[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread George
Well on powerfull aspect of solaris command recall using the vi is the ability to search and execute a command which is e.g. 20 in the history list with a simple /, while in linux bash you have to hit the up arrow 20 times. I think this makes the speed difference. Setting up the command recall

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/15/05, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well on powerfull aspect of solaris command recall using the vi is the ability to search and execute a command which is e.g. 20 in the history list with a simple /, while in linux bash you have to hit the up arrow 20 times. I think this makes the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: opensolaris and portage - two roadblocks and a rant...:)

2005-07-15 Thread Dan Mick
Sunil wrote: The above quoting is all I can see of your problem. I have no idea how to try to help. (web fora are not useful discussion tools.) you mean you can't see all the messages in the same thread here on os.org? I can see them alright. I'm on the mailing list. I don't use web

[osol-discuss] mdb/kmdb tip

2005-07-15 Thread Dan Mick
because someone pointed out in IRC that it was news to them: ']' and '[' are single-key accelerators for ::step and ::step over, respectively. they're awfully handy. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] freedesktop.org architecture/requirements

2005-07-15 Thread Darren Kenny
Hi Shawn, Shawn Walker wrote: On 7/14/05, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time i built DBUS (about 9 months ago or so), it sort of worked, emphasis on sort of. AFACS, HAL is in a pretty incipient stage, and, to my knowledge, there's been very little (if any) Solaris work done.

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1: a small proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jasse Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tests that are only based on SX don't help OpenSolaris. I think you mean that tests on SX don't help Schillix. Do you think your Schillix distro is the OpenSolaris reference? It sounds like that anyway. If SX Build 18 it out, then Sun now also has an

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1: a small proposal

2005-07-15 Thread ghee teo
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blastwave has all of their own set of libraries, and Sun has many of their own in /usr/sfw even, Sunfreeware has their own, pkgsrc has theirs, and I imagine that gentoo/portaris has their own also... With OpenSolaris,

[osol-discuss] Re: opensolaris and portage - two roadblocks and a rant...:)

2005-07-15 Thread Jürgen Keil
Also note that my song is in one fat32 partition and mozilla tar is on another fat32. The destination of untar is on / which is logging. Is the pcfs driver the culprit here? I have doubt about that because bzip2 never figured in the above mentioned 5 seconds in iosnoop. Moreover, the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that there needs to be a separateion between OpenSolaris source and the software base sources. So how about something simple ? Each distribution would be free to keep there own source management location/solution, this would only expect a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main features of GNU tar is compliance problems. I recommend to avoid GNU tar whereever possible. You cannot replace /usr/bin/tar with a program that does not implement the features os

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Theo Schlossnagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's worse than adding double hyphened long options? Also require no hyphen for other tools: http://jerkcity.com/jerkcity2434.html PS wars have been started by ATT in 1984. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris dowhat Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread TJ Yang
Joerg, Given you are author of SPS PMS, Do you have time to evaluate TWW HPMS ? And provide your comments ? Here is an example software build source for apache. ftp://support.thewrittenword.com/dists/7.0/src/apache-2.0.52/sb-db.xml anyone with sb tool installed can run sb sb-db.xml to get

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jake Hamby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right. At least my comment led to an interesting discussion, as I didn't know about star and its functionality. It might also be worthwhile to look at FreeBSD's tar, which is fast, automatically recognizes .gz and .bz2 archives (and decodes them

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one that doesn't like the --something-or-other options of GNU related software? Personally, I now consider it preferable (like a little bonus) when a tool or command provides long option equivalents for short options. Why? If long

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well on powerfull aspect of solaris command recall using the vi is the ability to search and execute a command which is e.g. 20 in the history list with a simple /, while in linux bash you have to hit the up arrow 20 times. I think this makes the speed

