[osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Terri Wischmann
Hi All - We are very excited to announce the Apps of Steel Challenge - If you're a student, developer, system administrator, or someone who just likes to develop packages, use your talents and participate for a chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop! Submit the best package that meets

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Aw man, the contest started on April 11th, but nobody announced it here until April 13th? That gives everybody else a two day head start over me :-( I think I need to start occasionally hanging out more with all of the Indianites at OpenSolaris.com since I think I'm in the minority of people at

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anon Y Mous wrote: (2) As far as I can tell there's no way of doing automated / scripted installations of 2008.11 like you can with kickstart in Solaris 10. This combined with points #1 and #3 makes it almost impossible for me to use 2008.11 on production servers even though I actually

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Anon Y Mous (system5u...@yahoo.com) wrote: Aw man, the contest started on April 11th, but nobody announced it here until April 13th? That gives everybody else a two day head start over me :-( I think I need to start occasionally hanging out more with all of the Indianites at

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Lurie
Have you filed bugs on the dtrace toolkit issues (if in fact they actually exist)? I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't work. The networking stack in OpenSolaris is identical to the one in SXCE as is dtracetoolkit. I filed it two months ago...

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
SUNWmfrun is available in the /dev repo starting with build 110. There were licensing issues to be resolved that held it out previously. Thanks for the tip on the auto-installer! Is the root cause of the problem that SUNWmfrun contains some kind of cryptography module that can't be exported

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anon Y Mous wrote: Is the root cause of the problem that SUNWmfrun contains some kind of cryptography module that can't be exported under U.S. laws or is it more of an issue with a third-party company that owns intellectual property or part of the code that prevents free re-distribution?

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Shawn Walker
Anon Y Mous wrote: Also, does flar create not work well with the ZFS version used in 2008.11 and that's why it's not in there? Or is flar supposed to be replaced by some feature in ZFS? Or is the flar code owned by a third party that won't allow free redistribution of it? I haven't heard any

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shawn Walker (swal...@opensolaris.org) wrote: Anon Y Mous wrote: Also, does flar create not work well with the ZFS version used in 2008.11 and that's why it's not in there? Or is flar supposed to be replaced by some feature in ZFS? Or is the flar code owned by a third party that won't

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Sorry - I don't know anything about flar or flash archives - never used them or worked on them. Just thought I'd put it out there and ask if anyone had tried building flar functionality from source code on Indiana yet. I know I tried building the lsof command from source on Indiana and I

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Calum Benson
On 15 Apr 2009, at 21:36, Anon Y Mous wrote: (4) I really liked the dark blue colors in the Indiana 2008.05 default theme but now in 2008.11, all the default background colors are way too bright. It's really painful to stare at the background screen for a long time when you're using the

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:36 -0700, Anon Y Mous wrote: (1) it doesn't make it easy to do a minimum server install with just a command line and Apache and Tomcat or just Lightttpd or just a command line and a PostFix e-mail server (no GUI!!! yeah you can do svcadm disable gdm, but