Re: [osol-discuss] [core-contrib-discuss] Proposed New constitution

2009-03-20 Thread Brian Gupta
. ___ core-contrib-discuss mailing list core-contrib-disc...@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/core-contrib-discuss -- - Brian Gupta New York City user groups calendar: http://nyc.brandorr.com

[osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community, because we don't control our Trademark and Website. (And it's not Sun's fault).

2008-02-13 Thread Brian Gupta
that there aren't enough people who care this project isn't really controlled by the community, (and are willing to do something about it.) I am willing to work towards making this happen, but I am not willing, or able, to do so alone. -- - Brian Gupta P.S. - It was in hindsight, probably

Re: [osol-discuss] We aren't an Open Community, because we don't control our Trademark and Website. (And it's not Sun's fault).

2008-02-13 Thread Brian Gupta
religion, and agrees to live by these principles. I hope we all at least try. Cheers, -Brian P.S. - Feel free to discuss the other bullets as well, we aren't doing so hot on some of them either. On Feb 14, 2008 12:06 AM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 10:35 PM, Brian Gupta

Re: [osol-discuss] resolution

2008-01-28 Thread Brian Gupta
user i cannot modify the resolution.. why i cannot modify the resolution This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2008-01-26 Thread Brian Gupta
___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any interest in a Wine Community for OpenSolaris?

2008-01-03 Thread Brian Gupta
-- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Crontab -- is cron.d not really a .d directory?

2007-12-24 Thread Brian Gupta
-- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is ZFS stable in OpenSolaris?

2007-11-14 Thread Brian Gupta
. If you're looking to *develop* against the bleeding/cutting edge, a latest build of OpenSolaris will do. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- - Brian Gupta http

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread Brian Gupta
/advocacy-discuss -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Brian Gupta
junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor... --Larry Wall ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Brian Gupta
are not in our favor... --Larry Wall ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

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] So... when is Sun going to start offering SXCE/SXDE support contracts?

2007-08-02 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/2/07, Glen Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bart, You or Tim had mentioned the idea of being able to support checkpoints of some kind which would let more rigid environments take advantage of some of the more useful features with reduced risk. Do you see motion in that direction?

Re: [osol-discuss] OS complains with no left space on device while there are enough free space

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/1/07, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gurus, V490+Solaris 9,On a 79GBytes file system /usr/local, where there are2 5GBytes free, system fails to create a 1GBytes file via mkfile:# df -h /usr/local Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting a Lucrative Sponsorship Funded

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/1/07, Fauzia Saeed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where in Sun do I find someone to sponsor it? Alan Coopersmith wrote: Fauzia (foz) Saeed wrote: The Open Solaris Community in San Diego has an opportunity to fund the local SW council which is a respected non-profit organization with a

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

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/1/07, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian: I'm not a lawyer so I can't really comment on what Ubuntu is doing with any authority. There are probably some cases where users could legally install such IP protected code. Examples could include: - people who live in countries

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

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/1/07, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian: First off, as I understand the Codecs are opensource. They also might be legal, but the status is not clear. There are a lot of issues here. Note that the GPL/LGPL (and many other free licenses) do not allow IP protected code to

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting a Lucrative Sponsorship Funded

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
I suspect they are more likely to be found on the advocacy-discuss list.. (I don't know.) On 8/1/07, Fauzia Saeed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proposal is done. Who are the right people in product marketing? Brian Gupta wrote: On 8/1/07, Fauzia Saeed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where in Sun

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

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/1/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I read somewhere (can't find the source) that the market for PC games is shrinking and the market for console games is growing (Wii/PS3/Xbox 360). PC gaming makes much less money than console gaming right now, because of the aforementioned

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

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/1/07, John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Brian Gupta wrote: On 8/1/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I read somewhere (can't find the source) that the market for PC games is shrinking and the market for console games is growing (Wii/PS3

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

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
The problem is that Sun in the past just keeps going for the 'high end niche' eventually that niche will become so small it stops existing - SGI is finding out that the hard way - hopeing to slash and burn costs whilst ignoring it is the uniqueness which bring customers over, not necessarily

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

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/2/07, Korey Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let us, for the purpose of making a point, assume that you are 100% correct in your statements. Following from those, how will persons you write about be able to fix something they know nothing about and aren't able/willing to learn it?

