Re: [osol-discuss] What happened to genunix.org?

2012-02-01 Thread Paul Gress
On 02/ 1/12 04:26 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 02/01/12 12:44, Will Fiveash wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:16:10AM -0800, Shawn Walker wrote: On 02/01/12 10:06, Cathleen Reiher wrote: I had some troubleshooting material about the Solaris CIFS project published on genunix.org. I tried to get

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2011-11-11 Thread Paul Gress
On 11/11/11 01:15 PM, John Martin wrote: On 11/10/11 21:09, Paul Gress wrote: /kernel/drv/amd64/nvidia: undefined symbol 'pm_destroy_components' warning: mod_load: cannot load module 'nvidia' You are using an old NVIDIA driver without the fix for IR 842949. Either use the bundled driver

[osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 install trouble, NVIDIA

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Gress
Following previous messages, to get Solaris Express 11 updated I had to run: pkg uninstall 'pkg://opensolaris.org/*' \ 'pkg://contrib.opensolaris.org/*' \ 'pkg://jucr.opensolaris.org/*' \ 'pkg://Multimedia/*' \ 'pkg://kdeips-dev/*' \ 'pkg://ips.enst.fr/*' This basically cleaned out all

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Gress
On 12/ 8/10 02:23 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: When I upgraded from b134 to b151a Songbird hit a bug that makes it play the second song over and over again. I tried to go into the b134 repository and download that version but even though I as in the 134 repository my system kept installing from

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Gress
On 12/ 8/10 04:13 PM, Paul Gress wrote: On 12/ 8/10 02:23 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: When I upgraded from b134 to b151a Songbird hit a bug that makes it play the second song over and over again. I tried to go into the b134 repository and download that version but even though I as in the 134

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Gress
On 12/ 8/10 02:23 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: When I upgraded from b134 to b151a Songbird hit a bug that makes it play the second song over and over again. I tried to go into the b134 repository and download that version but even though I as in the 134 repository my system kept installing from

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Gress
On 12/ 8/10 07:06 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Paul Gress wrote: On 12/ 8/10 02:23 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: When I upgraded from b134 to b151a Songbird hit a bug that makes it play the second song over and over again. I tried to go into the b134 repository and download that version but even

Re: [osol-discuss] I need to add a company logo to my solaris 11 express desktop.

2010-12-03 Thread Paul Gress
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Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Gress
On 11/23/10 05:08 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: This thread started because I was unable to install OOo 3.3 RC5 in the just-released S11e. The installation tarball came with a setup script (for installation) which works in Ubuntu and S10u9 but not in S11e. I had so much expectation for S11e and

Re: [osol-discuss] permission denied to do everything!

2010-11-16 Thread Paul Gress
On 11/16/10 02:41 PM, Antonio Orvieto wrote: STRANGE THING, Please help.. I've installed solaris about 1 week ago and i've not installed anything yet. why? when i try to install things like XAMPP, or FLASH with the terminal. it says me anto...@opensolaris:~$ cd Downloads

Re: [osol-discuss] permission denied to do everything!

2010-11-16 Thread Paul Gress
On 11/16/10 02:41 PM, Antonio Orvieto wrote: STRANGE THING, Please help.. I've installed solaris about 1 week ago and i've not installed anything yet. why? when i try to install things like XAMPP, or FLASH with the terminal. it says me anto...@opensolaris:~$ cd Downloads

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2010-11-15 Thread Paul Gress
On 11/15/10 02:03 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: interesting would be to know if the upgrade from OS 2009.06 is working well or not. Karel Yes, I just finished upgrading from Opensolaris b134 (note, NOT b134b). It booted up fine. You just have to follow the instructions in the release notes.

