Re: [osol-discuss] CDDL

2006-08-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
;d be creating a new Debian License, which isn't GPL and wouldn't help with existing GPL software. GPLv3 may fix this for software which adopts it, but GPLv2 is what it is, and is unchangable. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

[osol-discuss] Re: [laptop-discuss] Re: [osol-code] vote for 6363369

2006-08-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
not to put confidential info in description" as "be careful not to put any information in description, because some may be confidential". I know some of the QA/Test groups we work with follow that policy no matter how many times I've asked them to stop. -- -Alan Coopersmi

Re: [osol-discuss] 3D Intel Graphics

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
later this month to integrate the DRI/3D portion, though both are based on the previous release. It's just a question of when we'll be able to update those to this new version. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] Busted fonts fixed in b45?

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
font packages (SUNWxwfnt, SUNWxwcft) and re-pkgadd them from the install media. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-di

[osol-discuss] Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 integration status

2006-08-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
RYONE is complaining about the delays -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] No google code hosting for CDDL/OpenSolaris based projects

2006-08-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and community members. If we want to see more CDDL-licensed software listed on freshmeat, we need to either get the authors to submit it or to submit it ourselves. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Is CDDL "illegal"? (Fwd: Remove cdrtools)

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e does not meet the GPL requirements for being included in a GPL licensed program.They haven't said a fully CDDL program by itself is a problem - it's mixing CDDL & GPL into the same software they are objecting to. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Is CDDL "illegal"? (Fwd: Remove cdrtools)

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
h you - labeling them as "untrustworthy" is a personal attack that will just make things worse and make people less likely to listen to reasonable discussion. No point making unnecessary animosity... -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

Re: [osol-discuss] Is CDDL "illegal"? (Fwd: Remove cdrtools)

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
dispute is much more about cdrtools than about CDDL in general.] -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] BUG/RFE:6311077Enabling ON compilation with Sun Studio 11 (Venus)

2006-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: rumour has it that this is re-spun ? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/flag-days/pages/2006081201/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] sysbench for mysql compile fail

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
compilers, which doesn't work. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express 8/06 is up also

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d site and know many fewer engineers ever did go there. OpenSolaris is part of our jobs now, SX paid support is not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express 8/06 is up also

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
But that's not the previously referenced support site for the Solaris Express "commercial edition", which we still advertise as $99/year.See the bottom half of http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp for that, which is what we were discussing. -A

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR is now 6 CDs

2006-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e for making the OS grow more?Did the latest SO7 patch integration grow it that much? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list openso

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR is now 6 CDs

2006-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote: But StarOffice 7 has been in since s10_67, when there were only 4 CD's, so how was it responsible for making the OS grow more?Did the latest SO7 patch integration grow it that much? I was kinda hoping that StarOffice 7

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris - just a fake? (was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] some questions about ksh93 integration)

2006-08-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
instantly conform to what you think they expect the answer to be - questions are asked so we can learn what the project team is doing, not to force change where it's not needed. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] Blog Feeds

2006-08-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
think all posts from b.s.c were new, so that may have pushed older posts from other sites out. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC compiler installation on Solaris 10

2006-08-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to your $PATH to get the gcc included in Solaris 10. 3) There is no step 3. You are already done. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] list applied patches for Solaris 8 & 9

2006-08-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
applied to the system.* You use showrev -p, and you probably have a huge list of patches applied (especially if you added new revs of patches on top of older revs without backing out the older revs first). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_46 installer gets burped by SendMail .. again ..

2006-08-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
but I thought there was one on the console output not being captured during the install. The bigger bug I see there though is why is sendmail running during the install at all? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engine

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade, downgrade, patches, etc.

2006-09-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ities are much more public, if security alerts are your top concern, bfu is the wrong way to go). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Community Edition (snv_46) installs flawlessly on Core 2 Duo VA

2006-09-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
short time. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] German court: GPL ยง2 most likely void

2006-09-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
right now. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [OffTopic] The FSF Website says "not to use the CDDL"

2006-09-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
as much software as possible is best supported by the GPL's all-or-nothing requirements over the CDDL & LGPL requirements to keep open what you got, but not to force you to make everything else open you use it with. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: From Linux to OpenSolaris

2006-10-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ible build.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: From Linux to OpenSolaris

2006-10-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
de to the X packages in any given SXCR release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] mysql errors and trying to install

2006-10-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Solaris x86? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] xmodmap questions

2006-10-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Control_L You mean like the output of xmodmap -pke ?Though in general you should only change the keycodes you are using and not reset the entries that you're not changing. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engine

Re: [osol-discuss] CDE fonts

2006-10-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
with svcadm or vi inetd.conf.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Ports System

2006-10-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ce, see the recent havoc caused by OpenSSL's compatibility-breaking upgrade), but since the older releases of Solaris only get security and critical bug fixes, may not have all the features you want out of newer versions. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [osol-discuss] Security changed in recent blds?

