the project gates we're using to stage the upgrades to new Xorg versions before they're ready to integrate to the main Nevada gate, like the Xorg-1.9-merge gate I recently made there - but only Niveditha I have been working on those.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
published by the X Consolidation project is fully open source, and is the exact source used in Nevada builds now. http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+x-cons/ -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to break out of X

2010-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] were we string along?

2010-08-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
won't quibble with though. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Centos of Solaris/opensolaris

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in the effort to do it. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] root roles security holes

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: As far as I could understand, Sound Juicer does not know root password, however bypassing this somehow. Total crash of all UNIX ideas. You may want to read up on the ancient Unix idea of setuid root software before making such proclamations. -- -Alan

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