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

2007-02-01 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 01 Feb 2007 at 03:52PM, Erast Benson wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:40 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: From the outside, this is how folks view what Sun is doing. They see some of the things that Sun does and scratch their head. It's not as though Sun is doing the wrong thing, they

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] New Release of B.O.O!

2006-11-29 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 29 Nov 2006 at 10:35PM, Cyril Plisko wrote: On 11/29/06, Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Cyril Plisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-29 11:59]: On 11/29/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * RSS feed function. that's cool Yeah, but where is it ? I cannot

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] New Release of B.O.O!

2006-11-29 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 29 Nov 2006 at 04:06PM, Richard Lowe wrote: Dan Price wrote: On Wed 29 Nov 2006 at 10:35PM, Cyril Plisko wrote: On 11/29/06, Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Cyril Plisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-29 11:59]: On 11/29/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * RSS feed

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-18 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 13 Sep 2006 at 12:36PM, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Eric Boutilier wrote: Thanks, Dan. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Correction, I jumped the gun. As this is a community (not project) proposal, we need a Governing Board member(s) to

[osol-discuss] Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Dan Price
I would like to propose a new community called Gardeners based on some recent discussions on opensolaris-code. [1,2] The mission of the community is simple: raise the overall code quality of the system. The intention of the community is to provide a nexus for a group of people who are already

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 12 Sep 2006 at 02:23AM, Ignacio Marambio Cat?n wrote: On 9/12/06, Stephen Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not thrilled with the name Gardeners as it almost seems backwards from what the charter is. However, +1 to the overall idea. would it be possible to have something like kernel

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libMicro

2006-08-25 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 25 Aug 2006 at 07:22PM, Phil Harman wrote: It is a year since libMicro was announced to the world via the OpenSolaris website. I'm proposing this project because the libMicro source tree needs to be made available under a hosted SCM for collaborative development. For more info

Re: [osol-discuss] The system scheduler parameter setting issue under non-global zone

2006-08-21 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 22 Aug 2006 at 03:59AM, Oxy Hazard wrote: If I can't set scheduler parameters under non-global zone, that limit force me to modify the code. Is there any small skill to allow non-global zone setting the schedule parameters? Under my system infrastructure, all applications under one

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

2006-07-19 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 19 Jul 2006 at 04:22PM, Sara Dornsife wrote: If *Moazam* will allow us to, we can create a poll on Unixville so that people can vote for their favorite design. The design with the most votes will go live on or about Aug 11th-ish and will stay up there for 6 months to a year. I

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

2006-07-19 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 19 Jul 2006 at 06:02PM, Sara Dornsife wrote: Do you have another suggestion for how to choose? How about we ask the team that did the last two graphics (roughly: Chandan, me, Derek and maybe a person or two I missed) to select the next one from the set of entries. -dp -- Daniel

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

2006-07-19 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 19 Jul 2006 at 04:04PM, Dan Price wrote: On Wed 19 Jul 2006 at 06:02PM, Sara Dornsife wrote: Do you have another suggestion for how to choose? How about we ask the team that did the last two graphics (roughly: Chandan, me, Derek and maybe a person or two I missed) to select the next

[osol-discuss] Last Reminder: Blog IRC Party today

2006-06-14 Thread Dan Price
The blog party (along with a home page update) will commence at about 9am PDT (1600 UTC) today. Please blog in celebration of one year of Opensolaris! For details, go here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/blogparty_06/ The IRC Chat Party (#opensolaris on freenode) is also

Re: [osol-discuss] feedback requested: IRC applet on home page

2006-06-13 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 13 Jun 2006 at 09:28AM, Bruce Shaw wrote: Many of us are behind firewalls that block IRC packets due to justifiable security concerns. Any chance of a version that would get around this by doing the IRC-ing for us but give us an HTTP-based display? Note that if you are behind a

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 12 Jun 2006 at 10:58PM, Karyn Ritter wrote: I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together for drinks on the anniversary (Wed., 6/14). I was thinking perhaps the Oasis Beer Garden in Menlo Park ( http://www.yelp.com/biz/SaqyQPrK5Byv_wxfeHGYdg ). Starting at 6pm for a couple

Re: [osol-discuss] You are Invited! Birthday Blog Party on June 14th!

