First I have been out of the loop (retired) for 4
years so be gentle.
I'm doing some part time consulting and a Sun Blade
2500 (which are now dirt cheap and plentiful) would
be perfect for my client IF I could hang some storage
on it. I need 300GB and of course, this is on a
budget
I think sort(1) needs a couple of new (as of the last time I looked at an
OpenSolaris
man page) options:
-C (upper case letter C): same as -c but explicitly silent. This should comply
with the latest SUS/XPG, and reconcile the difference between /usr/bin/sort
and /usr/xpg4/bin/sort.
-h (as a
On 03/18/11 08:18 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
I think sort(1) needs a couple of new (as of the
last time I looked at an OpenSolaris
man page) options:
-C (upper case letter C): same as -c but
explicitly silent. This should comply
with the latest SUS/XPG, and reconcile
On 03/18/11 08:24 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
In other words, if GNU sort has all the
functionality and more,
then why doesn't it get promoted to the one true
version of sort?
Because no one has had time to finish all the
analysis and standards
testing yet to determine that for all
From the fact that there was at one time a project to add port multiplier
support, I'm thinking that there is a need for driver support; maybe not a
separate driver, but for the driver to be aware that such things might be
present at least.
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From: Matthias Pfützner
[mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de]
Just a small correction. It's NOT closed source,
it's still open source,
BUT:
The source will only be published AFTER the
commercial binary release! So:
It's closed development, but NOT closed source!
You're the only person
http://www.enhance-tech.com/products/desktop/E8_Series.html
Should support either SAS or SATA.
I'm using the E8-ML, but then I have an 8-port SAS controller.
If you want less cables, you may want the port multiplier configuration.
Not what I'd pick, because it locks you in more and has less
I realise we could just continually increase memory
load until the page scanner reaches some threshold,
but this is not really an acceptable approach.
You could do that without fiddling with the database resources,
by running a simple program (like the attached) to add
a temporary load to the
Obviously it will have some performance impact.
Whether you'll notice it is another story. I found a
posts about the impact:
http://blogs.sun.com/jtc/entry/overhead_in_increasing_the_solaris
but nothing would be anywhere near as informative as testing with
your actual workload.
I think libXt
taking a break, so I decided to read some news:-)
RedHat 6 got a new pricing.
http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7023-New-RedHat-prici
ng.html
Sorry for mistakenly posting under Help I meant to
posted it under discussion
my bad:-(
Cc'd opensolaris-discuss to get it over
On Nov 22, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
I think libXt uses select();
Yes.
one could imagine an alternate implementation
that used event ports and a high-resolution timer. It might take
a lot of testing to get right though, and high resolution
I read the license several times, but, shame-on-me, I
think it is EXACTLY what it should be (and actually
what it should have been).
Sun was trying to play a nice guy, but failed
miserably. That has affected not only Sun and Sun's
shareholders, but also many of Sun's career
employees.
Well you know some of us home users aren't going to be happy.
*Supported on sun4v and sun4u based systems with OBP
(Open Boot PROM) level 4.17 or higher.
$ uname -a;prtdiag -v|tail -2
SunOS paradox 5.11 snv_97 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
OBP 4.16.4 2004/12/18 05:18
POST 4.16.3 2004/11/05
It's likely that it will work for you if you install
from the text
installer media, but automated installation requires
that level of OBP.
I'd have to use a text-based installer anyway, since
anything that no longer includes Xsun won't support anything
other than an XVR-100 that would work
Hi,
We can change the scheduling class of a process
(either single threaded or multithreaded) using
priocntl(1) utility. However, I would like to use
different scheduling classes for different threads
(lwps) of a process on OpenSolaris.2009.06. But there
is no such an option with
Hi, I have researched online in order to solve this
and didn't find any information. [b]Could you please
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Accounts can be created with
Hi, what happened to the TCP fusion tunables in
Latest OpenSolaris? The variable I can find via mdb
on Solaris 10, tcp_fusion_rcv_unread_min.Are these
parameter are still available in Latest Solaris .Did
the counter of outstanding writes without a read get
removed.
