I often respond to myself ... oh well .. here goes :
the odd messages were this :
Aug 2 00:56:00 saturn genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.11
Version snv_69 64-bit
Aug 2 00:56:00 saturn genunix: [ID 943907 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2007
Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights
No. If they killed my sparc32 machines, you have to deal with the
loss of your 486es as well. If there is to be legacy support in
opensolaris, the first priority MUST be sparc32, given that it was the
last to fall (sparc32 was only fully pulled as of sol10).
On 7/25/07, Girts Zeltins [EMAIL
---BeginMessage---
I am glad to announce that Sun Device Detection Tool 1.2 was released on Aug.
01, 2007.
You can access this tool from
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html
The main features implemented in Sun Device Detection Tool 1.2 are:
1. Implement Report to Work
Yes I know there are substitutes, but they are all not preinstalled? For
instance Azures, which I am using, I had to download and install. DC++, where
is that? My point is, that there are substitutes, but they are not
preinstalled. A windows switcher just wants everything to work, without
Hi folks,
I decide to intall the opensolaris onto a classmate PC, which has the
memory size of 256M and 2G NAND flash storage space. The aim is
to have the system run some kind of desktop system, like Gnome, and
a browser, like firefox.
I have installed the core system which occupied
vermillion is code name of JDS(Java Desktop System), which is gnome
based, plus some other apps like firefox/thunderbird, etc. You could
take it as gnome distribution on Solaris.
If you install Solaris Developer Express, you already have vermillion
installed. The link which I pointed to you is
I should download two files
firefox-vermillion_71x.tar 19374080 Bytes
gnome-vermillion_71x.tar
then extract and install them on the Solaris core system?
Anyway, the two links on the page are invalid, although others work
well.
On Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You could install latest vermillion, which is now based gnome2.19, the
link is
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=135133#135133
Cheers,
Halton.
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:14 +0800, Lu, Baolu wrote:
Hi folks,
I decide to intall the opensolaris onto a classmate PC,
Good idea.
I am not familiar with vermillion. Would you mind giving some background
reference?
Thanks.
On Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You could install latest vermillion, which is now based gnome2.19,
the link is
Add Damien to cc list, he may answer your question.
Halton.
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:47 +0800, Lu, Baolu wrote:
I should download two files
firefox-vermillion_71x.tar 19374080 Bytes
gnome-vermillion_71x.tar
then extract and install them on the Solaris core system?
Anyway, the two
On 8/2/07, Lu, Baolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I decide to intall the opensolaris onto a classmate PC, which has the
memory size of 256M and 2G NAND flash storage space. The aim is
to have the system run some kind of desktop system, like Gnome, and
a browser, like firefox.
I
OpenSolaris will have to get it's users from the Windows world, and not the
Linux world? But the Linux users come from the Windows world. And the Linux
users have a mentality closer to Solaris, than any Windows user.
Imagine there was only Windows and Solaris. For a winuser to switch to
Hi Lu,
Get Damien's email on vermilion 71 a minute ago,
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=36390tstart=0
He may uploaded the tarballs just now, please try it now, the tarballs
link are okay.
Cheers,
Halton.
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:54 +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
vermillion is
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To: Orvar Korvar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana Wish List
Why should things like Azureus be preinstalled on OpenSolaris
Hi,
Yes, every bug I find, I file. Its up to the powers that be as to whether it
worth gracing these issues with their presence.
Matthew
On 02/08/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Small problem - if you change your wireless key on the router NWAM fails
to
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Small problem - if you change your wireless key on the router NWAM fails to
come back to say that the password has failed and requires re-entering it.
Have you logged a bug on that or discussed it with the team on
nwam-discuss ?
--
Darren J Moffat
Why should things like Azureus be preinstalled on OpenSolaris
distributions when they aren't on Windows ? That just isn't a fair
standard to hold OpenSolaris distributions to. You had to down load a
bittorrent client and Photoshop etc initially on Windows.
--
Darren J Moffat
I delete the build 69 tarballs this morning - you might have be
accessing them around that time.
I've uploaded build 71, based on 2.19.5 tarballs.
