Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
, they have their own packages, their own directory structure, and to heck with complying with any type of rules. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
here earlier, then that would be a great system for an OpenSolaris distribution and make for great compatability with Official Solaris releases. But, for now, yes what you suggest sounds about right... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-30 Thread Shawn Walker
packaging system is unavailable. OpenPKG indeed is a good CPAM solution if there is no need to maintain compatibiltiy with existing legacy packages and local PMS. It could also work fairly well as a native packaging system replacement if you didn't have one to start with... -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-30 Thread Shawn Walker
we do not open a can of worms related to the cross-platform aspect. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] vt's

2005-07-06 Thread Shawn Walker
code release. I'm sure it's possible... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-06 Thread Shawn Walker
surprise there. The technical inaccuracies in it (about both Solaris and Linux) were also amusing RedHat and IBM in this case are the sguardaddies in question. Shocking... ;) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Qemu (was Re: Solaris vs. Linux)

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
, but that's Linux for you. I know, I know, I am just joking! Probably because it depends on the gcc3 runtime it was built against is my guess... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

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

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
scalability problems or other things with some of them. No offense, but of those listed I hope that OpenSolaris would only get involved with monotone or svk. The ideology, politics, and licensing of the others is not something I would prefer to be involved with. +1 to svk -- Shawn Walker, Software

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/7/05, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, this has been a long winding post ( as is usual from me ) and I am simply pouring out my thoughts here. +1 as usual -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

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

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/7/05, Patrick Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:00:30AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: That's not true of svn as far as the write access is concerned. At least if you're using svnserve + fsfs. uh, how does the method with which writing to the server and storage

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: vt's

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
surmise. *rubs hands together in glee* So many fun ideas to try out now that OpenSolaris is here... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris on SPARC sans piggies

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
to maintain and certainly not portable. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Insecure by default

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
or changes rather easily. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
with it, but the great thing about it is that you can change your default shell if you don't like it. You can even make your own OpenSolaris distribution where bash is the default. In the meantime, leave the rest of us in peace. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
. It is a certainty that if SUN decided to change the default shell that at least some of their customers (if not many) would experience a wide variety of issues with shell scripts and other tools that they use on a daily basis. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
compatability, and that is a paramount feature in enterprise level systems. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Shawn Walker
the right thing with Solaris. but to discard something useful for fear of incompatibilities (which are not even proven), is not a good thing. I never suggested such a thing, and you make it sound as if it's only a possibility when it is already certifiably a reality. -- Shawn Walker, Software

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/8/05, Danek Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped all the wonderful stuff written +1000 - a post put far more elegantly than I could given your internal knowledge and experience Thanks for the mini-insight into SUN's outlook on even small changes! -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems

Re: Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Thus far netboot of onv_16 is not working at all

2005-07-08 Thread Shawn Walker
the community has grown in a year or two? Ain't life grand? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Errors with mounting of boot archive

2005-07-08 Thread Shawn Walker
to Alexander update the boot archives. Next reboot worked fine. Alexander Sunil, Alexander This is bug 6294481. P.S. See bug 6294769 as well. Unfortunately, neither of those bugs appear to be accessible via bugs.opensolaris.org... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems

Re: Re[2]: [osol-discuss] b16 - ATA problems

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
, non-debug bins will be provided in the near future, right now the build infrastructure needed to support it isn't there (what I last heard) and the person who can do that has a very long todo list at the moment I believe. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
'su' under Solaris uses PAM for authentication. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/9/05, Scott Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:37:57PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: I would say you've found a bug then. Since the roles manpage claims Or far more likely he's done something wrong in configuring the role. Thanks for the research. I feel better now

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
(as of a few days ago when I checked). As long as application providers continue to treat Solaris x86 like an illegitimate child the Solaris experience will be subpar as well for applications. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
to user root as possible and without it the behaviour is same. so, where did I mess up? I don't think user_attr changes will show up until that user has logged out and logged back in. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
had the same problem when using a build tool recently that went to check user_attr to see if I had package management rights. I had went and added those rights, then went back to the terminal and the tool still thought I didn't have the rights. Once I logged out and back in it was fine. -- Shawn

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

2005-07-09 Thread Shawn Walker
to do so. So wait for a package update that will be along just as soon as possible. +1 to the Dennisnator as always :} -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Shawn Walker
forth, and create your bountiful distribution full of all the choices you wish to make. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1 Solaris 10: Source Code Patches

2005-07-12 Thread Shawn Walker
the fact that they are not legal, a legitimate option would be greatly appreciated. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix - a home for a grand unified software base ?