Re: [osol-discuss] Map snv_ versions into release versions

2010-11-15 Thread Paul Gress
On 11/15/10 12:35 PM, Miguel Garcia wrote: Thanks, I understand that, but if I need to find a OpenSolaris release as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris#Version_history how can I do it for a given svn_ ? Or from your explanation it is legitimate to say that NVD affected

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

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 09/ 7/10 09:51 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: Honestly, (and I'm not speaking in any way as an Oracle insider, or from any inside knowledge), the question is not Will Solaris Survive?, the real question is Will Solaris continue to be a General Purpose Computing OS/platform? Oracle (pre-Sun)

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

2010-08-19 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/19/10 10:09 AM, usafverteran wrote: What's your point? IBM has had DB2 Express for quite some time. The point was the statement Name one downloadable Oracle product which is limited in some way. (Other than the license). Dmitry simply found one example. Paul

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

2010-08-19 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/19/10 12:29 PM, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: Can't you use the full version of Oracle freely as well (though not for production use)? Ok, maybe I can. Exactly the same way as I can use Solaris 10. My initial thought was different - I am trying to guess what Solaris 11 Express

Re: [osol-discuss] The unclear future of OpenSolaris codebase

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/18/10 03:39 PM, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: At the time when latest OpenSolaris source code is still available, a fork attempt is possible. We see (and put our hopes into) the Illumos project. There are Nexenta and others. The question is: Which fork will receive the most stunning

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

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/18/10 03:47 PM, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: Let me guess what the Solaris 11 Express will be: The demo version of commercial Solaris 11. Utilizing only limited amount of RAM, disk space, and limited number of CPU cores. Hope that it will be free (at least for non-commercial use) for

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

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/18/10 04:00 PM, Hernan Saltiel wrote: I actually think it will be just like Opensolaris Express (SXCE), but with fewer updates with binaries, and Source at an unspecific time, meaning the leaked memo stated major milestones, I hope it means after every Express release. This is not what

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

2010-08-16 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/16/10 03:36 AM, Nikola M. wrote: On 08/14/10 03:41 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: All source code will be available after binary update of Solaris 11 Express have been released. Then Illumos will have a chance to catch up and synchronize. As FreeBSD. I would like it to be that way, but..

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

2010-08-16 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/16/10 07:54 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Why should one consider that source trustable? What if another FUDding writer had fun putting this online? Again, nothing have been said directly by Oracle. And, afterall, we're all still posting at opensolaris.org I haven't seen Oracle do

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

2010-08-16 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/16/10 09:55 AM, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 8/16/2010 10:34 AM, Paul Gress wrote: On 08/16/10 03:36 AM, Nikola M. wrote: On 08/14/10 03:41 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: All source code will be available after binary

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

2010-08-16 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/16/10 10:39 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: You're wrong. Oracle owns all the copyright and they do not have to comply with the terms of the CDDL. S. I thought a written document had to be complied with until they change the terms. In other words, their bound by their own rules until

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

2010-08-16 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/16/10 02:56 PM, Brian Utterback wrote: On 08/16/10 11:32, Paul Gress wrote: On 08/16/10 10:39 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: You're wrong. Oracle owns all the copyright and they do not have to comply with the terms of the CDDL. S. I thought a written document had to be complied

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

2010-08-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/14/10 08:37 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul Kölle If that is true, Illumos will be ahead of the pack in no time. Bright future I'd say. This mostly depends on what

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/13/10 09:34 AM, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: have you read the suit? if oracle's lawers think android is somehow unlawfully affecting its java assets, they have to sue, they have an obligation to their shareholders, they paid quite a few billions for that after all Sun would have had to

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/13/10 06:35 AM, andrew wrote: I don't expect to ever see binaries for the OpenSolaris distribution again. The most I think we can expect is a preview of Solaris 11 along the lines of the old Solaris Express programme. I hope I will be proved wrong though. I agree, and also I

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

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/13/10 11:40 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: We will have a Solaris 11 binary distribution, called Solaris 11 Express, that will have a free developer RTU license, and an optional support plan. Solaris 11 Express will debut by the end of this calendar year, and we will issue updates to it,

