JDS was meant to be a Java Desktop System wasn't it ?
So, I would suggest to go with www.jpedal.org and build a nice Java PDF Viewer
that finally runs on each and every system. I'm using it on various Solaris
boxes and it works already sufficiently well.
To test it unpack the archive to
[I've cc'ed desktop-discuss, where conversations about desktop tools
will actually be seen by the people working on them, unlike
opensolaris-discuss]
Karsten Hashimoto wrote:
JDS was meant to be a Java Desktop System wasn't it ?
Not really - that was just a name chosen when Java was added
David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The day when I hear geeks say, why would I want to run Linux when
I can run Solaris, have a great desktop, and all those awesome
mainstream applications, then Solaris has made progress - until
then, Solaris will remain the red headed step
Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Well, I started compiling things, all nice, started to compile Xorg 7.1
and it failed to compile;
Strange - it's always compiled for me with Studio compilers. I test
with gcc occasionally, but there's enough other people
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Well, I started compiling things, all nice, started to compile Xorg 7.1
and it failed to compile;
Strange - it's always compiled for me with Studio compilers. I test
with gcc
On 5/31/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 31, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote:
Weird. You see this on all sorts of hardware including dual core
machines. What kind of hardware are you seeing this on now?
Intel 945PSN motherboard
Intel 805 Pentium D processor
eVGA
Matt Ingenthron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis Clarke wrote:
No Solaris x86 ? Are we able to perhaps
influence this to have more up to
date software options ?
I for one have posted to their user forum, asking
for a recompile to
x86. I suggest all interested parties
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
As a desktop, the lag is terrible, I'm using a Radeon X300/550 sitting
on a PCIe; all lovely-jubbly - running FreeBSD, my desktop with KDE is
'teh snappy' (to coin a Mac phrase), but when it comes to using the
default Xorg with Solaris 10 01/06 (which is 6.8.2), coupled
On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
Feel the love.
-Shawn
And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end
of thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living
crap out of me each time I start writing the OpenSolaris weekly
On 5/31/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Feel the love. -Shawn And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end
of thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out of me each
On May 30, 2006, at 9:47 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Personally, I'd love for Solaris x86 to get to the point where we
aren't bitching about hardware support or lack of ISV's, but
instead complaining about how we're *TOO* productive with Solaris,
and how there are too many software and
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe over this
You have no proof of that what so ever. Quite frankly you are being
troll, please go away and troll elsewhere instead of winding us all up
and filling up our mailboxes.
Some of us follow this
David J. Orman wrote:
On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
Feel the love.
-Shawn
And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of
thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out
of me each time I start writing
On 5/31/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 30, 2006, at 9:47 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Personally, I'd love for Solaris x86 to get to the point where we aren't bitching about hardware support or lack of ISV's, but instead complaining about how we're *TOO* productive with Solaris,
On 5/31/06, gheet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David J. Orman wrote: On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Feel the love. -Shawn
And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out
It would be nice to hear a 'this is what we're working on in the
way of hardware support - then atleast whiners like me can say,
hey, it'll be around soon, they're working on it now .
It's been said a dozen times, use the search function of your email
client (or the forums..)
The
On 5/31/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe over thisYou have no proof of that what so ever.Quite frankly you are beingtroll, please go away and troll elsewhere instead of winding us all up
and filling up
On May 30, 2006, at 11:43 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Well, lets assume we go free software and free love - someone has
to create this software - and with 5000 employees given the sack at
Sun, wouldn't of it been bettter to direct those 5000 (lets assume
1,000 were programmers) or so to
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Well, lets assume we go free software and free love - someone has to
create this software - and with 5000 employees given the sack at Sun,
wouldn't of it been bettter to direct those 5000 (lets assume 1,000 were
programmers) or so to put together a decent Adobe
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
honestly, how many companies would turn down free money?
Pretty much every responsibly run company will, if they feel
they can get a better return for investing their time resources
elsewhere.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Well, I started compiling things, all nice, started to compile Xorg 7.1
and it failed to compile;
Strange - it's always compiled for me with Studio compilers. I test
with gcc occasionally, but there's enough other people testing that works
on Linux that I don't do it
Bruce Riddle wrote:
Acrobat should be as uqbiquitous as power for a desktop computer.
It is just plain bullshit that a contemporary version of reader is
not available for Solaris x86.
I don't think there's any disagreement that everyone here wants Acrobat
ported to X86.