2005-07-13 Thread Shawn Walker
for individual distribution creators. I look forward with great anticipation to what lies ahead, because I think that I can only get better from here if foresight and planning are used as our primary tools going forward. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

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

2005-07-13 Thread Shawn Walker
mirrors. But, it would be better to me if it the official or central site was opensolaris.org, if only because it would help make it really seem like it was really *part* of the main OpenSolaris community effort. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: [osol-discuss] Addressing the base-library problem (Was: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?)

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
, I'm just contributing in whatever way I can... Thanks, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
problems. Could star, be used as a replacement for Solaris tar program without causing *any* incompatibilities? Since you so graciously released it under the CDDL, it seems like it would be idea as a replacement. I certainly find it much faster then GNU tar, and faster than Solaris tar. -- Shawn

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-14 Thread Shawn Walker
-- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
with what you describe... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
, but it's built on the most promising base, named QT. While I respect that is your opinion, please don't start KDE vs. GNOME flamewars using inflammatory language. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
issue actually becomes a problem, then at that point it's time to fork. I often run into the same problem with Software that I package to run on production servers for the company I work for. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

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

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
that could go a long ways towards helping achieve the goal. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [blastware-discuss] [osol-discuss] Re: Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
. It is a *UNIX* industry standard regardless of whether it is a *Linux* industry standard, since Linux is certainly not UNIX. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Crypto Code

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
, it was more of a curiosity question... You've more than answered adequately. Thanks, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [blastware-discuss] Can Solaris/OpenSolaris do what Linux has failed to do?

2005-07-15 Thread Shawn Walker
locations and configure options... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Solaris Express CDs do I need?

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
of them. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
? That would help considerably with the process... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Einstein http://physics.augustana.edu/einstein.html -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] ss20?

2005-07-16 Thread Shawn Walker
.html -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: perf problem during nv-b18-x86 install

2005-07-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/18/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/18/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that the installation media did not get burned correctly. If you have another system

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: compiler cache for sun studio

2005-07-18 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/18/05, Sunil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this to tools-discuss instead of the big list; it's likely to be of no tools-discuss here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa ...:( Look here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst

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

2005-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
are to ensure your shell exits. GDM will be the graphic login manager on subsequent reboots. Note that the FMRI for GDM may change in a future release of Solaris as it is an Unstable interface (as per the definition in attributes(5)). From: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/darren/20050318 -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems booting on P-II 233 Notebook.

2005-07-20 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/20/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How may I set verbosemode to a value != 0 and when will we have full sources for multiboot? I'm pretty sure verbosemode is activated by doing -v to the kernel... Just like one does -kdv... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst

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

2005-07-20 Thread Shawn Walker
some agreement and compromise among the parties involved. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-07-20 Thread Shawn Walker
... Is that still considered the proper practice? Would I be considered evil if I released packages without the prefixes? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

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

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
repository sounds ok, trying to actually work with Debian to create an OpenSolaris distribution seems a lost battle at best. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

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

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
if it is perhaps our favourite one sometimes). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
. No, it's simply a set of ideas you don't agree with. It may not fit with the Solaris philosophy, but it doesn't make it any less valid as an idea, experiment, or project. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

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

2005-07-21 Thread Shawn Walker
since you can already use about 28 characters anyway. So is it ok for me to name my packages libfoo, progname, etc or not? I'm confused ;) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Release date of build 18

2005-07-22 Thread Shawn Walker
... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-07-22 Thread Shawn Walker
Guidelines can be very strict at times justifiably or not is a matter of opinion. Even if the CDDL wasn't an obstacle, I don't believe they would accept the binary redistribution guidelines that parts of ON will likely always be under. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] how long before we stop doing...

