Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-25 Thread Hugh McIntyre
a b wrote: Even if there is no VC money and some people will have to, hum, share an apartment? Why not? Remember also, VC capital is a U.S. specific thing. In Europe, if you want a startup, you fund that thing out of your own pocket. Off topic perhaps, but they have VC's in Britain as well

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-24 Thread a b
Even if there is no VC money and some people will have to, hum, share an apartment? Why not? Remember also, VC capital is a U.S. specific thing. In Europe, if you want a startup, you fund that thing out of your own pocket. Even if there is VC capital available, people here don't go for it,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-23 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
Let me tell you a true story: Replace Solaris guy with debian guy in a Redhat shop. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-23 Thread Christopher Mahan
--- UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me tell you a true story: A Solaris guy will never join a rogue Linux startup. First of all, the developers will consider him to be obsolete - simply WORTHLESS. No, lower than worthless. Sad story. But let's say the developers of the idea are

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-23 Thread Christopher Mahan
--- a b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sad story. But let's say the developers of the idea are python+framework+ui+graphics people, and they are os agnostic, and one of them says: we should get solaris because it'll scale, and if we can bring in Joe the Solaris Guru at founding and give

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-23 Thread a b
Sad story. But let's say the developers of the idea are python+framework+ui+graphics people, and they are os agnostic, and one of them says: we should get solaris because it'll scale, and if we can bring in Joe the Solaris Guru at founding and give him shares and make him Director of OS

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-23 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me tell you a true story: Replace Solaris guy with debian guy in a Redhat shop. I meant there is a another true story like this only with a debian guy in a redhat shop. Send instant messages to your online friends

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-22 Thread Christopher Mahan
--- Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The design and planning of this (an OpenSolaris reference distro) _is_ going to be an OpenSolaris Community-governed thing, not a Sun-governed thing, right? Maybe Sun got tired of waiting for the Community? Chris Mahan 818.943.1850 cell [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Ian Murdock
On 5/17/07, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Murdock writes: On 5/17/07, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until an open collaboration of developers achieves the same documented process as industry or formal membership based bodies (ECMA, IEEE) or national (ANSI) or

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread a b
Sure, IBM may be not be innovating with AIX, as we speak, they've certainly done so in the past, and it would be a shame to ignore that. Solaris has gone through its dark times, as well, when AIX was considered innovative (consider, Solaris 8 v. AIX 4.3.3 or Solaris 9 v. AIX 5.2,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread James Carlson
Ian Murdock writes: On 5/17/07, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see how that's relevant for the question at hand, which I believe was the importance of POSIX, SUS, and similar OS standards for modern systems (or the lack thereof). It's all interfaces at the end of the day,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Ian Murdock
On 5/21/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No CIO in the world said, I've gotta get me some Linux!, or at least in the late 1990s when Linux was taking off. He woke up one day and realized Linux was already everywhere. Actually the reality is that he was told some day that Linux has

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-20 Thread a b
Do you have a HP-UX-11.x system? Yes, I do. Well, there is AIX but I am not sure whether IBM takes it for real and I know of no hacker who is using AIX as development platform. I wanted to get AIX, but when I looked even at an outdated 32-bit rack-mountable AIX PPC system, the prices of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-20 Thread Derek E. Lewis
a b wrote: I wanted to get AIX, but when I looked even at an outdated 32-bit rack-mountable AIX PPC system, the prices of the hardware were so high I just said - forget it! And the fact that one can't get AIX readily makes things even worse. Perhaps it is possible to obtain AIX gratis, but it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-20 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote: Sun is actually a massive a minority in the community at this point. There are 51,179 people registered on the site right now, and only about 2,000 of those have Sun badges. So, where are all those other people? I don't see them

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Doug Scott schrieb: The patch for df.c below checks to see if stdout is a tty (i.e. interactive), and will add the -h option if no other options conflict. If stdout is not a tty (i.e. a script), the df command is unchanged. Is there anything wrong with this idea?? Why does everyone like

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
a b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a HP-UX-11.x system? Yes, I do. Well, there is AIX but I am not sure whether IBM takes it for real and I know of no hacker who is using AIX as development platform. I wanted to get AIX, but when I looked even at an outdated 32-bit