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

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/13/10 03:45 PM, Petros Koutoupis wrote: I didn't think Oracle had what it takes to really be about open source, this proves that. As much as I am disappointed with the end result of this whole OpenSolaris drama, I still cannot find myself to agree with the above excerpt. Oracle

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

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/13/10 05:08 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/14/10 08:45 AM, Paul Gress wrote: On 08/13/10 03:45 PM, Petros Koutoupis wrote: As much as I am disappointed with the end result of this whole OpenSolaris drama, I still cannot find myself to agree with the above excerpt. Oracle works heavily

Re: [osol-discuss] Where too now?

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/13/10 10:29 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: So Oracle has pulled the plug. That makes for a really black Friday 13th down this end of the planet. Where too from here ? Could the community rally togeather and actually release an OpenSolaris 2010 ? Well I believe now Illumos has a six

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/13/10 10:39 PM, devsk wrote: I find this a little comical in one respect. Google specifically tried to avoid paying Sun for the use of Java intellectual property, copyrights and such in Android. In the same breath Google is went after Augen for instance for using an Unlicensed version for

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Gress
news as requested;) Oracle Details Upcoming Solaris 11 Release excerpt: quotes from presentation: We have a large new version of Solaris coming out in 2011 called Solaris 11, John Fowler, Oracle's executive vice president of systems, told InternetNews.com Fowler said that quite a bit of

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/10/10 11:45 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Isn't this all what I've said right along? It's the only thing that makes sense: #1 Solaris is extremely out of date w.r.t. opensolaris. Oracle needs to release a commercially viable updated solaris while they still have an edge over BTRFS and

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-08 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 8/10 10:54 AM, Stefan Parvu wrote: Another idea: I was driving today and came to my mind: huh what could be a better example about a simple and classic HPC setup, used on a practical matter: BMW Oracle Racing ! Is this a retired business used only by academic and governments ? Of course

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 5/10 11:31 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: I think this may be important to solaris customers:) excerpt: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:00 a.m. âEUR 10:00 a.m. PT Live Webcast Join John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems, for a live update on the strategy and roadmap for

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 4/10 09:40 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: I wasn't refering to Illumos adding anything. I just mentioned, that nVIDIA does write the driver for all versions of Solaris and that they are therefore the focal point of contact, just like you mentioned. I only asked you, as you are in good

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 4/10 11:40 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: I guess, I don't get, what you're after? The nVIDIA device driver is written by nVIDIA, not Oracle! Solaris/OpenSolaris is not specifically a Server or Workstation OS, it's an OS. People use it. Oracle/Sun currently only sells server-hardware.

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 4/10 12:48 PM, John Martin wrote: On 08/ 4/10 11:24 AM, Paul Gress wrote: Yes I believe that would be true if the OS was developed for Workstations. The only commitment I see from Oracle is Servers and Databases. Would CUDA help there? Large scale GPGPU deployment is being done

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 4/10 01:15 PM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: As others have mentioned, CUDA and OpenCL are also useful on servers. I guess, I'm getting, where you're after... IF you want DESKTOPS, you need to have someone certify them (HCTS), so that they appear in the HCL (Sun/Oracle isn't in that

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 4/10 02:26 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Paul Gress wrote: Larry sees the profitable market as servers and databases. HPC, won't help databases. HPC (high performance computers) basically are derived from servers with additional components added to them

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 4/10 03:42 PM, John Martin wrote: On 08/ 4/10 12:04 PM, Paul Gress wrote: When I read the Hardware Compatability notes for PTC Pro-Engineer WF5, it states there are no current plans for its next generation WF6 MCAD product to be developed

Re: [osol-discuss] So it is true about the Media Pack

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 1/10 04:29 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: On 1 Aug 2010, at 00:30, me wrote: System News reports- [b]How to Purchase an Oracle Solaris 10 License[/b] As Simple as Obtaining the Solaris Software Media Pack Purchasing an Oracle Solaris 10 license is as easy as buying a Solaris 10 Media