2006-10-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ty/on/flag-days/pages/2006060101/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/sbd/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list o

Re: [osol-discuss] Security changed in recent blds?

2006-10-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ian wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Ian wrote: I've installed build49 on a couple of systems and I'm unable to rlogin to them or access their displays. Have there been any recent changes in this area? Just the Secure-by-Default project disabling all remote services except

Re: Reforming the OpenSolaris project integration process (was:Re: [osol-discuss] how to make a new project?)

2006-10-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e pointer on: http://blogs.sun.com/pschow/entry/solaris_evolution_and_interface_stability ) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: DRI in Solaris (was: [osol-announce] SXCR Build 50 available)

2006-10-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
RC, but that's completely hidden in the XVR-2500 code and not part of the main Xsun code base, nor will it support any other devices nor be visible to end-users/applications). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 50 available

2006-10-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
.html and http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/changelogs/changelogs-nv_50/ (and a bunch more for the other parts of Solaris not published on opensolaris.org yet) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to Upgrade Nevada Build 48

2006-10-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-style probably won't help either since we don't have good enough dependency information to know which packages must be upgraded in sync, just which must have some version (any version) installed.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR 51 delayed slightly

2006-10-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
OpenSolaris outside Sun don't need to expect a new source drop to bring them up to date with the sources used to build the forthcoming build 51a. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR 51 delayed slightly

2006-10-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nterested about the details... No, different project suffering from code-name reuse. The odds of anyone doing any work remotely related to the XVR-4000 other than an EOF of the drivers are very slim at this point. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ast-users] one more test for ksh

2006-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
integration of ksh93 by causing distracting flame wars whenever possible. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Wake on LAN

2006-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the x86 Power Management project, whose intended use case is very simple: qualify for the Energy Star checkbox required for sales to the many U.S. Government agencies, and equivalents required by other governments, who buy Sun products. Sun has few customers bigger than that. -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Translated Solaris documentation in Chinese

2006-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ixed in recent Solaris Nevada driver releases. (You may still have to restart the X server - true monitor hotplug is expected for Xorg 7.3 next year.) As for AMD, it's too soon to say if they'll change things or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Translated Solaris documentation in Chinese

2006-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
stall Solaris 10 or Nevada on x86 machine. 2) When it asks you Xorg or Xsun, choose Xorg. 3) There is no 3. You are done. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ openso

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Translated Solaris documentation in Chinese

2006-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
required to get X). How do I find out that I am using Radeon and not the VESA driver? Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see which driver it says it loaded. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about GPLd Java

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
very different for Java vs. OpenSolaris. The GPL is still not an option as the only license for OpenSolaris as long as we have bits we can't open source and want to allow distros such as Schillix and Nexenta to re-distribute. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mi

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3

2006-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g his free e-mail account from yahoo. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 library information

2006-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
simply be the place to find backwards compatibility libraries and symlinks. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About graphical desktops and Solaris future

2006-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
why they weren't open sourcing Motif at a LinuxWorld BoF I attended many years ago.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list openso

Re: [osol-discuss] .X11-pipe and .X11-unix permissions and Xnest

2006-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
as denial of service by creating files in the directories that other users cannot remove. Unfortunately, we haven't come up with a good answer yet that provides both the same level of security and the flexibility to allow non-setid X servers like Xnest to function fully. -- -A

Re: [osol-discuss] .X11-pipe and .X11-unix permissions and Xnest

2006-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Peter Tribble wrote: Is there any particular reason why Xnest can't be setgid root? None that we know of, we've just never done a security audit on the code that's specific to Xnest to verify that it's safe to run setgid. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PRO

Re: [osol-discuss] 64MB of RAM and Solaris ? ANSWER==YES

2006-11-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, use "netservices limited", which should shut down everything but ssh from listening on the network (most will still be running - just only accessible locally). For more info, see the Secure By Default project at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/sbd/ -

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Happy Happy Joy Joy

2006-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
on be shutdown and retired. (Yes, I was bad at keeping up on kernel patches, but http, ssh & sendmail were the only external services, and those were kept patched. This was of course a non-sun.com machine.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Happy Happy Joy Joy

2006-11-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s load has been transferred off to newer servers over the last year, and will soon be shutdown and retired. n .. leave it be! Sadly, that's not an option, since the power will be removed from its current location by year-end. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Control + Backspace kills Xserver

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, I manage to kill it accidently over and over. Can someone please hint me to an .xorg.conf option or something which helps here? Try turning off NumLock - it's a bug. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] New Release of B.O.O!