Sun needs to drive
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
What Sun wants are millions of developers to port to Solaris x86 out of
the goodness of their own heart - newsflash, the world doens't work that
way, people port when either they see the possibility of cash rolling
in, or when the CEO pays a visit to pay for the porting.
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
It would be nice to hear a 'this is what we're working on in the way of
hardware support - then atleast whiners like me can say, hey, it'll be
around soon, they're working on it now .
A quick look at the x86 HCL (and how much it has been growing)
Rich Teer wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Solaris/OpenSolaris - OpenSolaris "as an official distribution" hasn't been
released yet; it'll be interesting to actually see if OpenSolaris turns into
Solaris is, to all intents and purposes, Sun's distro
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Glenn Weinberg wrote:
Sorry to contradict, but Solaris *Express* is Sun's distro of the OpenSolaris
code.
Solaris 10 and its Updates are *not* direct distributions of OpenSolaris, but
rather are essentially backports of selected OpenSolaris code.
You are correct, of
On 6/1/06, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Well, I started compiling things, all nice, started to compile Xorg 7.1 and it failed to compile;Strange - it's always compiled for me with Studio compilers. I testwith gcc occasionally, but there's enough other people
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
I built it off the cvsweb tree, damn, I should have remembered which
module it stuffed up in, anyway, it stopped compiling, and basically I
was at the end of my teather - unfortunately I have very limited
patience when things like that occur; if it doesn't work, I simply
On 6/1/06, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: I built it off the cvsweb tree, damn, I should have remembered which module it stuffed up in, anyway, it stopped compiling, and basically I was at the end of my teather - unfortunately I have very limited
patience when
On 5/31/06, gheet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Well, lets assume we go free software and free love - someone has to create this software - and with 5000 employees given the sack at Sun, wouldn't of it been bettter to direct those 5000 (lets assume 1,000 were
programmers) or so
On Sunday 28 May 2006 09:08 am, Rich Teer wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Cheers. (from the patio at my parent's house using VPN over wifi;-)
Which is nice, but the fact is, thats server software - I'm refering
to workstation software.
Exactly how is wifi server
On May 31, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Xorg 6.9 performs nicely on my FreeBSD box, besides the DRI issue
(which hopefully get corrected), I expect a delay due to the nature
of this new, more modular approach.
Same for me.
We already ship 6.9.0 which was released at the
On 6/1/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 28 May 2006 09:08 am, Rich Teer wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Cheers. (from the patio at my parent's house using VPN over wifi;-) Which is nice, but the fact is, thats server software - I'm refering
to workstation
On 6/1/06, David J. Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 31, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Xorg 6.9 performs nicely on my FreeBSD box, besides the DRI issue (which hopefully get corrected), I expect a delay due to the nature
of this new, more modular approach.Same for me. We already
On May 31, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
The funny part, when running CDE; there doesn't seem to be that
issue to the same extent as it is with GNOME running. I thought
that maybe upgrading to Xorg 7.1 would correct the issue, but it
seems to be more to do with how Solaris
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 12:47 am, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Personally, I'd love for Solaris x86 to get to the point where we aren't
bitching about hardware support or lack of ISV's
Even if we got the point that *YOU* weren't [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it, we'd
all be
better off.
--
Alan DuBoff
On May 31, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 12:47 am, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Personally, I'd love for Solaris x86 to get to the point where we
aren't
bitching about hardware support or lack of ISV's
Even if we got the point that *YOU* weren't [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:45 am, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
And you know sweetcheeks, this is a GENERAL discussion; if you wish to
fufil your inner desires of wishing to know the internals of the kernel,
may I suggest subscribing to such lists.
Yes, and let's remind ourselves that this is not a
David J. Orman wrote:
Unfortunately, I absolutely have to agree here. With a dualcore cpu,
multiple gigs of ram, and a 7900GT (which Nvidia assured me was
supported with their binary driver), Solaris was *unusable* for me as a
desktop due to this lag being described. It's almost like a
On May 31, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote:
Weird. You see this on all sorts of hardware including dual core
machines. What kind of hardware are you seeing this on now?
Intel 945PSN motherboard
Intel 805 Pentium D processor
eVGA CO Nvidia 7900GT PCI-E Video card
2 gigs of pc(6200 i
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 09:15 pm, David J. Orman wrote:
+1 to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project. Are we allowed multiple
votes?
