Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to answer, and is removing as many questions as possible. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
an ax to grind. For all I know they might supply Xsun :). The suppliers of Xsun (including me) generally agree we want to replace it with Xorg. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-04-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
login to the system after the install. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Fresh Install Problems

2007-04-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. I am just trying to learn about this OS. I have windows only background. IT student The password box won't show what you're typing - not even stars or anything by default. Have you typed your password and hit return? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

[osol-discuss] Re: [laptop-discuss] PROJECT PROPOSAL - Tadpole platform support

2007-04-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, synaptics and PS/2 customizations, wlan support, and other features such as ebuttons and other features unique to the platform. +1 (I assume the Laptop community will be endorsing this as well?) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
OSNet would be one of several. It's something we'll be talking about in the OGB as we get to re-examining the current state of the communities. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, the point where we decide to fork is our problem, not other people's problem. But how can we possibly have a common ARC if we all have different releases?Do we just throw all the ARC distinctions about what you can do in major, minor, micro out the window? -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: Re: joining Sun]

2007-04-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [summerofcode] Reviewing projects, assigning mentors

2007-04-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rob Giltrap wrote: Seeing that Garrett has applied to Mentor it then your perceived problem is solved as he is not a Sun person. You might want to go doublecheck namefinder (just ignore the second entry for Garrett.Deleteme.Damore)... -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SXCE Build 60 available

2007-03-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of the next Xorg server release which is currently in release candidate testing by X.Org now, and will probably be in SXCE in builds around 65-67ish (assuming X.Org doesn't slip release too late). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE Install Screenshots (dhcp'ed, w/ dual-boot)

2007-03-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on that screen that would interfere with the screenshot. Otherwise you could run something like sdtimage or xwd in an xterm, but then you'ld get those windows in your screenshots. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] polls are closed !

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now comes the really hard part .. the waiting ! Was somebody able to do a real OGB voting after he did finish the prevoting on March 12th? I was. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
... CoolStack was delivered separately - these ARC cases are about integrating into Solaris instead. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Video Problem in SX59

2007-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. It was detailed in the X.Org 7.2 heads up message at: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=24027tstart=0 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: Traditional Chinese locale bug (was: [osol-discuss] Re: Video Problem in SX59)

2007-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
what you find objectionable (i.e. what wording on what screen/application) I'm not sure what they can do. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/opt/apache2 over /opt/apache2.2. These ARC cases are for integration to Solaris, so /opt is inappropriate, and /usr is correct. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Next Generation Web Stack

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
check -all will give you a large subset of that on Nevada, though in Studio 11, much of it is only fully functional on SPARC, not x64. (I believe that's being resolved in Studio 12.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9

2007-03-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
as any sign of change from the Adobe side. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Wikipedia references to OpenSolaris projects (fwd)

2007-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] Intel Project going live

2007-03-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to use, getting duplicate hits from /onnv/, /netvirt/, /clearview/, etc. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] What is OpenSolaris success?

2007-03-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Project_emancipation -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What is OpenSolaris success?

2007-03-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I know (with which command) the brand and model of my graphics card?

2007-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Calvin Liu wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 22:22 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Calvin Liu wrote: So far I know there's some commands available to detect the system configuration like prtconf, sysdef, dmesg, etc. But seems none of them can tell me which model of the graphics card that I'm using

Re: [osol-discuss] Belenix DVD 0.6 comments

2007-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
by link spammers hoping you wouldn't notice their crap on an older blog entry. (The limit is configurable by the blog owner, but most are in the 1 week to 1 month range, and this blog entry is over a month old.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: User Mode Driver

2007-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
are both moving this direction on x86 (Solaris has always had kernel mode drivers for graphics on SPARC) - see: http://www.keithp.com/blog/kernel-mode-drivers.html http://blogs.sun.com/alanc/entry/moving_x86_video_drivers_into -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: User Mode Driver

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to have adequately tested maintained them. We're actually working now on Matrox hardware for the first time since shipping Xorg since some server vendors use Matrox chipsets in their remote console cards, and they've provided us with the hardware for those. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Will Solaris be open-source in the future

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
De Togni Giacomo wrote: Good issue.If Linux sources == OpenSolaris and RHEL == Solaris,which is the member of Fedora expression? ( Fedora == ?) I'd say: Fedora Release = Solaris Express Developer Edition Fedora Development/Rawhide = Solaris Express Community Edition -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Will Solaris be open-source in the future

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
code? The source code for most of it will be available on opensolaris.org. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Will Solaris be open-source in the future

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I know (with which command) the brand and model of my graphics card?

