[osol-discuss] Kickoff Meeting - Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group
Just a reminder that the kickoff meeting of the Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8. What: Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group When: Tues, Nov. 8, 7-9PM, refreshments networking at 6:30 Where: Crowne Plaza Ravinia, Atlanta, across from Perimeter Mall Contact: Scott Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The main topic for this meeting will be OpenSolaris itself, plus demos of new and upcoming Solaris technologies. Check out the web site for the group at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/atl-osug and plan to attend. --SCott ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Nexenta (GNU/OpenSolaris) pre-alpha 1 distro is available
This is to announce Nexenta pre-alpha availability. For reference, the previous (initial, posted 11/01) announcement is here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3187tstart=0 Since 11/01 we moved to OpenSolaris build 26, cleaned up the pre build 26 libm related stuffs, and added 200+ new packages. There are two gzipped ISO images for x86 arch (32-bit and 64-bit): LiveCD and InstallCD, the latter - for hard drive installation. The corresponding download instructions, installation instructions, and the release notes are located at: http://www.gnusolaris.org We are still shooting for the alpha release in the mid-November. The current release is intended for developers-only. We are extremely grateful to people who volunteered to provide us with mirrors! Nexenta Team ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's not forget those users of HP-UX and AIX who do need to look for alternatives rather than just those of other, very much alive, Unix-like OSes, who want to broaden their horizons. So you like to set up a dictionary from hp-ux/aix/ to Solaris? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Re: application porting forum?
On Sun 06 Nov 2005 at 23:46, Dan Price wrote: On Thu 03 Nov 2005 at 07:39AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Since I'm going to ask a question about some problems porting a particular app to [Open]Solaris (in another thread), it occurred to me: why not have a forum for that topic in general? The more apps run on [Open]Solaris, the better it is for everyone. Further, in some Richard, Kudos. I've been meaning to start such a community for some time now, but have been too busy. I strongly agree with this idea, and I think it would be good to investigate a multi-pronged approach: - Create a place for porters to ask and answer technical questions. - Create a master wish list of open source apps we'd like to port: - What the app is, what it does - What needs porting (is it fine tuning? major functionality? clean integration with SMF?... what's the issue?) - Possible funding, bounties, etc. - Educational materials/articles about porting. - A list of identified problems with OS which are inhibiting porting. - Porting challenges: In other words-- December's challenge to the group is to port Audacity Further thoughts? -dp - pointers to helpful external docs (not constituting endorsement, of course) - discussion leading to guidance about where the line should be on Janus or other solutions making [Open]Solaris more accepting of foreign code vs where a native port would be more appropriate - for native ports, discussion leading to feedback procedures to get changes incorporated in the original project's tree, so that ports aren't just for one version, but for the future too - application build accounts, so that cross-platform project developers won't have the excuse of not having time or hardware on which to set up [Open]Solaris for themselves - working with sites like blastwave.org and sunfreeware.com to get their build procedures out in the open and capture a summary of their experience and knowledge at getting (typically Linux) apps built on Solaris - connection to zones community in terms of getting apps to work nicely in a zone, where that might be of value yet require extra changes With the above (your list and mine) plus a few others that will hopefully be suggested, it should be possible to get Solaris on a footing much closer to that of Linux, give or take ideology (license) issues. Also, this doesn't need to be restricted to porting from Linux! Sun already may have programs to assist commercial customers in porting from other vendor's flavors of *nix; this should fit well with them, and where possible may have some material in common. My thinking is that whether I'm considering Solaris, or already have it, I want application availability that approaches the union of Linux, *BSD, and all commercial *nix flavors. That greatly increases the utility of Solaris to the end user, and highlights its advanced features and benefits. It also gives Solaris more of a workout, providing the opportunity to find and hopefully fix bugs faster. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Re: Nexenta (GNU/OpenSolaris) pre-alpha 1 distro is available
According to the traffic stats (4 hours straight the average bandwidth is over 12Mbps), many people downloaded overnight while we were waiting (still waiting!) for mirrors. Yes, the website is slow - sorry for inconvenience. Alex PS. It is scary to think of the bill we get from ISP at the end of the month. Alejandro Bonilla wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:36:05 -0800, Alex Ross wrote This is to announce Nexenta pre-alpha availability. For reference, the previous (initial, posted 11/01) announcement is here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3187tstart=0 Since 11/01 we moved to OpenSolaris build 26, cleaned up the pre build 26 libm related stuffs, and added 200+ new packages. There are two gzipped ISO images for x86 arch (32-bit and 64-bit): LiveCD The site is t slowww... Which is the username and password for the LiveCD? other people in IRC are asking too... .Alejandro ___ GNU/Solaris Development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Re: Nexenta (GNU/OpenSolaris) pre-alpha 1 distro is available