Re: [osol-discuss] no more news articles from me

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/ 1/10 09:52 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: Thanks to all for the nice words since my field is not opeating system developer i looked for other ways to contribute the the community and since i love reading news i thought why not become a news feeder for the community until Oracle releases

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro, teamwork and being clear

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/22/10 04:35 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: See : http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/sgs/packages/common/SUNWonld-README Note that there is specific references to Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 update 10 and Nevada and even Solaris Nevada (OpenSolaris 2009.06,

Re: [osol-discuss] I hope we also get a welcome mat at openworld.

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/20/10 01:18 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: Well i guess the MySQL guys fears are now put to rest. I do hope Opensolaris community also gets a welcome mat at OpenWorld. crossing my fingers! extract: Oracle is rolling out the welcome mat for the MySQL community as part of Oracle OpenWorld.

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS on build 134

2010-07-19 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/19/10 02:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm very new to OpenSolaris but am quite familiar with FreeBSD. I have a box with an NVIDIA G96 GeForce 9500 GS. I installed 2009.06 and the installer choose the Xorg vesa driver. I have a working X desktop but colors and performance are

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-17 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/17/10 09:07 AM, Ken Mays wrote: You already have 'community distros' and forums like Nexenta, Korona (KDE4Solaris), and Belenix as the OpenSolaris-based communities currently providing recent updates to either the desktop environment or backporting kernel patches. Understand

[osol-discuss] The 5 stages of Opensolaris withdrawal

2010-07-17 Thread Paul Gress
Denial, Anger, Depression, Bargaining, and Acceptance 1) Denial At first when Oracle purchased Sun there were multiple people saying Oracle would stop Opensolaris. The community simply didn't believe them, this couldn't be true. 2) Anger This I believe just happened last week after the

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade to build 134.

2010-07-15 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/15/10 01:06 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: Can anyone point me to a documented process for upgrading to b134. The archive on genunix for build 134 is only 600 meg where the old builds were in the 3Gbyte range. If I install from Genunix iso what is the process for getting the reset of the

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

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/14/10 06:12 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: Not just that, but weaning the community off its dependency on the distribution that happens to confusingly share the community's name but is really a closed venture over which we have no influence. In the past when Sun was distributing

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/13/10 07:08 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: I still think Oracle is gung ho about OpenSolaris and still ironing things out. this docs may seems old but they are dated 2010 and has the oracle banner on them. I see it there is still interest. quote: This is just one update on Oracle's

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/13/10 12:16 PM, John Plocher wrote: +-- Please join the distro community and help make this happen. Joerg, Moinak and the rest of us will welcome you with open keyboards! Like you said, there are a few obstacles in the way of doing a completely open distro right now (closed source

Re: [osol-discuss] The Possibilities

2010-07-06 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/ 6/10 01:13 AM, Ian Collins wrote: On 07/ 6/10 04:48 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Opensolaris and solaris are for servers. Not desktops. Yes you can use it for a desktop if you want, but it's not designed for that purpose, and not good compared to other products in that arena. So

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/ 2/10 03:43 PM, russell wrote: Hi, While searching for details of Solaris 10 update 9, I found the following on http://sparcv9.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html I've been thinking the same thing for a while. It makes a lot of sense, and all the evidence/pieces fit. If and

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/ 1/10 10:24 AM, ken mays wrote: Hello, This was also asked a few months ago, in which 'a person' from Oracle stated around Sept 2010 - near the timeframe of the Solaris 10u9 release. Other rumors speculate Nov 2010. This was really what was known as Oracle Solaris 11 - moreso than just

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/ 1/10 11:39 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: You (Svein Skogen) wrote: What's your interpretation of 2010.03 becoming 2010.H1, then basically becoming 2010, with good prospects of turning 201? instead? I'm as clueless as you w.r.t. this... ;-( My interpretation is: Proposed

