[ug-bosug] Meetup on Feb 20 ! :)

2010-02-17 Thread S h i v
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriramnrn at gmail.comwrote: Hello all: How about a bosug meetup this weekend ? +1 for date +1 to start at 5pm. Any venue is ok. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[ug-bosug] [Help] Building Opensolaris on Opensolaris

2009-03-07 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Avinash Joshi avinashtjoshi at gmail.com wrote: Hi All. I would like to know the steps for building opensolaris in OpenSolaris 2008.11 Try the distro constructor (though not quite from scratch) to create a distro. But if the purpose is only ON, then some more

[ug-bosug] dtrace probe for qt ready on belenix for foss.in

2008-11-22 Thread S h i v
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: I have written a dtrace probe for qt on belenix. I got qt to compile using the provided gcc ( 3.4.3 ) only. I have also gotten KDE4 to compile on SX 101 on my laptop ( bare metal ) . it runs quite well. I

[ug-bosug] Newbies in Forthcoming FOSS.IN

2008-11-18 Thread S h i v
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:03 PM, kunal ghosh kunal.t2 at gmail.com wrote: hey guys !! your ongoing work for the forthcoming FOSS.IN sounds interesting. Anything , newbies like me , could help you guys with ?and with the slogan for the FOSS.IN being Show me the code any coding i could do for

[ug-bosug] KDE4 port on opensolaris : talk

2008-11-17 Thread S h i v
A talk around the efforts of KDE4 porting to opensolaris is part of foss.in schedule and being delivered by Adriaan de Groot http://foss.in/2008/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=594 Should be of interest to many on this list :) -Shiv

[ug-bosug] Request for stall at the conference

2008-11-15 Thread S h i v
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM, USM Bish bish at airtelmail.in wrote: +1 for a BOSUG stall. Any payments needed ? If yes, how much ? Bish, is it a question or an offer :) ? The request is for BeleniX which merits uncompensated space if the statement (response) on foss.in mailing list are to

[ug-bosug] Request for stall at the conference

2008-11-14 Thread S h i v
Hi All, I would like to request for one stall for BOSUG (Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group). The user group has core contributors to the distros BeleniX, Nexenta and to some of the projects driven by opensolaris community. We would like to showcase BeleniX, Nexenta opensolaris technologies that

[ug-bosug] proposal: osug-leaders list

2008-11-11 Thread S h i v
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriramnrn at gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Venky venkytv at opensolaris.org wrote: Hi Jim, I nominate Shiv shivakumar.gn at gmail.com for this. +1 Thanks. I accept. -Shiv

[ug-bosug] [belenix-discuss] Build 101 and Build 101 + Crossbow now available for BeleniX

2008-11-10 Thread S h i v
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Moinak Ghosh moinakg at belenix.org wrote: To upgrade base OS to Standard build spkg upgrade base trunk OR spkg upgrade base belenix_0.7.1b To upgrade base OS to Crossbow build spkg upgrade base belenix_0.7.1b_crossbow Note: These will download about

[ug-bosug] Linux software packaging tools

2008-11-10 Thread S h i v
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system#Linux_distributions On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Sathish Kulal sathish_uvce at yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, Can any one give me the information about Linux software packaging tools I know only about RPM and want to know

[ug-bosug] Video recording of sessions (Was: BOSUG session - Virtualization topics by Chris Beal (8-Nov-2008))

2008-11-07 Thread S h i v
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Amit k. Saha amitsaha.in at gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:35 PM, S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: I would welcome volunteers for the below request :) It would need recording and then to be put up on the net for others to use. We did

[ug-bosug] Video recording of sessions (Was: BOSUG session - Virtualization topics by Chris Beal (8-Nov-2008))

2008-11-07 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Angad Singh angad at angadsingh.in wrote: We plan to do live streaming, not only video recording :) Awesome !