So does it it means
[...]
Oracle are targeting Solaris at Banks. They don't
seem to want a Solaris community. They seem to want
your money, and only want you using Solaris 11
Express if you're developing for it, evaluating it,
or intend to buy it.
Not sure if it's so much greed as control freaks.
Or else they
That's the last of the original DTrace three (Cantrill, Leventhal, and Shapiro),
right? Bummer...
Here's my list of big names that have left so far. It's long enough that
the arguments for natural turnover and fresh blood that some have made
strike me as reaching; a much more obvious conclusion
In a perfect world, the functionality in the newer RFC that
I mentioned would communicate the client's locale to the server,
and they'd both behave in a way that took that into account
(including filename expansion, presumably).
AFAIK (from a very quick and brief look at the code), the current
[...]
personal use is fine for me and OI is way too buggy
still. won't upgrade following the explicit
directions on their website and support seems to be a
big mess (I am sure that will change in 6 months)
Hi Stephen,
Obviously OI is in bootstrap phase at the moment
and there are of
Hello,
I need to know if FTP has support for multibyte
languages.
Meaning, if the locale is set to be multibyte
languages like Japanese/
Chinese, does FTP/FTPD in solaris support it?
With Regards,
Shilpa.
What sort of support? AFAIK, the ftp protocol transfers
either raw binary
What i wanted to know was, if the filename has got
multibyte characters, and not if the content of the
file is multibyte.
Between two Unix systems, it shouldn't matter,
since the convention there would be to use UTF-8 encoding
for multibyte names. UTF-8 is friendly to anything that
is 8-bit
I had a few minutes today to try an experiment,
and I'm afraid
the idea of having ld always generate a PT_SUNWSTACK
is a non-starter.
The problem is that it overrides the behavior of
'set noexec_user_stack=1'
in /etc/system, and can therefore quietly allow
programs that would
I picture this somehow as being just a bit more
functionality added to mprotect(2):
/* following magic to identify operating on that
segment, rather than
* a particular address
*/
#define ADDR_STACK (void *) (-1)
#define ADDR_HEAP (void *) (-2)
mprotect(ADDR_STACK, 0,
Which does the PT_SUNWSTACK header apply to?
It sets the fields in the proc structure which
defines the stack
protection.
I'm not sure what point there would be in per-thread
control; if any one thread in an address space is
exploitable,
the whole address space is potentially
In that case, let me revise my earlier proposal:
ADDR_HEAP would apply to the entire heap, current and future.
ADDR_STACK would alter future behavior (both for main stack and
by invalidating stackprot as previously mentioned, for thread stacks),
but for the sake of gcc trampolines and the
On 10/20/10 3:39 AM, casper@sun.com wrote:
I had a few minutes today to try an
experiment, and I'm afraid
the idea of having ld always generate a
PT_SUNWSTACK is a non-starter.
The problem is that it overrides the behavior of
'set noexec_user_stack=1'
in /etc/system, and
On 10/17/10 10:01, Ali Bahrami wrote:
[...]
Until there's a consensus that Solaris should ignore
the platform ABI,
I think we're back to the original assertion that the
best you can do is
to always link with -M /usr/lib/ld/map.noexstk, and
to set noexec_user_stack.
Since executables that
While it doesn't help existing binaries, would it be possible
to for new 32-bit binaries persuade the linker to issue a
redundant (same as ABI) PT_SUNWSTACK header? That I
suppose elfedit _would_ be able to change after-the-fact.
I gather one could do it indirectly, by linking with -M
ppgsz(1) or mpss.so.1(1) can set preferred page size
for
existing (ppgsz) or new (both) processes.
Is there anything that can similarly remove execute
permission
from the stack of 32-bit processes, without do so on
a system-wide
basis (i.e. without putting set noexec_user_stack=1
in
ppgsz(1) or mpss.so.1(1) can set preferred page size for
existing (ppgsz) or new (both) processes.
