W. Wayne Liauh w...@hawaiilinux.org wrote:
# For LibreOffice I don't see any builds for
Solaris. So, when we #wouldn't care about our
platform, what is then the foundation #doing? ;-)
I think your philosophy is fundamentally flawed.
No one is expecting the TDF to port LibreOffice
# For LibreOffice I don't see any builds for Solaris. So, when we #wouldn't
care about our platform, what is then the foundation #doing? ;-)
I think your philosophy is fundamentally flawed. No one is expecting the TDF
to port LibreOffice to Solaris.
If Oracle is not stubborn/stupid enough
I think it's a lot worse. It's not just
non-production use, it's only licensed for
software
development, and only for use by a single person.
I
can't think of many places where you could
actually
use it. All of my software developers need to
allow
someone else onto their machines
OpenSolaris-based distributions based on older
releases of the OpenSolaris kernel.
Distros:
belenix
eon
jeos
korona
martux
milax
nexenta
openindiana
schillix
stormos
Note: Solaris 11 Express (b151a) has the latest
kernel build based on OpenSolaris
Hi,
I was going through the OTN license and I noticed
something that got me thinking
that solaris 11 express can only be used on one
computer. what if i have was running
opensolaris on two or more computers at home (non
production form),like, my desktop and laptop.this
means i can only
production form),like, my desktop and laptop.this
means i can only use solaris 11 express only on
one
of them. is their a lawyer around here;-)
Wouldn't downloading S11e as many times as you have
machines solve this?
Exactly. Anyone who has downloaded the S11e images should know that
The following comment was cc'd from the GullFoss Forum, in case my posting was
rejected:
I am unable to install OOo 3.3RC5 in the just-released Oracle Solaris 11
Express. I have no problem installing it in Ubuntu. And I was able to install
one of the previous RC's in Solaris 10u9 (with
please disregard this method, openoffice did install
but also broke my solaris 11 install, this method
worked on previous opensolaris release but no
longer.
Regards
Edward
You are right, trying to install OpenOffice.org the hard way (i.e., directly
using pkgadd) will hose your
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 18:33, W. Wayne Liauh
w...@hawaiilinux.org wrote:
The following comment was cc'd from the GullFoss
Forum, in case my posting was rejected:
I am unable to install OOo 3.3RC5 in the
just-released Oracle Solaris 11 Express.
it would really help to get some
Does anyone know whether iBUS will be available for Solaris 11 Express? If so,
is it possible to test it in Solaris 10u9? Thanks.
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On 30 Sep 2010, at 02:44, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the
update 9 of Solaris 10 has finally switched to
OpenOffice.org. Thus, it seems that Oracle also
silently RIP'd StarOffice (actually the decision was
already made during Sun's time
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
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/and_now_page_2
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joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
Dmitry G. Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com wrote:
So perhaps Illumos/OpenIndiana will become the
OurDelta or MariaDB equivalent of Oracle Solaris and
outshine its predecessor. :)
I am very doubtful about this. Oracle states
what's new in the latest release of Oracle Solaris
10!
http://blogs.sun.com/OTNGarage/date/20100908
Oracle upgrades Solaris with Sun Solaris 10 9/10
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/eye-on-oracl
e/oracle-upgrades-solaris-with-sun-solaris-10-910/
Download link:
what's new in the latest release of Oracle Solaris
10!
http://blogs.sun.com/OTNGarage/date/20100908
Oracle upgrades Solaris with Sun Solaris 10 9/10
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/eye-on-oracl
e/oracle-upgrades-solaris-with-sun-solaris-10-910/
Download link:
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Wikipedia says java is GPL. If you google around,
you'll find that some
version of java was released under GPL in 2006.
However, if you look around
... it is not readily available today, at least, not
in all the places you
would be most likely to look for
while mentioning copyrights, i'm wondering if Oracle
may also think it can sue illumos, like, it's suing
google?
Please think--and read--before you wrote.