[ug-bosug] BOSUG session - Virtualization topics by Pradhap Devarajan (8-Nov-2008)

2008-11-06 Thread S h i v
Hi All, This is a soft reminder to the BOSUG session for 8-Nov. The bad news is that Chris will not be able to make it to Bangalore :( The good news is that we stay with the *exciting agenda* Our very own versatile guy, Pradhap Devarajan will handle the topic Topic: Virtualization using

[ug-bosug] anyone used these security tools yet ?

2008-11-03 Thread S h i v
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Sriram Narayanan sriramnrn at gmail.comwrote: http://www.linux.com/feature/149492 - openvas http://www.linux.com/feature/151124 - metasploit I had used nessus 2.x on older solaris box (Solaris 9). It is an excellent software. Nessus 3.0 didn't come out as open

[ug-bosug] Preparations for the workouts

2008-10-30 Thread S h i v
Real nice. All the workouts seem to need good bit of preparation. For the adding DTrace sessions, I presume the prerequisite would be to * have a working build of KDE * have the built KDE running on a box KDE built for belenix 0.7.1 can be the starting point since it provides both the above.

[ug-bosug] Enhancement to Belenix installer - discussion thread

2008-10-26 Thread S h i v
Moinak's workout proposal has a preliminary acceptance http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/my-workout-proposal-for-fossin I am keen to take part in the hackathon. This is to invite others interested to join in for a discussion. There are a few more opensolaris community driven proposals

[ug-bosug] Video recording of sessions (Was: BOSUG session - Virtualization topics by Chris Beal (8-Nov-2008))

2008-10-23 Thread S h i v
, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:57 PM, S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: Hello All, The next BOSUG session will be on 8-Nov. (Note the venue. Remember to send confirmation :)) It is a pleasure to have Chris Beal discuss with us the ongoing work in the Virtualization space. Chris is a Sun Principal

[ug-bosug] BOSUG session - Virtualization topics by Chris Beal (8-Nov-2008)

2008-10-22 Thread S h i v
Hello All, The next BOSUG session will be on 8-Nov. (Note the venue. Remember to send confirmation :)) It is a pleasure to have Chris Beal discuss with us the ongoing work in the Virtualization space. Chris is a Sun Principal Engineer and has been heavily involved with the xVM development teams

[ug-bosug] Participation in foss.in/2008

2008-10-14 Thread S h i v
Hi Vidya, On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Vidya Sakar N Vidya.Sakar at sun.com wrote: Hi Shiv, Thanks for kick starting the discussion. 1. Extended partition support in grub : Extend the existing mount utilities to detect bootable extended partitions and make grub entries in the

[ug-bosug] Participation in foss.in/2008

2008-10-14 Thread S h i v
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:30 PM, sham pavman shampavman.cg at gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would just like to add upon a few more things to what Sanjeev said! The automation tool now can process the YAML file and create Zones for the Virtual Network to be set up!(A few more things to be done,

[ug-bosug] Participation in foss.in/2008

2008-10-14 Thread S h i v
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:06 PM, S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: n. Add your ideas Contributing Software into OpenSolaris / Solaris Express. I plan to bore the audience to death by talking about

[ug-bosug] Participation in foss.in/2008

2008-10-11 Thread S h i v
The CfP for foss.in has been out (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foss-in/message/5325) and so is the registration for *speakers* and sessions termed *workouts* (http://foss.in/news/registration-opens.html) This mail is to to trigger a discussion to arrive at the scope of involvement for

[ug-bosug] Intro session in the UG - welcome inputs

2008-10-11 Thread S h i v
The last two years we had introductory session in BOSUG just before foss.in covering a whole bunch of topics that might be of interest to anyone new to the FOSS world and interested in learning the ropes. A similar session can be planned for this time as well. I welcome those interested to provide

[ug-bosug] OpenSolaris Ignite

2008-10-09 Thread S h i v
A new opensolaris newsletter is now available. Details below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Alta Elstad alta.els...@sun.com Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:18 AM Subject: [edu-discuss] OpenSolaris Ignite To: edu-discuss at opensolaris.org OpenSolaris Ignite is a new newsletter that

