Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-05 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
so OI is focused only on desktop? No, OI is the server part PLUS desktop. We use single image OI for both our desktops and servers for various purposes. ok, thought, but was suddenly unclear because of the last posting OI supports real ACLs because it builds on stock illumos. sure, and illum

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-05 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
[..] - sparc port of OI (why was sparc removed anyway?) Because we do not have enough developers, we have no equipment to test with, old SPARC systems are way too slow (20-30 minutes of illumos gate build versus 4-5 or more hours). In short, we should be looking into the future (get ARM6

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-05 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
On the OI box with 30 xdmcp called x-sessions, if one user runs over the max-lwps boundary, all x-sessions of all 30 users get killed in that case. That's not right. Are you running xdm as an SMF service? it is, manifest as follows:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-05 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Can you go into details on how SRM/projects is an issue for you? This is the first time I hear it mentioned. Would love to hear how more and how you would like to use it. -Till On 03.02.25 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hi, this thread is actually very welcome to me. I had 2 issues that refrain

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hi Till, me to, adding to the wish list: cuda support /Rolf Quoting Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via openindiana-discuss : Hi Till, Looks like beating a dead horse but here we go: - Accelerated gfx support for mobile (Laptop) devices (NVIDIA/AMD) - Power management - Updated WiFi drive

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hi, this thread is actually very welcome to me. I had 2 issues that refrained me from using OI as a regular desktop system, that was the rather old firefox, but as far as I know, Carsten Grzemba made this problem vanish, thanks for that, it was a key issue. And a lot of driver problems with older

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Management Centre

2024-05-14 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Quoting Rainer Heilke : On 5/13/24 22:50, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: On 14. May 2024, at 08:12, Rainer Heilke wrote: Hi. I keep running into documentation that tells me to do a task by firing up the Sun Management Centre, but OI doesn't seem to have it, nor can I find

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?

2024-03-10 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Quoting "Rolf M. Dietze" : Quoting Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss : In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?, Rolf M: if the root user wants to write back a file not writable as set by permissions a force write back (wq! in vi) does not wor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?

2024-03-10 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Quoting Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss : In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?, Rolf M: if the root user wants to write back a file not writable as set by permissions a force write back (wq! in vi) does not work. Is that behavior intended? Other OSes as

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?

2024-03-10 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Quoting Bill Sommerfeld via openindiana-discuss : On 3/9/24 16:31, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hello, if the root user wants to write back a file not writable as set by permissions a force write back (wq! in vi) does not work. Is that behavior intended? Other OSes as for instance oracle

[OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?

2024-03-09 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hello, if the root user wants to write back a file not writable as set by permissions a force write back (wq! in vi) does not work. Is that behavior intended? Other OSes as for instance oracle solaris, FreeBSD, Solaris 10 and so, allow a force write back /rmd __

[OpenIndiana-discuss] limited fqdn length on installation?

2024-02-10 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hello, on installation of the latest usb-openindiana image (OI-hipster-gui-20231027.usb) I got a funny errormessage running the textinstaller upon entry of the real fqdn of my university, the menu in the field "Domain" says: Max supported field length: 15 Well, mine is 16 chars in length. o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] netbooting openindiana

2023-03-04 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
after booting the kernel but it is undocumented and very beta. Contributions welcome. I can also help getting you started on that development effort. Greetings Till On 04.03.23 21:37, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hi, is there any hint on how to netboot the openindiana install media? Nothing found

[OpenIndiana-discuss] netbooting openindiana

2023-03-04 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hi, is there any hint on how to netboot the openindiana install media? Nothing found about netbooting on http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook There is however some docu on omnios, tribblix and so, as well as Oracle Solaris AI, but I haven't found anything on netbooting OI. Is ist just booting off

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on HP Gen 10 Microserver

2023-02-16 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hi Michelle, don't know about the G10+ boxes. I meant: https://buy.hpe.com/uk/en/servers/proliant-microserver/proliant-microserver/proliant-microserver/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10/p/1009955118 and with that issue of 2 ports 6G and 2 ports 3G I rather looked into boxes from other manufacturer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] after Installation, no X11?

2021-02-24 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hi, [..] Right now I am fiddling with CDE. In fact, sunray on OI works? If, please give me a pointer, I'd love to put that on an OI box. Is there a newer https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-docs/pull/150 is a little bit outdated but another user successfully installed it recently and promised to u

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] after Installation, no X11?

2021-02-24 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Quoting Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss : In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] after Installation, no X11?, Rolf...: Hi, yes, got it running. xdm login, twm as window manager. Fast and smart:) As I started up with a text console only, Andreas and Carsten on this list told me to do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] after Installation, no X11?

2021-02-23 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
ay, February 23, 2021, 01:46:38 PM CST, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: Hi, thanks for the very fast reply I did the mate_install and enabled the lightdm service. looked nice but I got: 0 1 root@skyfall pts/1 ~ 4# svcs -vx lightdm svc:/application/graphical-login/lightdm:default (Light Display Manager)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] after Installation, no X11?

2021-02-23 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
so I will go to installing that and give it a try. Tanks a lot, Rolf Quoting Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss : # pkg install mate_install should do the job Am 23.02.21 20:20 schrieb "Rolf M. Dietze" : Hi, after a fresh install on a new box, the installation finished wit

[OpenIndiana-discuss] after Installation, no X11?

2021-02-23 Thread Rolf M. Dietze
Hi, after a fresh install on a new box, the installation finished with a reboot and a login on the text console. So, how to install X11, is there a meta package name as in oracle solaris were there is a group/system/solaris-desktop to install. Any tips on what might have gone wrong an how to add