Google got sued because it didn't follow the terms of the GPL (and failed to
secure an alternative license from Sun). The IllumOS
But it does make it very difficult for FLOSS because
every times you
develop something, it is most likely someone else has
already filed the
patents, and you are at risks from being sued.
-Ghee
Google is trying to hide under the FOSS umbrella. This is very deceiving.
Sun is
Not only is this statement incorrect (lawsuit is not
about GPL) ..
While the term GPL appears nowhere in the complaint, believe me (of course you
don't have to), this is EXACTLY what the lawsuit is about. And I also believe
that this is one of the main reasons that David Boies is taking this
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
I don't think anyone will like me for saying this, but for those handful of us
outside of Sun who have been following OpenSolaris since day one, do we
really expect a different outcome?
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Has anyone else taken note of the domain name of the
law firm representing Oracle in the suit against
Google?
snip
Has anyone ever heard the name David Boies?
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Garrett D'Amore, the Benevolent Dictator for now of the IllumOS project, has
posted a slide show in pdf format:
http://www.illumos.org/attachments/download/3/illumos.pdf
At the present time, the only thing I cared is that these great slides are made
using Oracle's OpenOffice.org 3.2 (pls see
Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
SolarOS
Rolls right off the tongue ;)
And anything that looks close enough to the name of
an existing
trademark that it could be a typo for it, is likely
to get you
unpleasant mail from trademark lawyers. Trademark
law protects
against confusingly similar
Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
SolarOS
Rolls right off the tongue ;)
And anything that looks close enough to the name
of
an existing
trademark that it could be a typo for it, is
likely
to get you
unpleasant mail from trademark lawyers.
Trademark
law protects
against
I don't know if you're aware the marketing thread
has been retired,
if that's the case, then maybe you can try to find an appropriate user group,
become at least an honorary member, and post your news items there.
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The installation takes no more than a couple of
minutes. The boot time I measured was about 25
seconds, as opposed to the 14 seconds advertised by
Alex ( :-) ).
This is VBox time, usually on SSD drive it's 14-16
seconds..
Again, I am sure everyone is aware that this is
only a
Wayne said:
Now that you mentioned this great idea of putting
together a minimalist distro, has anyone ever
thought about Milax? I have only taken a short cut
and tried to install it in VirtualBox, but have not
succeeded. Has anyone successfully installed and run
Firefox 3.6.6 and
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.
~ Ken Mays
One of the biggest problems with all of
On 17 Jul 2010, at 18:07, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
One of the biggest problems with all of our
community distros is that they are not compatible
with IPS. This problem is further complicated by the
fact that Sun's own OpenSolaris distro does not allow
multiple boot with other Solaris-based OS
snip
In a world where Solaris 10/Next is only available as a 90 day trial . . .
This is completely UNTRUE, and I really hope that we at least don't repeat the
FUD here.
The 90-day trial language already existed in Sun's license. The reason that
Oracle specifically spells it out was probably
The best of all worlds, IMHO, would be for us (the
community) to build
and maintain a website of our own that hosted a
minimalist distro of
our own, with IPS repos of our own, using only the
master mercurial
(and/or whatever) source repos mirrored from within
Oracle.
Explicitly NOT a
There is no direct, visible commercial benefit for
oracle to try to
displace ubuntu in the desktop market. There is
however a drawback
for Oracle's commercial success in case that Solaris
is no longer viable
on the desktop.
Jörg
Heartily agreed! But I am also looking at this
BTW: The problem with the US law system is that you
cannot cancel a patent
separately. This needs to be done during the main
hearing of the trial.
Jörg
Actually in the US, you can file a re-examination request with the Patent
Office to invalidate an issued patent. NetApp's COW
W. Wayne Liauh w...@hawaiilinux.org wrote:
BTW: The problem with the US law system is that
you
cannot cancel a patent
separately. This needs to be done during the main
hearing of the trial.