[ug-bosug] Fwd: [foss.in] CfP Announced

2008-10-09 Thread S h i v
The CfP for foss.in is now out. Workouts should provide for some excellent opportunities for bosug/BeleniX :) cheers Shiv PS: I am travelling the entire next week with intermittent mail access. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kishore Bhargava kish...@linkaxis.com Date: Thu, Oct

[ug-bosug] foss.in / 2008

2008-10-05 Thread S h i v
This is a FYI post. Some details as to how foss.in is going to be structured this year is out and being discussed in this thread http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foss-in/message/5219 FOSS Workouts (hackfests?) is likely to be one of the components and is open for discussion at foss.in

[ug-bosug] Create a customized bootable / installable dvd

2008-10-03 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Harshal p.harshal at gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have solaris x86 system with customized software and evn. I was thinking if I can make a bootable and installable ISO image out of it and us it to back up or replicate it on other server. When you say Solaris, I

[ug-bosug] Create a customized bootable / installable dvd

2008-10-03 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Harshal p.harshal at gmail.com wrote: Looks like OpenSolaris doesn't support flash archives :( (http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=70951tstart=0) Then how does come go about cloning a system like OpenSolaris when system is completely ZFS including

[ug-bosug] Official Congratulations

2008-09-19 Thread S h i v
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Madhan Kumar Balasubramanian Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com wrote: 8-) I am not surprised considering how passionate and good BOSUG community is! Awesome...congrats to all the four !

[ug-bosug] Can we download IPS packages as pkg files?

2008-09-18 Thread S h i v
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Angad Singh angad at angadsingh.in wrote: Hi everyone, This is a question that has been bugging us since a long time now and needs an answer. Can we download *.pkg files from an IPS repository? No. There is no concept of on the filesystem package in IPS. A

[ug-bosug] libumem says no leaks even though process size increases

2008-07-17 Thread S h i v
BTW, the MMAP related issue that is listed isn't supposedly an error since some of the calls may do an ioctl() to /etc/mnttab ending up in creating a mapping within the user process on behalf of the kernel. The bufctl's are clean. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, S h i v shivakumar.gn

[ug-bosug] Campus Ambassador induction training program

2008-07-12 Thread S h i v
Hi Ganesh, On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Ganesh Hiregoudar Ganesh.Hiregoudar at sun.com wrote: Team, We've planned to organize campus ambassador induction training program on July 27th to 29th July 2008. I request any of you guys come and talk about community involvement in Sun open

[ug-bosug] patch related query (solaris 10u5)

2008-07-04 Thread S h i v
Can anyone who has access to the Solaris 10 u5 (sparc) media confirm if it has the patch 127127-11 Also if possible please send across the patch order offline. I need this piece of information but do not have the media with me right now. thanks regards Shiv

[ug-bosug] UNIONFS status

2008-06-11 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:32 PM, onkar mahajan on2008nm at gmail.com wrote: snip I need some help for testing and some issues. By that time I am trying to complete the vfs related operation (only by looking at the opensolaris code web interface on opensolaris.org ) . It would be great to

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meeting on 14-June (Sat) - Network Virtualization

2008-06-09 Thread S h i v
Hello All, Sunay, distinguished engineer at SUN and architect of many of the networking technologies in Solaris, is in Bangalore during this week. I would like to make use of this opportunity to organize a BOSUG meet and get him to discuss about his work and ideas related to opensolaris. Sunay

[ug-bosug] Apple fixes DTrace

2008-06-08 Thread S h i v
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Adam Leventhal a...@eng.sun.com Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 4:08 AM Subject: [dtrace-discuss] Apple fixes DTrace To: DTrace Discuss dtrace-discuss at opensolaris.org I'm pleased to pass along news that the Mac OS X DTrace port has been updated

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meet on 7-June (Sat) morning

2008-06-06 Thread S h i v
A gentle reminder for tomorrow's meeting. On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM, S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Deirdre Straughan the well known video blogger is in Bangalore and was interested in joining the UG meeting. This is a call for a meeting on 7-June(Saturday

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meet this saturday?

2008-06-04 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Amit k. Saha amitsaha.in at gmail.com wrote: Yes. Will send out a note shortly.