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/ 1/10 03:46 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Except that a 2010.03, and then a 2010.H1 were promised. The later specifically by Oracle. To be clear, Oracle's new and updated guidance is that these promises will not be honored? I don't recall seeing any Oracle promises. I believe they were

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/ 1/10 04:14 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: (I and other employees who are aware of the details have asked management if there's some sort of statement we can make, but so far there is nothing we can pass on. It sucks, and we know it.) Is the reason for such

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-07-01 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/ 1/10 05:08 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: Oracle Policy That's self obvious. I was asking what is that policy exactly. Taken from this document, Social Media Participation At Oracle: http://www.sun.com/communities/guidelines.jsp Don't Discuss Future Offerings As a general

Re: [osol-discuss] where to download latest development build.

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/23/10 11:08 AM, Sarah kho wrote: Hi, Can someone please point me to the right place to download latest opensolaris development build? http://www.genunix.org/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] install Open Solaris on usb memory stick

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/23/10 01:11 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: Can someone point me to the procedure for how to install on a memory stick. http://blogs.sun.com/melvinkoh/entry/opensolaris_on_usb ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] install Open Solaris on usb memory stick

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/23/10 01:36 PM, Paul Gress wrote: On 06/23/10 01:11 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: Can someone point me to the procedure for how to install on a memory stick. http://blogs.sun.com/melvinkoh/entry/opensolaris_on_usb Also forgot: The Opensolaris USB image is here at Genunix: http

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Gress
If you follow one link: Operating Systems Sun Solaris Oracle Solaris Clicking on Oracle Solaris http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/index.html You'll see listed ORACLE SOLARIS PRODUCTS * Oracle Solaris * OpenSolaris So you proved Opensolaris is

[osol-discuss] Planet Opensolaris

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Gress
Has anyone else noticed that the last blog was on May 27. I find it hard to believe no one has blogged since then, there has always been at least one new entry everyday. Not even Simon with his Webmink. Has it been frozen, or are we just in a long dry spell. Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] Planet Opensolaris

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/ 4/10 11:16 AM, Paul Gress wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the last blog was on May 27. I find it hard to believe no one has blogged since then, there has always been at least one new entry everyday. Not even Simon with his Webmink. Has it been frozen, or are we just in a long dry

Re: [osol-discuss] Planet Opensolaris

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/ 4/10 11:18 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Paul Gress wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the last blog was on May 27. I find it hard to believe no one has blogged since then, there has always been at least one new entry everyday. Not even Simon with his Webmink. Has it been frozen

Re: [osol-discuss] The Case of The Missing Drive

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Gress
On 06/ 2/10 07:13 PM, Andrew Greimann wrote: Hello, I've got an issue with a partition I cannot seem to access. I'm familiar how drives are mounted in Linux and mapped in Windows. For instance, /dev/sda5 underneath the Linux platform would describe my partition, D:\ under Windows would've

Re: [osol-discuss] An effort to rally around - building a real, community

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Gress
On 05/25/10 10:01 AM, Andrew Stormont wrote: Is Oracle really closing OpenSolaris? I didn't read that anywhere. My opinion, no. Opensolaris 2010.06 will be released soon. Then the development gate will open again. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Business use of OpenSolaris: enough to support commercial software?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/20/10 09:26 AM, Ken Mays wrote: Mike, For business, commercial, and 'some' government projects - the answer is YES. Originally, I was working with someone to review Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 and CATIA on OpenSolaris. We starting porting over CAD/CAM/CAE and game development/rendering

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 10:56 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Chad Welsh wrote: So, when and who might be the first step/person to make this happen to protect what has been done so far? What would your fork do differently than the main project, besides have almost no developers working on it, since

