Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Allan E. Registos
+1. Be friendly to Linux users(me a Linux user), as these are the people that will often convert to BSD and Solaris/OI. I think most enterprise data centers nowadays are a hive of heterogeneous technologies. Regards, Allan - Original Message - From: "Alasdair Lumsden" To: "Discus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Allan E. Registos
> >From: "Ken Gunderson" >To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" >Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:16:40 PM >Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info? > >The presumption that something is the best based on distrowatch listing >is a fallacy. > Kenderson: For the record, I did not s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Allan E. Registos
> >From: "LinuxBSDos.com" > >How many of those distros that are not based on Ubuntu can you name? > >Remember that we are talking about using sudo instead of the root account >system, not just having sudo installed as an application. > >List as many as you can and I'll still be able to p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Allan E. Registos
> > > - Original Message - >From: "LinuxBSDos.com" >To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" >Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 3:06:49 PM >Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info? > > > As an application, sudo pre-dates Ubuntu, but it is true that Ubuntu >started this madness of r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome to become a Linux only project

2011-05-19 Thread Allan E. Registos
On Friday, 20 May, 2011 07:08 AM, Bayard Bell wrote: I've read most of the thread, and I don't see anyone drifting that way. Instead I see people saying that they aren't too worried about kFreeBSD because it's a "toy" OS and then some varying degrees of sectarianism and ecumenism about Linux d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome to become a Linux only project

2011-05-19 Thread Allan E. Registos
On Thursday, 19 May, 2011 07:50 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 19-5-2011 13:23 schreef Apostolos Syropoulos: I have read the following http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw Are they serious? I think we should seriously consider abandoning GNOME and replace it with KDE. Yes t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-04-01 Thread Allan E. Registos
On Thursday, 31 March, 2011 06:59 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Ubuntu != Linux. It was using the Linux kernel instead of illumos, so it is a Linux distribution regardless of the userland. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-29 Thread Allan E. Registos
On Wednesday, 30 March, 2011 10:22 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Who ever said anything about K/Ubuntu, mon? Imho, Ubuntu is for lamers who're not quite bright enough to use a real operating system Let us hope that Unity won't get any OI support anytime soon, and most Linux users were lame and w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Webmin components missing

2011-03-04 Thread Allan E. Registos
On Friday, 04 March, 2011 05:12 PM, openindi...@out-side.nl wrote: Does anyone know how to enable the following component in the OpenIndiana webmin menu: - Postgres? I tried to let webmin scan for components but it didn't find postgres. Hi, I think this same issue occurred in Linu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] does this make any sense?

2010-12-02 Thread Allan E. Registos
uot;, both FreeBSD kernel and the Linux kernel will now be supported in Debian. On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 11:45 +, Marco Fiscato wrote: > I think you guys are wrong, it uses real Linux kernel. > > http://zfsonlinux.org/ > > Cheers, > Marco > > 2010/12/2 Allan E. Registos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] does this make any sense?

2010-12-01 Thread Allan E. Registos
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:00 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Allan E. Registos wrote: > > I received the news yesterday and thinking playing with it until OI is > > stable. I am confuse of what kernel it uses? BSD kernel? > > It's the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD varian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] does this make any sense?

2010-12-01 Thread Allan E. Registos
I think it makes sense. ;-) - Original Message - From: "Allan E. Registos" To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2010 7:45:35 AM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] does this make any sense? I received the news yesterday and thin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] does this make any sense?

2010-12-01 Thread Allan E. Registos
I received the news yesterday and thinking playing with it until OI is stable. I am confuse of what kernel it uses? BSD kernel? - Original Message - From: "Hillel Lubman" To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2010 1:05:48 AM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-05 Thread Allan E. Registos
For Ubuntu, it is still worth for use on the desktop for me, if not I wouldn't use it. I did an install of Ubuntu with PlayOnLinux just to install MS Office in the office. The reason is peripheral support. For packages, they have backport repos if you want to install the latest apps w/o break

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-05 Thread Allan E. Registos
ed a separate thread Tom Kranz writes: > Allan E. Registos wrote: >>> No, OpenIndiana both targets Desktops and Server >> >> >> That is what most GNU/Linux distributions have done since the dawn of > time. > This is what Solaris (and IRIX, and other UNIXs) hav

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-05 Thread Allan E. Registos
t;Tom Kranz" To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Sent: Friday, November 5, 2010 6:39:49 PM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan E. Registos wrote: >> No, OpenIndiana both t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-04 Thread Allan E. Registos
>No, OpenIndiana both targets Desktops and Server That is what most GNU/Linux distributions have done since the dawn of time. But the recent(well not quite recent) spat between Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas (Linux kernel developers) does represent the major problem of Linux desktops : _responsi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana"

2010-10-06 Thread Allan E. Registos
thing that we have to bear with an alternative to it, because visiting their project website (http://indiana.com) I can not find much information of it... :-) P.S. I am not against OpenIndiana, nor I like it. I just trying to align "Ø" with "O" and make sure both are happy. :-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

2010-10-06 Thread Allan E. Registos
Nice to know. I am looking forward installing OpenIndiana in our small company. Tried OpenSolaris sometime ago but when I decided to use it as my primary desktop, Oracle decided to stop developing for it so I am in a limbo, but now we have OpenIndiana, thank you guys... - Original Message

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

2010-10-03 Thread Allan E. Registos
The current effort must be on the stabilizing of the platform. Gaming support in Linux is poor, how much more for this early release of OpenIndiana. Currently, the folks at gallium3D were able to code Direct3D 10 and 11 support for their graphic drivers. This would mean that Wine can utilize Gal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] JDS Nevada b150 - gate starting to close!

2010-09-20 Thread Allan E. Registos
+1 for postgresql. - Original Message - From: "Brandon Mercer" To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:13:45 AM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] JDS Nevada b150 - gate starting to close! On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:07 PM, ken mays wrote: > Hell

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana logo (was: oi_147 crashes host under VirtualBox 3.2.8r64453, host Mac OS X 10.6.4)

2010-09-19 Thread Allan E. Registos
OpenIndiana must use/create another logo to be safe and _be_ unique as possible, my opinion. If anyone has a draft logo that is different enough from the official OpenSolaris logo you can invite a graphic artist on this list to the job me included. As BM indicated, it must be color- reducible (