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

2010-08-13 Thread Erast
Nexenta Systems initiated, Illumos Project continues its effort... http://www.illumos.org A community maintained derivative of the OpenSolaris ON source, including open source replacements for closed bits, and additional changes. All companies who were working with OpenSolaris/Solaris are

[osol-discuss] Co-creator of ZFS, Bill Moore joins Nexenta advisory board

2010-04-20 Thread Erast
Good news for Nexenta and OpenSolaris community in general: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/blog/2010/04/06/bill-moore-joins-nexenta-advisory-board/ Nexenta invites talents and hiring OpenSolaris Kernel/API engineers. If you are in SF bay area and you think you are qualified, send your resume by

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-02-18 Thread Erast
Meanwhile, Nexenta offers various support options for OpenSolaris-based NexentaStor: http://www.nexenta.com/support This is of course for storage appliances only. Edward Martinez wrote: Indeed, the web page with OpenSolaris support subscription offers dissapeared and is replaced now with

Re: [osol-discuss] Building ON on opensolaris

2009-12-27 Thread Erast
Just for the sake of completeness, here is how NexentaCore's ON bits can be re-build using pure Nexenta environment and Debian APT: http://www.nexenta.org/projects/6/wiki/BuildingOpensolaris Mike Gerdts wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Vikram Hegde vikram.he...@sun.com wrote: Hi,

Re: [osol-discuss] Migration from windows to Linux

2009-12-05 Thread Erast
absolutely free and open: http://www.nexenta.org Nibal wrote: Is Nexenta free? No need to get license ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Migration from windows to Linux

2009-12-04 Thread Erast
Why not use Nexenta as a Linux client - it is Debian, yet with OpenSolaris features! Nibal wrote: Hi All, I need your advice : I’m planning to migrate from windows clients OS to any Linux version, in our organization : Current Environment : Solaris 10 server OS which have Oracle Ebs 10

Re: [osol-discuss] I am new and god do i need som help

2009-09-13 Thread Erast
Take a look on http://www.nexenta.org project. Might be easier for you. paul richie wrote: my biggest problem right now is that i can not install anything because i can't use sudo and i cant figer out how to add myself to the sudoers folder or list everything i reed on-line just said to use the

[osol-discuss] ON/SXCE bi-weekly schedule not valid anymore?

2009-08-11 Thread Erast
Guys, could someone confirm that this schedule is STILL valid? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/schedule/ I'm just wondering that because of SXCE drop - what will happen with bi-weekly schedule and releases? How community will know about stabilization builds, etc?

Re: [osol-discuss] Which way to go [push/pull] with bkups of Windows OS's to zfs

2009-07-11 Thread Erast
Harry, for enterprises or small businesses I would recommend some supported solutions such as Nexenta Delorean: http://www.nexenta.com/delorean robocopy and rsync transports, backup browser, snapshots, ACLs, VCS, etc, etc.. Harry Putnam wrote: Any of you out there that use your opensol

[osol-discuss] next stabilization release date

2009-07-10 Thread Erast
Hi Guys, trying to analyze this link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/schedule/ I see the b111 was the last one marked as stabilization build. Do we have a plan set for the next OpenSolaris stabilization build yet? If so, is it possible to keep this page updated? Thank you!

[osol-discuss] ONStor/Nexenta OEM - meet Pantera LS 2100

2009-05-27 Thread Erast
Hi All, maybe not a big news but still a news for our great OpenSolaris community and especially those open source developers who developing this great Debian derivative - NexentaOS. Read more on Evan Powell's blog: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_mojoItemid=153p=23

[osol-discuss] Nexenta CEO commenting on IBM/Sun merger..

2009-04-04 Thread Erast
Just wanted to share this link as well: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_mojoItemid=153p=15 Unrealistic worst case scenario: OpenSolaris likely will continue its development on its own. Independent companies will start offering OpenSolaris support as Nexenta Systems does today

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta CEO commenting on IBM/Sun merger..