On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:36:05 -0800, Alex Ross wrote This is to announce Nexenta pre-alpha availability. For reference, the previous (initial, posted 11/01) announcement is here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3187tstart=0 Since 11/01 we moved to OpenSolaris build 26, cleaned up the pre build 26 libm related stuffs, and added 200+ new packages. There are two gzipped ISO images for x86 arch (32-bit and 64-bit): LiveCD The site is t slowww... Which is the username and password for the LiveCD? other people in IRC are asking too... .Alejandro ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Re: Nexenta (GNU/OpenSolaris) pre-alpha 1 distro is available
On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:01:12 -0800, Alex Ross wrote According to the traffic stats (4 hours straight the average bandwidth is over 12Mbps), many people downloaded overnight while we were waiting (still waiting!) for mirrors. Yes, the website is slow - sorry for inconvenience. It's OK. What is the username and password? ;-) .Alejandro Alex PS. It is scary to think of the bill we get from ISP at the end of the month. Alejandro Bonilla wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:36:05 -0800, Alex Ross wrote This is to announce Nexenta pre-alpha availability. For reference, the previous (initial, posted 11/01) announcement is here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3187tstart=0 Since 11/01 we moved to OpenSolaris build 26, cleaned up the pre build 26 libm related stuffs, and added 200+ new packages. There are two gzipped ISO images for x86 arch (32-bit and 64-bit): LiveCD The site is t slowww... Which is the username and password for the LiveCD? other people in IRC are asking too... .Alejandro ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Nexenta (GNU/OpenSolaris) pre-alpha 1 distro is available
Alejandro Bonilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:36:05 -0800, Alex Ross wrote This is to announce Nexenta pre-alpha availability. For reference, the previous (initial, posted 11/01) announcement is here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=3187tstart=0 Since 11/01 we moved to OpenSolaris build 26, cleaned up the pre build 26 libm related stuffs, and added 200+ new packages. There are two gzipped ISO images for x86 arch (32-bit and 64-bit): LiveCD The site is t slowww... Which is the username and password for the LiveCD? I am getting 270 kB/s after waiting 10 minutes for a connection. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Re: Nexenta (GNU/OpenSolaris) pre-alpha 1 distro is available
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: The site is t slowww... Which is the username and password for the LiveCD? User root, password livecd. It's on the website, by the way. We are in-need of mirrors ASAP. Sooner or later today (better sooner!) we'll have to remove the downloads for a short period of time to perform the mirroring transaction. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Crypto status
Jörg Hi, I am not sure about the current OpenSolaris crypto status. Is Jörg all crypto code now included with the OpenSolaris sources? Would I Jörg currently need to download special crypto sources or binaries from Jörg somewhere else? Steve I believe all the crypto code should be open now... unless Steve there's something I missed? The source is available, but whether it's useful to compile it is another issue. OpenSolaris builds will not be able to sign the binaries in a way that will let them run. Darren discusses this a bit (including his plans for a fix) in http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/ef/sunwcry/. So people who want to use crypto will want to use the signed binaries that are provided in the closed-bins tarball. mike ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] We need a binary license for pkg* immediately
Hi, the Subject says it all! :-) It would be very helpful if there was at least a binary redistribution license available for the PKG tools. This does not help the PPC porting project, but it allows to use Blastwave packages with SchilliX Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] We need a binary license for pkg* immediately
On 11/7/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, the Subject says it all! :-) It would be very helpful if there was at least a binary redistribution license available for the PKG tools. This does not help the PPC porting project, but it allows to use Blastwave packages with SchilliX Even more important, it allows for packages that are built within the framework of the SVR4 spec to be made portable to other distros. While the ISO/IEC 9945-2003 spec provides for a package standard as does the POSIX ( see the Open Group also ) we need an actual implementation that is functional. The pkgadd/pkgtrans/pkgrm tools ( et al ) provide this within Solaris for years and years and people expect them. They also trust them. Dennis Clarke ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] We need a binary license for pkg* immediately
* Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-07 09:38]: On 11/7/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the Subject says it all! :-) It would be very helpful if there was at least a binary redistribution license available for the PKG tools. This does not help the PPC porting project, but it allows to use Blastwave packages with SchilliX Even more important, it allows for packages that are built within the framework of the SVR4 spec to be made portable to other distros. While the ISO/IEC 9945-2003 spec provides for a package standard as does the POSIX ( see the Open Group also ) we need an actual implementation that is functional. The pkgadd/pkgtrans/pkgrm tools ( et al ) provide this within Solaris for years and years and people expect them. They also trust them. I will check on our status; I know that we have been through the source files, and closing in on how to get the package tools published (i.e. in one delivery or two, with binaries first). - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] We need a binary license for pkg* immediately
On 11/7/05, Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-07 09:38]: On 11/7/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the Subject says it all! :-) It would be very helpful if there was at least a binary redistribution license available for the PKG tools. This does not help the PPC porting project, but it allows to use Blastwave packages with SchilliX Even more important, it allows for packages that are built within the framework of the SVR4 spec to be made portable to other distros. While the ISO/IEC 9945-2003 spec provides for a package standard as does the POSIX ( see the Open Group also ) we need an actual implementation that is functional. The pkgadd/pkgtrans/pkgrm tools ( et al ) provide this within Solaris for years and years and people expect them. They also trust them. I will check on our status; I know that we have been through the source files, and closing in on how to get the package tools published (i.e. in one delivery or two, with binaries first). - Stephen Thank you so very much Stephen. While I feel that it is possible to develop other implementations of the various standards we know that users have long since trusted and scripted the tools from this : ( taken from a build 25 server ) bash-3.00# pkginfo -l SUNWpkgcmdsu PKGINST: SUNWpkgcmdsu NAME: SVr4 packaging commands (usr) CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 11.11.1,REV=2005.10.07.01.27 BASEDIR: / VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc. DESC: Solaris 2.x System V Release IV Packaging Commands (usr) PSTAMP: install-bldsp-1120051007012730 INSTDATE: Oct 26 2005 03:12 HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider STATUS: completely installed FILES: 37 installed pathnames 8 shared pathnames 2 linked files 8 directories 24 executables 3884 blocks used (approx) Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request
Dan, I think the type of discussion and interest around BrandX is likely to be orthogonal to that of Zones. Without completely spoiling the surprise, BrandX hopes to publish interfaces where Zones could take on personalities for RedHat, FreeBSD, AIX, Mac OS X or whatever. I imagine much of the discussion may focus on the specifics of using those interfaces and differences between the Zone personality and the real deal. Those discussions seem very much distinct from the Zones community. BrandX is also unlikely to be a code name any more than Zones, DTrace, or FMA are code names. All those names are reflected in the interfaces and commands associated with those project and BrandX will be no different. Further, having branded-zones-discuss really obscures what I think will be a hot community and one in which we've already seen tremendous interest. Adam On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:54:03PM -0800, Dan Price wrote: Nils-- I'm wondering if we are too closely mirroring the details of Sun's internal organizational hierarchy with our selection of communities. And I think that 'BrandX' is going to feel confusing to folks 24 months down the line, when the memory of that code name is hazy, don't you? Might 'branded-zones' be a logical part of the zones community? I'm concerned that for folks casually browsing, things may otherwise become confusing. We can obviously refactor the zones community site as needed in cooperation with you and your team. As a side note, a single community can support multiple mailing lists, so there would be no problem with having branded-zones-discuss as an alias. Thoughts? -dp -- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Opteron Powernow! and Solaris
Hi Any information on when this driver will be available in Solaris. I've noticed Caspers Dik's blog and his Ferrari 4000 powernow driver... but I'm not sure whether there is an official version in OS. Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Opteron Powernow! and Solaris
Any information on when this driver will be available in Solaris. No. I'm trying to get the power people to come out and be more visible in the community. I've noticed Caspers Dik's blog and his Ferrari 4000 powernow driver... but I'm not sure whether t here is an official version in OS. There isn't. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Program technical status, 7 November
