Re: [osol-discuss] Opera drops browser support for Solaris

2010-04-30 Thread Rich Reynolds
On 04/30/10 08:22 AM, Stefan Parvu wrote: With the right portability framework, it is sufficient to develop on Solaris and the code will work on Linux and FreeBSD also. True. However I dont see Opera's troubles caused by Oracle integration: support costs, etc but rather a more simplistic

[osol-discuss] application roll-back with pkg

2009-11-25 Thread Rich Reynolds
hi all - Im having momentary(i hope) brain death. can i and if so how do i, roll-back an application upgraded via packagemanager?? because it was simply an application upgrade no new BE was created... TIA, rich ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] application roll-back with pkg

2009-11-25 Thread Rich Reynolds
Shawn Walker wrote: Rich Reynolds wrote: hi all - Im having momentary(i hope) brain death. can i and if so how do i, roll-back an application upgraded via packagemanager?? because it was simply an application upgrade no new BE was created... Rollback functionality for individual packages

Re: [osol-discuss] virtualbox 3.0.12 IPS?

2009-11-25 Thread Rich Reynolds
Allan - is .10 still available??? all i see is .12 in the IPS and it broke some things, i need to reinstall .10 ASAP... rich Alan Steinberg wrote: OK, it is now available! -- Alan Alan Steinberg wrote: We hope to have the IPS version up in the next day or so. I don't think you would want

Re: [osol-discuss] package manager - installation dir

2009-10-20 Thread Rich Reynolds
there is also a best practices page at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/install-locations/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] dev repository issues??

2009-07-26 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - where do we need to log issues with the dev repository??? I have tried to fetch some things and every fetch breaks in the same way, even after flushing my download cache... so i suspect broken files, because if it was network, it would not likely be a break at the same place...

Re: [osol-discuss] dev repository issues??

2009-07-26 Thread Rich Reynolds
Shawn Walker wrote: Rich Reynolds wrote: Hi all - where do we need to log issues with the dev repository??? Report them to the pkg-discuss mailing list. I have tried to fetch some things and every fetch breaks in the same way, even after flushing my download cache... so i suspect broken files

Re: [osol-discuss] Newbie needs help please.

2009-06-10 Thread Rich Reynolds
This is actually not so hard, depending on the version of Vista you have. you need a USB stick with a FAT32 formated partition, which my version of Vista will do just fine, put the network driver bits on it and run the OpenSolaris install as expected... you can then install the network drivers

Re: [osol-discuss] Petition

2009-03-31 Thread Rich Reynolds
no, but it does show community/customer support!!! rich Alexander Vlasov wrote: Well, feel free to consider this flame, but I haven't seen any business decision being influenced by online petition. Octave Orgeron wrote: I don't mean to stir up any flame wars or for this to be spam. I setup a

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b110 issues...

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Reynolds
. Can you give the specific path you gave for wget? Or what you chose for image type (SPARC or x86, single or split image)? -- Alan Rich Reynolds wrote: hi all -- anyone else having issues with b110 of SXCE??? I wget the ISO from the SDLC and unzip it to find a directory of stuff, not unlike

[osol-discuss] SXCE b110 issues...

2009-03-25 Thread Rich Reynolds
hi all -- anyone else having issues with b110 of SXCE??? I wget the ISO from the SDLC and unzip it to find a directory of stuff, not unlike the install media, but NOT an ISO... ok... so just think a little different and point luupgrade at the directory... .install_config is not the

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b110 issues...

2009-03-25 Thread Rich Reynolds
the specific path you gave for wget? Or what you chose for image type (SPARC or x86, single or split image)? -- Alan Rich Reynolds wrote: hi all -- anyone else having issues with b110 of SXCE??? I wget the ISO from the SDLC and unzip it to find a directory of stuff, not unlike the install

[osol-discuss] /usr/bin/mkcd vs /usr/share/man/mkcd

2009-03-24 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all -- In which SXCE did the executable mkcd fall off the distro but not the man page??? I had not used it in a while, but it seems that at least in b110 there is a man entry for it pointing to /usr/bin/mkcd but no one is home there... rich

[osol-discuss] 107 in Vbox graphics issues

2009-02-20 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - i IPS upgraded my 106 Vbox environmen to 107 and the new one will not boot to a graphics login, in fact if the console=graphics entry exists I dont even get -v messages from the kernel... so it seems to be in that never-never land of whose issue is it Vbox or OS107??? worked

Re: [osol-discuss] 107 in Vbox graphics issues

2009-02-20 Thread Rich Reynolds
2.1.4!!! rich Shawn Walker wrote: Rich Reynolds wrote: Hi all - i IPS upgraded my 106 Vbox environmen to 107 and the new one will not boot to a graphics login, in fact if the console=graphics entry exists I dont even get -v messages from the kernel... so it seems to be in that never

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-19 Thread Rich Reynolds
--- i mis-typed that upgrade was from 105 to 106, I have been trying to justify a base system upgrade to IPS based 107, but still can't.. I just keep compiling my own it's just like SunOS 3.5 days.. build Unix from Source!!! rich Rich Reynolds wrote: shawn - while things have changed