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meet on 7-June (Sat) morning

2008-06-04 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM, S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: (Route map is attached) The routemap attachement had problems in my first mail. So here it is. -Shiv -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BOSUG_Venue_Routemap.gm.02.JPG Type

[ug-bosug] Fwd: Announcing Hackathon event this Saturday (05/31/08)

2008-05-30 Thread S h i v
FYI. If you like the combination of opensolaris kernel and a ubuntu userland and are a open source developer, this might be of interest to you. NexentaOS is a registered project on launchpad.net (ubuntu's collaboration platform). NCP 1.0 is based on Ubuntu Dapper sources. NCP will move to 2.0 and

[ug-bosug] Unable to download Sun Studio

2008-05-28 Thread S h i v
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I want to download SS12 and I have a valid SDN account. After I enter my credentials at the SDN login page, I get stuck at the following page indefinitely: I downloaded it recently without issues.

[ug-bosug] Boot problems with OpenSolaris 2008.05

2008-05-20 Thread S h i v
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Amit k. Saha amitsaha.in at gmail.com wrote: BTW, In case it helps, I was talking about the RC2 release. Try Indiana-discuss, there are lot more Indiana specific *eye-balls* looking. Try 1.0, some issues might have been fixed ! -Shiv

[ug-bosug] Boot problems with OpenSolaris 2008.05

2008-05-18 Thread S h i v
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Amit k. Saha amitsaha.in at gmail.com wrote: Any ideas as to what is going wrong? Is this on bare metal or VM? Does BeleniX boot on the same machine?

[ug-bosug] Projects being worked upon

2008-05-18 Thread S h i v
The two demos at yesterday's bosug session were awesome. There have been different project ideas that people have been working upon. I would like to draw the attention of those doing all the hard work to the community innovation awards program (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/awards). Mid-June

[ug-bosug] Projects being worked upon

2008-05-18 Thread S h i v
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: Does a KDE4/Belenix effort qualify? Queries are to be directed to the list http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program No one at ug-bosug will be able to offer clarifications. -Shiv

[ug-bosug] ZFS features !!

2008-05-16 Thread S h i v
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:31 PM, onkar mahajan on2008nm at gmail.com wrote: Out of my very busy schedule I am hoping to find time to do documentation for ZFS for FreeBSD 7/ 8 , so I wanted to have a list of features in ZFS impleted on Solaris . This will be a reference and enable me to jot

[ug-bosug] unionfs on belenix

2008-05-16 Thread S h i v
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:34 PM, onkar mahajan on2008nm at gmail.com wrote: I am analysing it and some code changes are also done . I am porting it from FreeBSD . I will hopefully complete it by mid June . Then , I will be able to take up a session on it. Cool. Let know once ready to discuss

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meet this weekend ?

2008-05-14 Thread S h i v
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Anil Gulecha anil.verve at gmail.com wrote: +1 On 5/14/08, Sriram Narayanan sriramnrn at gmail.com wrote: There are things to talk about ! :) A bit of a short notice, I was thinking of 31-Apr. But sure we can have one this weekend if there is a quorum*.

[ug-bosug] Need Guidance

2008-05-14 Thread S h i v
Hi Ajay, On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Ajay Ajay1.Kumar at sun.com wrote: Hi, I'm Ajay Kumar, CA IIITM-Kerala. I've configured Broadcom NIC, wlan and SoundMAX sound card device drivers for solaris. Now I want to contribute to opensolaris so that they become part of default

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meet this weekend ?

2008-05-14 Thread S h i v
A note for those who want to attend the session: While sending a confirmation mail to be *** please keep the subject field intact *** . Do not attempt to make it more helpful by modifying the subject line, since it turns out to be the other way :) Thanks for understanding. -Shiv

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meet this weekend ?

2008-05-14 Thread S h i v
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Anand Bheemarajaiah anand_bheemaraju at yahoo.com wrote: We would like to demo the project in coming bosug meet and have some queries which we would like to get cleared ( regarding libusb etc ). Do you think it will be fine ? Sure, this should be an

[ug-bosug] BOSUG on Orkut Now !