Is there anything that can similarly remove execute permission
from the stack of 32-bit processes, without do so on a system-wide
basis (i.e. without putting set noexec_user_stack=1 in
Hi,
I suspect my issue is related to bug 6924390;
although mine is on SXCE130; I was testing the
system, enabled dedup, created an iscsi volume; then
disabled the dedup, tried to delete the iscsi volume
but gave me an error message, after that, the system
stopped working. I used -m
On 10/9/2010 5:34 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org
[mailto:opensolaris-
discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of
Edward Martinez
Ouch...
Microsoft raises the price for Windows.
Adobe raises the price for Acrobat.
Symantec
Maybe something strange with gdb, or with the compiler?
By convention, there is always supposed to be at least one
argument, argv[0], which should be the same as the pathname
or the last level of the pathname being executed (login shells
typically get the last level of the pathname but prefixed
And for the curious, after adding a pause() following the printf() in
atest.c, so I could use ps to see what a process with no argv[0] looked like:
$ ps -o pid,fname -p 15789
PID COMMAND
15789 atest
$ ps -o pid,comm -p 15789
PID COMMAND
15789
$ ps -o pid,args -p 15789
PID COMMAND
15789
$
Not to mention more detail on a much earlier departure:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Java-Creator-James-Gosling-Why-I-Quit-Oracle-813517/
Keeping in mind that one tends to only hear one side at a time, nevertheless,
it doesn't sound like Oracle wants creative people unless
He stressed that Oracle will continue to work with
the Linux community on the open-source version of
OpenSolaris, as well as Oracle Linux and its Red
Hat
Compatible Linux.
Linux Community? What about working with the
OpenSolaris
community? How about reopening onnv-gate again to
Cloning somewhat helps with the disk footprint, but
the savings there will
get lower over time as more and more binaries are
upgraded. We clearly
have to work on that. The memory saving of sparse
root zones was nothing
to sniff at.
So a share-able executable, library, or object had
On 9/14/10, Eric Andersen wrote:
Whatever Apple does or doesn't do, the point I was
trying to make was that a
whole lot of people are willing to not only accept,
but pay for an operating
system that is closed source. A very large amount
of OS X source code is
open and freely
Just updated my Ultra20 to openindiana from b134.
Flawless so far. Very nice
Exactly the distro I was looking for (i.e. not much
changed from opensolaris).
I tried nexenta and it is not what I want, I am sure
others want it though, so all power to them. I am
sure they were using
Ok, I understand your point. And it is cool with you
being first with several things.
I am only asking if all distros cooperated on one
single distro, would it not be better if there was
only one official community distro. It does not
matter to people if it is Schillix or OpenIndiana, as
I just have a small suggestion. Whatever distribution
we make, please
make available packages like FreeBSD ports or Debian.
That's the only
way we can make it more popular with Admins and new
users.
Ashish Nabira
Enterprise IT Architect
Email ashish.nab...@sun.com
Are you talking
I certainly hope the terms of the settlement are
released.
Keeping it secret would conspire to cast FUD on
all
other
distributions incorporating ZFS or considering it;
most of
which would be targeted at folks well below the
Fortune 500,
which means those not wealthy enough to
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On 9/10/2010 6:11 PM, Edward Martinez wrote:
It appears this is the license Solaris 11 Express
wil be under and it's
solaris 10 new license, an OTN lincese.
http://c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6891-Licensing-Change-for
Seems like Oracle Solaris users are safe, not sure if
other companies using ZFS in their products.
re also included. I'm not a lawyer:-)
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9I4EAR80
.htm
I certainly hope the terms of the settlement are released.
Keeping it secret would conspire
Copyright a state?
So anyone starting Indiana Software, LLC would be
in conflict with Sun because of a codename on a
project?
I guess people have sued for dumber things to try and
get money.
I think that Intel and Zilog both trademarked letters
of the alphabet (i and z, respectively);
[...]
