Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had many a live upgrade go awry over the years with Linux distributions. I'd be more impressed with a reliable upgrade system, even if it requires a reboot with media or special boot mode that is faster than the

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-06 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ONLY Linux distribution where you can do a live upgrade is Debian. You missed Gentoo! okay okay. Live upgrade sans compiling :P Gentoo has binary packages available too, so... -- Less is only more where more is no

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't true at all, but many potential users will never get past When I hit backspace, I get ^H--Linux hasn't done that since 1995! This kind of nonsense was what I did see after I did publish Schillix, the first OpenSolaris based distro. These people are

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-05 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
Seriously, many people have talked about this in the past, and there are some solutions today such as pkg-get which blastwave uses, and apt was ported with Nexenta...but I don't think it would matter as long as people got their packages and were able to have a network enabled install.

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, many people have talked about this in the past, and there are some solutions today such as pkg-get which blastwave uses, and apt was ported with Nexenta...but I don't think it would matter as long as people got

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-05 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
I've had many a live upgrade go awry over the years with Linux distributions. I'd be more impressed with a reliable upgrade system, even if it requires a reboot with media or special boot mode that is faster than the current process. live upgrade in the linux context strikes me as a

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-05 Thread Venky
The ONLY Linux distribution where you can do a live upgrade is Debian. You missed Gentoo! Venky. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-05 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
The ONLY Linux distribution where you can do a live upgrade is Debian. You missed Gentoo! okay okay. Live upgrade sans compiling :P Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-04 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Alan, Seriously, many people have talked about this in the past, and there are some solutions today such as pkg-get which blastwave uses, and apt was ported with Nexenta...but I don't think it would matter as long as people got their packages and were able to have a network enabled install.

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-03 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Friday 30 March 2007 06:39 pm, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Hi Alan, A packaging system like apt is exactly what I'd like. Frankly, a packaging system that blends the binary delivery benefits of apt plus the source delivery benefits of emerge would be fantastic. The network install is

pkgadd [was Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun]

2007-04-02 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: BTW: has pkgadd already been enhanced to include a tsort(1) like feature to automatically install a list of packages in the right order? CRs 4159916 and 4795539. (I think the latter should be closed as a dup of the former.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-02 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Joerg, No need to get bristled about it. Feel is one of the big reasons folks don't move off Linux... -J On 3/31/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason J. W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, A packaging system like apt is exactly what I'd like. Frankly, a

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jason J. W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, A packaging system like apt is exactly what I'd like. Frankly, a packaging system that blends the binary delivery benefits of apt plus the source delivery benefits of emerge would be fantastic. The network install is primarily what

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-30 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Alan, A packaging system like apt is exactly what I'd like. Frankly, a packaging system that blends the binary delivery benefits of apt plus the source delivery benefits of emerge would be fantastic. The network install is primarily what we're missing...that and the pkg utilities just feel a

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-26 Thread Ian Murdock
On 3/21/07, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, I hope to see Ian active with the OpenSolaris community.;-) Absolutely. My latency may be terrible though, particularly in the beginning (as you've no doubt already noticed :-). Sorry about that. -ian -- Ian Murdock 650-331-9324

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-26 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 26 March 2007 11:56 am, Ian Murdock wrote: On 3/21/07, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, I hope to see Ian active with the OpenSolaris community.;-) Absolutely. My latency may be terrible though, particularly in the beginning (as you've no doubt already noticed :-).

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-23 Thread Dick Davies
On 22/03/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Davies wrote: On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkginfo SUNWman does show: system SUNWman On-Line Manual Pages doesn't this mean it is installed? That's the man command, not the man pages. The

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-23 Thread Brian Nitz
Shawn Walker wrote: Your manpath probably isn't set correctly. The default manpath for Solaris does *not* include all of the man directories for all installed software; it is up to you set it appropriately. Setting your manpath to include /usr/sfw/man, /opt/SUNWspro/man, etc. would probably

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-23 Thread Shawn Walker
On 23/03/07, Brian Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Your manpath probably isn't set correctly. The default manpath for Solaris does *not* include all of the man directories for all installed software; it is up to you set it appropriately. Setting your manpath to include

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Thomas De Schampheleire
On 3/21/07, Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some interesting connections to Linux here as well. If you think about it, what do people want when they say they want Linux? The Linux kernel? Or the Linux distribution (i.e., GNU)? Could Solaris become a better Linux than Linux by

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Thomas De Schampheleire
Another thing that came to mind: the fact that Solaris needs a primary partition to install on is a big problem in my view. I had set-up my disk so there were 3 logical partitions of about 15GB for operating systems (linux and I hoped OpenSolaris as well). Obviously, Solaris couldn't install and

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread 陶捷 (Euler Tao)
yes, I'm also a long time Linux user/developer who has recently working on Solaris for a research project base on the DTrace tool. It's true there're plenty of powerful tools in Solaris, but some habitual Linux tools are miss or different. And this makes me feel uncomfortable. Baseing on Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Dick Davies
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - then there are the command line programs. There might be a good reason for this, but I feel that some of the Solaris-shipped tools are inferior to the GNU tools. For example, I don't see a reason why a simple recursive grep with

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Thomas De Schampheleire
On 3/22/07, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't on linux either (i think you mean 'grep -r'), but yes - this drives me mad too :) You should have a /usr/sfw/bin/ggrep that works how you want - if not, you need to add the 'SUNWggrp' package. In my version of grep (2.5.1), -R and -r