2006-06-07 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 06 Jun 2006 at 04:50PM, Dan Price wrote: Dear friends, You are invited to a blog party on Wednesday, June 14th to celebrate the birthday of OpenSolaris! I would like to initiate a grass-roots effort to blog about the first birthday of the OpenSolaris project, and I need your help

Re: [osol-discuss] You are Invited! Birthday Blog Party on June 14th!

2006-06-07 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 07 Jun 2006 at 03:11PM, David J. Orman wrote: Add something to your proposal that doesn't involve blogging. To explain, some people (such as myself) generally thing blogs are a waste of space on the internet. Of course, that is completely my opinion, and quite obviously a lot of

[osol-discuss] You are Invited! Birthday Blog Party on June 14th!

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Price
Dear friends, You are invited to a blog party on Wednesday, June 14th to celebrate the birthday of OpenSolaris! I would like to initiate a grass-roots effort to blog about the first birthday of the OpenSolaris project, and I need your help to make it a success. As you may know, the first

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Download Archives

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 30 May 2006 at 03:36AM, Roland Mainz wrote: Derek Cicero wrote: We need to do little housecleaning on the download server, so going forward our plan is to provide the following archival downloads: + For numbered builds we will keep the last 6 months. Is it possible to extend

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-19 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 18 Apr 2006 at 04:12PM, Eric Lowe wrote: Dan Price wrote: On Tue 18 Apr 2006 at 08:32AM, Eric Lowe wrote: As for the technical discussion list, as I've said before, I don't care about the means as long as we accomplish the ends. For all I care we can call it [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-18 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 18 Apr 2006 at 08:32AM, Eric Lowe wrote: As for the technical discussion list, as I've said before, I don't care about the means as long as we accomplish the ends. For all I care we can call it [EMAIL PROTECTED], and as long as everybody knows to go there for technical questions,

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Summer of Code: Call for OpenSolaris Participation

2006-04-17 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 17 Apr 2006 at 02:24PM, Jim Grisanzio wrote: Michael Pogue wrote: I have a suggestion: in another current thread, Build times for Open Solaris, there's discussion about build parallelism on a Niagara (T1000), and how we don't get much benefit in build time beyond 4 CPUs. I think

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-17 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 11 Apr 2006 at 03:02PM, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote: Peter Buckingham wrote: There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely interested in discoverying/learning more

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-17 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 17 Apr 2006 at 04:55PM, Bart Smaalders wrote: Martin Schaffstall wrote: Obvious choice would be SKML, the Solaris Kernel Mailing List. That works, and seems somehow familiar. We've always (well, for the 17+ years I've been here) had a kernel mailing list. We could put your idea

Re: -xstrconst patch / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with -xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all

2006-03-20 Thread Dan Price
will be possible by people from outsude Sun. Dan Price setup a code review site to facilitate external code reviews. I know of at least a few people internally who have published external code reviews via this mechanism... http://cr.grommit.com/ And you're all invited! Just follow

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-03-17 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 08 Mar 2006 at 11:42AM, Dan Price wrote: On Wed 08 Mar 2006 at 10:49AM, Karyn Ritter wrote: I'll figure out where to put the definitions. This the real status that is in Bugster, so we need to document it anyway So, I wonder if we could use Perl's WWW::Mechanize [1] or something

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: solaris-internals

2006-03-16 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 16 Mar 2006 at 02:19PM, Stephen Hahn wrote: * Nils Nieuwejaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-16 12:37]: On Thu 03/16/06 at 11:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. What is the relationship between this community and the existing ON (Nevada) community? Why is that alias, or a

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-03-08 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 08 Mar 2006 at 10:49AM, Karyn Ritter wrote: I'll figure out where to put the definitions. This the real status that is in Bugster, so we need to document it anyway So, I wonder if we could use Perl's WWW::Mechanize [1] or something equivalent to automate the updating of pages.