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the point.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How do you develop drivers?

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
our colleagues in the Linux & BSD distros do. Those drivers, depending on the hardware, come from: - contributions by vendors - community members with specs - reverse engineering -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sy

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Unkillable Processes

2006-12-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
omments will require scrubbing thousands of bugs manually, and opening new comments will require adding a way to flag which comments can be published. Neither one is simple or quick. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting the source...

2005-06-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
oreId=8&PartDetailId=JDS3_SLRS10_SOURCE-G-F&TransactionId=try -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Remote X-windows problems

2005-06-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/NIS, wait for those to fail or timeout, and then try the hosts file. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Remote X-windows problems

2005-06-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Gary Gendel wrote: You nailed it. I put the hosts in the ipnodes file and voila! everything is back and snappy. I guess that's another vote to fix this "bug" then: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6219146 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Help: Schillix 0.1 booted without GUI

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
open-source, so compiling your own is probably the best until we finish splitting the encumbered from the non-encumbered. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SchilliX pkgsrc Xorg packages available

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e Sun is Imake based, which is about to become obsolete in Xorg's open source release as it moves from Imake to autoconf). -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Voting for a bug

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
an be used instead of a vote count. I've added a call record for Gary to the /etc/hosts vs. ipnode bug, which is where I suspect this started. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: [osol-discuss] Xorg Bug or undocumented feature?

2005-07-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
fix" as X.Org has declared DPS dead, so it will be disabled in Xorg 6.9 and removed completely for Xorg 7.0. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss m

[osol-discuss] Re: Status of Xprint in Solaris?

2005-07-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
MF manifest for xprint, not /etc/init.d/xprint, but that's not hard to do, and the script others ship in /etc/init.d would probably become the method script for SMF.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

Re: [osol-discuss] Studio 10 compiler bug

2005-07-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
; It works with the Studio-8 compiler that is used internally by Sun > for compiling Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 For X we use Studio 10 plus patches now for all our Solaris Nevada builds. (For Solaris 10, we used Studio 8 on SPARC and Studio 10 beta on x86 for X.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [QueueNews] A Conversation with Tim Marsland]

2005-07-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s update release.) -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [New Community Proposal] - starting an OpenSolaris JDS Desktop Community

2005-07-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
uldn't expect to. If there's enough interest in starting a KDE community, I see no reason to discourage that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-d

Re: [osol-discuss] [New Community Proposal] - starting an OpenSolaris JDS Desktop Community

2005-07-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
so! I did see recently that the JDS sources are available. What is missing? The community, so that people can do more than just see the snapshot of JDS sources from Solaris 10 3/05 release, such as interacting with the ongoing development. (+1 to the JDS community from me too BTW) --

Re: [osol-discuss] Code Management System for OpenSolaris

2005-07-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
9, 10, and Nevada by just adjusting the -p option to putback, if I'm changing a file that's already identical in all those trees, which a surprising amount are - and an even greater amount are common between 10 and Nevada still since it's had so little time to diverge.) --

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [solarisx86] talk]

2005-07-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ginal Message Subject: Re: [solarisx86] talk Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:36:12 -0700 From: Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce Riddle wrote: Is something quite different with /usr/bin/talk on Solaris 10? Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] are we afftected by this?

2005-07-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
eve the zlib included in Solaris is older than that (1.1.4 according to /usr/include/zlib.h) but you may have installed a newer rev from blastwave, sunfreeware, etc. that you should check for updates to. -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X W

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

2005-07-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
free86/etc/apSolaris.shar?rev=1.2&view=markup -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-07-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dan Mick wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Dan Mick wrote: 1) I've never heard of /dev/fbs/aperture It's basically an open source version of xsvc included in Xorg for Solaris systems without xsvc (really ancient Solaris x86 or any version of Solaris SPARC). oh, and so Joerg incl

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: KDE 3.4.1 for Solaris 10 IA32/AMD32 and UltraSPARC Released

2005-07-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
proprietary interfaces to call into their kernel modules to get at the 3D acceleration hardware. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Annoying cc bug