Hey, I didn't realize I had a proposal going!;-) JimG how many +s do I
need?;-)
Seriously, I want everyone to voice their concerns and opinions to Sun, I just
think
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Just a prod in the SUN direction - how about SUN releasing a stripped
down video card based on the Majc processor for PC's with PCI express
Sun got out of the video card business for SPARC workstations a while
ago and hasn't designed or built a video card in years.
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
And the Linux version has been upgraded to use GTK+,
Same with the Solaris/SPARC version when Acrobat 7 was released
last year.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
On May 28, 2006, at 02:45, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
On 5/27/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis Clarke wrote:
No Solaris x86 ? Are we able to perhaps influence this to
have more up
to
date software options ?
I for one have posted to their user forum, asking for a
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Well, all things being considered, this mailing list is nothing more
than a glorified parlour game of people throwing their 5 cents worth
in, and venting their frustration.
All opinions are welcome here as long as they are expressed with respect
for the people and the
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
So Oracle is a workstation application? Cadence and
PTC Pro-Engineer are hardly what I would label as 'mainstream'
software.
You can't keep going around and redefining your question just because someone
answered it. You asked for name 5 high profile, main stream,
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Just a prod in the SUN direction - how about SUN releasing a stripped
down video card based on the Majc processor for PC's with PCI express
Sun got out of the video card business for SPARC workstations a while
ago and hasn't designed or built a video card in years.
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
And the Linux version has been upgraded to use GTK+,
Same with the Solaris/SPARC version when Acrobat 7 was released
last year.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Feel the love.
-Shawn
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Stephen Potter wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
So Oracle is a workstation application? Cadence and
PTC Pro-Engineer are hardly what I would label as 'mainstream'
software.
You can't keep going around and redefining your question just because someone answered it. You asked for name 5
high
On 5/31/06, Bruce Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stephen Potter wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:So Oracle is a workstation application? Cadence andPTC Pro-Engineer are hardly what I would label as 'mainstream'software.
You can't keep going around and redefining your question just because someone
On 5/30/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/30/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My configure: ./configure --prefix=/opt/kiwi --exec-prefix=/opt/kiwi --with-gnu-as --with-as=/opt/kiwi/bin/as --with-gnu-ld
--with-ld=/opt/kiwi/bin/ld --enable-languages=c,c++ Anyone able to
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
...
Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe over this
Acrobat issue - honestly, how many companies would turn down free money?
I mean, if Scott turned up at your door step, paid you $10million in
cash, and all you had to do was port an application
On 5/31/06, James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:... Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe over this Acrobat issue - honestly, how many companies would turn down free money? I mean, if Scott turned up at your door step, paid you $10million in
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
On 5/31/06, *James C. McPherson* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
...
Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe
over this
Acrobat issue - honestly, how many companies would turn down free
Shawn Walker wrote:
Feel the love.
-Shawn
And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of
thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out
of me each time I start writing the OpenSolaris weekly news, and
discourages people from posting value to
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Hence the reason I don't believe Sun has EVER talked to Adobe over
this Acrobat issue - honestly, how many companies would turn down free
money? I mean, if Scott turned up at your door step, paid you
$10million in cash, and all you had to do was port an application or
On 5/29/06, Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Then the alternative is for SUN to get 10 engineers, and get them to work on an existing opensource project to bring it up to standard or create an in house version based off licencing
specifications.#
On 5/29/06, John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:34:33PM +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: When I tried to compile I specified using the GNU ld and as - would that have made a difference? but it still doesn't explain why qt
Specified how? --with-gnu-as doesn't do what you
On 5/29/06, Tatjana S Heuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Then the alternative is for SUN to get 10 engineers, and get them to work on an existing opensource project to bring it up to standard or create an in house version based off licencing specifications.
I'm very much in
We have gpdf, but I don't know how good it is, and
ISTR something called evince
(sp?) is the way forward in that arena...
Not very good. xpdf renders much better, but seems to have major performance
problems on Solaris.
This message posted from opensolaris.org
On 5/28/06, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: So unfortunately I've migrated back to FreeBSD (again) - I would really love to run Solaris x86, but when everything I try to compile turns to shyte, one really has to ask whether the maintainers of the
source are
A proprietary application that needs to run cross platform is useless. In my
humble opinion it HAS to be open source - which applies to Acrobat, but also
to Java etc. Only open sourcing Acrobat makes sure that all interested parties
in the game can have their share. And it guaranties true
Well, being that Solaris 11/10.1 or what have you is
a matter of a
year or so away - its not going to be good when the
same problems are
plaguing Solaris whilst the closest competitor -
Linux, has already
addressed the issue (ALSA) and other issues as well
(DRI/DRM).