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] 1 new request-sponsor putback: 39 total

2006-03-02 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 02 Mar 2006 at 11:33AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Artem Kachitchkine wrote: It would be cool if the diffs would be part of the announcements. The diffs are always attached to the bug ID in the bug database. They don't appear on the bugs.opensolarig.org though. I don't see why they

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] OpenGrok, the OpenSolaris.org source browsing tool, is now available for download

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 15 Nov 2005 at 08:45PM, Derek Cicero wrote: OpenGrok, the open source source browsing tool developed by Chandan B.N and used on OpenSolaris.org is now available for download. OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine. It helps you search,

Re: [osol-discuss] fsck seems to have a few new features in build 26

2005-11-15 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 15 Nov 2005 at 03:50PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: I just saw this : fsck -F ufs -Y /dev/rdsk/c0t0** /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 ** Currently Mounted on / ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3a - Check Connectivity ** Phase 3b - Verify Shadows/ACLs ** Phase 4

Re: [osol-discuss] fsck seems to have a few new features in build 26

2005-11-15 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 15 Nov 2005 at 04:11PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 11/15/05, Dan Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 15 Nov 2005 at 03:50PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: I just saw this : fsck -F ufs -Y /dev/rdsk/c0t0** /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 snippage I did rerun fsck again and I get the same message

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-07 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 07 Nov 2005 at 11:57AM, Adam Leventhal wrote: Dan, I think the type of discussion and interest around BrandX is likely to be orthogonal to that of Zones. Without completely spoiling the surprise, BrandX hopes to publish interfaces where Zones could take on personalities for RedHat,

Re: [osol-discuss] application porting forum?

2005-11-06 Thread Dan Price
On Thu 03 Nov 2005 at 07:39AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Since I'm going to ask a question about some problems porting a particular app to [Open]Solaris (in another thread), it occurred to me: why not have a forum for that topic in general? The more apps run on [Open]Solaris, the better it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-06 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 04 Nov 2005 at 02:15PM, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote: As Tim mentioned, we are actively working on a framework that will allow for the creation of zones that run non-Solaris user space environments. We are using the term BrandX to refer to the framework, and the environments that plug into

Re: [osol-discuss] source of boottime for uptime other than utmpx/wtmpx

2005-10-19 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 19 Oct 2005 at 11:34AM, mnikhil m wrote: Oh..cool Thanks Dan but can you please tell what does kstat depend upon for this information ? kstat is a source of data provided directly by the kernel; it is authoritative. Tools such as mpstat(1m), vmstat(1m), iostat(1m), etc. are built atop

[osol-discuss] Announcement: Codereview Hosting now Available

2005-10-19 Thread Dan Price
Hi Everyone, Codereview is a pillar of quality software development; the OpenSolaris project does a good job of intensively reviewing changes today, but our codereview process would would be even better if more codereviews involved the wider community. I am pleased to announce that Stephen Lau

[osol-discuss] Solaris Express 10/2005 Released

2005-10-18 Thread Dan Price
Hi folks. Today marks the release of Solaris Express 10/05 (based on Nevada Build 23). As usual, you can fetch it via http://www.sun.com/solaris-express. Below is my newsletter about the release. Thanks to Cindy Swearingen, Stephen Lau and others who helped to review it. And of course to the

[osol-discuss] Community Proposal: ZFS

2005-10-18 Thread Dan Price
Hi all, I'd like to propose the creation of a community for technologies related to ZFS (Zettabyte File System). Don't get too excited-- ZFS hasn't finished the spin cycle in the machine just yet; and no, I can't say when that will happen. But it would be good to have a community, and