2008-05-06 Thread S h i v
Hi Harsh, On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Harsh Bora planetharsh at gmail.com wrote: Hello All, We are on Orkut Now !!! http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=51829038 Lets share ideas there too ... The enthusiasm is highly appreciated. The problem with orkut is that it has a very low SNR

[ug-bosug] OpenSolaris to be available on through Amazon's cloud

2008-05-06 Thread S h i v
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Sriram Narayanan sriramnrn at gmail.com wrote: And one of the products available on the AMI would be Mingle from Thoughtworks (http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence) I see that mingle is free(zero-priced) for open source development

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meeting this saturday - a special one this time (26-April)

2008-04-27 Thread S h i v
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy isolatedn at gmail.com wrote: Hello, Can you send me a copy of X 0.7 in a DVD please? Unlike the Starter Kits that SUN provides the operational support for distribution for growing the community, we (the BeleniX team) do not have the

[ug-bosug] Call for BOSUG meeting - a special one this time (26-April)

2008-04-25 Thread S h i v
On 4/25/08, onkar on2008nm at gmail.com wrote: I am new to this group (and to BOSUG meets). I want to get Opensolaris Installed on my laptop during the meet. Welcome to the group. Is any registration required ? Any passes required ? How about bringing Laptops ; any prior permission

[ug-bosug] OpenSolaris events on google calendar

2008-04-25 Thread S h i v
For those who aren't yet aware, one can easily track the UG meeting by by including the following public calendard in their My Calendar option in gmail account. * OpenSolaris UserGroup Events (every BOSUG meet will be announced here) There are other 2 google calendards that might be of interest.

[ug-bosug] Call for BOSUG meeting - a special one this time (26-April)

2008-04-21 Thread S h i v
This meeting is a little special since this is the first meet after the recent release of BeleniX 0.7 It goes without saying that this will be a key item on the agenda. Proposed date : 26-April Time : 6pm - 8pm Location : Himalaya Conference Room.

[ug-bosug] Fwd: Tasks for next release (V0.7.1 V0.8)

2008-04-20 Thread S h i v
Activities for the next maintenance release of BeleniX are starting as indicated in the mail below. People interested in participating would need to join belenix-dev at opensolaris.org for the discussion. -Shiv -- Forwarded message -- From: S h i v shivakumar...@gmail.com Date

[ug-bosug] You thoughts on OpenSolaris and MacBook Pro

2008-04-15 Thread S h i v
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the info Sriram. Tell me if I am stepping on the line here, but would I get one if I join TW? That would spare me from buying one (and sinking into credit card hell) I know I am entering from

[ug-bosug] Belenix 0.7 is available !

2008-04-15 Thread S h i v
Dello All, After a long gap and lots of things happening behind the scenes, we are pleased to announce the availability of BeleniX 0.7. This release marks a considerable change in the evolution of BeleniX. With 0.7, BeleniX is now a source level derivative of Project Indiana. As such it has most

[ug-bosug] how to setup apache?

2008-04-15 Thread S h i v
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:24 PM, sham pavman shampavman.cg at gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We are trying to push solaris (79a) our way into the college computers(Henceforth we will be using solaris itself). So for this reason currenly i have shown our HOD that all the progs, c/c++

[ug-bosug] Some thoughts on Simon Phipps defense against Novell

2008-04-13 Thread S h i v
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Sriram Narayanan sriramnrn at gmail.com wrote: Hi: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/osb/?p=357 Just a nit pick: Simon says that We ship a completely free piece of software that anyone can download and use without any restrictions.. I think that

[ug-bosug] Presos Please!