Perhaps some sort of side project can be started to
look at a generic
way of making device driver sources from Linux and
the BSDs work with
the OpenSolaris kernel (as separate Solaris modules
so there are no
clashes between the CDDL and GPL/BSD licenses.) Most
of the devices are
Are you speculating or do you have some substance?
You seem to know a bit about AIX kernel code?
He's not wrong about AIX history - it has had parts of its
kernel pageable for a long time. But that is less important now
than it was once, esp. since CPUs are so fast, and disks, while large
[...]
on the other hand, I also wonder how update/patch
will be handled with Solaris 11 Express program since
it will probably employ a longer release period than
Indiana, will there be a repo for security related
patches? I am not worried about Oracle being able to
come up support scheme
AFAIK, that's pretty much what they said they'd do (as contrasted
with coming out with one more OpenSolaris release, which they had
said they'd do but didn't). So for those who want to run Solaris on
non-Oracle x86 hardware on the HCL in a business setting, it's (still) possible.
The lack of a
OK, someone 'splain me somethin'
I get how Solaris and OpenSolaris work, what packages
are, IPS, how to install stuff, and all that. Been
doing it for a couple decades. And by the way, I'm
still holding out hope for the Solaris 11 developer
release to effectively replace OpenSolaris.
Hi,
My AMD Opteron supports 4KB, 2MB and 1GB page sizes.
I observed that there is performance improvement
(reduced elapsed time) for some multi-threaded
applications when I used 2MB page-size for heap.
These applications need around 650MB heap (it reads a
huge file of around 650MB size).
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.
I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwise,
that was purposely crippled to use only
This is getting to the point that I'm even starting to feel the pattern here,
and I'm not one to proclaim bad news quickly.
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/815946
Since then, a couple of the names the poster speculated about have moved on.
It's hard not to wonder if there aren't some
This is getting to the point that I'm even starting to feel the pattern here,
and I'm not one to proclaim bad news quickly.
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/815946
Since then, a couple of the names the poster speculated about have moved on.
It's hard not to wonder if there aren't some
On 19 Aug 2010, at 15:43, Rick Ramsey wrote:
I've been with Sun since 89 and our great engineers
have always moved on. There's only room for a few at
the top, after all. It's actually a healthy
movement, since it gives younger engineers with fresh
approaches a change to step up.
We should not forget that Larry Steve are said to
be old time friends.
Apple showed great interest on ZFS (as any other OS
vendor, be it interest or envy). Who knows what
caused the decision to drop it? Maybe Steve was aware
of next Solaris happenings?
I feel Sol 11 express will be free to download like
the rest of Oracle's apps. I believe Oracle thinks
only enterprise users visit oracle sites,and that
makes oracle use the term enterprise,enterprise
user in their presentations, while the rest visit
science project distros sites. like
ostrich play with x86. The other thing is that the
memo is focused inward, and it doesn't really offer
complete information looking outward at customers.
Just because they are changing what they're doing
with releases doesn't mean that it will work out
worse.
I'd really like to be an
I don't think the IPS repos will disappear
soon.nbsp; In that memo it was
stated they are going to try to get a migration
path
from Opensolaris
to Solaris 11 Express.nbsp; So until that bridge
is
built, I believe they
will keep the current repo going.
Paul
i reread and i
Oracle sues Google over Java!
Un-believable! Now it is proven what Oracle's
intentions are! Is Java free??? What is the future of
Java now??? So much for pro-open source attitude! It
doesn't exist -maybe it never did after Oracle
acquired Sun. Will anyone trust Oracle any more?
Too
Presuming this is authentic, and not a hoax...hmm.
* Arrogance level: high
* Business justification: yes, if one neglects the negative response
* Practical impact: unclear
Most new projects already got pretty far along behind the firewall
before the rest of us could see them. This sounds as if
On Aug 13, 2010, at 16:39, Paul Gress wrote:
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
Eric
Thank you, that is definitely the starting point.
