Re: [osol-discuss] Strange new software package id numbers ?

2006-02-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 23:56, Mike Kupfer wrote: Dennis == Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis So then .. it looks like the old way of pkgrm packages is going Dennis away and a new prodreg uninstall process is here now? The last I heard, Solaris packages (pkgadd, etc.) are in no

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-02-01 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:43 -0600, Eric Boutilier wrote: Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to become the Linux distribution of choice? ... Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is. (Sound's cynical, but big-time funding gives any project a huge advantage.)

Re: [osol-discuss] Community/Project Update: 1/30/06

2006-02-01 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Anup Sekhar wrote: Sean Sprague wrote on 01/30/06 23:16: Hey Jim, Just a very small point wrt: Naming Services Community * Proposed 1/20/06 by Anup Sekhar * Community consensus: yes * CAB vote: no +/- vote yet * Opening date: not currently scheduled On

Re: [osol-discuss] Multi-Homing...Is there any limitation on the number of Logical Units

2006-02-01 Thread James Carlson
vijayanand writes: Can anyone let me know whether there is any limitaion on the number of Logical Units/Ip address that can be association with a single network physical interface. Yes. The limit is set by the ip_addrs_per_if ndd variable. The default limit is 256, but can be increased to

Re: [osol-discuss] Community/Project Update: 1/30/06

2006-02-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:40, Al Hopper wrote: Perhaps Name Services could exist as a project, rather than as a community. My concern, at this time, is the proliferation of OpenSolaris Communities, and this is why I'm reluctant to form one more. I disagree on this one. There are man projects

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange new software package id numbers ?

2006-02-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 2/1/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 23:56, Mike Kupfer wrote: Dennis == Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis So then .. it looks like the old way of pkgrm packages is going Dennis away and a new prodreg uninstall process is here now?

[osol-discuss] REMINDER OpenSolaris Expert Exchange]

2006-02-01 Thread Sara Dornsife
Just a reminder that the Expert Exchange is happening this morning. Sara __ You can hear Jim Grisanzio, Rich Teer, Al Hopper, Dan Price, Liane Praza, and Sun legal representative Cliff Allen in an Expert Exchange (read: Live QA) on Wednesday, February 1, from 10-11:00 AM

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange new software package id numbers ?

2006-02-01 Thread Torrey McMahon
Dennis Clarke wrote: If I can issue one command to remove Sun ONE Studio 10 as opposed to 30 then its a good thing. I'll simply read the man page. Or look at http://docs.sun.com/source/819-0485/remove.html :) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jake Maciejewski wrote: Nvidia provides Solaris drivers (do you still have to hack the PCI ID?) Not in the current release version (unless you buy a video card newer than the driver). but unless I'm missing something, ATI barely supports Linux much less Solaris (would open source drivers

[osol-discuss] Re: Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-02-01 Thread Eric Boutilier
Eric Boutilier wrote Glynn Foster wrote: Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to become the Linux distribution of choice? ... Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is. (Sound's cynical, but big-time funding gives any project a huge advantage.) Sorry. I

Re: [osol-discuss] REMINDER OpenSolaris Expert Exchange]

2006-02-01 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Sara Dornsife wrote: Just a reminder that the Expert Exchange is happening this morning. Sara __ You can hear Jim Grisanzio, Rich Teer, Al Hopper, Dan Price, Liane Praza, and Sun legal representative Cliff Allen in an Expert Exchange (read: Live QA) on Wednesday, February 1,

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:49 -0300, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: The last part of the puzzle are little projects like roseta, they make those users without programming skills feel like they are usefull to the community while saving the tedious work of for example translating to a new language

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris and OpenSolaris within VMware

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew Pattison
Just ot of interest - can you tell me which version of Linux you are running VMWare on, and how you set it up? I use VMWare for testing Solaris and prototyping new servers and it would be nice to not host them on Windoze. When I've tried to install on Linux in the past I've always got stuck at

Re: [osol-discuss] Strange new software package id numbers ?