Apparently you've
My configure: ./configure --prefix=/opt/kiwi --exec-prefix=/opt/kiwi
--with-gnu-as --with-as=/opt/kiwi/bin/as --with-gnu-ld
--with-ld=/opt/kiwi/bin/ld --enable-languages=c,c++
Anyone able to help with with that wee problem?
Change this :
--with-gnu-as
--with-as=/opt/kiwi/bin/as
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Can you point me to the translation project as to get the en_NZ translation
up to scratch.
Not off the top of my head (is there even a Kiwi transaltion project at
the moment?), but a look arounf www.opensolaris.org should help you. And
if there
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Nicolas Linkert wrote:
A proprietary application that needs to run cross platform is
useless. In my humble opinion it HAS to be open source - which applies
to Acrobat, but also to Java etc. Only open sourcing Acrobat makes sure
that all interested parties in the game can
On 5/30/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My configure: ./configure --prefix=/opt/kiwi --exec-prefix=/opt/kiwi--with-gnu-as --with-as=/opt/kiwi/bin/as --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/opt/kiwi/bin/ld --enable-languages=c,c++ Anyone able to help with with that wee problem?
Change this
On 5/30/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My configure: ./configure --prefix=/opt/kiwi --exec-prefix=/opt/kiwi
--with-gnu-as --with-as=/opt/kiwi/bin/as --with-gnu-ld
--with-ld=/opt/kiwi/bin/ld --enable-languages=c,c++
Anyone able to help with with that wee problem?
Change
On 5/28/06, Ché Kristo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SUN releasing a stripped
down video card based on the Majc processor for PC's with PCI express
buses, throw 128-256MB on the card, and sell it at a reasonable price
I do wish this was a possibility, we really havent been left with much of an
otion
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 02:27 pm, Dennis Clarke wrote:
We need to seriously go over to the doors of Adobe and get them to play
ball. Heck, if we have to we simply tell them to hand over the code to an
ISV and get it ported. Then we hand it back
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 02:47 pm, Joerg Schilling wrote:
I do this since more than three years on every fair where I see an Adobe
both. I don't understand their behavior.
Well, do you know that Mac almost lost support for AcroRead just prior to
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:24 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Not to sound negative, but isn't the port of RealPlayer 10 to Solaris
x86 and SPARC more a demonstration of Real opensourcing its client,
and SUN picking up the ball and running with it?
Not as far as I can tell, and this seems to imply
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 02:26 pm, Rich Teer wrote:
Didn't Sun's Johnny Loiacino (sp?) recently join Adobe? Perhaps some
Sun management types can persuade their old work collegue to do the
right thing?
Do you give Sun that much credit? I mean,
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:27 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
The sad part, these people think from quarter to quarter, where as I
prefer looking 5 years time; where are the products, where is the
marketing heading, and are we going to meet those market changes?
I'm not sure I understand. Are you
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:24 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Not to sound negative, but isn't the port of RealPlayer 10 to Solaris
x86 and SPARC more a demonstration of Real opensourcing its client,
and SUN picking up the ball and running with it?
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:33 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Well, all things being considered, this mailing list is nothing more
than a glorified parlour game of people throwing their 5 cents worth
in, and venting their frustration.
Well, we can give you a few dollars back for the worth you've
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:40 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Just had a look, its a nice player, would even be nice with portable
player support, and a good music library facility.
Sure, and Mac OSX, Linux, Windows, *BSD, and a host of other systems would be
nice if they had DTrace, ZFS, Zones,
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:27 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
The sad part, these people think from quarter to quarter, where as I
prefer looking 5 years time; where are the products, where is the
marketing heading, and are we going to meet those
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:40 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Just had a look, its a nice player, would even be nice with portable
player support, and a good music library facility.
Sure, and Mac OSX, Linux, Windows, *BSD, and a host of other
On 5/28/06, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
So unfortunately I've migrated back to FreeBSD (again) - I would
really love to run Solaris x86, but when everything I try to compile
turns to shyte, one really has to ask whether the maintainers of the
source are
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:33 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Well, all things being considered, this mailing list is nothing more
than a glorified parlour game of people throwing their 5 cents worth
in, and venting their frustration.