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 12:12 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Paul Gress wrote: If their pushing to the main OpenSolaris gates every day, why hasn't anything been released. Why cannot I upgrade to b135, b136 or b137? Every previous time we've had a release in progress, updates to /dev stopped while

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 01:11 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: How can it appear to be ^frozen^? Then maybe you are not subscribed to the right lists. Appears and actual are two different things. What I mean by appears is nothing has been published as in some form of a binary release for me to upgrade

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 01:34 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: Sounds like you are experienced ;-) Personal attacks rarely will help you make your point so please stop it. I didn't take is as a personal attack, I saw the smiley face, it was meant as a joke. Paul

Re: [osol-discuss] b137 based on tonic or otherwise

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/14/10 03:17 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 04/14/10 01:33 PM, David E. Anderson wrote: While we're at it... I am running b134 and use the dev branch; when 2010.new comes out, how do I switch and stick with that until we get further along towards the 2010.Fall ( assuming these release issues

[osol-discuss] Non Fud official speaking

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Gress
I decided to read Oracles System News. There's a pretty good article that actually gives me a warm feeling about Opensolaris. The article is titled: Oracle's Hardware and Systems Support Policies Linked at: http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/146/1/hw/22995 Specifically: Article #22995

Re: [osol-discuss] Firefox 3.5.5 with SXCE can't load page

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/12/10 07:05 PM, bsd wrote: SXCE build 130 which is the last build produced has all that I want as far as software like Bluefish. I've tried to compile Bluefish on OpenSolaris b134 but received errors, so I thought of SXCE and installed. Bluefish is included in the Opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 7/10 11:57 AM, bsd wrote: You people are really uptight and defensive about OpenSolaris and any talk about negative intentions Oracle may have towards it. I stand by my position about x86/Sparc, it was developed for x86 laptops (OpenSolaris is like PC-BSD), because who would develop a

Re: [osol-discuss] failed to add publisher?

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 7/10 01:52 PM, solarg wrote: but that's not exactly what i want to do. On my laptop, i created, weeks ago, my own repo, called localhost. This is when i compile myself missing apps. But now, i want to add a new publisher, found here: http://ips.enst.fr:1/ and i'm not able to

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 7/10 04:53 PM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: So, how's build 134 doing? It seems, you have an thinkpad with a nvidia card, as the only reported systems having that reboot-loop-problem were some such... I had the same problem with my Nvidia Quadro 1600M Graphics card in a Clevo D901C

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-05 Thread Paul Gress
On 04/ 5/10 09:43 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Matthias Pfütznermatth...@pfuetzner.de writes: more ISVs, ISV ? Independent Software Vendor ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 02:06 AM, bsd wrote: OpenSolaris has some nice technologies, but with FreeBSD you can run zfs. With the 8.0 release you can run vimage which is essentially Solaris Zones, while FreeBSD has had jails for years and recently upgraded jails to v2. Crossbow is really the only feature

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 12:07 PM, Matthew Nawrocki wrote: Hello all: As of late, I have begun to notice increasing levels of pessimism and grumbling amongst users (and former users) of OpenSolaris. As a glasses half-full type, I would like to remind everyone that whining and complaining about petty

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/28/10 10:51 PM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: I will make an effort to have this sort of language and tone blocked and your email removed permanently. This is unacceptable. speaking as a businessman I certianly [sic] do. Quite franky [sic], on these public mail

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 01:07 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: These forums aren't censored for content, just for fowl language, we try to keep it civil here. I agree with Dennis Clarks warning. Yes, they are censored for foul language. This is how the post that is provoking the outrage appears if you

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 134 Won't boot

2010-03-09 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/ 9/10 08:50 PM, alan pae wrote: After removing the 133 boot environment then the system went back to the non booting again. So I had to modify menu.lst again and set console=text and then all was well. Saved me tonight. I had just upgraded from b133 to b134 and also was getting

