Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new community for Chinese users

2005-07-25 Thread Takaaki Higuchi
Hi, This was already discussed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] And decided to have both. But there seem some troubles on Chinese languages as described the URL below. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1206tstart=0 regards, Takaaki Higuchi(http://blogs.sun.com.thiguchi) TJ Yang wrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream

2005-07-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/05, Alvaro Lopez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest CDDL problem is that it includes a choice-of-venue: «The problem with choice of venue clauses is that anyone who accepts the license must also accept the burden of defending

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Casper . Dik
They're shipping ksh93, which is open source. Solaris includes ksh88 (g I believe), which is not. We'd love to just upgrade, but they're not 100% compatible. In the document: http://www.kornshell.com/info/ it says it's compatable. Just curious what the big compatiblity problems are?

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:39:09PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: justifiably or not is a matter of opinion. Even if the CDDL wasn't an obstacle, I don't believe they would accept the binary redistribution guidelines that parts of ON will likely

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Casper . Dik
They're shipping ksh93, which is open source. Solaris includes ksh88 (g I believe), which is not. We'd love to just upgrade, but they're not 100% compatible. We can certainly ship ksh 93 as /bin/ksh93. It would be nice if we could somehow qualify the differences and have a single binary

Re: [osol-discuss] how long before we stop doing...

2005-07-25 Thread ghee teo
Shawn Walker wrote: On 7/23/05, Sunil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep pkg-name /var/sadm/install/contents |awk '{print $1}' to see which files were installed by a package? when is this simple request going to be merged in 'pkginfo -l'? Workaround example: pkgchk -v SUNWGtku

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream

2005-07-25 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Glynn Foster wrote: So, let us not get so caught up in the numbers game. I'd just like to see a Companion DVD worth of optional open source software comparable to what you get when buying a Linux/FreeBSD at a computer store or buy it from Sun (with those Ultra 3 laptops!!!). Hey, 1K-3K packages

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream

2005-07-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ferdinand O. Tempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said earlier, both camps (opensolaris and debian) aren't too thrilled about the idea. I've already discovered that. The good news is that debian-legal finally pointed out the exact problem with the CDDL as it relates to the DFSG, instead

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream

2005-07-25 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Joerg Schilling wrote: If you look closely, there are a few paragraphs about taking kernels and building the Debian OS around those kernels (Debian GNU/OpenSolaris = Solaris kernel with Debian infrastructure (OS w/ported apps) built around it). I think the NetBSD people are doing something

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 25, 2005, at 2:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're shipping ksh93, which is open source. Solaris includes ksh88 (g I believe), which is not. We'd love to just upgrade, but they're not 100% compatible. We can certainly ship ksh 93 as /bin/ksh93. It would be nice if we could

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream

2005-07-25 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Joerg Schilling wrote: Like I said earlier, both camps (opensolaris and debian) aren't too thrilled about the idea. I've already discovered that. The good news is that debian-legal finally pointed out the exact problem with the CDDL as it relates to the DFSG, instead of just saying they

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Casper . Dik
On Jul 25, 2005, at 2:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're shipping ksh93, which is open source. Solaris includes ksh88 (g I believe), which is not. We'd love to just upgrade, but they're not 100% compatible. We can certainly ship ksh 93 as /bin/ksh93. It would be nice if we could

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote: Glynn Foster wrote: [...] I'm just pointing out, that the average user will probably not even use close to 3000 packages - if we can focus on a good set of packages, and maintain with a repository model it seems like a better

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express 7/2005 Released

2005-07-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ben Rockwood wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: The next release of the nVidia driver should install the PCI id's for GeForce cards/chipsets as well as the Quadro ones it currently does. Has there been any reaction from nVidia thus far? I'd think of adding the id's for GeForce as a sign that

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian (fwd)

2005-07-25 Thread Laszlo Peter
Hi Rod, Thanks for the detailed response. Of course I agree that it's better to avoid the problem by carefully controlling public interface changes. However more and more software in Solaris comes from external sources and while we can work with community maintainers and try and make sure they

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/25/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:39:09PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: justifiably or not is a matter of opinion. Even if the CDDL wasn't an obstacle, I don't believe they would accept the binary

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Feature request

2005-07-25 Thread Max Bruning
If the space is mapped by the kernel, you can use /dev/allkmem so, if the kernel maps the APCI tables, they should be visible there. (If they're not mappable, then /dev/mem should not give access). max On Jul 23, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Martin Cerveny wrote: 2) xsvc is a hack that should be

Re: [osol-discuss] Etymology of BFU

2005-07-25 Thread Roger A. Faulkner
From: Bryan Cantrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Etymology of BFU To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Teer) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Bonwick), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger A. Faulkner) Hi all,

Re: [osol-discuss] Why I do think OpenSolaris ought to work with Debian

2005-07-25 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Joerg Schilling wrote: Did you compile them yourself? . or do you just asume that it was simple to compile them because you did see the binaries made by other people? Of course, I do know how the Debian packaging system works. Otherwise I would remain in silence. Once a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 25, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that implementation could then be used by Solaris and included with