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Daniel Rock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It probably shouldn't be the default, but I can't really tell what this means: 131996712968156 9652530272 1% quick, how much space is that? Enough free. With the -h option the width of the filesystem size is roughly the same - regardless if the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Casper . Dik
FreeBSD's utilities in contrast check for the largest required width and adjusts output accordingly: -rwsr-s--x 1 oracle dba 133894000 Mai 29 2006 oracle* -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba1339524 Mai 19 2006 oratclsh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba 48 Sep 25 2000 oraxml*

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Daniel Rock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: FreeBSD's utilities in contrast check for the largest required width and adjusts output accordingly: -rwsr-s--x 1 oracle dba 133894000 Mai 29 2006 oracle* -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba1339524 Mai 19 2006 oratclsh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If df had a similar output, I'd prefer this: 83886083041200 534740837% 335544321605719 31794110 5% 62914560 37766679 1412994873% 62914560 11017932 1412994844%

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
Compared to other marketing activities from Sun, this would be cheap and the current idea of project Indiana looks to me like a Sun OpenSolaris distribution that (if done the way it currently seems) will most likely embrace and crush the sensitive plants that are the real free grown

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compared to other marketing activities from Sun, this would be cheap and the current idea of project Indiana looks to me like a Sun OpenSolaris distribution that (if done the way it currently seems) will most likely embrace

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compared to other marketing activities from Sun, this would be cheap and the current idea of project Indiana looks to me like a Sun OpenSolaris distribution that (if done the way it currently seems) will most likely embrace

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compared to other marketing activities from Sun, this would be cheap and the current idea of project Indiana looks to me like a Sun OpenSolaris distribution that (if done

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Hugh McIntyre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD's utilities in contrast check for the largest required width and adjusts output accordingly: -rwsr-s--x 1 oracle dba 133894000 Mai 29 2006 oracle* -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba1339524 Mai 19 2006 oratclsh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Daniel Rock
Hugh McIntyre schrieb: You can use (n)awk in the case above. For example, what happens with cut in the case above if a future project allows usernames 8 characters? But granted that some people will have scripts that use cut, so it's hard to change. Compatible formatting if stdout is not a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugh McIntyre schrieb: You can use (n)awk in the case above. For example, what happens with cut in the case above if a future project allows usernames 8 characters? But granted that some people will have scripts that use cut, so it's hard

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Doug Scott
Shawn Walker wrote: On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugh McIntyre schrieb: You can use (n)awk in the case above. For example, what happens with cut in the case above if a future project allows usernames 8 characters? But granted that some people will have scripts that use

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/05/07, Doug Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugh McIntyre schrieb: You can use (n)awk in the case above. For example, what happens with cut in the case above if a future project allows usernames 8 characters?

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Daniel Rock
Shawn Walker schrieb: On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compatible formatting if stdout is not a terminal. Optimized formatting if stdout is a terminal. Which would be really annoying to me as a user. I would go to look at the output, think I'll just pipe that to such and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker schrieb: On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compatible formatting if stdout is not a terminal. Optimized formatting if stdout is a terminal. Which would be really annoying to me as a user. I would go to look at

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-19 Thread Daniel Rock
Shawn Walker schrieb: As I said before, the point is that it is unexpected behaviour. Do you count the number of columns in an interactive context? Unless the man page for the utility explicitly lists the behaviour in question, it is undesireable in my view. Even then, I have misgivings

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: And I don't see th package tools determining distribution models. Blastwave have a different distribution model from Sun and they use standard Solaris packages just fine. Can you store dependency

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HP-UX? Now that's a joke. hp being the braindead company they are, first killed off DECUnix (pardon, Tru64), and they haven't really done much of anything other than some minimal catching up, all while grinding their teeth, on HP-UX. I should know,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: And I don't see th package tools determining distribution models. Blastwave have a different distribution model from Sun and they use standard Solaris packages just fine. Can you store dependency data in Solaris packages? Yes, you have been able to store

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On 5/18/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The whole development model is because there is no other way to do it since the packaging tools will not allow anything else. There is no choice but to create the patch system. Likewise the distribution model. That's simply not

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that mess...here's another try. The initial area of confusion hits with the distinction between packages and patches -- I know there's a difference between releasing functionality and fixing something that's broken. That's

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
And the patches give you one thing by default that wholesale package replacement does not: the option to back them out. You can also roll back on a package system. A lot of this isn't unique to Solaris; I think a number of other (mostly non-Linux) commercially distributed OSs distinguish

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
And I don't see th package tools determining distribution models. Blastwave have a different distribution model from Sun and they use standard Solaris packages just fine. Can you store dependency data in Solaris packages? Send instant messages to your online friends