Once we have the driver's context structure pointer,
to dump it out will i have to implement a mdb
extension (Chapter 10 in mdb reference) to dump the
fields of this context structure?
agree, the driver's internal structure is part of
Ivan Wang wrote:
You need a distro built upon it to actually benefit
from illumos, plus things like X Windows stack (FOX
gate?,)
The FOX gate is obsolete and no longer maintained,
since the project to
replace all portions of the X consolidation with open
source completed.
The xnv-clone
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. So, trying
to derive from that fact, that Solaris/OpenSolaris is
only a server OS is
John Martin, any ideas?
As this also would work for the standard Solaris,
because at least, nVIDIA
already does provide the drivers for Solaris...
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home_new.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/what_is_cuda_new.html
This is a variant of the convenience argument.
Systems with root as a
ole require a local user account with Primary
Administrator role. When
I installed OpenSolaris it did the right thing and
created such an
account that does not depend on NIS or LDAP and is
thus insulated from
issues
You want a name?
uname...
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People tend to be banned for being seriously rude - hostile environment,
or something like that - not for disagreeing with the alleged party line
(of which there probably isn't one - I for one would probably not please
either the sky is falling or the everything is wonderful crowd, since
I tend to
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org
[mailto:opensolaris-
discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of
Brandon Hume
Or you just pay $400/yr to have a paid license
with
updates.
I wish you'd be careful throwing around absolute
numbers like that.
That value is
I can post anything I want since the First Amendment
(something I swore an oath to protect) is still valid
in the United States; there is nothing more that can
be said on the topic.
Any valid questions and arguments have already been
posted, so anything new is purely to antagonize.
_All_
FYI:
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/161333
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Alan Burlison
Good to see some clarity on one of the areas that earlier seemed murky.
More of the same, regarding OpenSolaris (the distro) would be helpful.
The alleged removal of the servers for the postgres folks' build farm
Oracle mentions OpenSolaris now:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/opens
olaris/overview/index.html
Not much of a mention - just says please go to
OpenSolaris.com on every tab. Interesting to see
that there is a community tab, which also points to
opensolaris.COM
All
Oracle mentions OpenSolaris now:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/opens
olaris/overview/index.html
Not much of a mention - just says please go to
OpenSolaris.com on every tab. Interesting to see
that there is a community tab, which also points to
opensolaris.COM
All
now i know how to do auto-snapshot on opensolairs.
Can anybody tell me if opensolairs has any tool to
implement CDP?
thx a lot.
By what definition? AFAIK, the extreme definition
implies being able to restore to any single completed write
operation:
I'm certainly not opposed to open, but the main thing it means to me
is source access (more to look, troubleshoot, and understand, and
maybe never to build), and also a counterweight to the scheme of the day.
In almost every other capacity, the openness of a distro doesn't do a thing
for me one
I don't know, but probably more people contributed to
SFE and/or
/contrib in the last couple of years than to
Blastwave.
Without getting into pointless comparisons (I've used both),
the problem I have with /contrib is
the huge bottleneck that appears to be present getting
stuff from /pending
Why isn't Larry slapping his marketing personnel? Can
they spell communication?
Non-communications is the policy, right? So he'd have to
slap himself.
I'd like a video of that...
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Stefan Parvu stefanparv...@yahoo.com wrote:
Interesting. Do you have any comparative numbers
between
OSOL and others: RHAT, Ubuntu for instance ?
I had the impression SMF did improve things. As I
read your post
it seems, sometimes in past but not anymore ... why
is that ?
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:18 PM, David Brodbeck
bro...@u.washington.edu wrote:
Is there any real reason to run compiz, other than
so you can watch your windows go up in flames or
break into little tiny cubes when you close them?
That stuff sold Vista but I'm not convinced of its
value
On Jul 19, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Mark Martin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Joerg Schilling
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote:
A packaging system is a packaging system. IPS is nobody's favorite,
but that's better than arguing
Rob asked: 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 (no offence
there, that's good
work too), just a take on Solaris Next based on the
latest available
bits.