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
In my version of grep (2.5.1), -R and -r are the same. I use -R because a lot of other tools, like ls, only support -R. ls -r means 'reverse'. Tools like grep really should not have sprouted a -R because it is contrary to the Unix tool philosophy. Gnu apparently wants to reimplement all tools

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Shawn Walker
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing that came to mind: the fact that Solaris needs a primary partition to install on is a big problem in my view. I had set-up my disk so there were 3 logical partitions of about 15GB for operating systems (linux and I hoped

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All our tools accept man tool; that's actually 3 letters less typing. Indeed; and for a concise Usage message, tool -? often (if not always) does the trick. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Shawn Walker
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I personally find important in Linux is: - the user experience, mostly embodied by the KDE desktop environment. I don't like Gnome, so I don't like the default Solaris desktop environment. I heard that there is a KDE project for

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Shawn Walker
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another annoyance is that most tools do not accept --help. This is common with GNU tools, and I prefer it over -h, because some tools might use -h for a real thing. In case -h means remove all files, then you're screwed... That is

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: That is a matter of preference. I always hated the -- options GNU utilities use since they were so much more to type. I will admit You and me both! -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All our tools accept man tool; that's actually 3 letters less typing. Indeed; and for a concise Usage message, tool -? often (if not always) does the trick. (I generally find the tool --help output unhelpful; it's generally to terse and

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Dick Davies
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkginfo SUNWman does show: system SUNWman On-Line Manual Pages doesn't this mean it is installed? That's the man command, not the man pages. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dick Davies wrote: On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkginfo SUNWman does show: system SUNWman On-Line Manual Pages doesn't this mean it is installed? That's the man command, not the man pages. The SUNWman package contains the man pages for the ON

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkginfo SUNWman does show: system SUNWman On-Line Manual Pages doesn't this mean it is installed? That's the man command, not the man pages. It's about 12700 manpages too. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Ian Murdock
On 3/19/07, Dale Ghent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Ian Murdock wrote: Hi all, Hi, Ian, welcome to the community! Thanks! (SOrry for the delay weighing in--it's been a bit hectic these past few days..) You laid out a general outline of what you'll be doing at Sun,

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
great stuff snipped I AM a newcomer here, which means I come with fresh ideas and a lot of experience (both in what to do and what not to do), but which also means I need to earn my voice. Let the earning begin! You're the real honest to goodness community type person that we need around here

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Really .. its so great to see Mr. Debian here. :-) +1 :-) -- Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-21 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 02:32 pm, Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Really .. its so great to see Mr. Debian here. :-) +1 :-) Thanks Dennis, you have seconds. I'll contact you offline to setup your Debian fan club community.:-/ Seriously, I

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-20 Thread David Lloyd
Alan, I don't think you really care about .deb packages either, what I *think* you're saying is give me a packaging system that works like apt does!, if I understand you correctly. I'm in agreement with you, if that is what you meant, and packaging is being looked at inside (Open)Solaris

[osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Ian Murdock
Hi all, It's being announced today that I'm joining Sun as chief operating platforms officer, which basically means I'll be in charge of Sun's operating system strategy, spanning Solaris and Linux. I just posted the announcement on my blog (http://ianmurdock.com/2007/03/19/joining-sun/), and

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Ian, That's terrific! 3rd grade chantingPacking's gonna get fixed...packaging's gonna get fixed...!/chanting All kidding aside, you being on OpenSolaris is spectacular! Damn near causing a house party where I works. Hope you have fun at it. Best Regards Jason On 3/19/07, Ian Murdock

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 3/19/07, Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's being announced today that I'm joining Sun as chief operating platforms officer, which basically means I'll be in charge of Sun's operating system strategy, spanning Solaris and Linux. I just posted the announcement on my blog

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Dale Ghent
On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Ian Murdock wrote: Hi all, It's being announced today that I'm joining Sun as chief operating platforms officer, which basically means I'll be in charge of Sun's operating system strategy, spanning Solaris and Linux. I just posted the announcement on my blog

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 19 March 2007 08:53 am, Ian Murdock wrote: It's being announced today that I'm joining Sun as chief operating platforms officer, which basically means I'll be in charge of Sun's operating system strategy, spanning Solaris and Linux. Good to see you come on board. Will be looking

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread David Lloyd
Jason, 3rd grade chantingPacking's gonna get fixed...packaging's gonna get fixed...!/chanting Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P DSL ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Little
On 3/19/07, David Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, 3rd grade chantingPacking's gonna get fixed...packaging's gonna get fixed...!/chanting Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P Isn't that Nexenta? Had to say it. DSL ___

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread David Lloyd
Joe, Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P Isn't that Nexenta? Had to say it. I don't want the Ubuntu Userland on an OpenSolaris code base. I'd prefer a distribution as close to Sun's release of Sun Solaris (tm) that I can get but without Sun Solaris', errrm, wonderful?

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, David Lloyd wrote: Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P Blastwave.org is thataway - -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Ian Murdock wrote On 03/20/07 00:53,: Hi all, It's being announced today that I'm joining Sun as chief operating platforms officer, which basically means I'll be in charge of Sun's operating system strategy, spanning Solaris and Linux. I just posted the announcement on my blog