Lofi compression sources available (was Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released)

2006-03-01 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Moinak Ghosh wrote: Stephen Hahn wrote: [snipped...] I'm curious about the implementation of the compression handling in lofi/lofiadm, so I suspect others might be as well; can you give the CVS paths to that portion, or will we see this feature proposed on opensolaris-{code,rfe} soon?

[Fwd: Lofi compression sources available (was Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released)]

2006-03-01 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Sorry if this is a repeat. However I did not see this email on the alias. So resending. Regards, Moinak. ---BeginMessage--- Moinak Ghosh wrote: Stephen Hahn wrote: [snipped...] I'm curious about the implementation of the compression handling in lofi/lofiadm, so I suspect others might be

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released

2006-02-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ken mays wrote: 7. Nvidia 81.78+ drivers for Solaris with GLUT missing. This is the icebreaker. Not shipping GLUT is a feature, not a bug. If you must ship something, try freeglut or OpenGLUT or anything with a license actually allowing real use, not just shipping as is, unmodified. --

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released

2006-02-25 Thread ken mays
I just reviewed Belenix 0.4 and must say this is one of the best Live-CD demos I have seen in quite some time for the Solaris Live CD distros. I enjoyed seeing Xorg 6.9beta, KDE 3.5.1, Koffice 1.5beta, KDEPIM/Multimedia, Quanta 3.5.1, GIMP 2.2.10, Xscreensaver 4.23, and pretty much a good

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released

2006-02-25 Thread Moinak Ghosh
ken mays wrote: [...] Sidenote: I got the same monitor resolution setting at bootup of 1400x1050 as I did during Nexenta bootup - this never happens with Linux Live-CD/DVDs). I go into Control Panel-Desktop-Screen as reset to 1024x768 and everything is fine. Monitor detection and setup with

[osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released

2006-02-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Hi, A new release of BeleniX, version 0.4 is out with new features: * The most significant is the addition of on-the-fly decompression support to the lofi kernel module using zlib and very little kernel memory requirement. This allows packing in 1.5 GB of opensource software under /usr

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released

2006-02-24 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-24 10:02]: * The most significant is the addition of on-the-fly decompression support to the lofi kernel module using zlib and very little kernel memory requirement. This allows packing in 1.5 GB of opensource software under /usr with space

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.4 Released

2006-02-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Stephen Hahn wrote: * Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-24 10:02]: * The most significant is the addition of on-the-fly decompression support to the lofi kernel module using zlib and very little kernel memory requirement. This allows packing in 1.5 GB of opensource software under