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread John Beck
Keith What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences Keith exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions Keith to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that implementation could then be Keith used by Solaris and included with OpenSolaris for other

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] snv_b18 on Acer 4101WLM notebook

2005-07-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Casper, Friday, July 22, 2005, 9:24:06 PM, you wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I tried to install b18 on Acer 4101WLM notebook with Pentium M (Sonoma) 1.6GHz with 512MB DDR2 and PCI-X. Just after kernel started it panics, stack looks like: kaif_enter+7 kdi_dvec_enter+0x32

[osol-discuss] snv_b18 on Dell Inspiron 8200

2005-07-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I tried to install snv_b18 (and 17 - the same result) on Dell Inspiron 8200 - I get system panic at the very beginning of booting. S10 03/05 works out of the box. I belive that initial SX builds worked too. kaif_enter+7 kdi_dvec_enter+0xa

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/25/05, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 25, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_b18 on Dell Inspiron 8200

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/25/05, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I tried to install snv_b18 (and 17 - the same result) on Dell Inspiron 8200 - I get system panic at the very beginning of booting. S10 03/05 works out of the box. I belive that initial SX builds worked

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express 7/2005 Released

2005-07-25 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Actually I think it was more a sign of our people and theirs getting tired of answering how to enable it with GeForce cards and how to recover when people tried to bind the video driver to their PCI bridge or other devices on nForce motherboards, and the higher levels in

[osol-discuss] Gosling on Source Code Management

2005-07-25 Thread Jim Grisanzio
fyi ... James Gosling is looking for feedback on source code management: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jag?entry=happily_subversive I just thought I'd kick the link to the list since this issue is critical for us here on OpenSolaris. If you like, let him know what you think. Jim

[osol-discuss] open source process

2005-07-25 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jul 25, 2005, at 10:43 AM, John Beck wrote: The first is that all the mechanisms which you rail against are in fact how things work now. Yes. I intend to change that. Your statement of how things should work matches my understanding of how things ought to work in the *long* term, but we

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:48:52AM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: Why does it have to be 100% compatible? That is a serious question. What breaks so bad that not having access to the source is considered a viable solution? 100% compatibility is not always required. Sometimes, no

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream

2005-07-25 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, A 'DVD worth' doesn't necessarily mean it has to be the only medium. I'm just pointing out, that the average user will probably not even use close to 3000 packages - if we can focus on a good set of packages, and maintain with a repository model it seems like a better

Re: [osol-discuss] open source process

2005-07-25 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:30:19PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: OpenSolaris is intended to be a collaborative project. In order to collaborate with the rest of the world, future progress has to be made in public, using public tools, on public work products. Any code that is not open source

Re: [osol-discuss] open source process

2005-07-25 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:30, Roy T. Fielding wrote: What exactly is blocking us from creating a directory containing ksh93 code Nothing. We should probably import ksh93 as ksh93 sooner rather than later. and making it the current ksh for OpenSolaris? One of the goals for opensolaris is

[osol-discuss] Re: open source process

2005-07-25 Thread John Beck
JBeck Your statement of how things should work matches my understanding JBeck of how things ought to work in the *long* term, but we have a lot JBeck of short- and medium-term work to do before we get there, and much JBeck of that work may be somewhat challenging. Roy Like what? Like migrating

[osol-discuss] Interface Stability and OpenSolaris (was process)

2005-07-25 Thread Brian Cameron
Roy: On Jul 25, 2005, at 10:43 AM, John Beck wrote: The first is that all the mechanisms which you rail against are in fact how things work now. Yes. I intend to change that. Everybody involved with Open and Free software is involved with changing how things work. I think it is great

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, John Beck wrote: Keith What Alan was saying is that once a definitive list of differences Keith exists, it should be possible to implement a clean set of extensions Keith to ksh93 for backward compatibility; that implementation could then be Keith used by Solaris and

Re: [osol-discuss] open source process

2005-07-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bryan Cantrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I went googling for differences and found a pretty significant one: It looks like ksh88 uses dynamic scoping while ksh93 uses lexical scoping. As I understand it, a similar disagreement caused something of a schism within the lisp community.

[osol-discuss] How would the ARC process look at this discussion of KSH 88-vs-93?

2005-07-25 Thread John Plocher
Keith and Roy's conversation about ksh... Keep in mind the traditional Sun/Solaris development model that we are trying to seed our community with: Germinate an idea into a plan, Commit to that plan from both resource and technical perspectives (do we _want_ to

Re: [osol-discuss] Interface Stability and OpenSolaris (was process)

2005-07-25 Thread David . Comay
So, this all begs the question, why isn't Sun making more of an effort to define a workable OpenSolaris process for interface review. There should be something on the http://www.opensolaris.org/ website addressing this topic, even if it just says We are working on figuring it out. Here are the

Re: [osol-discuss] open source process

2005-07-25 Thread John Plocher
Joerg Schilling wrote: Let me note about another problem: I did try to discuss important issues several times and have been ignored. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Ignored sounds so premeditated and malicious; more likely the lack of response