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. The latest drivers will be published on nvidia.com a month or two before they appear in the OpenSolaris Community Edition releases. pkginfo -l NVDAgraphics should show what version you have installed for comparison against the nvidia site. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project proposal: User Mode Driver

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
teams. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Mozilla DTrace project

2007-03-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
John Rice wrote: Hi, We'd like to propose a Mozilla DTrace project for inclusion on Opensolaris.org. We'd like it to be an endorsed project of the DTrace, Desktop and Performance Communities. +1! -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] SXCE Build 59 available

2007-03-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
found): http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=24027tstart=0 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] SXCE Build 59 available

2007-03-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ian Collins wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=24027tstart=0 Any idea when the 64 bit nVidia driver will ship? We're gonna try to get it into nv_60 or nv_61 if possible. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] good intentions, wrong approach

2007-03-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and not worth arguing. I don't know if others felt the same way or not, but if you'ld calm down a bit, get all your thoughts in one e-mail, send it and then wait, I imagine you'ld get better responses. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
hardware so we wouldn't be delivering untested code to Solaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [cab-discuss] Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Simon Phipps wrote: None of these candidates appear to have accepted their nomination. In addition, neither have: Alan Coopersmith I accept. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on martux though, I think you would easily qualify for one of the Contributor at Large spots, by mailing cab-discuss to request such status. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be agreed upon. In this case, I think it's still a follow-on of the poor initial setup of Communities - instead of a Xen community, we should have a Virtualization community with Xen qemu projects. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] Xorg on SPARC (was: Last Day for Nominations)

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on a huge customer and user base. The comments below also show how groups that should be working together are having silo issues:( No one here will argue with you, but the people who have decided not to allocate resources for porting old framebuffers for SPARC are not here. -- -Alan

Re: dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-03-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-Team - I have no idea if they'll respond or not, but since CDE is closed source, that's outside the scope of the OpenSolaris community. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Michael Lee wrote: The proposal is great but I'd personally like to see--a bit off topic--AMD/ATI port their OpenGL drivers to Solaris x86. So would we, but that's, as you note, a different topic. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Solaris (mistakes) and future

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
then they can offer the open source release as an alternative to customers who still want it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] About Solaris (mistakes) and future

2007-03-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
own $HOME/.xsession without hassles. (No idea yet about gdm ...) $HOME/.dtprofile is a dtlogin interface, not a gdm one. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair of the Month

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal :: Google's Sumer of Code

2007-02-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
organized relatively quickly, set up some basic infrastructure that can be used each year - this is what this proposal aims to achieve. +1 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering February 2007 Selection: LSARC

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: any way to install solaris express with 512mb ram

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
it (and it probably shouldn't be the default, since it's no longer recommended for new sites). Unless you're in a corporate network with NIS or NIS+ set up for you, you probably just want DNS. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, not the license it is under. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, Sun did not sell DVD drives for the v20z. Are there many v20z owners who don't have another machine to netinstall from? I'm much more concerned about community members with a single Ultra 10, or older PC without

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
TrueType engine, used in both Xsun Xorg).) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Desktop? (I'm presuming we're talking about simultaneously running at least X/GNOME, multiple gnome-terminals, and Firefox.) The Developer Edition requires 768Mb RAM to run the Developer Edition version of the installer, so half that would be 384Mb RAM. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
this could be a project that delivers via the JDS consolidation (which is already not built as a true single consolidation, but consolidates packages from multiple builds into a single WOS delivery). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. Seems too wide a boundary, since it would then include everything in every other part of OpenSolaris too. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
because Sun used an unofficial alpha code as ksh basis. Sun used the code that The Open Group licensed from ATT for CDE 1.0 dtksh. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
not munging it in, it's delivering it where it naturally belongs. See http://www.gtk.org/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
done.(And this is fasttrack level paperwork - just describe the interfaces - no one-pager, no twenty questions.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
if anyone's done the work to handle that yet. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair of the Month Club ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair of the Month Club ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair of the Month Club ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
how to log in there to check). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair of the Month Club ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Thanks for your feedback - the people proposing this are taking it into consideration, and the current proposal was not approved. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the CCD for Nevada is a worthwhile goal. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Display problem

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Girts Zeltins wrote: Log in text mode and run command kdmconfig and then choose XSun and then configure your Video settings. Ultra 10 is a SPARC, which only has Xsun in nv_57, and has no kdmconfig. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, and similar interfaces that other applications may depend on are planned to stick around. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/var/tmp//ccgyLdOf.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to bkf collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [bkf] Error 1 -lsocket -lnsl -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiling fails with undefined gethostbyname errors

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
network host entry SYNOPSIS cc [ flag... ] file... -lnsl [ library... ] #include netdb.h Unfortunately, not all the bits from other open source projects have this in their man pages (I know most X ones don't, though I've been adding it in where I can). -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] VIM 7.0 + SXCR 56 = Build Problems

2007-02-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
libXpm directly (as it presumably does on everything but Solaris) is the best answer. For code without source, dropping a bunch of filter symbols into libXm to redirect to libXpm is something I've thought of doing, but not had time to get to yet. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Request a new Community for License Discussion (was CAB/OGB Position

2007-02-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Jive forum

2007-02-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
not as easily searchable: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you?

