Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Martin
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > Until Indiana was self-hosting, they built on SXCE. > AFAIK, once Indiana was self-hosting, they built on it. > > Some (no doubt not all) would like to stay in sync with what they're > building on, as much as possible. > > How well wil

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Martin
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:59 PM, John Plocher wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Paul Gress wrote: >>> Great idea. Not what the current OGB, as the OGB, is chartered to do. >>> The OGB would really have to quit the current system and reform in >>> some other guise, or a new body would have

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Martin
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Mark Martin wrote: >> Create a website and forums to allow the community to reorganize >> itself without the shadow of a hollow and unsupported charter. > > So the OGB would have to viol

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Martin
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Rob McMahon > wrote: >>  So, let's get positive here.  Where do we get started to form a Community >> Distro, based on the latest sources including IPS.  Not a cut down version, >> or replacing the userland (

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-12 Thread Mark Martin
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: > I'm not using any particular locale (I use the default system language) and > I use a Swedish keyboard layout. The keyboard is a Logitech keyboard > connected via the PS/2 port and the mouse is a Logitech USB mouse. Also note > that this del

Re: [osol-discuss] Cloud services

2010-05-10 Thread Mark Martin
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Peter Jones wrote: > I am interested in storage/back up products such as dropbox for personal > computing Crashplan has a backup solution for OpenSolaris (among other clients). I've been using the home version across 4 different platforms for quite some time an

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
Mauro M. wrote: Emancipation sounds inappropriate as its meaning is about "freeing people from oppression and slavery", Xsun is a software component, not a person and it isn't really "oppressed". Firstly, the term "emancipation" hits the nail on its head most precisely. Althoug

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Mark Martin wrote: (Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration. My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* alias: *xsun*-disc...@os.o Synopsis A project to emancipate

[osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
(Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration. My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* alias: *xsun*-disc...@os.o Synopsis A project to emancipate the XSun sources and write wrappers to use XSun

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Martin
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: > > Sun is announcing the intent to discontinue production of the Solaris > Express > Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October time-frame. As we intend to > continue on a bi-weekly build schedule, consolidations will move towards > producin

Re: [osol-discuss] Is `bacula' available in a pkg repository somewhere

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Martin
Harry Putnam wrote: Mark Martin writes: ps- I also tried with includedir set after setting LDFLAGS as above. Same result... same error. You may want to try variations on the --includedir...sometimes there's an implicit #include "mysql/mysql.h" in there... Try walk

Re: [osol-discuss] Is `bacula' available in a pkg repository somewhere

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Martin
Harry Putnam wrote: Robert Hartzell writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Sean writes: We just compile it ourselves. It builds without any issues. It fails here when ./configure is run like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/src/test --with-mysql \ --includedir=/us

Re: [osol-discuss] Spell checking for Emacs?

2009-07-09 Thread Mark Martin
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > Well, I've had to sort this out on my own. It turns out that it's relatively > easy to get spell checking working under Emacs with aspell. That's what the > two Linux distros I have, OpenSUSE and Fedora, use for Emacs. Since they both > c

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-14 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:38 PM, john kroll wrote: > Sorry sir my comment was not specific to GCC 4.4 > > > OpenSolaris and Debian being, as examples, tending > towards opposite ends of that spectrum. > > At the end of the day, this is a lot of hot air over little. I simply meant that Debian's ph

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-11 Thread Mark Martin
Shawn Walker wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: You do a disservice by dismissing anyone who may know about Sun Studio as either lacking skill or being lazy. There are plenty of developers who have written software on other platforms (OS X, Linux, etc.) who have written perfectly good software with gc

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-11 Thread Mark Martin
Glenn Lagasse wrote: * Jim Langston (jim.langs...@sun.com) wrote: Glenn Lagasse wrote: * Ian Collins (i...@ianshome.com) wrote: Glenn Lagasse wrote: * ken mays (maybird1...@yahoo.com) wrote: Hello, Since developers are getting more involve

Re: [osol-discuss] ARM port?

2009-03-24 Thread Mark Martin
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: Moinak Ghosh schrieb: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:32 PM, C. wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Would it be possible at all to strip down OpenSolaris enough so that it could fit into 8MB of flash o

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:12 PM, John Weekley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Not at the moment. You're probably talking about Power or MIPS based >> systems, with limited memory and flash based file systems. While it may be >> possible in some time to see OpenSolaris running on those cpu's, the ch

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:53 AM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > A more interesting question for this group, I think, is what > requirements need to put onto the projects delivering into OpenSolaris > consolidations so that those systems can work. Right now, I think we > have a possi

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:42 PM, homerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Any plans to create support for DVB receivers ? Not at the moment. You're probably talking about Power or MIPS based systems, with limited memory and flash based file systems. While it may be possible in some time to

Re: [osol-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:12 PM, William Kucharski < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if there is sufficient interest in a MIPS project, I would be happy to > get the ball rolling by formally proposing the creation of such a project > under the Emerging Platforms CG. I thought we had enough votes