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I don't see th package tools determining distribution models. Blastwave have a different distribution model from Sun and they use standard Solaris packages just fine. Can you store dependency data in Solaris packages? This has

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/05/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that mess...here's another try. The initial area of confusion hits with the distinction between packages and patches -- I know there's a difference between

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote: Sun is actually a massive a minority in the community at this point. There are 51,179 people registered on the site right now, and only about 2,000 of those have Sun badges. So, where are all those other people? I don't see them participating on the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Danek Duvall
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:08:22PM +0700, Doug Scott wrote: The patch for df.c below checks to see if stdout is a tty (i.e. interactive), and will add the -h option if no other options conflict. If stdout is not a tty (i.e. a script), the df command is unchanged. Is there anything wrong

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread John Plocher
Andre van Eyssen wrote: It's a dose of hell for anyone learning to write scripts. I don't believe we need an envariable to enable this for several reasons: A) envariables don't scale - they are per-user, per-system, per-problem band-aids. Over time and over systems, this path leads to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Plocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre van Eyssen wrote: It's a dose of hell for anyone learning to write scripts. I don't believe we need an envariable to enable this for several reasons: A) envariables don't scale - they are per-user, per-system, per-problem band-aids. Over

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Rock
Doug Scott schrieb: The patch for df.c below checks to see if stdout is a tty (i.e. interactive), and will add the -h option if no other options conflict. If stdout is not a tty (i.e. a script), the df command is unchanged. Is there anything wrong with this idea?? Why does everyone like the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Doug Scott
Danek Duvall wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:08:22PM +0700, Doug Scott wrote: The patch for df.c below checks to see if stdout is a tty (i.e. interactive), and will add the -h option if no other options conflict. If stdout is not a tty (i.e. a script), the df command is unchanged. Is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, the Open Solaris community needs more than just programmers. Sure, but if someone that does documentation or marketing can code at least to the extent of the bite-size stuff, can in the former case read code without the need of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Doug Scott
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Another crazy idea would be to make utilities sensitive to a certain environment variable that defines the default flavor. It doesn't work out of the box exactly, but it could be made almost OOB if the choice of flavor is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Ian Collins
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I chose to use words that are deliberately provocative, and engender some of the fears of agile methodology. Agile methods do emphasize real time communication, over written documents. Agile methods also emphasize working software as the measure of progress, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Andre van Eyssen
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Doug Scott wrote: The patch for df.c below checks to see if stdout is a tty (i.e. interactive), and will add the -h option if no other options conflict. If stdout is not a tty (i.e. a script), the df command is unchanged. Is there anything wrong with this idea?? It's a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Doug Scott
Andre van Eyssen wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Doug Scott wrote: The patch for df.c below checks to see if stdout is a tty (i.e. interactive), and will add the -h option if no other options conflict. If stdout is not a tty (i.e. a script), the df command is unchanged. Is there anything wrong

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Ian Murdock
On 5/16/07, Frank Van Der Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't do that with zones as they stand now. There's a whole list of things you can't do in a non-global zone. So you'd have to pick one environment for the global zone (which can do everything you want), and then one for another zone

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Ian Murdock
On 5/17/07, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to think about is how standards have changed.. It's no longer big vendors in a room deciding what the standard is (i.e., the top down approach). It's more the developers (largely in open source projects) deciding what the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread James Carlson
Ian Murdock writes: On 5/17/07, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until an open collaboration of developers achieves the same documented process as industry or formal membership based bodies (ECMA, IEEE) or national (ANSI) or international standards bodies (ISO), _and_ there is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-17 Thread Jordan Schwartz
So, who exactly is left, other than Solaris, in the UNIX arena? IBM?, AIX Micro, Dyanmic, and VIO Partitions are kinda neat and they are supported on their big database servers as opposed to Sun Logical Domains. Granted this is mostly a firmware/hardware hack, but hey we need some other

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Van Der Linden
Ian Murdock wrote: Well, if that's what you think I've said so far, I haven't done a very good job of articulating my thoughts. Bottom line is: We have Zones, so we can provide two environments, one for people who are perfectly happy with Solaris as it exists today, and another for people who

