Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-05 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)
On 03-02-2025 17:29, Till Wegmüller wrote: ... What are your Painpoints? mozo (main menu editor) is a constant crasher, it crashes on almost every touch, or even on just staring at it. Should definitely be overhauled. -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.of Meteorology & Climate Research IMKASF-SAT https:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-05 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)
On 05-02-2025 17:30, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: ... and, talking of speed and meteorological modelling, cuda support would be great. Don't really know if that counts for desktop or backend, we have our linux-gpu-servers in a rack and well cooled. I would love to have those running OI underneath, would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-05 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)
On 05-02-2025 16:02, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: [..] - 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 s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

2025-02-03 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)
On 03-02-2025 18:42, Rolf M. Dietze wrote: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Error with 3rd party library

2025-01-30 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)
On 29-01-2025 18:14, Alan Coopersmith via openindiana-discuss wrote: On 1/29/25 05:47, Udo Grabowski (IMKASF) wrote: So is this a divergence between Solaris and OI, or has this library just been linked to the wrong threads instead of libpthread.so ? That looks like they did something very

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Error with 3rd party library

2025-01-29 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)
Hi, I just installed the IBM Tivoli Spectrum Protect Client archiver software, which ran under older Openindiana versions without problems. But now, I get a strange error with a library which looks for something non-existant: # ldd libxmlutil-8.1.25.0.so ld.so.1: lddstub: fatal: threads: open fai