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-21 Thread Mark Martin
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Mario Goebbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > > ... > > Seriously, persecution complex much? For what it is worth, Martin is not alone with the concern, especially given how similar the projects are becoming. While I may not agree with the

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Mark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > This is also a gap. I believe it is possible to build at least the > > OpenSolaris ON consolidation bits with GC

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Isn't Qube too old to be considered a viable target for this project ? > One of the lessons I've learned from the PPC port is to make sure the > hardware is readily available and not going to die soon. Otherwise the > softwa

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:44 AM, "C. Bergström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Mark Martin wrote: > >> I am seeking approval for a project for porting OpenSolaris to the MIPS >> architecture. >> >> Proposal: Provide code changes, tools, documentation,

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:04 PM, john g4lt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 > > my qube votes +1 too XD > > In fact, for optimal political success for this, I'd suggest making > the MIPS qubes the primary target, since they were acquired by Sun > with the entire Cobalt company Not a bad idea, bu

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > do you have enough hardware documentation to do this ? At the moment that is a gap. This was also a gap for other platforms considered for the PowerPC platform (Sony PS3, Apple PowerMacs), but I believe our advantage

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-18 Thread Mark Martin
[Resent for Reply-all] On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 > > Except that it would be nice if somebody would make the Polaris port > functional, before starting a new port. > Also, why MIPS, not ARM? Isn't MIPS dead a bit? > Thanks for the vote and

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-18 Thread Mark Martin
I am seeking approval for a project for porting OpenSolaris to the MIPS architecture. Proposal: Provide code changes, tools, documentation, and other necessary artifacts for a port of OpenSolaris to the MIPS architecture. Movidis, a maker of MIPS based components and systems has expressed interest

Re: [osol-discuss] Project planning and ARC/no-ARC integration (was "was Alpine, now Exim...")

2008-05-05 Thread Mark Martin
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:21 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Martin writes: > > > How would you be more helped by an external repository that doesn't > > > have Alpine in it than an internal repository that doesn't have Alpine > >

[osol-discuss] Project planning and ARC/no-ARC integration (was "was Alpine, now Exim...")

2008-05-05 Thread Mark Martin
(forking to ARC-discuss) On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:22 AM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan DuBoff writes: > > On Mon, 5 May 2008, James Carlson wrote: > > > > > In this case, no extra repository would have helped. > > > > It would have helped me. As it is, I had to go out, get the

Re: [osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Martin
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Mark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that it's ~44 hours since I started it, I suspect we're at the point > of diminishing returns. Let me see how I can package the report for sharing > (I'm thinking genunix). >

Re: [osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Martin
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Considering we have several thousand registered members on > opensolaris.org; I think that makes any result a passing fancy at > best. > No doubt. Never suggested otherwise - especially since I can't even identify the au

Re: [osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Martin
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Ché Kristo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too would like to see the results shared publicly. When do you plan on > doing this? > Given that it's ~44 hours since I started it, I suspect we're at the point of diminishing returns. Let me see how I can package the

[osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Martin
I've created a poll to gauge, for my own curiosity, the interest and sentiment of the community on a few issues currently enjoying the warming flames of debate. For my part, I do not wish to fan them further, and have struggled over the last 6 months to keep my own damn mouth shut. I do not propo

[osol-discuss] One opinion for charting forward (long)

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Martin
(my apologies for length and lack of 80 column widths) Ok, here's my opinion for what a CE distribution plan might look like. This is intended as just a strawman, and I'm ignoring for a second the availability of resources and the time it would take to accomplish these goals. Requirements: Bui

[osol-discuss] Looking for access to development systems temporarily

2007-12-19 Thread Mark Martin
I'm in the midst of working on a few defects and RFE's, and due to personal circumstances, have been left without access to my development systems for a period of many weeks. It doesn't look like I'll have much luck adjusting that situation for at least a few more weeks, so I'm wondering if anyone

Re: [osol-discuss] Name Change?

2007-11-01 Thread Mark Martin
On 11/1/07, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Sonnenschein wrote: > > I'm relatively sure I did name him, it's Murdock that betrayed the > > community with that announcement the other day so I'm going to place > > the blame at his feet. > > > Your comments were unprofessional. It's

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] I guess "the community" decided to go with my original suggestion?

2007-10-26 Thread Mark Martin
On 10/26/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/10/2007, Brandorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want the following distros to coexist: > > > > SolarisNG, OpenSolaris Distro - Indiana > > Belenix, OpenSolaris Distro - SolarisNG with KDE (or whatever Moinak > > and team want to do

Re: [osol-discuss] Mail list owners: SpamAssassin implemented; Action recommended

2007-10-12 Thread Mark Martin
On 10/11/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basic spam filtering with SpamAssassin is now running on the > Mailman server. As a result, we recommend that mail-list owners > (moderators) reinstate "friendly" handling of non-subscriber > posts, as follows: Eric, Is the recent addit