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/current/
As Halton says, the firefox and gnome tarballs should be enough. You can
download the evolution
Gerald Henriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ubuntu, and more importantly Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) are
NOT American. They are based in Europe, which means so far they can
get away with doing things that an American based company cannot.
Red Hat has had their lawyers look into this
On 8/2/07, Glen Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bart,
You or Tim had mentioned the idea of being able to support checkpoints
of some kind which would let more rigid environments take advantage of some
of the more useful features with reduced risk. Do you see motion in that
direction?
Bart,
You or Tim had mentioned the idea of being able to support checkpoints of
some kind which would let more rigid environments take advantage of some of the
more useful features with reduced risk. Do you see motion in that direction?
This message posted from opensolaris.org
Hi,
True, but at the same time, until there it is 100% opensource, its going to
be difficult for a distribution to be independent of Sun's input in some
form or another.
Matthew
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From: Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org;
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From: John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.
On Aug 1, 2007, at
On Aug 1, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:34 -0700, John Martinez wrote:
I thought I read somewhere (can't find the source) that the market
for PC games is shrinking and the market for console games is
growing
(Wii/PS3/Xbox 360). The only exception being
Hi all,
I am trying to get SXCR B66 running on an HP DL385 G1 with 3x300G disks
on a Smart Array 6i controller. I have managed to get the operating
system installed several times; I use the HP-supplied CPQary3 drivers
and the system appears to install fine. The only slight wrinkle is that
the
And what if I get something like this:
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 1 (min password length),
returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 2 (password history),
returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 3 (user must logon to
Chris Linton-Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I am trying to get SXCR B66 running on an HP DL385 G1 with 3x300G disks
on a Smart Array 6i controller. I have managed to get the operating
system installed several times; I use the HP-supplied CPQary3 drivers
and the system appears to
On 08/02/07 15:31, Boyd Adamson wrote:
Chris Linton-Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I am trying to get SXCR B66 running on an HP DL385 G1 with 3x300G disks
on a Smart Array 6i controller. I have managed to get the operating
system installed several times; I use the HP-supplied CPQary3
Colin Zou wrote:
The USB FAQ storage section might help you.
http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/usb/USB-Faq.html#Storage
The scsa2usb.conf property is mentioned in question 20.
yep, that was it. I will keep the drive for more days under observation
and then submit an entry for HCL Solaris
Gurus,
V490+Solaris 9,On a 79GBytes file system /usr/local, where there
are2 5GBytes free, system fails to
create a 1GBytes file via mkfile:
# df -h /usr/local
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 79G53G25G69%/usr/local
# cd
An interesting idea... if you want to use Solaris, here I have a
suggestion, as below:
Solaris
+--- samba foler
+-- your-access.mdb
.
.
.
.
.
WindowsF: (mapping to the above samba folder)
+ /|\
| |
|
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Murugathasan Simon wrote:
Hi Anybody who can help?
logger(1) - the command should do exactly what you want ...
FrankH.
Regards
Simon
Simon Murugathasan
Customer Solution Architect
Central Architecture and Design, FPM
FUJITSU
Lovelace Road, Bracknell, Berks,
Hi Anybody who can help?
Regards
Simon
Simon Murugathasan
Customer Solution Architect
Central Architecture and Design, FPM
FUJITSU
Lovelace Road, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 8SN
Tel: +44 (0) 870 234 or internally 7302 8100
Mob: +44 (0) 778 715 1861
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web:
Glen Wiley wrote:
Bart,
You or Tim had mentioned the idea of being able to support
checkpoints of some kind which would let more rigid environments
take advantage of some of the more useful features with reduced risk.
Do you see motion in that direction?
With the new packaging/software
everything seems to work as expected .. except for the submit report function.
http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/74
-
Dennis Clarke
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On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 17:22 +0100, Gavin Maltby wrote:
On 08/02/07 15:31, Boyd Adamson wrote:
Chris Linton-Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I am trying to get SXCR B66 running on an HP DL385 G1 with 3x300G disks
on a Smart Array 6i controller. I have managed to get the
Which desktop are you running?
KDE (as a user) and Gnome (a rare root session, occasionally as a user) and
xterm (skills playground) with no problems so far.
