Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dan Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Mick wrote: and for the record, /dev/xsvc is coming. I'm working on it personally now. BTW, examining the source for aperture, it looks very much like programs designed to use /dev/xsvc (like the afore-argued-about iasl) would work fine if /dev/xsvc

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-20 Thread Dan Mick
Dan Mick wrote: and for the record, /dev/xsvc is coming. I'm working on it personally now. BTW, examining the source for aperture, it looks very much like programs designed to use /dev/xsvc (like the afore-argued-about iasl) would work fine if /dev/xsvc were a link to /dev/fbs/aperture. I

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:01:09AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: No, Nevada is the engineering name for the development version of the whole Sun-Solaris. Then it is currently impossible to be binary compatible with it. That should not be

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dan Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and for the record, /dev/xsvc is coming. I'm working on it personally now. Good news Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog:

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-18 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:01:09AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: No, Nevada is the engineering name for the development version of the whole Sun-Solaris. Then it is currently impossible to be binary compatible with it. That should not be true, as concerns public interfaces. What you

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-18 Thread Dan Mick
Keith M Wesolowski wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:01:09AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: No, Nevada is the engineering name for the development version of the whole Sun-Solaris. Then it is currently impossible to be binary compatible with it. That should not be true, as concerns public

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-17 Thread Eric Boutilier
Joerg Schilling wrote: Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think we can minimize the problem by doing (at least start planning) an base reference distro ASAP... snip We cannot cover the whole Sun Solaris as Sun Solaris includes things that may never become OpenSource. Of

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think we can minimize the problem by doing (at least start planning) an base reference distro ASAP. If we like to talk about a reference distro, we first need to talk about the extent it should cover. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-16 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: ... P.S. I assume that Nevada is the name for the new version of the Solaris O/N consolidation and not a name for the whole Sun-Solaris. No, Nevada is the engineering name for the development version of the whole Sun-Solaris. Eric

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/16/05, Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think we can minimize the problem by doing (at least start planning) an base reference distro ASAP. If we like to talk about a reference

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think we can minimize the problem by doing (at least start planning) an base reference distro ASAP. If we like to talk about a reference distro, we