Re: [osol-discuss] source of boottime for uptime other than utmpx/wtmpx

2005-10-18 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 19 Oct 2005 at 10:17AM, mnikhil m wrote: Hi Can someone please tell me what could be the source of information to know the machine's bootime for uptime command other than to know it from utmpx/wtmpx files. something from init ?? but how There is a kstat. $ kstat -p

Re: [osol-discuss] source of boottime for uptime other than utmpx/wtmpx

2005-10-18 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 18 Oct 2005 at 10:25PM, Dan Price wrote: On Wed 19 Oct 2005 at 10:17AM, mnikhil m wrote: Hi Can someone please tell me what could be the source of information to know the machine's bootime for uptime command other than to know it from utmpx/wtmpx files. something from init

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express 9/2005 Released

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Price
On Wed 21 Sep 2005 at 08:09AM, Al Hopper wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Derek E. Lewis wrote: I seem to be having problems downloading CDs 2 and 3 for x86; however the, 1st, 4th, and Languages CD are all available. I would love to be able to do a Live Upgrade tonight. I see the same

[osol-discuss] Solaris Express 9/2005 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Dan Price
Hi folks. Today marks the release of Solaris Express 9/2005. As usual, you can fetch it via http://www.sun.com/solaris-express. Below is my newsletter about the release. Thanks to Darren, Mark Nelson, and others who helped to review it. And of course to the community that built it. You can

[osol-discuss] Solaris Express 9/2005 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Dan Price
[resending, as this didn't seem to go through the first time] Hi folks. Today marks the release of Solaris Express 9/2005. As usual, you can fetch it via http://www.sun.com/solaris-express. Below is my newsletter about the release. Thanks to Darren, Mark Nelson, and others who helped to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Unionfs for Zones

2005-09-12 Thread Dan Price
On Sun 11 Sep 2005 at 01:32PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: I do believe that lofs does solve a lot of issues around wasted diskspace where zones are concerned. However, I do see a use for a union style FS. While a lofs mount of a database out to seperate zones is usefull for reads, it does not solve

Re: [osol-discuss] Unionfs for Zones

2005-09-11 Thread Dan Price
On Sat 10 Sep 2005 at 05:02AM, Daniel Johnsen wrote: Hi there, what about a port of Unionfs to Solaris ? I read this wouldn't be too hard for someone who knows about filesystems in Solaris. Daniel, If we could, let's move this over to zones-discuss (and thanks for the good followups). I've

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Evangelizing OpenSolaris (WAS: Bug fix process overly burdonsome)

2005-08-30 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 30 Aug 2005 at 02:42PM, stephen o'grady wrote: screencasts might be one angle to consider, and my personal pet peeve - I did some work on screencasts, although not terribly recently: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dp?entry=a_screencasting_toolchain

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express 8/2005 Released

2005-08-23 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 23 Aug 2005 at 05:53AM, ken mays wrote: I followed yor link (and off of the main Sun homepage) and pulled down SX 08/05 NVb20 - not NVb19. Was there a last minute change, and whatis the difference between NVb19 and NVb20 for Solaris Express? I think it's possible that either the D/L

[osol-discuss] LinuxWorld BoF Booth this week

2005-08-08 Thread Dan Price
Hi Everyone, Sun has a booth at LinuxWorld SF this week, and several of us will be there representing OpenSolaris. I plan to be there Monday afternoon and most of Tuesday with my laptop running the latest bits. I noted from his blog that Ben Rockwood will also be in attendance representing

Re: [osol-discuss] developing free software for OpenSolaris

2005-07-12 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 12 Jul 2005 at 03:10PM, Diana Cionoiu wrote: Hello, My name is Diana and i'm a developer for a free software project called Yate ( http://yate.null.ro ). Yate works on GNU/Linux and Windows. The primary development platform is GNU/Linux. Some of our users will like to use Yate on