2009-04-04 Thread Erast
and we know examples when some particular bugs in open source been addressed years later after they reported. It is all matter of resources and priorities of course. Oehnei wrote: Nexenta can't even put up an image of their distribution that functions, even 4 months after 3 people post about

Re: [osol-discuss] [storage-discuss] NDMPCOPY Test Tool and NDMP Protocol Test Suite Released

2009-02-09 Thread Erast Benson
Great! uploaded to Nexenta APT now, for NCP2 users just do: # apt-get install ndmpcopy On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 17:46 -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote: Vilas Deshpande, I love you!!! Thank you! I've been needing this badly! benr. ___ storage-discuss

[osol-discuss] Nexenta's CEO blogging about 2009, OpenStorage, GPL, CDDL, etc

2009-02-03 Thread Erast Benson
Hi folks, you might be interested in what Evan Powell (Nexenta Systems CEO) blogging about plans on 2009, OpenSolaris and Open Storage movement: http://www.nexenta.com/blog and so called community Statement of Policies: http://www.nexenta.com/community Enjoy!

Re: [osol-discuss] recent broadcom (bge) drivers failing to plumb bge0, but do plumb bge1

2009-01-21 Thread Erast Benson
(rev 10) 02:05.1 0200: 14e4:1648 (rev 10) Putting the B85 driver in /kerner/drv/bge and rebooting instantly returns bge0 back into action. Erast from Nexenta gave me different in versions of the bge driver between B85 to B100+, and so far we haven't isolated where it broke

Re: [osol-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-10 Thread Erast Benson
Very interesting development! I went ahead and setup a domain + site: http://www.kernelunix.org If there is an interest - we could extend its content over time. I like the idea of modular approach to build ON. I do believe that kernel, libc, networking all could be delivered as separate

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-19 Thread Erast Benson
-END PGP SIGNATURE- On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, such port makes sense and solves some of the issues (mostly GNU libc portability) but unfortunately creates new issues, which I'm sure, could

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-19 Thread Erast Benson
to get things like the wifi tools for FreeBSD working. I'm not saying that adapting glibc is a bad thing, but we need to figure out if we really want to go down this path. Michael On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. And in addition to autotools

Re: [osol-discuss] GNU libc on OpenSolaris

2008-09-18 Thread Erast Benson
Hi David, Great work! Yes, such port makes sense and solves some of the issues (mostly GNU libc portability) but unfortunately creates new issues, which I'm sure, could be worked out and soon we should have more or less working first ISO available with support for this new exciting architecture!

[osol-discuss] Nexenta : Ubuntu Server with ZFS goodness

2008-09-11 Thread Erast Benson
Anil just published nice article: http://www.osnews.com/story/20280/Nexenta_Ubuntu_Server_with_ZFS_goodness The idea is to engage Debian/Ubuntu community and position/create Nexenta Server 1.0 (Hardy Heron) which will match Ubuntu Server with its functionality + ZFS/Zones/SMF/COMSTAR goodness on

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Alpha2 Hackaton minutes

2008-09-05 Thread Erast Benson
Hi All, Hackaton is still in progress! Here goes short history of events so far: * NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha2 first 'testing' ISO available - ON b97/b98 based. People reported successful installations, likely we will have official Alpha2 next week, as usual, upgradable with power of Debian tools -

Re: [osol-discuss] Update on the NexentaCore project

2008-08-12 Thread Erast Benson
I like your blog entry on using graphviz to view Nexenta package dependencies graphically. Nice! On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: Hi All, We've setup a blogging infrastructure at http://blogs.nexenta.org. If you have a Nexenta blog, or want one let us know, and we'll

[osol-discuss] NexentaStor API Windows SDK published

2008-08-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hey folks, just saw another cool news this morning - Nexenta Systems released documentation for remote API and Windows SDK with demos for accessing NexentaStor. News itself: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=154Itemid=56 ZFS and the rest of appliance