Well, we can
Either that, or launch a spear campaign that equates
Adobe to killing
cute little bunny rabbits.
Cute little bunny rabbits make nice lining for winter gloves.
Besides, be careful; there are worse folks than Adobe. Isn't MS introducing
a new format that they want to replace PDF with?
This
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:53 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
As for the last 5 years - name 5 high profile, main stream, software
titles that have come to Solaris x86 - not drivers like OSS, or
plugins like Flash/Shockwave or Real, but application suites like
MYOB, Peachtree accounting etc. etc.
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
As for the last 5 years - name 5 high profile, main stream, software
titles that have come to Solaris x86 - not drivers like OSS, or
plugins like Flash/Shockwave or Real, but application suites like
MYOB, Peachtree accounting etc. etc.
Gee, I'm using PTC Pro-Engineer
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:41 pm, Ian Collins wrote:
I wasn't sure whether this was just more of your inflammatory nonsense,
so I had a look:
Matty has proven to be a case study on trollology on several occasions, thanks
for the reminder.;-)
--
Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
Solaris x86
On 5/28/06, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Either that, or launch a spear campaign that equates
Adobe to killing
cute little bunny rabbits.
Cute little bunny rabbits make nice lining for winter gloves.
Besides, be careful; there are worse folks than Adobe. Isn't MS
On 5/28/06, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
As for the last 5 years - name 5 high profile, main stream, software
titles that have come to Solaris x86 - not drivers like OSS, or
plugins like Flash/Shockwave or Real, but application suites like
MYOB, Peachtree
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:53 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
As for the last 5 years - name 5 high profile, main stream, software
titles that have come to Solaris x86 - not drivers like OSS, or
plugins like Flash/Shockwave or Real, but application
On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:41 pm, Ian Collins wrote:
I wasn't sure whether this was just more of your inflammatory nonsense,
so I had a look:
Matty has proven to be a case study on trollology on several occasions,
thanks
for the reminder.;-)
On 5/28/06, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
So unfortunately I've migrated back to FreeBSD (again) - I would
really love to run Solaris x86, but when everything I try to compile
turns to shyte, one really has to ask whether the maintainers of the
source are
On May 28, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:Whats the status of your UltraSPARC workstation line? is there going to be a successor to the Blade 150? Sun Ultra 45. If you want something cheaper, the Opteron based Ultra 20 is great. And if you want something cheaper but must have UltraSparc,
On May 27, 2006, at 10:21 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Explain?
Explanation follows below:
Me: hey, here are some issues I have with Solaris
SUN Employees: Its YOU with the problem
Getting technical support from SUN must be a dream, oh, this is a
problem I'm experiencing..., reponse,
To get better support (especially without a support contract), one
must ask better questions.
If you ask an open ended 'large' question (Where is X headed in the
marketplace?), you may not get an answer as the discussion may be
very subjective.
In terms of technical questions/support,
Wes Williams wrote:
An older version (4?) of Acrobat Reader is available
for SOlaris x86,
but you need to get it via Adobe's FTP site IIRC. I
have a copy here,
but I doubt I'm allowed to redistribute it...
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member
Likewise, I've also requested this
On 5/28/06, Moazam Raja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 28, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Whats the status of your UltraSPARC workstation line?
is there going
to be a successor to the Blade 150?
Sun Ultra 45. If you want something cheaper, the Opteron based Ultra
20 is great.
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:34:33PM +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
When I tried to compile I specified using the GNU ld and as - would
that have made a difference? but it still doesn't explain why qt
Specified how? --with-gnu-as doesn't do what you might think it does...
regards
john
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Then the alternative is for SUN to get 10 engineers, and get them to
work on an existing opensource project to bring it up to standard or
create an in house version based off licencing specifications.
I'm very much in favour of this solution - like many others who just
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Cheers. (from the patio at my parent's house using VPN over wifi;-)
Which is nice, but the fact is, thats server software - I'm refering
to workstation software.
Exactly how is wifi server software?
Sure, I can advocate Solaris as a great
Cute little bunny rabbits make nice lining for winter
gloves.
Besides, be careful; there are worse folks than
Adobe. Isn't MS introducing
a new format that they want to replace PDF with?
Actually, since Sun has kissed and made up with Microsoft, they should tell
Adobe,
give us acrobat
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