Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Mika Borner
+1 With the new Sun Ray Connector for Windows http://www.sun.com/software/products/sr_connector/index.xml it would be nice to run those nasty little non-Unix like Applications on top of Solaris, serving Terminal Server Sessions. //Mika >>> Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/22/06 6:08 pm >>>

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:29 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Erast Benson wrote: > > This is a nice feature. But this is not what I wanted. I'd like to have > > some way to distribute "cooked" mouse events to text only applications, > > like screen, ncurses-based apps, generic console, etc. > > Yo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Erast Benson wrote: This is a nice feature. But this is not what I wanted. I'd like to have some way to distribute "cooked" mouse events to text only applications, like screen, ncurses-based apps, generic console, etc. You'ld just need to put code into curses or another library to read the VUID

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:53 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Erast Benson wrote: > > And I always wanted to have a mouse support in console, ala gpm(Linux) > > and moused(BSD). Kernel support is needed. > > It's already there in Solaris SPARC, where graphics cards have in kernel > frame buffers wi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Erast Benson wrote: And I always wanted to have a mouse support in console, ala gpm(Linux) and moused(BSD). Kernel support is needed. It's already there in Solaris SPARC, where graphics cards have in kernel frame buffers with ioctls to draw the cursor - it's just not well known and pretty much

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > a windows branded zone? that would be really really cool, can it be > done? is anyone working on it? I'm guessing it would be a titanic job It would be cool, and I suppose it could be done, given enough motivation. I have no idea if anyone is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:08 -0500, Bill Rushmore wrote: > OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an > application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since > the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an > alternative on x64 yet. Br

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
Rich Teer wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Bill Rushmore wrote: > >> OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an >> application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since >> the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an >> alternative on

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:17 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Nenad Cimerman wrote: > > I'd like to have "virtual consoles" like the ones Linux has (at least on > > x86). > > There's a team at Sun working on this - they should be submitting > an OpenSolaris project proposal soon to bring this out

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Bill Rushmore wrote: > OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an > application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since > the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an > alternative on x64 yet. BrandZ is a nic

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Bill Rushmore
OK, not really a feature necessarily of Solaris but more of an application. I really want VMware (or its equivalent), especially since the SUNpci card is becoming obsolete on Sparc and there really isn't an alternative on x64 yet. BrandZ is a nice idea but I need to run a popular non-Unix like OS

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Nenad Cimerman wrote: I'd like to have "virtual consoles" like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). There's a team at Sun working on this - they should be submitting an OpenSolaris project proposal soon to bring this out into the open. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Eric Lowe
Eric Boutilier wrote: I'd like to have "virtual consoles" like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). Of course one could use "screen", but generally CTRL+A hotkey interferes with e.g. bash hotkey to move to the first character in the cmd-line (yes, ctrl+a, a is a workaround - but nothing mor

[osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
I'd like to have "virtual consoles" like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). Of course one could use "screen", but generally CTRL+A hotkey interferes with e.g. bash hotkey to move to the first character in the cmd-line (yes, ctrl+a, a is a workaround - but nothing more than a workaround).

[osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-22 Thread Nenad Cimerman
I'd like to have "virtual consoles" like the ones Linux has (at least on x86). Of course one could use "screen", but generally CTRL+A hotkey interferes with e.g. bash hotkey to move to the first character in the cmd-line (yes, ctrl+a, a is a workaround - but nothing more than a workaround). rega

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-20 Thread Casper . Dik
>This feature made me think "yep that's a nice idea" when I read about it. >I did not think much more about it, and maybe it's not that cool, it can of >course be discussed. I'm not too impressed about features which primarily work around broken software. (If the driver not responds because of

[osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-20 Thread Yann POUPET
> For what it's worth, it doesn't sound like that's > what he means. > Instead, the driver is "health checked" in some way > and deliberately > unloaded and reloaded if it's not working. Yes indeed IIRC that's the purpose of this feature. > Rather than being an additional stress-test (which is >