It works for you but when it comes to stability I've
found it lacking.
That's fine. It's very likely explained by the difference in
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
Something that *NIX, let alot Solaris isn't doing very well - lack of will
of companies concerned one could say. Kinda like the defeatest attitude to
Microsoft dominance on the desktop.
How would you gauge that yourself? Do those companies contact
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Bart Smaalders wrote:
With the new packaging/software repository, we'll be able to update the
software on a machine by downloading the difference between where the
target machine and the desired end state. Using ZFS root, this will be
completely reversible. Once the new
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Mike DeMarco wrote:
I need to rant a bit:
Well, you would need to provide more information about your laptop.
What the vendor said next set me ablaze.
WE NEVER ADVERTISED THE SYSTEM WOULD WORK WITH SOLARIS
Why should that surprise you? Have you been living in a hole
glen wiley wrote:
Bart,
Thanks - that sounds perfect. Do I understand then that Sun would offer
a structured (whatever that means) support mechanism for specific
stops on the release train?
I would expect Sun to do that. What actually ends up happening is of
course to be seen :-).
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Bart Smaalders wrote:
With the new packaging/software repository, we'll be able to update the
software on a machine by downloading the difference between where the
target machine and the desired end state. Using ZFS root, this will be
completely
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Mike DeMarco wrote:
I did not want to mention brands because I have had this same problem
with every computer that I have bought.
I must get lucky, I can get Solaris working on most hardware these days,
albeit some has some quirks. I'd like to know what exactly the
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Mike DeMarco wrote:
I need to rant a bit:
Well, you would need to provide more information
about your laptop.
What the vendor said next set me ablaze.
WE NEVER ADVERTISED THE SYSTEM WOULD WORK WITH
SOLARIS
Why should that surprise you? Have you been living
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Bart Smaalders wrote:
The likely outcome is that the change is file based, with file
equivalence determined by a file-type specific comparison/hash.
This allows us to handle cases where the file is alway different,
but semantically the same. Jar archives are a typical
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Mike DeMarco wrote:
No! I did not buy the laptop with windows on it. I have never bought a
computer with windows on it I have to buy custom so I can get it without
a OS on it.
Suprise me! No aggravate me to get something brand new that does not
work and I have to
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, MC wrote:
It comes with their PCs because it is technically the best desktop OS.
Dell doesn't sell Windows PCs instead of OS/2 Warp PCs because of a coin
flip. Windows is simply the best. (Better than all the rest!)
Being ignorant or dismissive of the market leaders
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, UNIX admin wrote:
Those that Indiana means something to are computer enthusiasts in one
form or another.
So you're saying you may know what Indiana actually is? It seems to be a
moving target, changing from day to day. How could that mean anything to
anyone at this
Hello,
When i try to install OpenSolaris from the latest Developper DVD release, i am
prompted with different choices, featuring first :
- Open Solaris Express Developper Edition
and
- Open Solaris Express Edition
i have spent hours searching for the differences of those two versions but so
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
What can the opensolaris community do? nothing, it has no money. What
can Sun do? it has $4billion, you can do alot with $4billion.
I would think a sharp guy like you could reverse engineer most of those
protocols. That doesn't require money.
--
Hi,
As far as I know, Developer Edition contains NetBeans and Sun Studio
(that is, they install immediately after Solaris Express) and, as you
point out, the installation is slightly more graphical.
Express gives you the whole GNOME environment.
regards,
Patrick
Bruno wrote:
Hello,
Bruno writes:
When i try to install OpenSolaris from the latest Developper DVD release, i
am prompted with different choices, featuring first :
- Open Solaris Express Developper Edition
and
- Open Solaris Express Edition
i have spent hours searching for the differences of those two
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
What can the opensolaris community do? nothing, it has no money. What
can Sun do? it has $4billion, you can do alot with $4billion.
I would think a sharp guy like you could reverse engineer most of those
protocols. That
Robert Neville wrote:
On 8/3/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That list has been retired.
Why was the list retired?
Because the CAB was replaced by the OpenSolaris Governing Board
(OGB) when the OpenSolaris Charter was approved.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL
That list has been retired.
Please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead.