2006-02-01 Thread Kuldip Oberoi
You should be using the Sun Studio uninstaller, which uses the /var/sadm/install/productregistry file. http://docs.sun.com/source/819-0487/remove.html /kso Dennis Clarke wrote: I was in the process of removing Sun ONE Studio 10 and I saw this : The following package is currently

Re: [osol-discuss] Community/Project Update: 1/30/06

2006-02-01 Thread Anup Sekhar
Darren J Moffat wrote on 02/01/06 05:05: On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:40, Al Hopper wrote: Perhaps Name Services could exist as a project, rather than as a community. My concern, at this time, is the proliferation of OpenSolaris Communities, and this is why I'm reluctant to form one more. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Forum Proposal: Packaging, Patching, and Distribution Mgmt

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Miner
I imagine it's implicit in my being listed as a community lead ;-), but I do give this a +1. Just to elaborate a little on the proposal, this community would be the home for the SVR4 packaging tools code when it's released in the near future, as well as other packaging and installation

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jasse Jansson wrote: When you release a work based on the Program, you may include your own ^^^ ^^^ terms covering added parts for which you have, or can give, appropriate

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: (/usr/)sfw Nevada

2006-02-01 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
The SFW consolidation delivers a variety of third-party open source software to Solaris, such as the Apache HTTP server, Samba, and libusb. This consolidation delivers its content into /usr/sfw as an integral part of the Solaris OS, and should not be confused with the Freeware Companion CD/DVD.

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributions and package managment forum request

2006-02-01 Thread TJ Yang
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Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: (/usr/)sfw Nevada

2006-02-01 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Keith M. Wesolowski wrote: This proposal specifies the creation of a project, SFW Nevada, under which Great idea, but looking ahead, is not SFW Nevada a limiting title? Unless Solaris 12's development is also gonna be called Nevada, perhaps the Nevada bit should be dropped?

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Paul Jakma wrote: Sigh, important typing mistake: This conclusion of yours seems to be without merit. Licence transformation can occur without the copyright holders consent. ^ not regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key

Re: [osol-discuss] Google OS should be OpenSolaris

2006-02-01 Thread Peter A. Murray
Ubuntu seems to be a cleaned up version of Debian. As pointed out by Erast, NexentaOS might be an easy port for Google. Users and Google should not care about the underlying OS, but only about the interface. Peter On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:22 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: (/usr/)sfw Nevada

2006-02-01 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:48:12PM -0800, Rich Teer wrote: Great idea, but looking ahead, is not SFW Nevada a limiting title? Yes, it is, by design. A new project will be created for each subsequent release. Note that each release is managed by a different team and may have different goals

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-02-01 Thread John Plocher
... as long as those terms clearly permit all the activities that this License permits I am (thankfully) not a lawyer. I don't speak for Sun. YMMV... Assume I have a software program that consists of some parts that are mine and other parts that are yours. Furthermore, assume that you

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: (/usr/)sfw Nevada

2006-02-01 Thread John Plocher
Rich Teer wrote: Great idea, but looking ahead, is not SFW Nevada a limiting title? Unless Solaris 12's development is also gonna be called Nevada, perhaps the Nevada bit should be dropped? Projects exist until they are incorporated into a community, right? In other words, the Project is to

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Forum Proposal: Packaging, Patching, and Distribution Mgmt

2006-02-01 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Dave Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-01 13:15]: I imagine it's implicit in my being listed as a community lead ;-), but I do give this a +1. Just to elaborate a little on the proposal, this community would be the home for the SVR4 packaging tools code when it's released in the near

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, John Plocher wrote: I am (thankfully) not a lawyer. I don't speak for Sun. YMMV... Ditto, and ditto. It also follows that nobody else (other than you) can do so either. That depends on whether I got you to grant me reciprocal rights to your work when I granted you

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris GPLv3

2006-02-01 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
John Plocher wrote: ... as long as those terms clearly permit all the activities that this License permits I am (thankfully) not a lawyer. I don't speak for Sun. YMMV... err... what's wrong with being a lawyer? ;) imho this thread is now a little off topic nacho

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris and OpenSolaris within VMware

2006-02-01 Thread John Weekley
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:59, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 2/1/06, Andrew Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just ot of interest - can you tell me which version of Linux you are running VMWare on, and how you set it up? I use VMWare for testing Solaris and prototyping new servers and it would be

[osol-discuss] Community proposal: Packaged Software

2006-02-01 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
This proposed community would provide long-term guidance to teams managing releases of the SFW consolidation and projects derived from them, and to project teams working to release and improve the Companion DVD and similar distributions of third-party open source software for OpenSolaris-based

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: (/usr/)sfw Nevada

2006-02-01 Thread Liane Praza
The SFW consolidation delivers a variety of third-party open source software to Solaris, +1, this needs to be available through OpenSolaris. liane This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list