RE: [osol-discuss] Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86

2006-05-27 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
Propose the OPDF, or Open Portable Document Format and try to get the industry to move away from the proprietary and not at all portable document format. What about using linux emul (whatever else it's being called these days) for running the Acrobat binary unmodified? I know the other BSD's

[osol-discuss] Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-03-18 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
Hi folks, I just bought a HP Pavilion dv8113cl Turion 64 ML-37, 2GHz 1GB, 80GB, 80GB, 17-in. WXGA+ laptop from Costco. Here are it's specs: http://tinyurl.com/s2yaf I am trying to boot the latest version of the Solaris Express (b33) on it and I can't seem to get past the installer booting

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Cheap SPARC development machine ?

2006-02-21 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
Bill Rushmore wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Roland Mainz wrote: Actually there is the 3rd type of customer: People who write software - they usually fall in the space between the two types. Currently Sun simply lacks a decent development machine which is affordable by students (Sun Blade 100 was

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris and SSH

2006-01-08 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
* on the Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:13:15AM -0800, Mike Bo was tippering: Darren wrote: Why not ? Why can't OpenSolaris just be as quick as OpenBSD ? When there is a problem with OpenSSH, does the Sun team investigate whether it affects their forked code base? If so, don't they have to port

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: KDE, GNOME, etc.

2005-12-27 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
Girts Zeltins wrote: I think that in future best way is to integrate KDE as default graphical desktop in Solaris. GNOME can be as an alternative desktop. With all due respect, I do not agree with you. The default WM is a personal preference and for me, I prefer CDE and Gnome. KDE is more

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there TUN driver for OpenVPN?

2005-12-25 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
James Lick wrote: On 12/26/05, John Brewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was under Solaris 904 , can this be supported as well under Solaris 10? tun and openvpn work great for me on Solaris 10 x86 and sparc. no tap though...right? ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris and SSH

2005-12-22 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
Kenny wrote: Can someone please tell me which version included SSH? I thought I read that Solaris 9 and 10 include SSH but not 8. 'Course it can be added to 8 but I want to have the functionality with the initial install. Solaris 9 and 10 ship with a custom version of SSH (customized from

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Dell and HP notebook options?

2005-10-23 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
Philip Machanick wrote: From what I've seen so far, a current-model Dell should be OK except wireless may be a while off ready. I have a budget I have to spend this year (in practice this means by end October) but my serious use will start next year so provided wireless is being worked on