Robert Neville wrote:
Is the Community Advisor Board list a private list or am I doing
something wrong?
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Date: Aug 3, 2007 1:34 AM
Is the Community Advisor Board list a private list or am I doing
something wrong?
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On 8/3/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That list has been retired.
Why was the list retired?
Please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead.
OK
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Thanks for all replies.
To gamma4,the install script have added the vendor id.
To manelal,OK,I will have a try.My English is poor also.
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Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Bart Smaalders wrote:
The likely outcome is that the change is file based, with file
equivalence determined by a file-type specific comparison/hash.
This allows us to handle cases where the file is alway different,
but semantically the same. Jar
Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 contributed builds on Solaris10, Solaris8/9 are now
available on www.mozilla.com
What's New
==
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/2.0.0.6/releasenotes/#whatsnew
Downloading
===
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you still
need a license to ship it.
Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those
mentioned protocols for a Linux distribution snatching off a server in
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve the
user experience in either hardware support or software availability.
First of all, Solaris on x86 has been around for about 15 years, so I'm
not sure of the 2 years you
- Original Message -
From: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, MC wrote:
It comes with their PCs
- Original Message -
From: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MC [EMAIL PROTECTED];
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris
I installed the gnome build 71 binary, and the core system + gnome eat up 1.9G
size
of my poor 2G.
Anyway, a simple question :), how to enable gnome desktop system?
Thanks.
On Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I delete the build 69 tarballs this morning - you
Hi all,
I'm trying a Java program, using the same version of SUN JVM(jre1.6.0_02)
With the option I made it works on windows:
C:\software\myprogram\C:\Java\jre1.6.0_02\bin\java -XX:+Aggressive
Heap -Xms800m -Xmx800m -Xmn400m -XX:+UseParallelGC -Xss64k spec.jbb.JBBmain -pro
pfile SPECjbb.props
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote:
Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those
mentioned protocols for a Linux distribution snatching off a server in
another country. Why should Solaris be the same?
*shouldn't* is what I meant.
--
Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
When Solaris has the same level of hardware support both out of the box and
official, and software availability in the form of off the shelf boxed
products from big name vendors, then Sun and its minions can be judgemental
over Windows. Until
Matthew Gardiner wrote:
x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve
the user experience in either hardware support or software availability.
You think nvidia video drivers, wifi drivers, Macromedia Flash, and all
the other drivers software appeared on their own
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you
still
need a license to ship it.
Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those
mentioned protocols for a Linux distribution
I too am missing the 'Submit to HCL' when running a report for compatability on
both Solaris 10 11/06 and Solaris Express, Developer Edition 5/07.
I am running on an XP machine with the following details:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you still
need a license to ship it.
Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those
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To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MC [EMAIL PROTECTED];
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the
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From: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MC [EMAIL PROTECTED];
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris
Does core system contain X stuff? I did not do like your ways, so maybe
lose some dependency in your system.
Halton.
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:17 +0800, Lu, Baolu wrote:
I installed the gnome build 71 binary, and the core system + gnome eat up
1.9G size
of my poor 2G.
Anyway, a simple
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From: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED];
MC [EMAIL PROTECTED]; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:54 PM
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Is the SDDT going to be open sourced?
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Is the SDDT going to be open sourced?
yes .. in time
dc
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
When am I going to see support for my USB webcam? infact, a large number of
products in my laptop made by Ricoh, who are more than happy to provide
specifications to those who want them?
Seems ideal, you have hardware that needs support and the
Matthew Gardiner wrote:
x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve
the user experience in either hardware support or software availability.
Matty, you should stop trolling and join us in the same room as the
facts. Solaris is dramatically better supported on
Matthew Gardiner wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know what you mean by no movement, but from my view Solaris on
x86 has not only improved, it's leading in some areas (DTrace, Zones, SMF,
ZFS, etc...).
Which are all server orientated.
On 8/3/07, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying a Java program, using the same version of SUN JVM(jre1.6.0_02)
With the option I made it works on windows:
C:\software\myprogram\C:\Java\jre1.6.0_02\bin\java -XX:+Aggressive
Heap -Xms800m -Xmx800m -Xmn400m -XX:+UseParallelGC
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