[osol-discuss] Pogo Linux ships NexentaStor pre-installed boxes

2008-08-02 Thread Erast Benson
Hi folks, wanted to share some exciting news with you. Pogo Linux shipping NexentaStor pre-installed boxes, like this one 16TB - 24TB: http://www.pogolinux.com/quotes/editsys?sys_id=3989 And here is announce: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=129Itemid=56

[osol-discuss] NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha1 Hardy Released

2008-06-16 Thread Erast Benson
This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha1 - Debian Native OpenSolaris environment and platform. (unstable Hardy branch) NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha1 Release Highlights: -- * 3392 packages ported over just two weeks of Hardy Hackathon

[osol-discuss] NexentaCore 1.0.1 Released

2008-06-09 Thread Erast Benson
This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 1.0.1 - Debian Native OpenSolaris environment and platform. (stable Elatte branch) NexentaCore 1.0.1 Release Highlights: - * OpenSolaris b85+ based (x86 32-bit and 64-bit, non-debug), with critical

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Hackathon in Progress - Status

2008-06-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hi, A lot of fun these days and a lot of achievements! June's Hackathon-in-progress status: * Debian tools such as: devscripts, dpkg, apt, debarchiver, etc all ported * compiled bunch of NCP 2.0 packages (gcc prerequisites) * newisys-nas.stanford.edu

[osol-discuss] Announcing Nexenta Hackathon event this Saturday (05/31/08)

2008-05-30 Thread Erast Benson
Dear OpenSolaris Developers and Users! Starting this Saturday, we are inviting all Debian/OpenSolaris developers and users to participate in our first Hackathon event. Hackathon starts on this Saturday 05/31/2008 and continues during first week of June. Development coordinated at #nexenta on

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 available

2008-02-12 Thread Erast Benson
Thanks. FYI, www.nexenta.org website is totally open for editors (except front page) - login and change the way you like it - its Wiki after all. On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:05 -0800, Tim Cook wrote: Just a request/hint/whatever. Finding the actual download link on that site is the most

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 available

2008-02-12 Thread Erast Benson
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-detailsid=8f4a28c436d2dc7f866560fc6ac3a6363c73e310 On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:56 -0800, Lucian wrote: Are There a metalink and bittorrent for download the iso images? This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Builder 1.0 available

2008-02-11 Thread Erast Benson
Hi, This is to announce Nexenta Builder 1.0! Recently released NexentaCore 1.0 is especially well suited to serve as a platform for application distributions due to Nexenta Builder 1.0, an open source packaging solution included as part of NexentaCore that enables the simple creation of

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC5 available

2008-02-09 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC5 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * Critical bootstrapping issue fixed * Minor apt-clone fixes * Minor packaging fixes Developers and Users - join official Nexenta IRC #nexenta now! Enjoy! The Nexenta Team.

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:08 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 12:49 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:44 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: Thus, I stand by the claim that Nexenta, at the very least, is a fork. You deeply mistaken here. As far

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:26 -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: ...and I never said that wasn't a good thing. I'm just pointing out that Nexenta is different. in a good, practical and positive way... :-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC4 available

2008-02-03 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC4 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * OpenSolaris build 82 (non-debug) + critical fixes from b83 [1]: * Storage consolidation updated with build 82 * More Network drivers (sfe, igb) * NFS and CIFS server fixes * Xen Dom0

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaCP and X

2008-01-28 Thread Erast Benson
start your own APT repository and share it with others. If you are just a user - simply wait till somebody else will jump in and produce it for you. On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 04:50 -0800, Martti Hamunen wrote: Erast how can I go on... 1. X-works, but there are messages:...no /root/.xsession

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaCP and X

2008-01-27 Thread Erast Benson
for RC2, switch to unstable, than do: apt-get install x-window-system-core On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 12:16 -0800, Martti Hamunen wrote: I try install NexentaCP. Where is X or how can I get it? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC3 available

2008-01-27 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC3 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * OpenSolaris build 80+ (non-debug) + critical fixes from b81-b83 [1]: - critical fixes for native CIFS server - critical fixes for ZFS - critical bug fixes for SATA and networking