Jörg
Actually in the US, you can file a re-examination
request
Based on what Paul said
I don't think 'us' as the community that use Solaris
or OpenSolaris-based distros
should feel shafted if Oracle is focused on releasing
Solaris 11. I'd hope we'd want this
as the end goal as most of the OpenSolaris-based core
snapshots were not considered
Thanks. Oracle also provides a VirtualBox Solaris 10
10/09 Appliance Image in Open Virtual Format (OVF):
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-
CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?Produ
ctref=virtualbox-s10u8-x86-...@cds-cds_smi
This is a standard default
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:36 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh
wrote:
Hi Alex,
Sorry for forking the question, but have you
recently had any success in booting Milax 0.5 from
its vdi image? I keep getting the WARNING: init(1M)
exited on fatal signal 9, restarting automatically
message? Updating
snip
On my Mac (under VirtualBox, since it's
tedious to set up a
Mac to triple-boot, and I already have to have XP on
there for a few
gadgets that only can be updated from XP, plus the
service manual on
CD for one of my cars, that can only be viewed with
IE), OpenSolaris
seems about the
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org
[mailto:opensolaris-
discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of
Edward Ned Harvey
You suck, quit whining unless you're being
productive somehow.
I apologize for using this language.
This is a discussion list, where people want
On Jun 28, 2010, at 1:40 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
That said, many of my friends are amazed to learn
that they can so effortlessly run such a highly
revered OS (the Solaris proper, not OpenSolaris--most
of them really don't care about the latter and I am
sure Oracle's people cannot avoid
Hi Alex,
Sorry for forking the question, but have you recently had any success in
booting Milax 0.5 from its vdi image? I keep getting the WARNING: init(1M)
exited on fatal signal 9, restarting automatically message? Updating Oracle
VirtualBox to the 3.2.6 did not help.
No problem booting
snip
Money would be better spent on receiving a degree
from an accredited college or university. Everyone
knows what my BA and MS degree abbreviations mean.
When my PhD is completed, they also recognize that.
Been there. Done that. But son, if I were 30 years younger, I would be more
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:15 -0700, Orvar Korvar
wrote:
I would love to come, but it is a bit too far for
me. :o)
If you have any slides, it would be great if you
later posted them on the net so everyone got up to
date about the current status.
I can't make it either, I am in Canada.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/confcall/streetevents/SIG=133mnknrs/*http%3a//web.servicebureau.net/conf/meta?i=1113167739c=2343m=wasu=/w_ccbn.xsldate_ticker=ORCL
or
http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/7/114227.html
The above is the link to the earnings conference call, it is still working
hours here
snip
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Thanks, I am actually more interested in seeing that Safra (Catz) answered
questions relating to Sun (which could mean that she the highest Oracle
executive
Engineer, Solaris Core OS Engineering
President, Trusted Computing Group
Phone: +1 650 786 6309 (Internal x86309)
On Jun 20, 2010, at 12:36 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wp at HawaiiLinux dot org
wrote:
During the installation of Solaris Express, shortly after the kernel is
loaded, a Java virtual machine
snip
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Hi Erik,
Thanks a whole lot for taking time to post your thoughts. Different people
will react differently. I am sure you are aware that the stronger a person is
devoted to Solaris, the
I believe this project started as the Open Solaris Project (with a space in
between), from which it was evolved the SXCR DVD iso image, which those of us
outside of Sun must download in a multiplicity of compressed iso segments (one
segment at a time at a whopping 100 KB per second max), and
pre wrap=BTW, have you done anything about running the OpenOffice.org
plugin in NetBeans? /pre /blockquote
No, haven't done anything with the Openoffice NetBeans plugin.
Paul
Just a note to self-- Geertjan has a brief blog entry on integrating
OpenOffice.org into the NetBeans
On 03/ 8/10 01:04 AM, Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun
Microsystems wrote:
This case has been approved with +1.
I did give this case a +1, but there is still an
unanswered question
(see my mail from the 3rd). Please answer that
question before
approving the case.