It's been two months since my initial status message, which is probably a bit too long. Most of the efforts I mentioned in that update have made progress, so it's worth mentioning their current status: 1. Elementary project hosting support. The web site development for simple project hosting is underway. At present, those enhancements are expected for delivery sometime in December. (You may have noticed that a number of issues with the site were recently fixed.) In parallel, we are attempting to eliminate some of the manual steps in community and project creation. 2. Source code management (SCM), first phase. The first phase of source code management involves adding Subversion hosting for individual projects and for the ON consolidation to publish ongoing changes in a read-only Subversion repository. Prototyping for the former has begun, but is dependent on the elementary project hosting work. For ON, Stephen Lau has been experimenting with publishing a squelched SCCS history; you can see the result of Chandan integrating this work in the latest release of the source browser. For instance, here's a file with some recent revisions and also the squelched history: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/history/on/usr/src/cmd/svc/configd/configd.h This work, along with some SCCS and TeamWare insights gleaned by Alan Burlison, is expected to be the basis of any SCM migration we pursue, as well as for the short term read-only Subversion publication. 3. Partitioned ON source tree. The partitioned ON source tree is undergoing internal code review--internal only due to the encumbered code involved. Mike Kupfer gave much more detail in a recent blog entry http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/kupfer?entry=on_the_road_to_nightly As noted in my previous update, a partitioned tree means that projects can issue public source drops of their development code, and get proper community development going. 4. ON GCC readiness. Bug fixes that eliminate GCC warnings have continued to integrate into the Nevada gate. As a result, we're now able to finish drafting a cleanliness policy for integrations and making the tools changes to support them. This policy will be discussed in the Tools community, once the draft is complete. Because we've been making progress on those initial items, new aspects of the program will receive more attention. The two new areas of focus are discussed below. 5. Governance development. The development of the governance for the OpenSolaris community is being led by the CAB. One effort in support of that has been creating a document articulating the engineering values that go into OpenSolaris software, as well as a process that contributors can follow that results in the production of such software. The most recent draft of the development process is available as HTML http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/os_dev_process/ or as PDF http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/os_dev_process/d-devproc-alpha.pdf If you're subscribed to cab-discuss, you know that drafts of the charter, which transfers responsibilities for OpenSolaris to the community from Sun, are being vigorously discussed in that forum. We're attempting to keep the various stakeholders engaged so that the charter document can be completed and ratified promptly. 6. SCM, second phase. The evaluation of a distributed SCM solution will be pursued directly now. I'll be issuing draft requirements and an initial candidate list very shortly; this discussion will take place in the Tools community, although I'll send a notice to opensolaris-discuss. In terms of source releases, I thought I should also mention that libm, the C math library, was released in binary form in the past month. Cleaning up the source code for release is in progress. And, as I mentioned in another thread, team members have reviewed the packaging tools source and are working out whether a two step release is needed there as well. The Java Desktop System consolidation successfully published their code last week; other consolidations are getting close to releasing their trees as well. As always, please share your concerns; I am happy to receive them privately or on the list. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Genunix Nexenta Mirror
Fast mirror is up: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/ Both images (LiveCD and Install) are there. benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Genunix Nexenta Mirror
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:29:49PM -0800, Ben Rockwood wrote: Fast mirror is up: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/ Both images (LiveCD and Install) are there. Come on in -- the water's fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -a SunOS pitkin 5.11 Nexenta:OS_20051103:2005-11-04 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris - Bryan (from a Ferrari 3400 running Nexenta) -- Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Genunix Nexenta Mirror
Bryan, This is excellent! We are extremely grateful for your jumping on this and risk ruining your shiny Ferrari! We hope that everything went fine! Feel free to join our developer's mailing list alias(es): http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Community/ Regards, -- Mac Bryan Cantrill wrote: Come on in -- the water's fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -a SunOS pitkin 5.11 Nexenta:OS_20051103:2005-11-04 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris - Bryan (from a Ferrari 3400 running Nexenta) -- Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Genunix Nexenta Mirror
Fast mirror is up: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/ Both images (LiveCD and Install) are there. Thanks a lot! We have propagated link on /Download page as well as through the auto-balancer script. Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Genunix Nexenta Mirror