2005-07-23 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/23/05, Sunil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep pkg-name /var/sadm/install/contents |awk '{print $1}' to see which files were installed by a package? when is this simple request going to be merged in 'pkginfo -l'? Workaround example: pkgchk -v SUNWGtku -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems

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

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/25/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith M Wesolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:39:09PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: justifiably or not is a matter of opinion. Even if the CDDL wasn't an obstacle, I don't believe they would accept the binary

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
if Solaris leads OpenSolaris or the other way around. Your ideas are noble, but please don't assume that everyone has to work the way you say they do. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_b18 on Dell Inspiron 8200

2005-07-25 Thread Shawn Walker
too. snip Let's move this to opensolaris-help, please remove opensolaris-discuss from the to or cc lines in any further replies. To answer your question, we need more info, see this blog entry: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/comments/dmick/Weblog/diagnosing_kernel_hangs_panics_with -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting software into OpenSolaris (was: Interface Stability... (was process))

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
, and then copying or moving all the files out of the SOURCES directory to some place of your choice in a new structure of your own. You don't really have to use pkgadd to use the JDS source downloads at all. I didn't :) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
for ksh88, or to add the necessary compatability to ksh93. I don't think anyone was implying that pdksh could be used as a drop-in replacement (at least I don't think so). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Compiling errors with SunStudio

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
what. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
the choice out of at least 5 there. On Solaris I even did not find a way to mount a ext2fs partition... (well using nfs and mount it on another machine was no problem.) ext2fs: http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/9.html#9.24 -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
, and sparc32/64. Probably a simple matter to correct, but I haven't looked into it yet. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-27 Thread Shawn Walker
) or those who have access the source. While they can't tell you what the source says exactly, they could answer specific behaviour questions. So, I disagree, it is not impossible, it is quite possible. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-07-28 Thread Shawn Walker
or may not be documented well enough to reimplement compatability. Let's hope it is, and that the fine details can be sorted out with those that have source access. If it's really that important to anyone, someone will do it of that I'm certain. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: wifi (was open source process)

2005-07-28 Thread Shawn Walker
On 7/28/05, Tao Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/05, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that's a very practical view. There is a *lot* of hardware out there that cannot be used without some binary component. Not just wifi, but many others. Quite frankly

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How would the ARC process look at this discussion of KSH 88-vs-93?

2005-07-28 Thread Shawn Walker
extremely shortsighted, not to mention counterproductive. +1 -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-help] beginner questions -1 : cannot create directories.

2005-07-30 Thread Shawn Walker
mount my fat32 partition as: mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d0p2:1 /export/fat-g -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-08-02 Thread Shawn Walker
that already have answers on the front page of the site you were asking about in some cases, and not only that unfairly accusing others of having a bad attitude because they wouldn't supply you with answers that you could easily obtain on your own through proper channels. -- Shawn Walker, Software

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-08-03 Thread Shawn Walker
for me to learn and has been far easier to use. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Packaging and Building applications, standards for OpenSolaris

2005-08-04 Thread Shawn Walker
again. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/10/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 August 2005 17:40, Shawn Walker wrote: +1 - Just got a laptop today ;) Install Solaris yet? Not yet, I'm a bit leary since I just got it and it's already taken some time to get it ready for work. I might do it this weekend

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/11/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:17, Shawn Walker wrote: On 8/10/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 August 2005 17:40, Shawn Walker wrote: +1 - Just got a laptop today ;) Install Solaris yet? Not yet, I'm a bit

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-12 Thread Shawn Walker
... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-12 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/12/05, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 August 2005 19:08, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Shawn Walker wrote: It's a Dell Inspiron 9300. The main devices I care about are the Intel Pro Wireless 2200B Chipset (Centrino), SigmTel C-Major Audio, and the OK

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-12 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/12/05, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: As I mentioned without working wireless, it's rather useless to me. If a wireless is so critical, you can try an ethernet bridge, which connects your ethernet port to a wireless router. The one I have is a Linksys

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-15 Thread Shawn Walker
, they've always been the most open with their distribution sources, and is one of the reasons why there are so many packages out there available for their distribtuions as well as distributions that have been created based off their work. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Shawn Walker
. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does thismean? (round 3)

