Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Open Indiana
OH MY GOD This is to bad to be true. Do I really read people writing down that they have seen Linux outperform Solaris? "I spent over a decade developing big data software, primarily on Solaris. I have seen workloads that bring a 64-core Solaris box to its knees with massively multi-threaded, bi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/31/2012 08:31 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: >>> And the "farewell" message (if you can call it that) here: >>> >>> http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ >> http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 31/08/12 07:31 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I would hope OpenIndiana was never just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BCM 4313 Wifi

2012-08-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
IIRC the NDIS wrapper worked with _some_ broadcom drivers (generally not the latest versions at all) you could try finding a specific older driver for the 4313 (look around the Linux NDIS system, some people used to post "compatible" drivers) also I found that some NDIS drivers only worked on 32b

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some Howto pointers?

2012-08-31 Thread Gary Gendel
I'd like to contribute ISC 4.2.4 dhcp as a package to OpenIndiana. Using the following configure options, it compiles and runs the self-tests cleanly: CC=cc ./configure --enable-use-sockets --enable-ipv4-pktinfo --sysconfdir=/etc/inet --sbindir=/usr/lib/inet --bindir=/usr/sbin --prefix=/usr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Open Indiana wrote: > It is a true nightmare that the hard work of a lot of volunteers and the > people of the old Sun company dies because it has been sucked empty by the > commercial snakes. How Is it possible that companies can take > opensource-code, wrap a com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Gary
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012, Jan Owoc wrote: > > NB: just because you are using a copyleft license still doesn't mean > the people using your code must work with you; they could create a > fork and ignore you, only publishing the code as a whole when they > have a finished product (apparently Android was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some Howto pointers?

2012-08-31 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-08-31 17:04, Gary Gendel wrote: 2) Do I support a 64 and 32 bit installation, or should it just be 32-bit? If it's a combination, how do I resolve the installation conflicts (bin placement, etc). Afaik, for libraries, kernel modules, etc. you place 32-bit variants in base lib path, and 64

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I would hope OpenIndiana was never just a single-person job. The main risk at the m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Ron Dawson
I'm also sad to hear that* *Alasdair Lumsden has resigned as lead of the project. I was greatly heartened when Alasdair first announced the project and have been using OI ever since the early releases on both my personal laptop and as my new work desktop (my other work desktop is Solaris 10/SPARC)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for >> OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock >> on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I >> would hope OpenI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/31/2012 09:22 PM, Ron Dawson wrote: > In my workplace we are still using some SPARC desktop applications on aging > Sun SPARC workstations and Tadpole laptops. We also utilize Sun Ray > technology extensively in our training environment. (As an aside, I > remember talking to Garrett back wh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-08-31 Thread Ivar Janmaat
Now we are talking! I have been deploying Sun Rays for over 14 years. It is a perfect solution and it needs rock solide virtualisation to handle the large numbers of VMs. ZFS and Comstar features would be great to use. I am hoping that the next version of Oracle VDI/Sun Ray software supports So