2008-04-09 Thread S h i v
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: Hi Ananth, Can i add the one I made on KDE4/OpenSolaris a while back? http://manishchaks.googlepages.com/KDE4.pdf Ppl might find it useful. IPS, Crossbow, KDE4 and SUN Spot Robo demo info are now

[ug-bosug] BOSUG Meeting - 5-April - Session on crossbow

2008-04-08 Thread S h i v
Hi Venu, On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:44 PM, venugopal iyer venu at sun.com wrote: Thanks for setting this session and to those you attended! It was a wonderful talk. Many attendees found the technology to be *very* exciting. Can you please share the presentation. I will put it up on the UG

[ug-bosug] Can I have a 5-min Intro to Building KDE4 on Nevada today

2008-04-05 Thread S h i v
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: HI BOSUG, I know it's a little late in the day But I want to have a small session on Building KDE4 for Nevada today It'll be five mins max. Sure. We can have it immediately after the Crossbow talk. Short

[ug-bosug] Activities in chennai OSUG (Was Re: Meeting Sun's open source evangelist)

2008-04-04 Thread S h i v
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Ram Kumar jocky.ram at gmail.com wrote: Hi , Thanks for information , i am UG Leader in chennai,i saw lot of meeting event each and every thing in Bangalore only , that way i am not attend any event in UG group.so plz put the any event in Chennai also Since

[ug-bosug] BOSUG Meeting - 5-April - Session on crossbow

2008-04-04 Thread S h i v
, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:06 AM, S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: This is gentle reminder about tomorrow session on Crossbow - network virtualization resource control (See [1]). See Sunay's blog on how to setup a network with switches, routers, hosts on a single laptop (http

[ug-bosug] Bluetooth Stack in userspace

2008-04-02 Thread S h i v
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Ananth Shrinivas Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com wrote: There are two ways of fixing the problem you got here - You either fix it by spending hours of analyzing libumem/watchmalloc output. Or you get this flash of divine inspiration that says you allocated a

[ug-bosug] Slides of the talks

2008-04-01 Thread S h i v
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Amit Kumar Saha amitsaha.in at gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Are the slides of the various talks at the UG meet available? Yes to some extent. We have been very active on the activities front but not as much prompt on the book keeping side. If you are

[ug-bosug] BOSUG Meeting - 5-April - Session on crossbow

2008-03-30 Thread S h i v
Hi All, This is call for another meet in a quick succession. Venu from the crossbow team is in Bangalore during the coming week and it is a good opportunity to have him talk to us regarding the work going on in this area. OpenSolaris provides features such as network virtualization, exclusive

[ug-bosug] BOSUG meeting - 29 March

2008-03-28 Thread S h i v
Hi BOSUGians, A reminder for tomorrow's meeting. Due inform interested friends and colleagues. Following are the topics that we have converged on: 1. The Next Belenix Release 2. IPS 3. Laptop tweaks to optimize for KDE4 build (on Manish's laptop) (Manish, is your laptop insured?) Please

[ug-bosug] Next BOSUG meeting - 29 March

2008-03-27 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Ananth A writetoananth at gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:28 PM, S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: I would like to propose 2 *very* interesting agenda topics: 1. The Next Belenix Release - details of interest to users. when

[ug-bosug] Linux+Solaris env on Sparc system ?

2008-03-26 Thread S h i v
I have a sparc system at my disposal and need to have both solaris(10/nevada) and linux environment (preferrably kernel 2.6.x) on it. Are there any possibilities? IIRC, Lx brand is only for x86/x64 systems. Vbox and VMware are again for x86/x64 line. Came across OpenVZ as an option for SPARC

[ug-bosug] Linux+Solaris env on Sparc system ?

2008-03-26 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: Madhan Kumar Balasubramanian wrote: Shiv, It appears to me that openvz is only for T1 processors. It may not support earlier platforms. I don't think there exists a easy to use/free solution for

[ug-bosug] Linux+Solaris env on Sparc system ?

2008-03-26 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: Can we use LDOMS ? LDoms is probably only for Niagara/Rock line of processors. What I have is a V440/V480 (UltraSPARC IIIi) which is relatively an older platform. -Shiv

[ug-bosug] system upgrade ,needed help!