2005-08-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/19/05, Simon Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: If opensolaris ever went GPL, I'd be gone in an instant, and I suspect others would as well. Because at that point, it would become useless Nobody was suggesting that Open Solaris go GPL, merely

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does thismean? (round 3)

2005-08-22 Thread Shawn Walker
. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does thismean? (round 3)

2005-08-22 Thread Shawn Walker
modules. - Linus Torvalds The message I linked above is one of the reasons why I've never contributed and will probably never contribute to the Linux kernel. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone seen their OpenSolaris T-Shirts?

2005-08-23 Thread Shawn Walker
On 8/23/05, Peter Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still waiting... :-( So am I, you're not alone :) -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-23 Thread Shawn Walker
that is part of the OpenSolaris project, well that's different, but it doesn't appear to be the case. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-29 Thread Shawn Walker
. The GPL is the one preventing CDDL code from being linked, not the CDDL. If the GPL were more flexible, the CDDL would not have been necessary possibly. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Bug fix process overly burdonsome ?

2005-08-29 Thread Shawn Walker
part in the processes to get a better understanding of them. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting ReiserFS to Solaris?

2005-09-03 Thread Shawn Walker
. As far as the Enterprise Linux world, I almost always see ext3 as the de facto standard. I also don't see that changing in the near year or two. Maybe after that, but I have my doubts. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Porting ReiserFS to Solaris?

2005-09-05 Thread Shawn Walker
, though I could say the same about early versions of XFS for Linux. I can't recall a single case of data corruption that I could blame on ext2/ext3. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-07 Thread Shawn Walker
, or even the end-user, so it is a problem for debian. And it isn't a risk for an author? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL CDDL - incompatibitile., what does this mean? (round 3)

2005-09-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 9/7/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, indeed. But i guess the CDDL is also LGPL incompatible ? I don't see how, given that the LGPL is compatible to proprietary non-(open source/free)-software. From what I see the LGPL is compatible with just abou any license... -- Shawn Walker

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Dual Boot with XP

2005-09-11 Thread Shawn Walker
? GRUB doesn't needs to recognize the NTFS partition to use a chainloader. Just make sure you use the appropriate hd0,x -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] No CDE in OpenSolaris

2005-09-11 Thread Shawn Walker
KDE here :-) Wasted time? As long as *commercial* native KDE applications have to pay the Trolltech Tax GNOME is the only viable alternative for many commercial endeavors. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] No CDE in OpenSolaris

2005-09-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On 9/11/05, Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/11/05, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wasted time? As long as *commercial* native KDE applications have to pay the Trolltech Tax GNOME is the only viable alternative for many commercial endeavors. KDE does not publish

Re: [osol-discuss] No CDE in OpenSolaris

2005-09-11 Thread Shawn Walker
On 9/11/05, Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/05, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/11/05, Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please stop posting erroneous information. While parts of GNOME are released under the GPL, the main libraries that matter

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-shirts have shipped]

2005-09-14 Thread Shawn Walker
On 9/14/05, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get it yet? Please let me know when you do; I'm still waiting... I have mine, zip 66219 (a few days ago). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of that English/European banner

2005-09-14 Thread Shawn Walker
On 9/14/05, Javier O. Augusto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander, Thank you for your extremely valuable tip. I tried the gconf thingie on the URL you provided but didn't work out. One thing that did work was adding: Try this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/26020 -- Shawn

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-17 Thread Shawn Walker
On Mon 17 Apr 2006 at 05:28PM, Daniel B. Price wrote: Can I ask a dumb question: why are we calling this the muskoka project? Naming a mailing list filled with technical kernel content after an obscure lake in Canada seems maximally confusing to me, and would seem to make it harder for

[osol-discuss] Re: Interesting blog entry on Solaris 10

2006-05-07 Thread Shawn Walker
I think the problem is not the criticism, but rather, the way in which it is presented. The blog entry doesn't really qualify as constructive criticism because it fails to offer valid and well-reasoned opinions about the work of others, usually involving both positive and negative comments, in

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