on your internal network, which is where the non-guest shares should
live.
Note that you can buy relatively cheap routers that support multiple
wifi networks with open source software (i.e. - a US$60 WRT54GL +
dd-wrt).
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argue against trying to look like some other
system. ON should be the best system it can be; not the best imitation
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:04:03 -0800 Bart Smaalders bart.smaald...@sun.com
wrote:
Mike Meyer wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:42:00 -0500 (EST) Dennis Clarke
dcla...@blastwave.org wrote:
If the Solaris commands become a superset of the Gnu ones, then that
position becomes a fait accompli
implementers - have decided this was a worthwhile
feature, and added it. Assuming they do it the same way, it's now
pretty much standard across at least the open source Unix community.
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can position itself
as something other than a Unix vendor at this stage, and that would be
required if they were going to try and do things the way Apple did.
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know that both openvpn and memtest86+ are in the netbsd
pkgsrc system, which works on both Solaris and OpenSolaris? It comes
with a robust, flexible build system and hence has generated one of
the more impressive lists of available applications.
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out FF3. But it says more about how many
people are using FF 2 than it does about how many want to use FF3
after checking it out.
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the dependencies
needed for the package you asked for.
Likewise, that's what makes a good ports system a real win - that it
will go out and install - or build if necessary, or even build but not
install if sufficient - the dependencies needed for the package I
asked for.
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(a good repository needs bind,
dnsmasq and djbdns), dhcp servers (isc and dnsmasq). How many
combinations of the latter are you going to support?
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apt for selection and
frequency of updates?
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catman to build the windex file that man -k isn't
finding. See the catman man page for details.
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:08:56 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Conclusion, there is currently _no_ option to connect a SATA disk to a
decent
home system except by using a SATA - PATA or SATA - USB adaptor.
I think you've shown
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:32:46 +1200
Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Meyer wrote:
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Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Meyer wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:59:24 +1200
Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alfred
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:49:25 +1200
Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Meyer wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:59:24 +1200
Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alfred Monticello wrote:
The one in /opt/sfw can produce 64bit code but is a 32bit binary.
What's wrong with that?
I
and hoping their needs are
covered by the rather vague statements about Enterprise support. Why
do I think there are better options available if they're willing forgo
Solaris?
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the 4GB or RAM to compile..
Is the compiler that built the compiler really so bad that having
twice as many general-purpose registers available doesn't make any
difference in performance? Or do you simply not care how long it takes
to compile things?
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with the hyperlink that
states the dependencies eh? ;-)
Ah, the solaris community is just *full* of flashbacks. Chasing down
and installing the dependencies for a package by hand? Something I
thought I'd seen the last of in 1998.
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to be dropping Xinerama support for xrandr, which
has a number of crucial advantages. Check the xrandr man page out for
more information.
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URL:
http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html . It supports
Solaris, but I haven't had time to see how well it works on
OpenSolaris yet.
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:47:08 +1000 (EST)
Andre van Eyssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Mike Meyer wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:52:55 +1000 (EST)
getting more prevalent all along. Users on a machine that runs
production servers? Who'd put their servers at risk that way
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Mike Meyer wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:29:10 +0200
This is why many of the FOSS folks have gone to flatter
hierarchies. It's typical for me to have just 4 /bin's in my path
on pretty
like a bad flashback from the
early part of the decade.
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source is that you can choose to
optimize the system for a specific target audience.
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(also a desirable thing). The BSD systems - including Apple - are the
ones that seem to do the latter best, though Apple is the only one
that also manages to provide a system that really has ISVs.
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, or controller if you don't have
targets. Slice (or partition) represents a contiguous chunk of that
disk.
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. This is applicable for zfs on Solaris, FreeBSD and OSX.
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on their desk and laptop and etc, and each only has the software
dedicated to it's purpose.
What I'm advocating is that the optional software be flat. Not in
/usr, but in /opt/repo. Ideally, there's a single repository that's
blessed that can claim /opt, but that's a different issue.
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recent ON distributions. Logging into a solaris box is like stepping
two years backwards in time.
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:01:28 -0400
Fredrich Maney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:23:45 PDT Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[...]
The FOSS systems went from the model Solaris is still
thousand packages max for any architecture, but it's also already been
ported to solaris, with some four thousand packages having survived
the move to solaris on x86.
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reports, but developers can just change the
category.
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that as one of the options? If so, how do they get
cleaned up when nothing needs them?
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Windows users, why would anyone switch?
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, knowing
that a later rev of the OS will provide a compatible replacement.
Other than that, upgrading the OS should leave the third party
software alone. That includes the case where I skip over any revisions
the package author designated as suitable for replacing his package.
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disk space may be cheap, and even the CPU cycles spent
building all those redundant copies, the person time used to maintain
them isn't - and would certainly be better spent providing more
packages to that one central repository.
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the Solaris-installed
version of something isn't recent enough to meet the requirements at
hand, but there's no way to avoid that.
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built against whatever, but if whatever doesn't match your base, the
binaries are worthless.
More on the next rock.
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(if not as quickly) as installing the package.
I believe that's important, but I suspect most people simply won't
care.
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: To be able to run xterm on
an old
IRIX system that has /usr/bin/X11 but not /usr/X11/bin
Whether code is broken or not does not depend on whether the input is legal.
And the quality of the code can be inferred from how it behaves when
the input isn't legal.
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provides a nice gui for doing all this and saving the
resulting xorg.conf. The downside is that enabling/disabling a monitor
requires restarting X, so I'm not sure it's suitable for your laptop.
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on the fly. Xrandr doesn't
have those problems. Video driver support seems to be spotty - some
still do things for Xinerama, others have dropped that in favor of
xrandr
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it. What I found was flat out scary. To wit, from the project overview
page:
... the OpenSolaris project does not provide an end-user
product or complete distribution.
That doesn't mean
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:39:13 -0400 James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Meyer writes:
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:19:12 -0400 James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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it. What I found was flat out scary. To wit, from the project overview
page
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Mike Meyer writes:
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:39:13 -0400 James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, ok. But the problem is that the project as a whole is a giant
pile o' source. It's not any particular distribution
the
rest of the community, which your suggestion implies is the case?
Thanks,
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