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/05, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well on powerfull aspect of solaris command recall using the vi is the ability to search and execute a command which is e.g. 20 in the history list with a simple /, while in linux bash you have to hit the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Casper . Dik
George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well on powerfull aspect of solaris command recall using the vi is the ability to search and exe cute a command which is e.g. 20 in the history list with a simple /, while in linux bash you have to hit the up arrow 20 times. I think this makes the speed

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:29, Joerg Schilling wrote: Smake warns about all illegal Makefile content. If you dowmload the latest illegal according to which standard document and version ? Please give a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If long options are present, then people will use them and if people use them, they are not POSIX compliant anymore. Who or what is not POSIX compliant? The people? :-) But even if you are talking about scripts, this is not correct. A script that

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Chris Ricker
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: I see not reason why FreeBSD people did start another tar implementation recently. Initially performance, now licensing. GNU tar was used by FreeBSD up until recently. libarchive was written to speed up the FreeBSD pkg* tools, and then it was

[osol-discuss] snv_18 - PXE install problem

2005-07-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I've installed snv_b18 yesterday completely over the network on my laptop using PXE. Most of the installation went smoothly, but here are some problems I encountered: 1. GRUB can't load it's configuration (menu.lst) from tftp server. I snooped traffic

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Chris Ricker
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: Initially performance, now licensing. GNU tar was used by FreeBSD up until recently. libarchive was written to speed up the FreeBSD pkg* tools, and then it was realized that it could be extended to a BSD-licensed tar implemented using

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot see that it would give more performance than star. star at the time libarchive was started was: * GPL * not a library Before that lib project started, I did aproach the FreeBSD people and offered to change star's license to *BSD. They were

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If long options are present, then people will use them and if people use them, they are not POSIX compliant anymore. ... ... But again, it is not acceptable to misrepresent the standard... +1. Most

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Sunil
Star ised -bz long before GNU tar started with -j Star implement -o as documented on SUSv2 (UNIX-98) GNU tar does not correctly follow this standard. but Jorg, now that -j is there and is present all over in many places, does it not make sense to provide an alias for -bz and -o in star.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sunil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Star ised -bz long before GNU tar started with -j Star implement -o as documented on SUSv2 (UNIX-98) GNU tar does not correctly follow this standard. but Jorg, now that -j is there and is present all over in many places, does it not make sense to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: opensolaris and portage - two roadblocks and a rant...:)

2005-07-15 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:46:35AM -0700, Dan Mick wrote: you mean you can't see all the messages in the same thread here on os.org? I can see them alright. I'm on the mailing list. I don't use web fora. See above. This continues to be a problem we'll need to resolve. Auto-quoting in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one that doesn't like the --something-or-other options of GNU related software? Personally, I now consider it preferable (like a little bonus) when a tool or command provides long option

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: If a few things are granted with the packages, it would be possible to reuse the work of other people: Yes, and while there are some good points here, this list in general shows exactly the kind of provincialism that makes it

[osol-discuss] Re: opensolaris and portage - two roadblocks and a rant...:)

2005-07-15 Thread Sunil
149 nscan = (last_total_pages * es * (tune.t_fsflushr))/v.v_autoup; nscan can be reduced by removing memory from the system; by lowering tune.t_fsflushr (but apparently that is already reduced to 1 on S10 GA); or by increasing the v.v_autoup tunable. tune.t_fsflushr used to be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: If a few things are granted with the packages, it would be possible to reuse the work of other people: Yes, and while there are some good points here, this list in general shows

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling POSIX a law and calling it a recommendation are extreme ends of the spectum is you ask me. How about meeting in the middle and calling it a key UNIX/Linux industry standard? This amounts to a recommendation which many have followed. Then again,

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Metrics - looking for input

2005-07-15 Thread Patrick Finch
All, I wanted to flag to the community that I will be developing a metrics package to be published eventually somewhere on OpenSolaris.org. I already have a few key measures ready, such as volumes of page views, numbers of community members, number of discussion posts etc., but I really would