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaCP and X

2008-01-27 Thread Erast Benson
NCP ships Xorg with foundation libraries only - no GUI applications, no GNOME, no KDE, no XFCE, no GUI integration... Complete Desktop-oriented distributions will appear later as a network of NCP derivatives. On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:18 +0800, Robin du wrote: On 1/28/08, Erast Benson [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.6 ready

2008-01-25 Thread Erast Benson
Great job Joerg! wrt. Ubuntu/Nexenta NCP roadmap is here: http://www.nexenta.org/os/DevelopmentRoadmap NCP 1.5 will be Hardy-based. Hardy is upcoming next LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu repository. In April this year. On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:56 -0800, ken mays wrote: Have you

[osol-discuss] Integrated transactional upgrades with ZFS

2008-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
Hi guys, new article available explaining details on how enterprise-like upgrades integrated with Nexenta Core Platform starting from RC2 using ZFS capabilities and Debian APT: http://www.nexenta.org/os/TransactionalZFSUpgrades What is NexentaCP? NexentaCP is a minimal (core) foundation that

[osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
Glad to announce that popular Solaris third-party repository Blastwave 'CSW' now integrated with Nexenta APT. To enable it on RC2, edit /etc/apt/sources.list like this: - deb http://apt.nexenta.org elatte-unstable main contrib non-free + deb http://apt.nexenta.org elatte-unstable main contrib

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
non-free csw And use as you would usually do on normal Debian server: $ sudo apt-get install cswgdb Many credits to Nexenta Blastwave Communities for this! You know, Erast, I was loking at Nexenta yesterday and I wonder if you could put a download link thing right on the home page

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
This is great, thanks Dennis! In our turn, we will continue CSW polishing in Nexenta and maybe one day will make it default. It still needs fixing on our part, all bugs should be reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nexenta and discussed on #nexenta IRC channel if time permits. On Tue,

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:33 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: good point. I marked download links with blinking icon.. though, web site is wiki based and features open edit policy for everyone, so if someone on the list find something on web site which needs fixing, don't hesitate - fix it!

Re: [osol-discuss] Blastwave repository integrated with Nexenta!

2008-01-15 Thread Erast Benson
what about it? (Italian accent) On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 14:21 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: Glad to announce that popular Solaris third-party repository Blastwave 'CSW' now integrated with Nexenta APT. To enable it on RC2, edit /etc/apt/sources.list like this: - deb http://apt.nexenta.org

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC2 is available

2008-01-14 Thread Erast Benson
Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC2 is available at: http://www.nexenta.org Release highlights: * OpenSolaris build 80+ (non-debug) * Project integration: NWS, AVS, COMSTAR, in-kernel CIFS client * apt-clone: ZFS-integrated safe upgrade via remote APT repository. Support for

Re: [osol-discuss] make softwares up to date

2008-01-12 Thread Erast Benson
depends on which OpenSolaris distribution you are talking about.. For Nexenta, you can use Debian APT, its been around for 2+ years now.. Its the only option (as of today). But there is nothing preventing distro creators to build RPM based OpenSolaris too, so Yum could be used. On Sat,

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-25 Thread Erast Benson
have you disabled samba? svcadm disable samba On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 22:39 -0800, MC wrote: 2) Unstable APT integrated with ON build 79, give it a try! I tried svcadm enable -r smb/server from http://opensolaris.org/os/project/cifs-server/gettingstarted.html in nexentacp and it didn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-21 Thread Erast Benson
: Il Wednesday 19 December 2007 23:57:07 Erast Benson ha scritto: Hi All, This is the road to NCP 1.0... Our motto: Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best Debian Server/Storage platform. Some latest Nexenta related news: 1) Official Nexenta Core Platform

[osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-19 Thread Erast Benson
Hi All, This is the road to NCP 1.0... Our motto: Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best Debian Server/Storage platform. Some latest Nexenta related news: 1) Official Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) repository now is http://apt.nexenta.org 2) Unstable APT integrated with