2005-07-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-to-right, with rightmost winning for conflicting options, and -fast includes -xarch. The Sun Studio article on AMD64 compiler options warns about this: http://developer.sun.com/prodtech/cc/articles/amd64_migration.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Graphic card problem

2005-07-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
roland wrote: I install salaris 10 serveral times, and it is normal during installation. But after reboot, the system told cannot login 'X-server' Look in /var/dt/Xerrors and either /var/log/Xsun.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log for more details to aid in troubleshooting. --

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1: a small proposal

2005-07-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Solaris 8 users since the last Solaris 8 Companion CD was built several years ago. Blastwave can also roll out security fixes much faster than "Wait for the next update release cycle, if there is one." -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, In

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris World Wide!

2005-07-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ncisco Bay will soon be overwritten with too many names to read for the OpenSolaris version. (Kind of like Europe is in your GNOME map right now.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] Long Options

2005-07-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, like the long-options-with-single-dash used by X11 applications (e.g. -display). Adding this style to other commands wouldn't make sense, but changing twenty years of habits and scripts for these commands would make even less sense. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

2005-07-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
", but "private" is a lot easier to say/type. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

2005-07-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
inverse of that - if it's documented as safe to use, then it is, otherwise it's probably private. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

2005-07-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: P.S. I assume that Nevada is the name for the new version of the Solaris O/N consolidation and not a name for the whole Sun-Solaris. Nope, it's the code name for the next release of the entire Solaris WOS, including all the consolidations. -- -Alan Cooper

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x27;s also not anyone out there really running something you can call "OpenSolaris" - they are running either Solaris Express or Schillix, which are OpenSolaris plus more bits from other places - in the case of Solaris Express, many more bits.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
laris.org is figuring out how to post them to opensolaris.org. I've been waiting for the opensolaris.org team to get higher priority things off their todo list before pestering them to figure out how to do this. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, while gpatch (the GNU patch program) works well with most diff patches. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS people.

2005-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
cters, so you'ld have to abbreviate quite a bit. You might want (made up names for example) VRTSvm and EMCvm installed if you used both Veritas Volume Manager and VMWare. (Solaris extended the limit to 32-characters a while ago, as you can probably tell from the GNOME package names.) --

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc and patch for OS pe

2005-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
if it meets the minimal requirements. The lack of an agreed upon standard for how those packages are built and installed, which is why SMC*, CSW*, and SFW* all exist, and all install to different places, and follow different rules for things like package dependencies. -- -Alan Cooper

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

2005-07-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
design goal, but can't always be met for various reasons and occassionally is simply broken by mistake. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] agpgart (was: Solaris Express 7/2005 Released)

2005-07-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
lease. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-07-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
cards/chipsets as well as the Quadro ones it currently does. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

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

2005-07-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I think the best description I heard of the plans during the DDC presentation was "Make X stop acting like it's an OS.") -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [osol-discuss] ATI new graphic cards roxx! Solaris drivers?

2007-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
opment model, not yet even up to beta quality. ATI has not yet released 3D specifications, so this isn't the place to go yet if you want 3D performance. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: [osol-discuss] less

2007-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
? The terminfo data for terminal type "xterm" changed. 6569261 xterm, xtermc, xterm-color: smcup/rmcup definitions are incorrect/missing -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: [osol-discuss] Which display manager

2007-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
'svcadm disable cde-login ; svcadm enable gdm' - though be ready for your desktop session to be killed as soon as you run that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s is impossible to do with xdm, if someone wanted to do the work to add all that, but why duplicate all that effort when gdm works?Is there some reason a user would prefer xdm over gdm?(The main reason I know of xdm still exists and is used is at sites who want the same login gui on all

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tlogin is encumbered, so could only be in Solaris itself, and every other OpenSolaris distro would have to find something else anyway. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
but gdm is depending on Virtual Terminals to provide that function, so is waiting for that project to complete. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss m

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
about them all, though. > I guess I'm surprised if KDM wouldn't use some of these (such as > fontconfig and freetype). Perhaps it doesn't have very robust > font support? fontconfig brings in freetype & expat. I'm surprised I didn't see libXft2 in the list, s

Re: [osol-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

2007-11-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nk a11y support was the main reason >> we picked GDM over KDM initially. > >>From my understanding, this would either need a binary standard for C++ > or a way to define a different LD_RUN_PATH for gcc compiled binaries. Why? KDM is an application, not a library. --

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