You already have
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Richard L. Hamilton
rlha...@smart.net 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
People seem to keep asking what Oracle has done for them lately.
It might be an interesting exercise to look at it from their point of view.
What do they get out of engaging the community? That's what someone
(maybe the OGB, who knows) may well have to be prepared to spell out
if/when they talk
One of the biggest problems I just noticed is the stall in
promoting packages from pending to contrib.
Contrib: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/en/index.shtml
packages: 351, last updated December 15, 2009
Promoted to contrib: http://jucr.opensolaris.org/statistics/promoted_packages
packages:
What actually bothers me is that this has NOT been a
Gabby Goose section, at least not until recently.
And, no, not all People have to understand that
this is not a technical list. *You* understand it
to be a not technical list and it is quite
disingenuous, if not dangerous, to assume that
From my limited perspective and understanding dev
wants it in game layer on a gamble. Good Luck ??
Explain please; I'm not even 100% sure what you're saying,
let alone why. I would imagine that if someone wanted
an OS to do gaming on, and they didn't want any of the
more obvious
Yes, Erik. But few users are old grey beards like us
that are comfortable with listserver and push
discussion. The newer generation interfaces
w/everything via the browser, e.g. witness web 2.0,
so the reality of the matter is that the majority of
posts come via Jive interface. And as in
Since Oracle just reverted the name of Sun Java
System Web Server to one of its original names,
iPlanet Web Server, seems if anything they're
trying to preserve the old planetary marketing names
for Sun products...
If that actually happened, that demonstrates that while
Oracle may do better
If anything, at least iPlanet Web Server is much
easier to say, and rolls off the tongue better than
Sun Java System Web Server.
Plus, I took an eCommerce class for iPlanet at a SUN
education training center in Dallas years ago.
Insofar as this is simply undoing the damage from the
last
i have created an additional loopback interface for
denying ARP reply for a certain ip, here are the
commands i have run:
ifconfig lo0:1 plumb
ifconfig lo0:1 x.x.x.x -arp netmask 255.255.255.255
up
secondly i need to make it permanent , so i tried the
following to insert into
the
Calum Benson calum.ben...@oracle.com wrote:
It certainly happened, here's the latest mapping of
old Sun names to new Oracle names:
http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/sun-products-map-075562.
html
I'm not a great fan of some of them, but Oracle
does at least have a rather better history
hwc. Hardware cursor movement on Xsun was handled
inside the
kernel driver, offloading some of the work from the X
process.
hwc did improve the interactive feel of the desktop,
even if
part of it was only aesthetic.
Yes, I appreciate that on SPARCs with suitable hardware running Xsun.
One
Nothing is perfect. You can't expect anything free
or commercial to be
perfect. But if you have a support contract and
something goes wrong, you
can demand that they address your issue. Unlike a
free product ... If
something goes wrong, you have to dig into it
yourself, and if you
So now, the reasons why I think solaris/opensolaris are
well suited to be servers and not so much as desktops:
gnome etc, the gui of opensolaris is no better at task
switching and application management than windows XP
was. This is obsolete compared to aero, aqua, or
compiz. (win7, osx,
Of course, Solaris is promoted as desktop.
Look at SRSS solutions. Terminal servers should be
good desktops, otherwise why should I use it? It's
silly to use Solaris just to connect user to remote
Windows Terminal Server. If I wanted to do it I could
use Windows Terminal Server and RDP
So now, the reasons why I think solaris/opensolaris are
well suited to be servers and not so much as desktops:
gnome etc, the gui of opensolaris is no better at task
switching and application management than windows XP
was. This is obsolete compared to aero, aqua, or
compiz. (win7, osx,
To a database vendor, everything either looks like a database, or
a place to run one, or something that interfaces with one?
Ptui. I hope they're not that stupid.
AFAIK, MS played around with the notion of a database-based filesystem,
but never got it out the door. IBM has played around with
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