Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building an Installer

2011-06-02 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Yes, I remember looking at it for OpenSolaris. Is it still usable on IllumOS/OI? I remember it didn't work correctly for some reasons on IllumOS. Is OI built with it? -- Da: Dave Miner A: openindiana-discuss@openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Humphreys
TDP does make the source code available. It should just be a matter of determining dependencies, if any, and compiling. After that, how much work does it take to make an IPS package? :) -- .\\ark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Jun 2, 2011, at 5:29 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 15:51 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: >> Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >>> http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/06/oracle-gives-openoffice-to-apa.html >>> >>> Of course the article is terrible and myopic since it assume

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Mosetick
Yes, I have tweaked the block sizes on my virtual box guests zvols to get the desired performance. there are two factors that you may want to look at: > > 1) block size. files default to a 128K allocation block size, while > zvols default to 8K. > > 2) check the "sync" property; the zvol may be

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nokia N8-00

2011-06-02 Thread Maxim
I've tried to set up mobile internet using Nokia N8-00 under OI b148, but looks like system doesn't see my device... I've expected that new device will be in /dev/N8 or smth like this as it described in http://blogs.oracle.com/jameslegg/entry/mobile_internet_under_opensolaris. But looks like someth

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Gary
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > First of all you have complained that nothing worked. If nothing works, > then the next logical move is to use something where everything works. If you kids can't stop arguing, I'll pull the list over to the side of the road and make

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> > Yep.  It's official. I'm too stupid and definitely not l337 enough for > OpenIndiana so I should go use Windows or MacOS and not leech off of OI. > Given this state of affairs, it's probably also amoral for me to remain > subscribed to these lists and waste OI.org bandwidth. > > Thanks for h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building an Installer

2011-06-02 Thread Dave Miner
On 06/ 2/11 07:18 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hi, don't know if this is a silly question, but I'd like to know if there is any chance to have an "installer tool" for bulding a customized installer of openindiana that would contain what I need by default, including additional software of mine.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 04:39 -0700, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > > Unfortunately. For example, I'd really like to be using OI, OS, or > > whatever. But reality is that Linux meets my needs on the desktop > > workstation front _much_ better. So after much patience and testing of > > oi-151b I've r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
Shareholders should be pissed for getting the comunity go, in order to keep the current value of the trademark up the project must stay alive, at this very moment the only way they have to keep the project alive is investing money into it... or maybe selling out the whole thing... otherwise, once t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: > The name is the only thing Oracle owns at this moment... > The rest is out there alrready. > > What they should do is to donate the trademark to the document foundation > and stop messing around with the thing. > > :-O Oracle owns much

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
The name is the only thing Oracle owns at this moment... The rest is out there alrready. What they should do is to donate the trademark to the document foundation and stop messing around with the thing. :-O On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:52

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Hillel Lubman
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 10:42 +0100, Jonathan Adams wrote:I'm of the opinion > that LibreOffice would be taking a > step backwards if it took on the Openoffice name. Folks know that > LibreOffice is the path for future. The LibreOffice name i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

2011-06-02 Thread ken mays
Hello,   Ref: ftp://download.nvidia.com/solaris/270.41.19/NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-270.41.19.run   Yes, the plan is to update OI IPS with the Nvidia 270.41.19 package for the official oi_151 release as posted on the OI wiki. I've manually tested both 270.41.19 and 275.09 (beta). . Please file a bug rep

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
> Well in cases like this I suggest people to switch to Windows or MacOS. > In other words, people demand too much without contributing anything. > A.S. I cannot recommend Windows to anyone who doesn't have a specific need for it. People who have not used Windows for a while can balk at the chang

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> Unfortunately.  For example, I'd really like to be using OI, OS, or > whatever.  But reality is that Linux meets my needs on the desktop > workstation front _much_ better. So after much patience and testing of > oi-151b I've reluctantly had to admit that I need to go with Debian > until OI has co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Bernd Helber
Am 02.06.11 13:08, schrieb Gabriel de la Cruz: > -The plan was so simple; we purchase sun, kick out the hippies, and make > real business. > -well... > -Does this mean that we cannot sell corporate licenses of openoffice > anymore? > -well.. > -Did anyone wrote a plan B? anyone?... > -... > -What w

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Building an Installer

2011-06-02 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi, don't know if this is a silly question, but I'd like to know if there is any chance to have an "installer tool" for bulding a customized installer of openindiana that would contain what I need by default, including additional software of mine. Thanks Gabriele.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 2 June 2011 12:08, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: > -What were those indians called? > -Sir, do you mean Apaches? > -Whatever, give it back to them... > -... +1 FTW ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
-The plan was so simple; we purchase sun, kick out the hippies, and make real business. -well... -Does this mean that we cannot sell corporate licenses of openoffice anymore? -well.. -Did anyone wrote a plan B? anyone?... -... -What were those indians called? -Sir, do you mean Apaches? -Whatever, g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
I've just read ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/01/oracle_openoffice_apache/page2.html ) that Oracle will retain the OpenOffice name, so basically they've given Apache all the code and rights to change the licenses, and then stopped developing ... way to go Oracle. LibreOffice will be much b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 10:42 +0100, Jonathan Adams wrote: > Apache didn't want OpenOffice originally according to press/blogs of > people in the know ... probably because Apache got bitten over the > whole Java thing. > > There was, however, a contract with Sun to keep maintaining and > improving O

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
Apache didn't want OpenOffice originally according to press/blogs of people in the know ... probably because Apache got bitten over the whole Java thing. There was, however, a contract with Sun to keep maintaining and improving OpenOffice, which passed to Oracle, and after all the dev team left an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 23:56 +0400, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote: > On 01.06.11 23:42, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > >> Is it possible to replace the nvidia driver packages 256.44 by the 270.41 > >> (from the NVIDIA site) in the openindiana.org IPS repository? > > > > Yes and I am using 270.41.06 but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 15:51 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > > > > http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/06/oracle-gives-openoffice-to-apa.html > > > > Of course the article is terrible and myopic since it assumes that the > > center of > > the universe is Lin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Gabriel de la Cruz
will they give opensolaris to apache as well :P lol On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > >> >> http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/06/oracle-gives-openoffice-to-apa.html >> >> Of course the article is terrible and myopic since it assume

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] LXDE on OI?

2011-06-02 Thread sysop
> Thanks for that. I'm actually going to try and teach myself to build it, > because I need to learn. :-) But chances are I'll get stuck and need > this! > > Just out of interest, if I do use this, how do I install these? Do I just > search for lxde and do it one package at a time? Or is there