[osol-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test3 available

2007-07-05 Thread Erast Benson
http://www.gnusolaris.org/unstable-iso/ncp_beta1-test3-b68_i386.iso Changes: * ON b68 based * man pages updated -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-28 Thread Erast Benson
impressive is there a way to transform Sun package to a synaptic package? selim On 6/22/07, Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: New unstable ISO of NexentaCP (Core Platform) available. http://www.gnusolaris.org/unstable-iso/ncp_beta1-test2

[osol-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-22 Thread Erast Benson
/var/lib/apt/* $ sudo apt-get update -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual

2007-06-22 Thread Erast Benson
? Incremental ON/NWS upgrades have been provided started from A5+.. i.e. a year ago. However, on you own risk. This is Alpha software, but technology is there. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integratedinstaller

2007-06-09 Thread Erast Benson
Parallels... What is Parallels? VMWare-like software for MacOSX This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Erast ___ opensolaris

[osol-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Erast Benson
ZFS/Boot type of installations on single disk or 2+ mirror configuration. For now, only Auto partitioning mode could be used for ZFS root partition creation. More details on NexentaCP will be available soon... -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:26 -0400, Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:51:08PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: More details on NexentaCP will be available soon... Is it based on Alpha7? Alpha7 is the Desktop-oriented ISO, however they share the same main APT repository, i.e

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

2007-06-06 Thread Erast Benson
, Moinak. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Open Solaris Distributions

2007-05-17 Thread Erast Benson
. Why did other people create _different_ distributions? Same reason. Because Debian-based GNU/OpenSolaris never existed before. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
any other vendor can offer support independently from Sun? -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaOS Alpha 7 is now available

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- yours, Rick ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

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

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:32 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: On 16/05/07, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:37 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: One problem I have is that whenever corporate gets their minds around products, they start to associate revenue streams

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris Distributions

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
- can't they drive that? Erast and Alex have a clear (and valuable) alternate userland and packaging system. And I haven't even considered Dennis, and the pkgsource people. And while we have GNU-ish stuff, what about BSD? These areas seem to me somewhat orthogonal. I can

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

2007-05-16 Thread Erast Benson
on project emancipation. Jump start it... It would also make sense if Sun would help Google to pay some $$$ to the students involved... -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NexentaOS Alpha 7 is now available

2007-05-15 Thread Erast Benson
___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS at OSDEVCON demos

2007-04-24 Thread Erast Benson
3 little demos by Martin Man. Available as of today. http://martinman.net/software/nexenta Thanks Martin. Enjoy! -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris parted

2007-04-15 Thread Erast Benson
* Device probing is still incomplete. Regards, Nikhil Vyakaranam, Sujay Patil, Srivatsa V, Nitin Shekhar This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Erast

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris - build 61 upgrade available

2007-04-11 Thread Erast Benson
ON/NWS build 61 is now available for your regular APT upgrades. To upgrade your Alpha 6 NexentaOS box do: a) Switch your /etc/apt/sources.list to elatte-unstable. d) Do upgrade: # apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade # reboot Enjoy! -- Erast

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris - build 61 upgrade

2007-04-11 Thread Erast Benson
suppose to do that auto magically.. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: NWS (Network Storage)

2007-03-23 Thread Erast Benson
-- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
: Isn't that Nexenta? Note the Nexenta project is by all rights and intentions (Erast, correct me if I'm wrong) a project of and by the OpenSolaris community. Yes, its entierly driven by the Community developers and users who generates bug reports... We just trying to coordinate the effort

[osol-discuss] Re: apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:22 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:18 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: But that just brings us back to Joe's original point: Isn't that Nexenta? Note the Nexenta project is by all rights

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Really .. its so great to see Mr. Debian here. :-) +1 :-) -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-03-14 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 21:25 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: I would like to see OpenSolaris buildable on OpenSolaris. This needs that some more pieces of code need to be at least redistributable. +1 -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Nexenta/format/fdisk