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris on slashdot

2010-02-24 Thread Paul Gress
On 02/24/10 05:17 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Yeah, when the news doesn't fit our liking, we can always discredit the source. :-) I thought the same thing, just a little differently. The Opensolaris mail exploders can be viewed to be biased towards Opensolaris. Having said that,

Re: [osol-discuss] Because I don't know where to find help

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Gress
On 02/15/10 07:16 AM, Chad Welsh wrote: here is the staroffice support page http://supportforum.Sun.COM/ see if it works for you cause it is a blank page for me A couple of clicks from the home page I found this:

Re: [osol-discuss] Because I don't know where to find help

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Gress
On 02/15/10 11:36 AM, Paul Gress wrote: On 02/15/10 07:16 AM, Chad Welsh wrote: here is the staroffice support pagehttp://supportforum.Sun.COM/ see if it works for you cause it is a blank page for me A couple of clicks from the home page I found this: http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do

Re: [osol-discuss] Expecting NVDAgraphics v190.42 soon??

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Gress
John Martin wrote: Paul Gress wrote: Any word on 195.22 beta yet. I've downloaded this one already, but it requires a lot of work to install it and is not integrated properly into Opensolaris (VM). As you note it is still beta, so it isn't a candidate for bunding. The Sun version

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

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Gress
Neil Houston wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble, but OpenOffice is simply nowhere near Microsoft Office. To you, perhaps, but try selling it to your Admin staff who sit in Excel all day. It doesn't even come close. I disagree. I have enormous spreadsheets created using Openoffice, and I have

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

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Gress
Nibal Al-Ghoul wrote: Is Nexenta free? No need to get license Yes, Free. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Expecting NVDAgraphics v190.42 soon??

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Gress
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Ken Mays wrote: Hello, The latest Nvidia 190.42 driver is not included on the latest snv_128a development ISO yet. Any word on 195.22 beta yet. I've downloaded this one already, but it requires a lot of work to install it and is not integrated properly into

Re: [osol-discuss] system info

2009-12-01 Thread Paul Gress
Harry Putnam wrote: Tim Bell tim.b...@sun.com writes: [...] Harry wrote: It appears there is no simple way to get the output by scripting, since `format' doesn't close by itself. Its probably dead easy to run it with a `quit' or `exit' somewhere but I'm not sure how that might be done.

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade to Opensolaris dev 123 from SXCE b122 complete

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Gress
John Martin wrote: Stephen Whyte wrote: Hi, Is it difficult to get pro engineer running on opensolaris. Which version of Wildfire and this is for x64, right? The only issue with a standard installation may be the Motif libraries are missing. Make certain you load package SUNWmfrun. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with hal service on OpenSolaris 2009.06

2009-10-29 Thread Paul Gress
carlopmart wrote: Hi all, tomorrow I have executed dmesg and I see this error: Oct 29 12:38:26 hobbiton svc.startd[7]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning] svc:/system/hal:default: Method /lib/svc/method/svc-hal start failed with exit status 127. Oct 29 12:38:27 hobbiton last message repeated 2

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Gress
sridhar wrote: looks like we have to say that very fundamental/basic static ip configuration is not working in open solaris 2009.06. Any relevant authorized person around here, please confirm this. It was announced today that NWAM v 1.0 will be available as a separate download. NWAM

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Gress
sridhar wrote: still 2 more qs to answer. It would be so much easier to understand most of your comments if you leave some relevant text behind your comment. Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Gress
sridhar wrote: In short, I want the full power of unix and all it's commands in the GUI form. Oh, GOD, when I will use that kind of unix. I think it will be a dream as long as there are incorrigible fans of CUI commands in user population. Simply put, for file management gui with root

Re: [osol-discuss] 128 bit technology

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Gress
John Thompson wrote: On 2009-10-11, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Microsoft has announced that the next release windows 8 will be a 128 bit system.Apart from haveing few applications,isv,isv,on their side.Is this a marketing gimmick or saine thinking? Will opensolaris work on

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