2008-03-25 Thread S h i v
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: My GNOME is unresponsive upon login as well. After clicking on the GNOME start menu ( I dont know what you call it. Sun Menu ) There is typically a lot of harddisk activity , system becomes unresponsive for

[ug-bosug] Next BOSUG meeting - 29 March

2008-03-24 Thread S h i v
Hi BOSUGians, Time to look forward to our next meet. I would like to propose the coming saturday (29-March). I would like to propose 2 *very* interesting agenda topics: 1. The Next Belenix Release - details of interest to users. - details of interest to contributors (artists, writers,

[ug-bosug] Fwd: New JDS source repository

2008-03-22 Thread S h i v
I had missed this mail. Might be of interest to people who are contributing to SFE. regards Shiv -- Forwarded message -- From: Dermot McCluskey dermot.mcclus...@sun.com Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:16 PM Subject: [desktop-discuss] New JDS source repository To: OpenSolaris

[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

2008-03-21 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: snip I know Solaris/OpenSolaris are known for their exceptional stability and uptime. But my SXDE is essentially unusuable for long development work :( I suspect that this is more to do with JDS than

[ug-bosug] SXDE : 2 serious reliability issues

2008-03-21 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Ananth Shrinivas Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com wrote: Yes. The compilation might be slower, but this option was for desktop usability - Limiting the CPU shares available for compilation. You can't have your cake and eat it too ;-) If I have a cake, I would

[ug-bosug] Is there a way to scroll up while reading man pages on Nevada?

2008-03-19 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Manish Chakravarty mchakravarty at spikesource.com wrote: Hi BOSUG, This might seem (and might even be!) a stupid question, but is relevant nonetheless. I typically connect to Nevada boxes at work via PuTTy (windows) or xterm (linux). I end up reading

[ug-bosug] Why always i get moderator approval message every time is it with every one or only with my id

2008-03-16 Thread S h i v
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Anil Gulecha anil.verve at gmail.com wrote: I got these messages too earlier. Some changes were made to the mailing list configuration due to incoming spam. Now that you've been cleared (hopefully!), you shouldn't be seeing any more of these. The list

[ug-bosug] HOWTO: Build Konversation on KDE 3.5.8 / Nevada :)

2008-03-16 Thread S h i v
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: I dont know how to build a .spec file. I'll learn and try :) pkgbuild.sf.net Try it and feel free to post any queries to ug-bosug desktop-discuss OR #pkgbuild on freenode.net (relatively less active as of now)

[ug-bosug] pkgbuild update available on SFE

2008-03-16 Thread S h i v
An update of the pkgbuild tool (V1.3.0) is now available at pkgbuild.sourceforge.net -Shiv

[ug-bosug] FYI: OpenSolaris Project Crossbow/Meeting with Sunay Tripathi

2008-03-14 Thread S h i v
Hi Venu, On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:11 PM, venugopal iyer venu at sun.com wrote: I am currently planning to be in Bangalore in the week of 31st (March 31 - April 4), however if it helps I can plan to be there 29th or 30th. Please let know by Mon. The UG meeting works well if you can make

[ug-bosug] Eclipse E4 controversy

2008-03-12 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: Looks like some trouble brewing in the Eclipse camp: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/11/eclipse_e4_dust_up/ Sounds painfully similar! Lets see what corrective mechanisms get triggered if at all any. Many such

[ug-bosug] KWebTest V 0.2 for Available (with User Manual )

2008-03-10 Thread S h i v
Hi Manish, On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: Hi KDE-in, KWebTest is functional website testing tool using KHTML. Version 0.2 is now available. (and yes, it rocks on solaris!) From what I could gather from the user manual, it looks cool.

[ug-bosug] Fwd: source code of DDTool 2.0 is available.