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote: Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling POSIX a law and calling it a recommendation are extreme ends of the spectum is you ask me. How about meeting in the middle and calling it a key UNIX/Linux industry standard? This amounts to a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 15, 2005, at 6:18 PM, James Dickens wrote: I guess what we need now is to hear from others besides Joerg, and at this point we aren't ready for technical discussion, we need to build a community so we don't just have a community of 1 or two, we need others opinions as well and

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1: a small proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Jim Walker
ghee teo wrote: The HP testdrive program offers machines setup with different distros, for this to work, we will need to set up machines with different favours of OpenSolaris so that the setup times are minimum. In those cases, each owners of the different favours of OpenSolaris should take

Re: [osol-discuss] Addressing the base-library problem (Was: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?)

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Shawn Walker wrote: On 7/14/05, Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn wrote: ... I see a similar trend in Linux attempting to be birthed even now: http://www.componentizedlinux.org/. The idea of a similar project being birthed for OpenSolaris is an exciting

Re: Long command line options for core utilities in Solaris (was Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs. Linux)

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Plocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kinds of risk? By definition, existing scripts and customers don't use the long options, so this would be justified only by how it enabled new markets (i.e., porting from Linux...); adding long options diverges the commands from the POSIX spec, so

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote: Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling POSIX a law and calling it a recommendation are extreme ends of the spectum is you ask me. How about meeting in the middle and calling it a key UNIX/Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] mdb/kmdb tip

2005-07-15 Thread Bryan Cantrill
because someone pointed out in IRC that it was news to them: ']' and '[' are single-key accelerators for ::step and ::step over, respectively. And don't forget about widescreen mode: ^/ (And ^/ to restore again.) Not to put too sharp a point on it, but it's the best feature ever in the

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Crypto Code

2005-07-15 Thread Steve Logue
What is the current status of the Cypto Code integration with the main sources? Are they still seperate or are they merged and part of nightly builds now? Thanks, -STEVEl __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

[osol-discuss] ... on OpenSolaris is an oxymoron

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
Because these forums are surely being read by many (probably thousands) of people who are far less familiar with Solaris/OpenSolaris than the people who post here, I'd like to strongly caution people about the use of the phrase on OpenSolaris -- especially saying something resides or runs on

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
Can we all at least agree on two things right now. #1 if we work together and commit changes/ports/updates/security fixes to a single repository it will help out everyone. Agreed. #2 That we will work together to make #1 happen. Agreed. If we can just just agree on these two

[osol-discuss] Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Johnsen
Hi there, a week ago I read, that the development resources for the Java Desktop System will be decreased, since JDS stayed behind the expectations. I think it never had the chance to become a platform for third party apps, what would be necessary for a future-oriented unix desktop. Using Gnome

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

2005-07-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 7/15/05, Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because these forums are surely being read by many (probably thousands) of people who are far less familiar with Solaris/OpenSolaris than the people who post here, I'd like to strongly caution people about the use of the phrase on OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:48:48PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Let's start talking about Sun make when it is opensource. Fair enough. One problem with GNU make is that it is not well maintained (it still has unfixed bugs that have been reported and accepted as bugs in 1998). Another

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1: a small proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Seongbae Park
Joerg Schilling wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: It is currently impossible to create a 100% Sun compatible libm. Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? Joerg Schilling wrote: libm not only depends on ANSI C-99 but on undocumented hidden behavior of Studio 10. Can you report

Re: [osol-discuss] Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/15/05, Daniel Johnsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, a week ago I read, that the development resources for the Java Desktop System will be decreased, since JDS stayed behind the expectations. I think it never had the chance to become a platform for third party apps, what would be

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote: This amounts to a recommendation which many have followed. Sure, but my point is that standards like POSIX are more important than even that wording conveys. It cannot have been exceedingly important to the people who wrote the code in