Re: [osol-discuss] Run Vb Application Sun Solaris 10

2007-08-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/2/07, Akhilesh Mritunjai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem : I want to Run Vb Application and MS Access as a backend on Sun Solaris 10. I want to make solaris system is operating system and other window based system Access Application and database from that Solaris System. Could

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

2007-07-31 Thread Brian Gupta
On 7/31/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 23:43 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: One could argue that not only does Solaris need more users, but its quality rather than quantity. If the vast majority of the 40% are penny

[osol-discuss] So... when is Sun going to start offering SXCE/SXDE support contracts?

2007-07-31 Thread Brian Gupta
It would make it easier for some of us to deploy OpenSolaris. -Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] So... when is Sun going to start offering SXCE/SXDE support contracts?

2007-07-31 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/1/07, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Gupta wrote: It would make it easier for some of us to deploy OpenSolaris. How can Sun support something that changes every couple of weeks and doesn't support patching? I suppose they could provide a help line with a recorded message

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

2007-07-31 Thread Brian Gupta
On 8/1/07, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai: I'm surprised that Sun can't get access to those windows codecs under the agreement which Sun and Microsoft signed. I don't think access to the codecs is the problem. Paying the royalties required to distribute the IP is more

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple bought CUPS source code.

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Gupta
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L179+I0+T+M10+P1+Q On 7/30/07, Ché Kristo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard that they bought cups but stated that: Apple Inc. has trademarked the Common UNIX Printing System, CUPS, and CUPS logo. These names and logos may be used freely in any direct port or

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple bought CUPS source code.

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Gupta
On 7/30/07, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Gupta writes: http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L179+I0+T+M10+P1+Q Ah, a license fork. What fun! Personally I think this is a complete perversion of the open source movement, and can't believe this hasn't gotten wider coverage

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple bought CUPS source code.

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Gupta
to allow 3rd parties to develop closed source components on an Apple Operating System For more information http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L475 http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L+TFAQ -Norm Brian Gupta wrote: They have forked a closed source version for Mac OS X

[osol-discuss] GPGPU code...

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Gupta
Is anyone running any GPGPU code on Solaris? I ask because with AMD Fusion coming down the road, it seems that most AMD64 machines will have access to GPU based computation functions. With Solaris and Sun moving to a highly threaded programming model (Fortress), might these functions be

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

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Gupta
Just the same, I think having an environment available that can hide all of that away and that is robust enough that it's able to do so when things are going wrong would be great. I just suspect that it's far harder (read: expensive) to make that work in any reliable way than most would

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Gupta
On 7/30/07, Edward McAuley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Alan. I am somewhat confused regarding their approach. They are saying the are going to deliver these drivers, on one hand, but on the other hand they are claiming they cannot because they don't own all of the IP (that part of

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

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Gupta
One could argue that not only does Solaris need more users, but its quality rather than quantity. If the vast majority of the 40% are penny pinching, proprietary software hating, thick-rim-glasses wearing, hunch back coding geeks - it certainly won't attract vendors such as Adobe or MYOB who

[osol-discuss] Apple bought CUPS source code.

2007-07-29 Thread Brian Gupta
They have forked a closed source version for Mac OS X ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] About Indinana and Gentoo model. (Important!!!!!)

2007-07-27 Thread Brian Gupta
On 7/27/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using Jaluna code plus OpenSolaris code (for an approximation of SVR4 e.g. filesystem and other code) as a starting point; seems to me that Chorus/MiX would have been on a level of coolness

[osol-discuss] Happy sysadmin day! (Or is it merry?)

2007-07-27 Thread Brian Gupta
http://www.sysadminday.com/ Cheers, brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] About Indinana and Gentoo model. (Important!!!!!)

2007-07-27 Thread Brian Gupta
On 7/27/07, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At one point wasn't there an embedded OS based on the Solaris kernel? Chorus? ChorusOS was his own OS that Sun acquired. They also acquired Cobalt systems which ran RedHat Linux ported to the MIPS processor. Both

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-27 Thread Brian Gupta
You want enough battery time to start the generators, and fix the generators and pumps that may possibly fail. (And you definately want to make sure you have redundant fuel pumps for each generator.) Also quarterly testing is a must. --brian On 7/27/07, Bill Sommerfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-27 Thread Brian Gupta
One more thing. Geographical redundancy is a good thing. -brian On 7/27/07, Brian Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want enough battery time to start the generators, and fix the generators and pumps that may possibly fail. (And you definately want to make sure you have redundant fuel pumps

[osol-discuss] 2048 core support in opensolaris?

