Re: [osol-discuss] Two noob questions (kernel/filesystem)

2007-07-31 Thread Venky
I even once read that if a situation occurs where Linux is faster than Solaris, Solaris engineers treat that as a bug in Solaris and assign it high priority to fix. Guess you are talking about this: http://blogs.sun.com/pgdh/entry/if_linux_is_faster_it Venky

Re: [osol-discuss] List of OpenSolaris variant ... Re: Menhir a distro for OpenSolaris plus Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

2007-07-18 Thread Venky
there. When Distrowatch was launched in 2001, it listed only 10 Linux distributions that had global reach. On a lighter note: Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users http://bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.html Venky

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Announcing the belenix-discuss mailing list

2007-06-29 Thread Venky TV
are available here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/ It offers threaded views and is actually reasonably functional. Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing the belenix-discuss mailing list

2007-06-28 Thread Venky TV
anymore, as far as I know. That is one reason why I set up the remote Google group for belenix-discuss. Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Announcing the belenix-discuss mailing list

2007-06-27 Thread Venky TV
group hosted here: http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX meets Indiana (Was: About Project Indiana)

2007-05-15 Thread Venky
was being conceived, and so has Eric. We could vouch for the fact that it was never a *Sun* project. Even now, Moinak and the rest of the BeleniX team work on this in their spare time. Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Paying Open Source Developers

2007-05-13 Thread Venky
a track record of working much better than hand-picked developers getting paid for their work. Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-05 Thread Venky
The ONLY Linux distribution where you can do a live upgrade is Debian. You missed Gentoo! Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ug-bosug] Getting Opensolaris build notification

2007-03-26 Thread Venky
Looks like I'm a little out of date! The changelogs are now over here: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/ Venky. On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:54:55PM +0530, Venky wrote: Don't know of an email notification setup, but you could have a look at the ON community page for details of the builds

[osol-discuss] Re: [ug-bosug] Getting Opensolaris build notification

2007-03-26 Thread Venky
Don't know of an email notification setup, but you could have a look at the ON community page for details of the builds and changelogs: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/onnv_putback_logs/ Venky. On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:33:16PM +0530, Atul Vidwansa wrote: HI, How can I get an email

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Venky
That was fast! :) +1 Venky. On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:09:24AM -0800, ken mays wrote: OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several reasons: 1. Stable hardware platform 2. Simplied device driver support 3. Modern features (Blu-Ray

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Country/Language Portals for opensolaris.org

2006-11-01 Thread Venky
people. Sure. The wiki was a long shot anyway! :) Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Country/Language Portals for opensolaris.org

2006-10-30 Thread Venky
+1 can we do this as a wiki? that should lower the entry barrier for contributors A huge +1 to that! :) Venky. On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:43:37AM -0300, Ignacio Marambio Cat?n wrote: On 10/30/06, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project Proposal: Country/Language Portals

[osol-discuss] Mercurial HOWTO

2006-09-15 Thread Venky
Englund's blog[2] as well as the Mercurial wiki[3] at selenic.com. Please feel free to contribute. Cheers, Venky. References: [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/ [2] http://blogs.sun.com/martin/entry/mercurial_for_teamware_users [3] http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Home page graphic redesign proposal

2006-07-20 Thread Venky
Or, a tagcloud. That would be visually appealing, educational, community driven. Okay, okay! +1 for the tagcloud! :) Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Interesting blog entry on Solaris 10

2006-04-21 Thread Venky
I had this blog forwarded to me: http://nb.inode.co.nz/articles/Solaris10_Evaluation.html Hidden among the rants are some interesting points about Solaris 10. Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: BeleniX 0.4.2 Released

2006-04-10 Thread Venky
upload it to the BeleniX discussion page here: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Belenix (Free) Registration required! :) Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Image uploading on the genunix wiki

2006-03-17 Thread Venky
, Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Should I install OpenSolaris?

2006-02-22 Thread Venky
Have added this to the FAQ at the opensolaris wiki: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_FAQ Venky. On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:22:22PM +, John Levon wrote: This FAQ comes up roughly six squillion times a day. Could the FAQ link to stevel's blog entry: http

Re: [osol-discuss] NetBSD's pkgsrc on Solaris

2006-02-21 Thread Venky
Neat! Why don't you add the article to the OpenSolaris wiki? http://www.genunix.org/wiki Venky. On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:55:37PM -0800, Roman wrote: Hi, if anybody is using NetBSD's pkgsrc framework for building third party software from source, then you might want to have a look at my

Re: [osol-discuss] CDE Vs JDS

2006-02-15 Thread Venky
Oh great. One button that says XTerm (77) and a vertical list that I need to go to the top of and scroll. 77 XTerms?! How do you manage without screen? http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/screen Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] CDE Vs JDS

2006-02-15 Thread Venky
in a single window, how can I easily find which window they're in? Yeah.. that's always a little painful. You can name screen sessions using screen -S, so I normally tend to group related windows into the same session and name the session (and the xterm window) appropriately. Venky

Re: [osol-discuss] Time to start consolidating? (Was: genunix wiki online)

2006-02-13 Thread Venky
Have started migrating the content from wikicities to the genunix wiki. Anybody who's interested in helping out, please pitch right in. You just need to edit the page in the wikicities wiki, copy the content and paste it into a page in the genunix wiki! As low tech as it gets! :) Venky

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix wiki online

2006-02-12 Thread Venky
Okay, now we have two OpenSolaris wikis! http://opensolaris.wikicities.com Time to start consolidating? Venky. On Friday, Al wrote: Thanks to the hard work of our own Ben Rockwood, the wiki for OpenSolaris related activity is available at: www.genunix.org/wiki/ One of the items slated

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Venky
on that principle and it seems to work just fine. I think that the first thing to get onto the site, somewhere, is really simple HOWTO type docs for new users and new people in general. +1 Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Wiki

2006-01-12 Thread Venky
an official wiki at opensolaris.org. Please feel free to participate. Regards, Venky. On 11:18 AM, Bill wrote: Are we at the point yet where members of the community can submit articles to the OpenSolaris site? Awhile back I built a VMware image that would give people a head start on OpenSolaris

[osol-discuss] Second Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group Meeting

2005-11-23 Thread Venky
email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/bosug/ For non-Sun attendees, please send me a note with your first name, last name and company name so that we can have your visitor badge ready by the time you show up. Venky

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-25 Thread Venky
a project for this and pool efforts? We could host the development repository on sourceforge. It'd have potential to become the de-facto libm for any OpenSolaris distribution and cut down some of the potential incompatibilities we'll eventually have to grapple with. Venky

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-25 Thread Venky
Source is targeted for January, and in the interim, we hope to get binaries posted this week or next. Great! Now that's one less issue to fight about! :) Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group

2005-07-26 Thread Venky
Hi, We have just launched an OpenSolaris User Group in Bangalore, India. If you are interested in joining the group, please subscribe to the Google Group here: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bosug/ Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list