[osol-discuss] 3 new request-sponsor putbacks: 34 total

2006-02-02 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thanks to Juergen Keil for the three bug fixs below and to Frits Vanderlinden for sponsoring the fixs through to putback. Bug ID: 6350499 Description: stale usb device link confuses login's /etc/logindevperm Submitted 12/21/05 by Juergen Keil Sun Sponsor: Frits Vanderlinden Putback

Re: [osol-discuss] German Type 7 keyboards?

2006-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Felix Schulte wrote: Mouse no longer has the giant cable needed to reach the back of the workstation and just plugs into the keyboard, right? The cable on my mouse seems to be about 6 feet long still, but you could bundle most of it up since it only needs to go halfway down the keyboard to reac

Re: [osol-discuss] German Type 7 keyboards?

2006-02-02 Thread Felix Schulte
On 2/2/06, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felix Schulte wrote: > > Just finished http://www.sunhelp.org/ 's "Type 7 keyboard" article. > > Are the Stop/Props/Cut/Copy/Paste/Front/... keys still there? > > Yes - other than the Japanese layout, all the layouts should be the > same in T

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta OS - good for general purpose Solaris training ?

2006-02-02 Thread ken mays
You can actually expand that question as it relates to job interviews or Solaris certification. As you mentioned, you are dealing with toolsets and apps or than just the OS level. If you look at it from the OS level and running the many Unix commands, they are much of the same. If you look at it t

Re: [osol-discuss] German Type 7 keyboards?

2006-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Felix Schulte wrote: Just finished http://www.sunhelp.org/ 's "Type 7 keyboard" article. Are the Stop/Props/Cut/Copy/Paste/Front/... keys still there? Yes - other than the Japanese layout, all the layouts should be the same in Type 7 as they were in Type 6. (I actually have a German pre-produ

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

2006-02-02 Thread Andrew Biggadike
> 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 s

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: Packaged Software

2006-02-02 Thread Dave Miner
Glynn Foster wrote: ... It's not that I disagree [I think I'm very much in agreement], but I'm just wondering how best to go about this. For example, arguably Nexenta have already done their own thing, packaged software, using different tools and created their own distribution. ShilliX mostly doe

[osol-discuss] German Type 7 keyboards?

2006-02-02 Thread Felix Schulte
Just finished http://www.sunhelp.org/ 's "Type 7 keyboard" article. Are the Stop/Props/Cut/Copy/Paste/Front/... keys still there? Is it possible to order a German version of the keyboard right now? -- _Felix Schulte _|_|_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (0 0) ooO--(_)--Ooo __

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

2006-02-02 Thread Dave Miner
Stephen Hahn wrote: * 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 releas

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta OS - good for general purpose Solaris training ?

2006-02-02 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 02:55 -0800, Daniel Mersebak wrote: > Based on OpenSolaris how compatible will Nexenta OS be in the manner of: > > 1) Application compliance ? compatible to some degree > 2) Driver compliance ? fully compatible > 3) General usage ? compatible to some degree > Bottom lin

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: Packaged Software

2006-02-02 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 2/2/06, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:55, Glynn Foster wrote: > > > So I've thought a bunch about this, and wondering if we're doing the > > right thing creating all these communities [1], > > Me too. In fact, I'm having a real problem with it. The problem i

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: Packaged Software

2006-02-02 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:55, Glynn Foster wrote: > So I've thought a bunch about this, and wondering if we're doing the > right thing creating all these communities [1], Me too. In fact, I'm having a real problem with it. The problem is that there are an awful lot of communities - and associated

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta OS - good for general purpose Solaris training ?

2006-02-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:55, Daniel Mersebak wrote: > Would it be fair to say that 3 years of Nexenta experience is the same as > having three years of Solaris experience ? I think that depends on the person and depends on what the job at hand is. Is it end user, developer, system admin ? If de

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

2006-02-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I'd rephrase this assertion as: > > No copyright holder is ever explicitly forced to license under > the GPL, though the intent of the GPL is to apply market pressure > to convince all such software hoarders to do so over time. Thank yo

[osol-discuss] Nexenta OS - good for general purpose Solaris training ?

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Mersebak
Based on OpenSolaris how compatible will Nexenta OS be in the manner of: 1) Application compliance ? 2) Driver compliance ? 3) General usage ? Bottom line: Would it be fair to say that 3 years of Nexenta experience is the same as having three years of Solaris experience ? Asking this questi

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: Packaged Software

2006-02-02 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:46 -0800, Keith M. Wesolowski wrote: > 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

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

2006-02-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 00:18, John Plocher wrote: > 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 incorpora