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Frank Van Der Linden wrote: Ian Murdock wrote: [...] perfectly happy with Solaris as it exists today, and another for people who are more familiar with the Linux environment. So, the fact that we don't agree which one is better isn't a showstopper. [...]environment for first-class citizens and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Van Der Linden
Moinak Ghosh wrote: Nexenta has a very nice approach to this problem. You can set an environment variable to control your userland environment personality. I believe they have hooks into exec to determine the personality of the caller and automatically resolve binaries from /usr/sun if

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Frank Van Der Linden wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: Nexenta has a very nice approach to this problem. You can set an environment variable to control your userland environment personality. I believe they have hooks into exec to determine the personality of the caller and automatically

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Casper . Dik
Moinak Ghosh wrote: Nexenta has a very nice approach to this problem. You can set an environment variable to control your userland environment personality. I believe they have hooks into exec to determine the personality of the caller and automatically resolve binaries from /usr/sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Van Der Linden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would that not be transparent? (I'm assuming we're mapping paths in /usr/bin to /usr/sun *inside* the kernel) The csh hash table was a bad example, that one should be ok. However, it's not 100% transparent, since it looks to me like an application that would

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know what, I totally disagree with this move: Don't make Solaris Linux like, BUT teach us Linux guys the Solaris way. As I read here again and again the POSIX way - what ever that means, at least I don't know, and I am sure many young(as

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Doug Scott
Moinak Ghosh wrote: Frank Van Der Linden wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: Nexenta has a very nice approach to this problem. You can set an environment variable to control your userland environment personality. I believe they have hooks into exec to determine the personality of the caller

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:46:39PM -0400, Ian Murdock wrote: On 5/13/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:01:32PM -0700, MC wrote: Two things: Improvement can only take place with change or supplementation. If something does not improve, it will be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Doug Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen something similar used in the past to get around CPU instruction set differences. On Sony's (Yes Sony) version of BSD (possibly others), they were able to use an environment variable within a symbolic link. It actually worked really well.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Casper . Dik
Doug Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen something similar used in the past to get around CPU instruction set differences. On Sony's (Yes Sony) version of BSD (possibly others), they were able to use an environment variable within a symbolic link. It actually worked really well.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Frank Van Der Linden wrote: You can't do that with zones as they stand now. There's a whole list of things you can't do in a non-global zone. That is true today, but Xen might change that. We do have branded zones today which run a Linux personality, but as you point

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-16 Thread Dick Davies
On 16/05/07, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Frank Van Der Linden wrote: You can't do that with zones as they stand now. There's a whole list of things you can't do in a non-global zone. That is true today, but Xen might change that. We do have branded zones today

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Murdock
On 5/13/07, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:01:32PM -0700, MC wrote: Two things: Improvement can only take place with change or supplementation. If something does not improve, it will be replaced by superior alternatives. Sun wants Solaris to be successful,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:52:53AM -0700, Doug Scott wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:35:49AM -0400, Stefan Teleman wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 17:48, Ceri Davies wrote: I assume the community reserves its right to reject Project Indiana? Ceri You do not

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
On 14/05/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I think the good news for the old guard is that the largest faults in Solaris can be fixed by supplementation rather than change. I'm referring to the GUI. Because whether the old guard knows it or not, what ls

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Shawn Walker
On 14/05/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: --- Gueven Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example a better package manager: Okay. But build it on top of the pkg_* commands which are in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ceri Davies wrote: I'm not saying that a rejection is justified, please don't assume that. As you say, we don't even know what the proposal is. All I'm asking is whether it is possible that the community can be railroaded by Sun into accepting whatever Sun wish to throw at it. Allowing the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: package management. tools are not open, they have issues and they are not transparent. What are you talking about? Are you talking about this: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/install/downloads/current/ Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Rampelberg
Ian Murdock wrote: This is ultimately why I decided the term usability gap was unfair. Usability is relative. Solaris doesn't seem usable to someone who's been using Linux for the last 10 years. But then again, I suspect Linux doesn't seem usable to someone who's been using Solaris for the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Brian Gupta
my opinion is very important for luring the Linux community to a far superior kernel I think, however, that it's missing the point Agreed. One thing that is often missed, X tool is suitable for the task at hand. In many cases Linux (and it's kernel) is suited to the task at hand. In many

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: package management. tools are not open, they have issues and they are not transparent. What are you talking about? Are you talking about this:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:37:34AM +0100, a b wrote: Last time I used tcsh there was no way to do redirection properly, and therefore it sucked. It did everything else brilliantly, but every now and then I would find myself needing to redirect something and falling back to another