-Seb
I believe anyone expecting any engineer to know all
the parts of
the system is woefully underestimating just how much
software we
have and what you consider to be common knowledge
is not as
common as you think.
Yeah, except I am not an ARC member. I don't know about you, but if I were a
I believe anyone expecting any engineer to know
all
the parts of
the system is woefully underestimating just how
much
software we
have and what you consider to be common
knowledge
is not as
common as you think.
Yeah, except I am not an ARC member. I don't know
about you, but
snip
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Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window
ow System
You have just inadvertently answered an important question that many of us are
wondering: Will OpenSolaris survive? I think the answer now is terribly clear,
even
Compared to other Linux distros, the IIIMF in
OpenSolaris also comes with an on-screen keyboard.
For users who have to use a non-US keyboard (e.g.,
the bopomofo keyboard for traditional Chinese
speakers), this is really handy. It is sad that
this advantage was never widely advertised.
I
On 03/ 2/10 11:58 PM, Paul Gress wrote:
On 03/ 2/10 07:59 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
snip
It gets just past grub and then just
hangs indefinitely.
snip)
(As an unrelated matter) when the happy face
won't stop smiling, you can hit the escape key, this
will cause
snip
The fact that the state of the art appears to be ibus
and that it is not
the default on Solaris is a detriment to projects
such as this that are
integrating new features for ibus.
Hasegawa-san, I believe you were both the case owner
and the project
team for the ibus integration.
I downloaded and installed OpenOffice 3.2 last night
on my snv_133 x64 system, the only hiccup I saw was
the Next button being grayed out on the initial
setup screen - but clicking the Help button, then
returning to the initial setup screen resulted in it
becoming available (weird), after
snip
My take is this, I read all the 300+ messages posted at Slashdot, and found it
amazing that one could surmise what Oracle may or may not do wrt one of its
most important assets without seriously entering Chairman Larry into the
equation. (As we all know, Chairman Larry owns about one
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:34:08 -0500, Michael Lee
mle...@gmail.com wrote:
Ultimately the slashdot link points to a short
article on Phronix about the not-so-bright future of
OpenSolaris at Oracle, albeit the article is a bit
weak on real content--still something about
OpenSolaris made it
Is the next formal release still planned for 2010.03
and based on build 134?
After very disappointing failures from previous builds, my hope was very high
on b133, especially since it is so close to the os2010.03 official release.
But b133 (LiveCD) still failed to boot from two of our three
No, on the contrary, nightly builds are only against
OpenSolaris.
Thanks, it always helps to know this is the case.
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I'll ask any question I want, so GFY!
Chinese using a Western name talks about using real
names!
Message was edited by: gpatrick
It is way beyond my dignity to even read your post, but my great great grand
father immigrated from China to Maui some time after the Civil War, I am
snip
In any case, there's plenty of reason for folks
outside Sun/Oracle to
build their own distro to cater to their needs
snip
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One of the most significant but often overlooked advantages of
For some reason Firefox 3.6 (tar.gz version) won't start in b132 (it worked in
b131).
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To put this to rest then. OpenSolaris is not a
different operating system than Solaris 10. Just a
different name, not a fork like OpenBSD from NetBSD
in any way. Strictly a name change to reflect that
it's open source?
If you want to continue to post stupid comments, please use your real
For some reason Firefox 3.6 (tar.gz version) won't
start in b132 (it worked in b131).
Looks like the nightly build was built only against S10? Please this not be
the case; so many people have worked so hard on OpenSolaris!
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However, the open source version of the QQ client
is known to have limited features (though it should
be good enough for inclusion in OpenSolaris). But as
I am sure you are aware, Tencent actually provides QQ
clients for various platforms, including Linux. Most
Linux distros avoid the
Thanks to Emily Chen for putting together the seminar photos and slides at:
http://tinyurl.com/bj-oracle
(As you can see, English is still the language of choice.)