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

2005-07-15 Thread John Plocher
Is it important (as an architectural goal...) that we could say runs on OpenSolaris[1] in the face of multiple OpenSolaris based distros? That is, if someone develops an application for Sun's Nevada release, *should* we expect it to, at a binary compatable level, just run correctly on

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/15/05, Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's fine to suggest that the makefiles should be fixed; I agree with that worthy goal. In many cases, however, it's not worth the effort, especially if the upstream maintainers won't accept the changes. In these cases it doesn't really

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Dan Mick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well on powerfull aspect of solaris command recall using the vi is the ability to search and exe cute a command which is e.g. 20 in the history list with a simple /, while in linux bash you have to hit the up arrow 20 times. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Dan Mick
Calling non-POSIX code illegal is clearly a distortion; it implies that POSIX is a law, while it is really just a recommendation. Nobody is required to write conforming applications. This seems to be an utter nit. I knew exactly what Joerg meant when he said illegal. Did anyone really

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

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/15/05, John Plocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it important (as an architectural goal...) that we could say runs on OpenSolaris[1] in the face of multiple OpenSolaris based distros? That is, if someone develops an application for Sun's Nevada release, *should* we expect it to,

[osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Johnsen
The only thing I have heard about JDS development is that the focus was shifting to JDS/Solaris instead of JDS/Linux. Are you certain about this? Can you quote a source? I don't think SUN would speak this out that directly. They aimed to create an alternate to Windows:

[osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Sunil
While I respect that is your opinion, please don't start KDE vs. GNOME flamewars using inflammatory language. hey, they are so much fun...:-) and I have to admit that gnome developers have no regard for portability. kde 3.4.1 compiles OOB on solaris, while every other pkg for gnome 2.10.1

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Crypto Code

2005-07-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:51, Steve Logue wrote: What is the current status of the Cypto Code integration with the main sources? Are they still seperate or are they merged and part of nightly builds now? It is still a separate tar ball you can download. Mike Kupfer and I met this week to

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

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, John Plocher wrote: Is it important (as an architectural goal...) that we could say runs on OpenSolaris[1] in the face of multiple OpenSolaris based distros? When Solaris and Solaris Express can fairly be be called OpenSolaris based distros, then yes. But right now

[osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
My two cents (from someone who has been using Linux desktops since the late 90's): since JDS stayed behind the expectations. JDS never took off b/c imho it was based on a platform (GPL/Linux) that was, on hindsight, never suitable for a desktop OS. A desktop involves as much hardware as it

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/15/05, Gunnar Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and since a deliberate Linus decision can override a POSIX requirement in that process http://www.opengroup.org/personal/ajosey/tr01-04-2005.txt, I continue to call POSIX a recommendation rather than an industry standard in this context.

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Sunil
Stefan's patches are needed to build with studio. With gcc, no patch is needed (in fact with portage I just do 'emerge kde' as on linux, and I get free generic patches for various issues identified after the release). That probably is understandable because untill now people at large didn't

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gunnar Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually fail to see a Linux industry standard in POSIX; Well at a minimum, it's certainly key to much of the development of POSIX-like Linux distro standards and other Linux standards such as those

[osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Jake Hamby
I know this topic can easily lead to a flame war, but I don't think my message has the potential to start one. You see, I also told what I like on Gnome, that KDE isn't perfect, and that I prefer KDE. But I accept people who don't like it (flavours are different). I am really serious about

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference between Linux and Solaris is that Solaris has been certified for being SUSv3 compliant. Solaris, not OpenSolaris. This is an OpenSolaris list, Jörg. Gunnar ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gunnar Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference between Linux and Solaris is that Solaris has been certified for being SUSv3 compliant. Solaris, not OpenSolaris. This is an OpenSolaris list, Jörg. So you believe that we should not try to

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Gunnar Ritter wrote: Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually fail to see a Linux industry standard in POSIX; Well at a minimum, it's certainly key to much of the development of POSIX-like Linux distro standards and other Linux standards such as