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - so for grins i went and fetched their BM suite... guess what -- no call to compliers!! all php and xml and some fairly standard sh scripts so guess in whose lap optimization of executables lands... just some added facts to the fray.. ill build and run it on my

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread Rich Reynolds
also two revs of he BM have happened since that article.. rich ken mays wrote: The benchmark cannot be called a benchmark, as it does not mention what software has been compiled in which way (e.g. which optimizer options have been in effect). For this reason, all performance differences

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread Rich Reynolds
it is never the benchmarker's job to apologized for the inadequatices of the benchmarked products. now I will give to the point that they compared apples and oranges, at the level of detail we understand, but as the market/marketing seems to imply the products are competitive and

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-17 Thread Rich Reynolds
no it was clear the problem was not nwam, but its maintainance state, was a good indicator as to the real problem... and as with many problems, a bigger hammer usually helps... thanx, rich James Carlson wrote: Rich Reynolds writes: I had a similar problem on different hardware, and found

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
Martin - I firmly beg to differ... the tests were done with out of the box released versions in that there is no mention of doing ubuntu package upgrades. this is just an artifact of Sun's release engineering schedule. should another distribution of the opensolaris.org code base opt to

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - I had a similar problem on different hardware, and found that hand plumbing the interface and re-enable nwam served as a sufficient work around... hth, rich Alexander Vlasov wrote: Hello, this is known P2 bug, see http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6331 Actually

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
world and the nature of the customer base has changed and we as a community need to help all the opensolaris.org based distros compete more effectively or perish under our own weight... rich Greg Palmer wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Rich Reynolds r...@redstar

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
potentially better than SXCE, but nowhere near as atomic as BFU... just a view from the dark, rich Shawn Walker wrote: Rich Reynolds wrote: Greg - thanx for the clarification... my intent was only to suggest that the old BWOS train model that Sun has used for MANY years many no longer hold them

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
sorry --- i mis-typed that upgrade was from 105 to 106, I have been trying to justify a base system upgrade to IPS based 107, but still can't.. I just keep compiling my own it's just like SunOS 3.5 days.. build Unix from Source!!! rich Rich Reynolds wrote: shawn - while things have

Re: [osol-discuss] Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
wrote: Rich Reynolds wrote: shawn - while things have changed... the fact that a IPS upgrade from b106 to b107 involved 600+MB of download tells me that the model is still substantially a WOS. I can understand that in a substantial upgrade like 2008.05 to .11, but a basic two week development

Re: [osol-discuss] default shipped partition sizes on sun X2100 boxes.

2008-11-06 Thread Rich Reynolds
did you wade through the docs here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/x2100??? rich Mark Blackman wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with an unusual query. I've good reason to believe i've modified my partition sizes on a Solaris 10 X2100 box. (for one, I can no longer boot Solaris 10).

Re: [osol-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Minix in VirtualBox

2008-10-29 Thread Rich Reynolds
this is not a good place for this. if you look to virtualbox.org, you will find a whole set of forums for discussion of guest OS's. in fact there is a minix3 community of users there. good luck, rich kevin wrote: Sorry, since I'm new to this forum, I don't know where should I ask this

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-28 Thread Rich Reynolds
What does release mean when describing a probably patched system??? last time i looked at an old Solaris 10 u5 system, 'uname' gave me the base OS install '10_u5', but not even the patch ID of the kernel jumbo patch. and what about all the other patches that have been applied??? are they

Re: [osol-discuss] Jumpstart Setup

2008-10-11 Thread Rich Reynolds
where have you looked??? and what are you looking for??? try here to start...

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA support for SPARC (not for booting though)

2008-09-03 Thread Rich Reynolds
Should already be there, given that Sun Blade T6300's have SATA as an option (LSI SAS1068E controller) rich rich Javier O. Augusto wrote: Peeps, Anyone knows what's the state of SATA support for SPARC(for both Solaris 05/08 and OpenSolaris)? I don't need booting off SATA as I have SCSI

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS

2008-08-13 Thread Rich Reynolds
James Carlson wrote: CLF writes: LU effectively disappears in the OpenSolaris distribution (replaced by 'beadm' and IPS snap upgrades), so that's mostly a no. It is currently present in Solaris Express, though. Is the source available for the various LU components, or is it likely ever to

Re: [osol-discuss] Whither OpenSolaris?

2008-06-09 Thread Rich Reynolds
James Carlson wrote: Mike Meyer writes: 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 that _nobody_ does this; it only means it's not a

Re: [osol-discuss] importance of zones

2008-02-04 Thread Rich Reynolds
CPU's in the hardware sense are not allocated to zones, but the available compute resources are.. so in you scenario if all zones including the global are running at full utilization, i.e. CPU bound, then zone a gets 80/86*100% of the CPU resources, if you stop the CPU bound tasks in zone b

Re: [osol-discuss] importance of zones

2008-02-04 Thread Rich Reynolds
jerry - I'm always assuming there is contention for resources, its not REAL interesting if there is no contention and in this case there is none.. thanx, for the insight... rich Jerry Jelinek wrote: Victor Feng wrote: Given the importance of zones and some other info, is there any