Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling writes: > > James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Right ... plus, if it were important enough to contend with, I'd think > > > we could create (yet another) new stat interface to deal with the > > > problem. > > > > I would be re

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: > James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right ... plus, if it were important enough to contend with, I'd think > > we could create (yet another) new stat interface to deal with the > > problem. > > I would be really happy with this! > > I would propose to make it ef

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You won't see them by default, thanks to PSARC 2005/361 (bug 6248624) - > > PCFS > > clamps the timestamps to the UN*X 32bit time_t range unless explicitly told > > not > > to by a mount option (noclamptime). See pcfs(7fs) and mount_pcfs(1m) about

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on > >> Solaris, so it's really more of an issue in run-time memory space than > >> anything else. > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on Solaris, so it's really more of an issue in run-time memory space than anything else. 32bit Applications cannot access files with file st

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on > Solaris, so it's really more of an issue in run-time memory space than > anything else. 32bit Applications cannot access files with file stamps that do not fit into the 32 bit rang

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ché Kristo wrote: >> *) i am wondering what would be the better road to >> take, should I download an run Opensolaris Indiana or >> SXCE75/76/77, or will they be available at all when >> indiana is released? How does indiana compare to SXCE > > SXCE at least will be discontinued, SXDE will likely

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
stefan writes: > *) one feature i Really Need for my laptop is PPTP vpn. I need to connect to > a VPN server at work but when i ran SXCE72 i was not able to get it working, > is it possible at all to connect to a pptp vpn server from solaris? No; there's no support (yet) for Microsoft's propriet

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-28 Thread Ché Kristo
> *) i am wondering what would be the better road to > take, should I download an run Opensolaris Indiana or > SXCE75/76/77, or will they be available at all when > indiana is released? How does indiana compare to SXCE SXCE at least will be discontinued, SXDE will likely continue as will the expr

[osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-28 Thread stefan
Hi all, i am thinking about making Opensolaris my main laptop OS (without Ubuntu 7.10 and Vista Ultimate) but have some questions before i do: *) one feature i Really Need for my laptop is PPTP vpn. I need to connect to a VPN server at work but when i ran SXCE72 i was not able to get it working