2007-02-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
certainly had my vote as we're stuck using it anyway to work with the X.Org sources, which are now in git, but I understand it wasn't the best fit to the criteria the community chose, so accept that decision. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to be a Firefox problem, not an Xorg one. Does opera do something else with images? It does not seem to cause the same problem. I will re-test opera again to check my original test. Sorry - I've never used Opera and don't know what it does. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] The new The Love you Take is equal to the Love you Make Open(2) License

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
officially liked Intel, and the facts of the matter haven't changed on this since last summer.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
less time, but that's not what the project team chose to do. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to and later released. (Xsun has a hack to use mmap() for large pixmaps so that it can return memory to the OS, but this hasn't been ported to Xorg.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal for Xfce Desktop

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
many components with the JDS project. The distribution of Xfce would be up to the distribution builds. e.g. Sun could still include it on the companion CD. Also there would be development releases using the same process as the JDS project. +1 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00016.html is an interesting read when discussing corporate control vs. non-profit foundations. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
disassmbler already? Would it be easier to use of those than start from scratch? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
S Destika wrote: Secondly most use x86 and Solaris won't work there I'll admit there are some areas that need improvement, but Solaris certainly works on x86, and more Solaris users are now on x86 than SPARC, so it's getting a lot of attention to fix the deficiencies. -- -Alan

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to suggest and took all the code we've released, built packaged it, put a installer on it, why then we'd end up with something almost exactly like Solaris Express, so we don't waste our time duplicating that effort and just tell people who want a binary distro to use Solaris Express. -- -Alan

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
chunks that developers can work with - one for ON, one for X, one for GNOME, and so on. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Stephen Lau wrote: .. and the first step in creating a conducive atmosphere for the community is having an email address that freaking works. Why even have the much-hated Jive forums if you're going to disown people who use them instead of the mailing lists? -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. The more friends the better. GPLv3 will give us that. Won't it only open us up to projects that use GPLv3 with the same assembly exception? Pure GPLv3 projects will be able to take our code, but we won't be able to use theirs unless they relicense with the exception. -- -Alan

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
But we're already doing that, so dual-licensing won't open us up any more than we already are, so where's the benefit? Stephen Harpster wrote: For the kernel, true. For userland, no. Don't forget that we're already taking in GPLv2. Alan Coopersmith wrote: Stephen Harpster wrote: The big

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]

2007-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 06:59 pm, Alan Coopersmith wrote: I don't expect us to ask Joerg for a contributor agreement to include the CDDL licensed cdrecord, because it's an external project. I would actually, and don't think legal will let something like

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
at the end of March 2006. JDS/GNOME beat us by about 6 months. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 03:51 pm, Alan Coopersmith wrote: How about Look harder - they've all been in OpenSolaris for a long time? Humor me more. Having the software located on the OpenSolaris site doesn't mean that it's a part of the project. When you download

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of We're going to do what the few core people want, everyone else can help us or get out of our way decisions that convinced most everyone else to go away. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
change from CDDL to dual-licensed - you can't have it both ways! (And even the FSF requires similar agreement to contribute to GNU software, so I don't see why it should be a major issue.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Mouse Wheel Under Solaris 9 CDE

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/alanc/entry/wheel_mouse_support_in_solaris (those actually are two different urls!) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
license to drop the hated advertising clause and they had to get each copyright owner to agree to relicense under the same terms. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] An opensource Sparc system...

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
than a software community like OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community participation

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Also, I just checked the Jive discussion forums. Since opening 20 months ago, the project's lists/forums have generated 10,114,589 total views, 7,218,833 unique visitors, 21,033 threads, and 81,874 messages. and how many thousand hoodie spams now? 8-) -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] base directories, gnome versus cde

2007-01-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Standard Base Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which says that splitting up /usr into subdirectories as we've done on Solaris is verboten on LSB-compliant systems. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/knowledgebase/118/ is the problematic one. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
GPL'ing their code or paying money to TrollTech. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is SXCR Build 55?

2007-01-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
off from normal due to the holiday break. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
growth, not speed it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPLv3

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
still being written, before you know what the final form will be and what it will obligate your users/distributors to do. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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