2007-07-26 Thread Brian Gupta
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/26/sun_2048_thread_niagara/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Laptop bargain hunting experience and specs write-up

2007-07-21 Thread Brian Gupta
So now I have my nifty new cheapo... er... economy lappy but I haven't had time to do much with it yet! What I did get a chance to do though was download and fire up Nevada b67 via the BeleniX 0.6.1 LiveCD (also, I stuck with Xfce and the Realtek ethernet NIC for now) and everything, including

[osol-discuss] Re: Making OpenSolaris 501(c)(3) (Was Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris)

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Gupta
I would be very much in favour of seeing OpenSolaris become a 501(c)(3) entity. In fact, I think it is essential that OpenSoalris does so, otherwise OpenSolaris is not exactly attractive for people/companies to donate anything towards in the USA. If some outside organization wished to donate

[osol-discuss] Re: Making OpenSolaris 501(c)(3) (Was Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris)

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Gupta
If some outside organization wished to donate anything substantial to the project, they would contact Sun directly about this issue. Why? Sun isn't equipped to accept donations, either; it's a for-profit corporation. Nor does Sun own or control the OpenSolaris community; the Charter and

[osol-discuss] Fwd: Launch of GNU GPLv3 (This Friday)

2007-06-27 Thread Brian Gupta
Let's see what happens now. ;) --brian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:12:55 -0400 From: Peter Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Launch of GNU GPLv3 On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free

Re: [osol-discuss] Ramesh

2007-06-25 Thread Brian Gupta
If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), you can make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get

Re: [osol-discuss] Redirecting SSH Requests Behind A Firewall

2007-06-14 Thread Brian Gupta
Douglas F Shearer wrote: Hi Folks. I've recently started using OpenSolaris, and have set up some zones to cover web/db/svn etc. I have one public IP (This is at home), but each zne has it's own internal IP (192.169.1.11*). Basically I'd like some way to have SHH request redirected to the

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-05 Thread Brian Gupta
One of the goals of Indiana is also to be able to boot and install from a mini cd rom image, that pulls things from the network. I have been thinking that the best option would be to include templates in the installation procedure that could pull down different packages sets depending on what

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-05 Thread Brian Gupta
The thought is that things that are part of the OpenSolaris code base would definately be hosts by OpenSolaris.org. Being that all the code hosted by OpenSolaris is freely distributable, it would obviously make sense to develop and leverage mirror sites. One thing that will also be hosted is

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-05 Thread Brian Gupta
As I understand there are links on the homepage?? Speaking of homepage, I would suggest that once we have a working distro that we have a splash page that says Get OpenSolaris and Develop OpenSolaris. The get OpenSolaris would feature the ref build, but also provide links and descriptions of the

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-05 Thread Brian Gupta
On 6/5/07, Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Gupta wrote: As I understand there are links on the homepage?? Speaking of homepage, I would suggest that once we have a working distro that we have a splash page that says Get OpenSolaris and Develop OpenSolaris. The get OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-05 Thread Brian Gupta
On 6/5/07, Alan Burlison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Gupta wrote: It might help if some of the people who are criticising what we have at the moment had actually bothered to look at the thing they are criticising *before* criticising it. I mean something like this: http

[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Why we should have an OpenSolaris Hosted binary set. [OSH-thread]

2007-06-02 Thread Brian Gupta
Joseph, I have made an effort to incorporate your comments into a new list. Primary Drivers: -- 1) There is a desire for a minimal/core OpenSolaris distro, that other distro packagers can leverage to create their own distros. Building a distro from this core *may*, in the

[osol-discuss] Why we should have an OpenSolaris Hosted binary set. [OSH-thread]

2007-06-01 Thread Brian Gupta
The purpose of this thread is threefold. First, I would like to start a focused discussion, as to why people would want an OSH (OpenSolaris Hosted) binary set, so that we can accommodate the widest set of needs with our efforts. (OSH as a hopefully non controversial working name). Second, this

[osol-discuss] Like minded individuals let's start working on an OpenSolaris.org distro right now.