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gunnar Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference between Linux and Solaris is that Solaris has been certified for being SUSv3 compliant. Solaris, not OpenSolaris. This is an OpenSolaris list,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Dan Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anyone really suspect the police at their door if they violated the recommendations of some specification? Probably not, but Jörg's endless campaigns of I detected that this program is broken because it does not implement POSIX and they did not fix it for

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Crypto Code

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Shawn I noticed that the sdlc has a tarball of the OpenSolaris sources Shawn dated July 1st, 2005, while the one that was distributed on Shawn launch day is dated June 12th, 2005 The July 1st update was just to include a security fix for rtld (ld.so.1). The build 18 delivery (which I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:48:48PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: The implicit assumption here is that Sun make will be available as open source sometime in the next year and possibly sooner still. If you don't trust that assumption, and are

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gunnar Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gunnar Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference between Linux and Solaris is that Solaris has been certified for being SUSv3 compliant. Solaris,

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Crypto Code

2005-07-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:12, Shawn Walker wrote: Is there some particular area you are interested in ? Are you certain that they're not even partially integrated? I noticed that the sdlc has a tarball of the OpenSolaris sources dated July 1st, 2005, while the one that was distributed on

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Crypto Code

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/15/05, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me what particular things it is you are looking for. Is it crypto algorithm implementations, eg our AES code, or are you looking for our IPsec or Kerberos protocol layer stuff ? I'm personally not interested in any of them, it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread ken mays
--- W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My two cents (from someone who has been using Linux desktops since the late 90's): since JDS stayed behind the expectations. JDS never took off b/c imho it was based on a platform (GPL/Linux) that was, on hindsight, never suitable for a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:37, Joerg Schilling wrote: Sun could make Sun make more compatible to free make programs like GNU make and smake. Bug# 4866328 covers this. -- Darren J Moffat ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Jon Trulson
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, John Martinez wrote: On Jul 14, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Sunil wrote: have you considered providing gnu like long options and/or compatibility for star? it will be perfect if there was only one tar utility and all gnu programs with gnu options for /usr/bin/tar don't just die

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Dan Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then perhaps the complaint about the particular use of the term illegal is misplaced. No. Jörg's further derogatory wording (broken, defective etc.) leaves no doubt about it. You can hardly claim that people have a free choice whether to implement a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Dan Mick
Gunnar Ritter wrote: Dan Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then perhaps the complaint about the particular use of the term illegal is misplaced. No. Jörg's further derogatory wording (broken, defective etc.) leaves no doubt about it. You can hardly claim that people have a free choice whether

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gunnar Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then perhaps the complaint about the particular use of the term illegal is misplaced. No. Jörg's further derogatory wording (broken, defective etc.) leaves no doubt about it. You can hardly claim that people

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jasse Jansson wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 6:18 PM, James Dickens wrote: I guess what we need now is to hear from others besides Joerg, and at this point we aren't ready for technical discussion, we need to build a community so we don't just have a community of 1 or

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Eric Boutilier wrote: ... ... (but I should add that Portage provides a tool for converting to the Solaris package standard)... Correction, it's pkgsrc that provides that tool. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has fai

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Palowoda
On Jul 15, 2005, at 6:18 PM, James Dickens wrote: The main question is: does all those previously mentioned packaging systems have anything in common. The answer to that question should be the focus of this discussion. (Personally, I don't have a clue, but it seems that I'm not the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Bart Smaalders
My impression is that you are not interested in a fruitful discussion but only listen to certain buzzwords and then start to pick on people. Sigh. Productive discussion focuses on the technology, not on the personalities. This sort of statement could easily be (mis?)construed as a personal

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming you mean the five I identified as planning (AFAICT) redistributable distros: Blastware JDS/GNOME + KDE Pkgsrc Portage SchilliX ... have anything in common. The answer to that question should be the focus of this discussion. The