可否请演讲者将他们的讲义post到网站上，让我们不住在北京的也可以共享？ Thanks
(Could you please ask the speakers to post their
seminar notes on the web so
Thanks to Emily Chen for putting together the seminar
photos and slides at:
http://tinyurl.com/bj-oracle
Oops, 下载 means download (the seminar slides). But I don't see anyone on
this forum should have any problem guessing that.
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What happens to JavaFX?
Larry Ellison rarely, if ever, commented on any specific product of the
companies that he acquired. JavaFX is probably the only exception. The words
he used were that he encouraged OpenOffice.org developers to write
OpenOffice.org libraries in JavaFX.
Many
I hope Oracle will not rebrand OpenSolaris / Solaris
look and feel, which tends to be blue/silver to
something bright red. It would be just too annoying.
Bright red will do very well in the greater China market. Very very well,
indeed.
Thus, quite contrary to what probably everyone else is
The only bug report I find was closed by one of the
pidgin maintainers from
Sun's Beijing office as not possible since the QQ
network owners don't allow
third-party clients:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7767
Thanks Alan (as always), but plse see the attached screenshot
It is not a technical issue, but a legal one.
I don't know if it is legal to ship a QQ client
created by using reverse engineering.
But I know, in 2006, Tencent filed a copyright
lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soff), the author of
Coral QQ, whose redistributing modified Tencent QQ
was
You can
see just as much as
most Sun employees can.
-Alan Coopersmith-
- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System
em Engineering
Most of Sun's employees don't even use OpenSolaris!
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BTW the webcast of the Oracle/Sun strategy session is still going on:
http://tinyurl.com/os-012710
I have to take off now. If anyone hears anything about OpenSolaris, please let
us know. Thanks.
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Oracle is not exactly known as being
friendly to open
source software
This statement is not exactly fair. Oracle has been one of the major
contributors to the Linux kernel. Also, Oracle was the first elite company
to port its mainstream products to the Linux platform (this move gave Linux
It is not a technical issue, but a legal one.
I don't know if it is legal to ship a QQ client
created by using reverse engineering.
But I know, in 2006, Tencent filed a copyright
lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soff), the author of
Coral QQ, whose redistributing modified Tencent QQ
was
While OpenSolaris is already open source (mostly),
there were some plans within Sun to open source more
technologies, but Sun didn't get to it because of the
merger. In particular - Sun Studio, C++ compiler etc.
Interesting what are Oracle intentions in regards to
keeping those plans?
I
The OS2010.03 LiveCD is supposed to be released in 03, 2010. As such, the
final RC should be out by the end of February ( based on the previous
releases, the official release will be binary-identical to the final RC).
However, based on what I read and from my own experiences (it won't even
Here's a quick dump on how to get Solaris 10 and
OpenSolaris
on the same rpool.
ttp://blogs.sun.com/mrj/entry/solaris_10_and_opensolar
is_on
MRJ
Thanks for the plug, will give it a try.
ps. Currently, I have Sol10 installed on the bare metal and OpenSolaris on an
external
可否请演讲者将他们的讲义post到网站上，让我们不住在北京的也可以共享？ Thanks
(Could you please ask the speakers to post their seminar notes on the web so
that those of us who are not living in Beijing can also enjoy the learning
experience? Thanks.)
大家好，
北京OpenSolaris用户组第三十四次会议将于1月 28日在北京清华科技园创新大厦A
Oh I agree, but I bet there's a lot of us who have
been using, live
upgrading, testing and providing feedback on SXCE
since it was a stroppy
teenager and haven't made the leap into the
OpenSolaris realm. It's
been too stable for its own good.
--
Ian.
Of course! I have been
The time you need to install OpenSolaris is much
larger than installing
SXCE, mostly trying to find which packages you've
missed this time.
Casper
This kind of extra effort is NOTHING compared to what those of us who are
moving from Linux to Solaris/OpenSolaris have to go through.