2007-06-01 Thread Brian Gupta
name to call it). Naming is something that should be addressed later. Please, let's not belabor this point. I also propose that we need to reach out to the current distros, to see if they would like to be involved in contributing to this distro. (Any volunteers?) Thank You, Brian Gupta P.S. - Please

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-01 Thread Brian Gupta
Just incase people aren't paying attention.. Please read follow these threads. Like minded individuals let's start working on an OpenSolaris.org distro right now: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=31958tstart=0 Thread to discuss goals for OpenSolaris reference build.

[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Why we should have an OpenSolaris Hosted binary set. [OSH-thread]

2007-06-01 Thread Brian Gupta
On 6/2/07, Joseph Kowalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cut the distribution down, but probably not enough. Others please feel free to cut even more. Perhaps the first mail should have gone to announce and follow-ups to approach. I can't tell Brian's intent. Brian sent me private mail asking

Re: [osol-discuss] Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-01 Thread Brian Gupta
This would be great, except that blastwave is built for Solaris 8, not OpenSolaris. It probably not best to be dependent on what Solaris 8 does not have. What is needed is a Blastwave II (OpenSolaris Edition) which combines the current work done in Blastwave and the build scripts/patches SFE and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Brian Gupta
I was in the process of writing my own proposal for a reference build (I got sidetracked because of all the distracting Indiana discussion), I am including my incomplete draft proposal for consideration and comment: Proposal OpenSolaris Reference Distribution v0.1 1. Introduction and

[osol-discuss] Thread to discuss goals for OpenSolaris reference build. (Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Brian Gupta
I have started compiling a list of goals as a starting point for discussion. I am mainting this list on the following wiki page, but have included the current list to kickstart the conversation: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Reference_Build#Goals Goals * Support

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary

2007-05-31 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/31/07, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MC writes: So what problem are you trying to solve here ? I just don't get it. Try it this way: There is no community OpenSolaris distro that does what Sun management wants. Sun wants many more kids and university students using some

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Brian Gupta
If this is an OpenSolaris activity, it will obey the Group voting procedures documented in the constitution. There is no such thing as a sole arbiter at OpenSolaris, period. Check out the following text CNET article: http://tinyurl.com/ys7hb2 Relevant text: And although Foster said the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Brian Gupta
P.S. - The decision really isn't as stark as that just yet. All we're asking for is a project where we can *explore* #2.. :) You don't need a project to do this. We are sorta exploring right now. I suggest using approachability-discuss as your CG mailing list to start your exploration. Go

[osol-discuss] System Inventory data fields and OS commands to populate the fields.

2007-05-30 Thread Brian Gupta
We are working on an automated System Inventory and Data Center automation Framework. It is currently in planning stage. If anyone is interested in contributing please let me know. Could everyone please review this list, and let me know if there data fields that are important to youe environment

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: snv_64a says 768MB RAM to play ?

2007-05-30 Thread Brian Gupta
Now there's a way to make oneself marketable in the street corner programmer business. Actually Java is the primary language used to teach object oriented programming concepts today. (At the university level) No. Every sysadmin I've ever met, and every system engineer I've ever met for that

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread brian . gupta
Although I don't agree with the requirement of a Sun Employee to have final sayso on decisions, I would like to voice my support for this project. Let us begin discussions in an appropriate list to flesh out proposal details. brian ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Brian Gupta
1.4 Involvement There is a strong intention for this to be a community grass roots project, with open contribution. We hope for this project to be consensus driven, though ultimately the project leads will need to dictate direction if that proves unfeasible for delivering a

Re: [osol-discuss] Text Wrap in emails from mailx

2007-05-30 Thread Brian Gupta
I assume that you mean inappropriate line breaks are being placed in the text. If so can you send me a sample textfile, so I can see what you are experiencing. brian On 5/30/07, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe someone can offer some suggestions to resolve this issue that I'm sure I'm not

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware on OpenSolaris (was OpenSolaris or CentOs Sever?)