2008-03-04 Thread S h i v
of DDTool 2.0 is available. To: S h i v shivakumar.gn at gmail.com Hi Shiv, The source code of DDTool 2.0 is finally opened. It is available at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ddtool/ddtool-2.0-src.tar.gz. The web site of the open source project is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project

[ug-bosug] need help to install solaris on sun workstation w1100z

2008-02-28 Thread S h i v
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM, chinmayi sk chinmayisk at yahoo.co.in wrote: hi i am the campus ambassador for nie, mysore. i recently got permissions from college to use the workstation for and the sun blade 1500 clients in college for future demos. Unfortunately it is preloaded with

[ug-bosug] BOSUG members and discounts on SUN Hardware

2008-02-22 Thread S h i v
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: Hi BOSUG, I was planning to buy a SUN machine to use as my main workstation for sometime now. They seem to be too costly for me I recently came across this:

[ug-bosug] [belenix-discuss] Belenix won FOSS India Award

2008-02-21 Thread S h i v
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Zoram Thanga Zoram.Thanga at sun.com wrote: You know, I've been thinking about the same thing. Even if we can't do a print version, why not an online version, ala Linux Journal? And it doesn't have to be India specific... Where's my

[ug-bosug] FYI: OpenSolaris Project Crossbow/Meeting with Sunay Tripathi

2008-02-21 Thread S h i v
Hi Sunay, On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Sunay Tripathi Sunay.Tripathi at sun.com wrote: snip Shiv, I arrive in Bangalore on 27th late evening and have to leave for Hyderabad on 28th evening so it would have to be during the day. Would it possible for you guys (who ever is interested)

[ug-bosug] OpenSolaris journal? (was: Re: [belenix-discuss] Belenix won FOSS India Award)

2008-02-21 Thread S h i v
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Sriram Popuri sgpopuri at gmail.com wrote: +1. Atleast I like the following to be captured and definitely there will be enough content to run it every month. *

[ug-bosug] Boot problem on sparc (Was: How do i add kde 3.5.8 to dtlogin?)

2008-02-18 Thread S h i v
Hi Ram, If you are posting about a new topic please form a new mail, do not respond to an existing thread. On Feb 18, 2008 1:27 PM, Ram Kumar jocky.ram at gmail.com wrote: i am install solaris x86 in my pc , iam trying jumpstart in my sparc pc(solaris x86 to sparc pc) i fully configure script

[ug-bosug] [ug-posug] Fwd: OpenSolaris.org: Do we build a distro? Let your voice be heard. (Today by noon) OGB concall info enclosed.

2008-02-17 Thread S h i v
On Feb 17, 2008 4:05 PM, Jim Grisanzio Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com wrote: Brandorr wrote: And to top it all off, Roy T. Fielding, just resigned. For those that don't know Roy, he was initially brought in to help Sun create an independent open source project called OpenSolaris. Here is an

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

2008-02-13 Thread S h i v
On Feb 13, 2008 4:06 PM, Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com wrote: As I mentioned before. Lot faster than Xen. Almost like running on bare metal! Hyperbole !? But many people have reported the better performance that it offers as compared to many other virtualization solutions. BTW,

[ug-bosug] Bosug meet for Feb/2008

2008-02-05 Thread S h i v
On Feb 5, 2008 1:27 PM, Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com wrote: Shiv/Sanjeev, Is the Dtrace session for beginners or is it an advanced users session? This will be for beginners. No assumptions about prior DTrace know-how will be made. -Shiv

[ug-bosug] Bosug meet for Feb/2008

2008-02-05 Thread S h i v
On Feb 5, 2008 6:21 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishchaks at gmail.com wrote: as an afterthought, I think I should include a chapter on dtracing C++/Qt/KDE apps. Chapter ? Are you referring to the book. If so, the ability to dtrace will not be something special to KDE since there are no KDE

[ug-bosug] [Announce] Call for Papers -- freed.in 2008

2008-01-31 Thread S h i v
freed.in organized by the delhi LUG is round the corner. The theme is Knowledge shall set you free. Have a look at http://freed.in/2008/areas-of-interest If interested in presenting a talk, look at the talk registration link in the home page. -Shiv -- Forwarded message -- From:

[ug-bosug] Requesting VTU students to post the syllabi

2008-01-31 Thread S h i v
I would like to request the VTU students on the list to post their syllabi. There is lot of material available at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/curriculum_development (latest addition being the ones announced by Pradhap Devarajan [1] ) We can see how to make it more aligned with the

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