I really need to get on with my honours project -
which is on Solaris Zones btw. Instead I've spent the
past day filing nice new bugs in OpenSolaris. I guess
that's the price I pay for being on the bleeding
edge. ;-)
Cheers
Andrew.
My take is, thanks to AlanC's info in a separate
I was happy (at least for a while) to see that the following problem was solved
in snv_129:
. . . using terminal programs such as gnome-terminal(1) or xterm(1) may
result in characters not being echoed or commands unable to be typed.
However, after playing with input methods with the
I'm amused that you think that re-writing IPS in the
C language would
make it run that much faster.
snip
Cheers,
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Hi Shawn,
You are, of course, a very respectable member of this forum (an
understatement), but please refrain from using languages that may cause
Is expressing amusement language that causes
resentment?
Or is the bad language you are talking about the
reference to A$$ in
the subject line?
Has our forum come to this?
Brian
I believe you have answered your own question. (thus then why bothered to
ask?)
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I want, like about 90% of the more literate home
computer users to put together a zfs file server for
my ever-growing home network.
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Very recently, one of Sun's bloggers started a blog about building a small and
energy-efficient OpenSolaris/zfs-based home server:
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 00:07 -0800, W. Wayne Liauh
wrote:
Why can't we try to duplicate the Ubuntu desktop if
this is not already being considered?
Because I do not want Ubuntu? And with me many others
(I hope).
When Yong Sun (the AlanC of China IMNSHO :-) ) was still with Sun, he
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
I am running OpenSolaris in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.06)
now Kamic (Ubuntu 9.10) under VBox (fully updated,
now to 3.0.10). Here's a brief summary of the
problems:
1. no problem with os08011 liveCD and subsequent
installation,
2. image
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
I am running OpenSolaris in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.06)
now Kamic (Ubuntu 9.10) under VBox (fully updated,
now to 3.0.10). Here's a brief summary of the
problems:
1. no problem with os08011 liveCD and subsequent
installation,
2. image-updated to snv_121 thru
Try harder - which new Xorg version?
snv_107 - Xorg 1.5.3
snv_116 - Xorg 1.6.1
snv_120 - Xorg 1.6.2
snv_121 - Xorg 1.6.3
snv_126 - Xorg 1.6.5
I am running OpenSolaris in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.06) now Kamic (Ubuntu 9.10) under
VBox (fully updated, now to
it's so slow, that I need to wait ~1min to see the
cursor movement for moving my mouse.
Message was edited by: yongsun
I have run into a different kind of problem; I wasn't even able to boot from
the b122 image (AMD quad-core, Nvidia video, 8 GB RAM, trying to boot from VBox
3.0.4 under
I am disappointed. I'd installed opensolaris 2009.06
and uninstall it in favor of Sun SXCE. In my opinion,
it is much more polished in terms of the desktop.
Things are much more well integrated, the icons are
nicer, and I love the Sun background wall paper. Like
everyone else, I hope there
Sun is announcing the intent to discontinue
production of the Solaris
Express
Community Edition (SXCE)
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IMNSHO, this move is long overdue, but thanks for bringing it to the discussion
forum.
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A few days ago, I upgraded one of my PCs at home to an AMD Quad, and I have
noticed a similar surprise in performance differences between OpenSolaris and
various Linux distros. (I have no intent of going back to OpenSolaris at least
for a while; the reason I did this was because I was unable
I just tested with OOo 3.1 (the default install in
OpenSolaris 2009.06) and with the development version
of upcoming 3.2 (DEV300_m53) also in OpenSolaris
2009.06 and I couldn't reproduce the bug in either of
them. Can this just be hearsay?
Hi Thommy,
A small correction I might add: the
I just tested with OOo 3.1 (the default install in
OpenSolaris 2009.06) and with the development
version
of upcoming 3.2 (DEV300_m53) also in OpenSolaris
2009.06 and I couldn't reproduce the bug in either
of
them. Can this just be hearsay?
Hi Thommy,
A small correction I
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