2007-02-14 Thread Erast Benson
-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaOS: Introducing 'unstable' testing releases

2007-02-02 Thread Erast Benson
will be closed: http://www.gnusolaris.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/query?status=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedmilestone=Elatte+Unstable+Beta+1 This really depends on capabilities of our community. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
is a distribution of Sun Microsystem, only Sun can decide to go with GNU userland. On the other hand, we already have GNU/OpenSolaris NexentaOS: http://www.gnusolaris.org -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
on cloning it) but in many cases we can't even tell why we can't open the source. This is a great idea, this way we could avoid double efforts. Lawyers are funny that way. no, that is fine. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
the best we can do. I will put it on my list to update the page listed above now that an open source version of e1000g is available. Bonnie Erast Benson wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what's most frustrating about the closed_bins

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
/unsubscribed during certain period? Number of downloads may be? On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:55 -0800, John Plocher wrote: Erast Benson wrote: I didn't say we are dead community. :-) And I said almost zero participation from outside of Sun What are your expectations here? That at some point

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
unfortunately, I do not see up-and-to-the-right type of numbers, but at least numbers are steady, this gives me more hopes that it is not to late to fix that if at all possible/needed. On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 19:28 +, Peter Tribble wrote: On 2/1/07, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
community's input but also will stimulate outsiders to commit more often. This would also help outsiders to understand ON code and will create certain discipline among developers. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
all moving slower than I want, but it's moving. There's a lot of infrastructure required to do all of this, and we're bumping into some issues. (Ask Stephen Lau about the automounter sometime. :-)) But, what you ask will happen. Erast Benson wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:40 -0800

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

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
delay, but ultimately I'd like for closed bins to disappear completely. +1 -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS: Introducing 'unstable' testing releases

2007-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
Thank you. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
. I think GPLv3 will be widely accepted just because of FSF/GNU will force it in distributions and because of GPLv2 or later clause in source files. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
we don't have problems with our community, think again please. But I believe if GPLv3 dual-licensing is done right, it will improve this situation drastically. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:28 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:57 -0800, John Plocher wrote: As Dennis, Casper and others have said: What is the problem that dual licensing is trying to solve? one little problem... to become a major OSS

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:38 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:57 -0800, John Plocher wrote: As Dennis, Casper and others have said: What is the problem that dual licensing is trying to solve? one little problem... to become a major OSS

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:42 -0800, Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Erast Benson wrote: it to happen? None or one! And I bet Sun would like to increase outside contribution too but with CDDL alone it is just not possible in foreseeable future. People afraid to contribute to CDDL

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:32 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Erast Benson wrote: I agree, re-licensing alone will not cure us entirely but will help dramatically. Its a combination of steps. 1) Re-licensing, 2) get rid of Contributor Agreement, 3) get rid of closed bins. But if we get rid

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
guess when you haven't seen the final GPLv3 license. But we can make somewhat an educated guess now based on what we do know. And we can always revise it as we obtain more data. Darren J Moffat wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:57 -0800, John Plocher wrote

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 00:24 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:57 -0800, John Plocher wrote: As Dennis, Casper and others have said: What is the problem that dual licensing is trying to solve? one little problem... to become

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:14 -0800, Shawn Walker wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 18:28 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:57 -0800, John Plocher wrote: As Dennis, Casper and others have said: What is the problem that dual licensing

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
community, it doesn't make us a *dead* community. I didn't say we are dead community. :-) And I said almost zero participation from outside of Sun which is what currently our relative numbers are by looking at ON consolidation. And yes, we are growing, but not fast enough to me... -- Erast

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 13:19 +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote: Alan Burlison wrote On 02/01/07 09:11,: Erast Benson wrote: Isn't the fact that after almost 2 years of existence we still considered a minority community with almost zero participation from the outside not a proof

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

2007-01-31 Thread Erast Benson
only version. whatever it proves, it wasn't a good experience... And if I'm not mistaken Joerg refused to dual-license cdrecord. -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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