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:37:34AM +0100, a b wrote: Last time I used tcsh there was no way to do redirection properly, and therefore it sucked. It did everything else brilliantly, but every now and then I would find myself needing to redirect

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:08:01AM -0700, carlos antonio neira bustos wrote: Im totally against this aproach , why be like that other OS ?? ,for start being like linux , we need some more bugs and profanity in the source code ... is enough to say that im horryfied with this news. Because

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread a b
I just want to check with other senior people on this. Am I one of the few that uses /sbin/sh as my default shell ? I quite literally use it as my default. You like pain and misery, or what? (:-) I mean /sbin/sh is the default shell and all, and one shouldn't really change it, but as an

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread a b
Last time I used tcsh there was no way to do redirection properly, and therefore it sucked. It did everything else brilliantly, but every now and then I would find myself needing to redirect something and falling back to another shell. So now I use zsh, which is better than all of the

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread a b
I apologize. It wasn't warranted. I have just waded through too many of these recently, and I only sleep three hours last night. Accepted. Now let's all plough on to meet the Solaris future, whatever that future might be - together.

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread a b
correct, this: star -copy -p -acl -sparse -C /src/dir/ . /dst/dir/ does a better job and is much faster. Yes, of course, but I used the `find + cpio` just to demonstrate how to do redirection of STDOUT and STDERR in tcsh. It was just a vehicle for the example.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Ceri Davies wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:01:32PM -0700, MC wrote: Two things: Improvement can only take place with change or supplementation. If something does not improve, it will be replaced by superior alternatives. Sun wants Solaris to be successful, so change (or supplementation)

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
familiarity. And familiarity for people coming from Linux is so important because there are so many of them. It is ultimately our target market for Solaris. We need those college kids who are coming out of university today who reach for Linux when they start companies or go to work in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's painfully obvious that OpenSolaris and Solaris on x86 platforms lack drivers of all sorts. It also lacks an easy way to install software reliably. If making OpenSolaris/Solaris more like Linux can resolve both these problems then I'm all for it.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
That said, I think the good news for the old guard is that the largest faults in Solaris can be fixed by supplementation rather than change. I'm referring to the GUI. Because whether the old guard knows it or not, what ls does today won't matter in the future because the new guard won't

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: --- Gueven Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example a better package manager: Okay. But build it on top of the pkg_* commands which are in Solaris today AND explain, show and teach the users the Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Ian Murdock
On 5/10/07, John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny you should mention this, but I generally feel that way when I ssh into the few Linux boxes I administer. Solaris is much more intuitive for me. But maybe I'm becoming that old fogey I swore I'd never become... This is ultimately why I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Ian Murdock
On 5/10/07, James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, as to what Ian is proposing - we'll have to wait and see. I've heard that he had a really really hectic time at JavaOne so it could be a little while. You have no idea.. :-) But I'm here now, as you've probably noticed.. -ian -- Ian

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread James C. McPherson
Ian Murdock wrote: On 5/10/07, James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frank wang wrote: Sun will keep two universes, 1 is Linux alike, the other Solaris alike. User can just pick what they like or are familiar with. But it can't replace the efforts to scale the train coverage on

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
Did you set up those 500 DB servers? Yeah, I finally finished them this morning! You mean, you hacked them all up together, installing one by one from DVD and modifying each and every system manually? And the fact that the work you did is basically crap and you should be fired for it,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Shawn Walker
On 12/05/07, Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's painfully obvious that OpenSolaris and Solaris on x86 platforms lack drivers of all sorts. I don't think that is an accurate statement. It all depends on the context in which you make it. For example, I have at least three systems that I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Ian Collins
Ian Murdock wrote: On 5/10/07, John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny you should mention this, but I generally feel that way when I ssh into the few Linux boxes I administer. Solaris is much more intuitive for me. But maybe I'm becoming that old fogey I swore I'd never become... This

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:35:19PM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: And usually with Linux. However, Even though I prefer tcsh, I don't think it's light-years ahead of bash. I've seen arguments on both sides. Did you read `tcsh`s man page? Last time I used tcsh there was no way to do redirection

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Casper . Dik
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:35:19PM -0700, UNIX admin wrote: And usually with Linux. However, Even though I prefer tcsh, I don't think it's light-years ahead of bash. I've seen arguments on both sides. =20 Did you read `tcsh`s man page? Last time I used tcsh there was no way to do

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-12 Thread Ian Collins
MC wrote: Two things: Can you retain some context please, you message make less sense in isolation. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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