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bart Smaalders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that you are not interested in a fruitful discussion but only listen to certain buzzwords and then start to pick on people. Sigh. Productive discussion focuses on the technology, not on the personalities. This sort of statement

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 16, 2005, at 12:47 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jasse Jansson wrote: On Jul 15, 2005, at 6:18 PM, James Dickens wrote: I guess what we need now is to hear from others besides Joerg, and at this point we aren't ready for technical discussion, we need to build a

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

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 19:24, Bob Palowoda wrote: Something like 'appcert' minus the interpretation of the private interfaces of OpenSolaris. That is kind of a brain twister what private interfaces mean in OpenSolaris. Not really. Private has never meant Secret. It's always meant Subject

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

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Palowoda
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 19:24, Bob Palowoda wrote: Something like 'appcert' minus the interpretation of the private interfaces of OpenSolaris. That is kind of a brain twister what private interfaces mean in OpenSolaris. Not really. Private has never meant Secret. It's always

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 7/15/05, Jasse Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When someone has figured out how to the initial 'make' stage, then each distro-maker just has to fill in his part. This requires a central repository for these makefiles, might be at

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any makefile that uses $ in an explicit rule is dubtlessly broken if it claims to be portable and authors of free software usually claim to write portable software. _If_ they claim that. Otherwise they rely on documented behavior of GNU make. This is

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

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:31:12AM -0700, John Plocher wrote: Is it important (as an architectural goal...) that we could say runs on OpenSolaris[1] in the face of multiple OpenSolaris based distros? There is some mention of this at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/trademark_faq/

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

2005-07-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:24, Bob Palowoda wrote: Something like 'appcert' minus the interpretation of the private interfaces of OpenSolaris. That is kind of a brain twister what private interfaces mean in OpenSolaris. In the Sun interface taxonomy Private does not mean you can't see it. It

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

2005-07-15 Thread Bart Smaalders
Bob Palowoda wrote: So it would be an advantage to OpenSolaris developers to have a list of such private interfaces as not to consider developing any software that has a dependency. Or maybe the definition isn't clear. Example the 'pcic' module is a private interface. Wait is it a

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

2005-07-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bob Palowoda wrote: Bob Palowoda wrote: Interfaces which you should not use because they may change incompatibly at any time, but private is a lot easier to say/type. And or removed. According to Bill Sommerfeld. Removal is an extreme form of incompatible change, so yes, he's right.

Re: [osol-discuss] Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Glynn Foster
Heya, a week ago I read, that the development resources for the Java Desktop System will be decreased, since JDS stayed behind the expectations. I think it never had the chance to become a platform for third party apps, what would be necessary for a future-oriented unix desktop. Actually,

[osol-discuss] What Have We Agreed On ?

2005-07-15 Thread Stefan Teleman
steps on soapbox Hi. i would like to start by saying that the generosity of OpenSolaris' proposal for the desktop community exceeded my expectations. i somehow get the feeling that all these discussions are straying us away from what we set out to accomplish initially: reach an agreement (read:

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

2005-07-15 Thread Danek Duvall
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 05:18:06PM -0700, Bob Palowoda wrote: So it would be an advantage to OpenSolaris developers to have a list of such private interfaces as not to consider developing any software that has a dependency. All interfaces are Private unless marked otherwise. All

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread James Dickens
On 7/15/05, Jasse Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 7/15/05, Jasse Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When someone has figured out how to the initial 'make' stage, then each distro-maker just has to fill in his part. This requires a central

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/15/05, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well this all seems to be a great plan we are still waiting for feed back from the other distro's and individuals that might be interesting in working on this project. As an individual if you got involved you could do step one or two on a

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Jake Hamby
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: Chris Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Initially performance, now licensing. GNU tar was used by FreeBSD up until recently. libarchive was written to speed up the FreeBSD pkg* tools, and then it was realized that it could be extended to a

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