2007-05-25 Thread Brian Gupta
Sun's virtualization strategy: 1) Zones/Containers x86/Sparc 2) LDOMS - Sparc 3) DOMS - Sparc 4) Xen - X86 5) VMWare ESX - x86 -Brian On 5/25/07, Javier O. Augusto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When or if we get VMware then I would never install another OS besides Solaris on the bare metal

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RE: backspace key not working on Java

2007-05-25 Thread Brian Gupta
I have a nagging fear that some people inside Sun read this mailing list and interpret it as 'The voice of the customer'. It's not, it's the opinion of a self-selected group. +1 Totally correct. OpenSolaris.org, is definitely not the place to find your average Sun customer opinions. -Brian

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris or CentOs Sever?

2007-05-24 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/24/07, Thommy M. Malmström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking about getting a home server. I'm not sure what distro I should get. Should I go with Solaris or CentOs? Go for both on a dual installation and compare. Whats the advantage of Solaris? ZFS, DTrace, SMF, zones... Here

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris or CentOs Sever?

2007-05-24 Thread Brian Gupta
I think the advantages of OpenSolaris have already been well stated. The one area where I'm still using Linux in a home server is for VMWare. I keep a couple of Windows VM's running to support a few windows-specific tools. Barring the need to support a non-solaris app like VMWare, there's a lot

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware on OpenSolaris (was OpenSolaris or CentOs Sever?)

2007-05-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Take it off your todo list. You won't be able to make it work.. (Unless you have special glue to plug a linux kernel mod, into the Solaris kernel) brian On 5/24/07, Ignacio Marambio Catán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/24/07, Bill Rushmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javier O. Augusto wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware on OpenSolaris (was OpenSolaris or CentOs Sever?)

2007-05-24 Thread Brian Gupta
I believe the kernel modules have been open sourced, so they can be ported if you are enough of a solaris/linux kernel module guru. But at least it wont require much recurring work thanks to Solaris stability I was under the (quite possibly mistaken) impression that VMWare had only open

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Whats wrong with GNU tar

2007-05-24 Thread Brian Gupta
Seriously. I can't think of any reason why I would use gnu tar instead of star if I had a choice. I know you all are having fun bashing gtar, but gtar has *NEVER* let me down in over ten years. I started using it when I discovered Solaris tar didn't support sparse files. (Not that I need sparse

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware on OpenSolaris (was OpenSolaris or CentOs Sever?)

2007-05-24 Thread Brian Gupta
If you really want Solaris hosted VMWare let them know: : http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=523848#523848 On 5/24/07, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/24/07, Brian Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the kernel modules have been open sourced, so they can

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal for Community - Port OpenSolaris to System z

2007-05-23 Thread Brian Gupta
Speaking of AIX, have you been keeping up with the announcements regarding virtualization LiveMotion? (Very similar to VMWare VMotion, but for AIX). brian On 5/23/07, Dave Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neale == Neale Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neale It will be a project as well

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Unix wizard pissing contest...

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Gupta
3.14159265(7?6?)... Do I win the contest? On 5/22/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, gtar was in /usr/sfw/bin since at least Solaris 10; with the /usr/gnu thing, I suppose it would end up in there as tar (vomit) with a link in /usr/bin as gtar. So you can

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for Community - Port OpenSolaris to System z

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Gupta
Keep an eye on these: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/21/ibm_power6_p570/ Wow, wouldn't it be great if Sparc/Opteron had access to IBM silicon processeses. (4.7 GHz) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for Community - Port OpenSolaris to System z

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Gupta
Yes... Not sure how comprehensive it is though. So as not to veer the conversation off topic, +1 on the port!! On 5/22/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Brian Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep an eye on these: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/21

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Unix wizard pissing contest...

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Gupta
Instead of spending so much TALK on why this or that status quo is better than the other, how about instead spending the EFFORT to improve things? +7 brian P.S. - There is a ton of low hanging fruit for us non-Sun people to pick. ___

[osol-discuss] Hey can we setup an offtopic-discuss list?