Hello guys, Im Rafael Tinoco from Brazil. We have a brazilian community http://opensolaris-br.org. Ive written to our mailing list so everybody there could test nexenta here in Brazil and give you guys feed backs. We would like to contribute to Nexenta with translators (we have a lot of them), programmers (we have some netbsd and openbsd developers here in brazil working with us, one of them is porting pkg-src to opensolaris) and all other needs you have. I also would like to ask for permition if we can distribute the livecd inside a magazine here in brazil, one of our partners here is PC MASTER. This magazine is sold all over Brazil, and i dont know if you guys have seen, but the brazilian PC MASTER was showed by Scot during Google and SUN partnership event, because the were distributing opensolaris (build 17) inside the magazine 1 or 2 months ago. I can also arrange a brazilian mirror inside internet2 (a huge university here is giving us space, link and storage for us to do that kind of stuff. What it would be... nexenta.opensolaris-br.org for example, or gnusolaris.opensolaris-br.org .. i dont know.. Thanks in advance Regards Rafael Tinoco - OpenSolaris Brazilian Community [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mac wrote: Bryan, This is excellent! We are extremely grateful for your jumping on this and risk ruining your shiny Ferrari! We hope that everything went fine! Feel free to join our developer's mailing list alias(es): http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Community/ Regards, -- Mac Bryan Cantrill wrote: Come on in -- the water's fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -a SunOS pitkin 5.11 Nexenta:OS_20051103:2005-11-04 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris - Bryan (from a Ferrari 3400 running Nexenta) -- Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Genunix Nexenta Mirror
Justin Conover wrote: I'm installing it now on my linux laptop with vmware and later I'll try it on one of my desktops running solaris express 24. Please note that network interface is currently not working on VMware. We are working on the driver; it should be available in the next few days. (Unfortunately we cannot use the pcn driver due to licensing issues.) -- Mac ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Genunix Nexenta Mirror
Hi Rafael, Rafael Tinoco wrote: Hello guys, Im Rafael Tinoco from Brazil. We have a brazilian community http://opensolaris-br.org. Ive written to our mailing list so everybody there could test nexenta here in Brazil and give you guys feed backs. Thanks! We would like to contribute to Nexenta with translators (we have a lot of them), programmers (we have some netbsd and openbsd developers here in brazil working with us, one of them is porting pkg-src to opensolaris) and all other needs you have. Any contribution is appreciated! Once we get the alpha release out, we'll start a bunch of projects, including (but not restricted to): Installer, GNOME, HAL (and see project Utopia), Zones, new DTrace providers, missing drivers, and on and on. It's going to be very intensive. I also would like to ask for permition if we can distribute the livecd inside a magazine here in brazil, one of our partners here is PC MASTER. I think it's too early. Let's stabilize it a bit and let's get rid of the most egregious bugs (like for instance, locales are not working, and therefore - man pages). Let's make the pre and alpha disappear from the release name. This magazine is sold all over Brazil, and i dont know if you guys have seen, but the brazilian PC MASTER was showed by Scot during Google and SUN partnership event, because the were distributing opensolaris (build 17) inside the magazine 1 or 2 months ago. I can also arrange a brazilian mirror inside internet2 (a huge university here is giving us space, link and storage for us to do that kind of stuff. What it would be... nexenta.opensolaris-br.org for example, or gnusolaris.opensolaris-br.org .. i dont know.. Thanks again! Thanks in advance Regards Rafael Tinoco - OpenSolaris Brazilian Community [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Alex ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request
On Mon 07 Nov 2005 at 11:57AM, Adam Leventhal wrote: Dan, I think the type of discussion and interest around BrandX is likely to be orthogonal to that of Zones. Without completely spoiling the surprise, BrandX hopes to publish interfaces where Zones could take on personalities for RedHat, FreeBSD, AIX, Mac OS X or whatever. I imagine much of the discussion may focus on the specifics of using those interfaces and differences between the Zone personality and the real deal. Those discussions seem very much distinct from the Zones community. Ok. I wasn't aware that BrandX was a feature name. Thanks for clarifying that. I had seem some discussions which led me to be confused on that point-- and that the name would be much more closely associated with zones. I was concerned that people would face a choice between branded zones and zones and then would be all confused. We can followup off alias about whatever marketing is doing with naming. As for the degree of overlap or not-- What's the point of BrandX? Is it migration from other platforms, server consolidation, application capture? I guess it is some of each. To the degree that it is reinforcing that Zones is an important and useful consolidation facility, it has overlap. It sounds like no one agrees with me, so I'm willing to withdraw my objection. I would however request that the BrandX community web site owners work with their Zones counterparts to set up appropriate cross links. Further, having branded-zones-discuss really obscures what I think will be a hot community and one in which we've already seen tremendous interest. I'll ignore the implied not-hotness of the Zones community :) I wasn't trying to mandate the name branded-zones-discuss; I was just trying to point out that we have the technology to associate multiple mailing lists under one community. Thanks, -dp -- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