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Gupta
Just curious? It's all so serious around here. :) Thanks, Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.6 Released

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/22/07, Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After quite a gap BeleniX 0.6 is now available. Following is a summary of the main changes. See http://www.belenix.org/ for more details, known issues/TODOs. Congratulations!! I'll check it out. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
Actually, I see them as two very different groups. The difference is primarily the entry point. Agreed. (Don't ignore the fact that goals and workloads are currently very different.) The current market for Solaris 10 (and the market RHEL etc. also target) is the traditional enterprise, i.e.,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: And that would break... what, exactly? (Re: Sun to make Solaris more

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/21/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've worked in places where system administrators hacked source code which was available (BSD Unix, source licenses). Invariably, it is a *bad* idea; but that point is never driven home until one of the administrators does leave or is hit

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
I've never liked popularity contests since long term popularity fades. Shawn, I think you've hit the nail on the head. Anyone remember that old old instruction set that the Intel 8086 popularized? See what happens to popular technology? It fades from use, especially if it is underpowered and

Re: [osol-discuss] Lets take a moment to reflect on Solaris's strengths.

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
I would add to the list the fact that the source code is well documented, which I don't really find the case in the linux kernel. Done. In the future, feel free to edit the wiki yourself. On 5/18/07, Christopher Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Brian Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
I've never liked popularity contests since long term popularity fades. Shawn, I think you've hit the nail on the head. Anyone remember that old old instruction set that the Intel 8086 popularized? See what happens to popular technology? It fades from use, especially if it is underpowered

[osol-discuss] One Laptop per Child on 60 Minutes, Sunday May 20

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
One Laptop per Child on 60 Minutes, Sunday May 20 http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/18/one-laptop-per-child-on-60-minutes-sunday-may-20/ If you are following this project, you will find that they have standardized on a Linux distribution. Why not Solaris? I leave this to be answered by the

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for Community - Port OpenSolaris to System z

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Gupta
Next someone needs to port OS/z to Sun hardware. (That's what I really want to see, we'd sure as heck save a lot of money.). -Brian On 5/22/07, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Neale, Neale Ferguson wrote: The following is a description of a proposal to form a Community that will be

Re: [osol-discuss] logwatch for Solaris 10?

2007-05-20 Thread Brian Gupta
1) Logwatch doesn't come with Solaris. (Although if you look in the root crontab, there is an included script that can roll syslogs. It's pretty straighforward, and should be easy to edit. 2) Logwatch proper will run on Solaris. On 5/20/07, Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to All

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/19/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Initially Linux was not suitable for Enterprise deployments, but as time goes on Linux is acceptable, for more and more tasks. (Many times being the best choice). One picks Linux as the best choice only if one doesn't know what one is doing.

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging and package format modernization goals. (Top Priority)

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
I am moving this discussion to install-discuss. (Please remove opensolaris-discuss from any replies). On 5/17/07, Bart Smaalders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Gupta wrote: Going back to my initial motivation to get involved with OpenSolaris, and trying to find a common thread from

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: {Solaris} Chargeback Community

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
Wouldn't this partially fall into system administration community? -Brian On 5/18/07, Isaac Rozenfeld - NEW YORK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Isaac R. wrote: This is a draft proposal to create a new OpenSolaris community focusing on the subject of Chargeback. It would

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
(E.g., nVidia drivers) Well, as far as I am aware, Nvidia doesn't allow redistribution of their drivers, due to GPL issues. -Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
opensolaris community offer it.So,for example,Indiana should be offer as first choice GNU CC and not SunPro compiler because it is a only binary product.Then,but only after that, we My understanding is the Forte was going to be OpenSourced? Is this not the case?

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
Why don't we first focus on those applications that don't exist in Solaris currently? Also, in parallel, we should work on an updated packaging format. These two things will do much to lay the foundations for addressing the out of box completeness gap. -Brian On 5/18/07, Geoff Clare [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Lets take a moment to reflect on Solaris's strengths.

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
On 5/14/07, Pradhap Devarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, Nice list !! , may be you can start putting it in wiki http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page . So that people can start contributing to it. Done. http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/SolarisStrengths brian

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiler mailing list?

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
The Sun Studio compiler is still a central piece for Opensolaris development. Since Sun is unlikely to replace the web forum interface in the near future I support the request to create a mailing list on opensolaris.org Might this fall under tools-discuss?

[osol-discuss] Ticketing tak/project tracking system.

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Gupta
I was wondering if there is a fit for a ticketing system to track who is working on what? (It would help me to have a list of task I have commited to. If there is interest, I can set something up, either in my domain. or if Sun is willing, I would be willing to set it up, at opensolaris.org.

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