Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

2010-10-01 Thread Christopher Chan
Gabriel! wrote: All eyes are upon us! Now is the time for innovation! Ahem, can we have MIDI, gameport, analog joystick support please? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

2010-10-03 Thread Christopher Chan
"Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Sent: Saturday, October 2, 2010 12:08:08 AM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: Gabriel! wrote: All eyes are upon us! Now is the time for innovation! Ahem, can we have M

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA multiplexer support?

2010-10-04 Thread Christopher Chan
Ray Arachelian wrote: Is there any SATA Multiplexer support for OI? I recall that OpenSolaris did not (yet) support this, if not any plans to? Multiplexer support was added some time ago but not all sata chipset drivers were updated. ___ OpenIndi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana more popular

2010-10-05 Thread Christopher Chan
If I can now only compile Qt4, then I see no reason to continue with Linux anymore. You guys did a too good job! :-) KDE4 and qt4 are both available on OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindian

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

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Chan
Søren Krarup Olesen wrote: ALL: Has there been any discussion about the name "OpenIndiana" recently. I can surely understand the reason for picking this name, but for a Dane (like me) it comes out a bit clumsy. I've tried to imagine a couple of funny scenarios, like OpenDenmark (Denmark is at l

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

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Chan
Alasdair Lumsden wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Søren Krarup Olesen wrote: Yes, I know all that, but I believe that legacy can be carried on in an elegant way without being influenced by e.g. the Indiana project. Besides, the term "Open" is more or less superflous these days; people ca

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

2010-10-06 Thread Christopher Chan
Gabriel! wrote: OpenIndiana remainds me the opensource version of Indiana Jones. Maybe we can use him as a pet :P With a whip as a leash. :-D On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz < gabriel.delac...@gmail.com> wrote: I think it is the right time for that kind of questions, a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana" (part II)

2010-10-10 Thread Christopher Chan
Gabriel, Grow up. It is pretty clear that few are interested in seeing a name change and I personally like how OpenIndiana connects things back to the roots of Illumos. If you do not like it, you are free to start your own distribution and call it whatever you like. Now if you wanted to cont

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana" (part II)

2010-10-10 Thread Christopher Chan
of your fifteen years of being involved in group collaborations. This list and community is for developing OpenIndiana - the successor to the Project Indiana legacy. BR On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Gabriel, Grow up. It is pretty clear that few are interested

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana" (part II)

2010-10-10 Thread Christopher Chan
de is best from the beginning. And talking openly, and respecting others is best. Ending subjects kills many things, therefore it is negative for the whole cause. BR On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Gabriel, Grow up. It is pretty clear that few are interested in see

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana" (part II)

2010-10-10 Thread Christopher Chan
Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: My "twisted statement" relies on appealing the fact there is no mutual respect, for that you are making great contribution, "grow up"?. Yes. In what way was James' request not polite and lacking respect? If you cannot handle a simple request and have to throw a tantru

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB ports issue

2010-10-13 Thread Christopher Chan
Can anyone else reproduce this PTP error problem? Probably needs to be added to some group to access stuff via usb...not running OI yet so I cannot tell. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana, from opensolaris background...

2010-10-15 Thread Christopher Chan
Tom Kranz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Pay for what now? Opensolaris support? I didn't even know there was such a thing. And even now, browsing opensolaris.com to look for it specifically ... I still don't see it. I bet they don't sell much o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rge driver

2010-10-16 Thread Christopher Chan
Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Hello, I have a 32bit netbook whose network adapter is a RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet. Today I upgraded from build 134 to openindiana and I have noticed that the rge driver is not operational. Instead one needs to use the freely available gani

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rge driver

2010-10-16 Thread Christopher Chan
Christopher Chan wrote: Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Hello, I have a 32bit netbook whose network adapter is a RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet. Today I upgraded from build 134 to openindiana and I have noticed that the rge driver is not operational. Instead one needs to use the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] nge driver

2010-10-16 Thread Christopher Chan
hi all, Anybody using OI with Nvidia 6150E based boards? I got this in the logs. Oct 14 16:23:01 ns1 nge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0: Using FIXED interrupt type Oct 14 16:23:01 ns1 pcplusmp: [ID 805372 kern.info] pcplusmp: pci10de,3ef (nge) instance 0 irq 0x17 vector 0x60 ioapic 0x4 i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nge driver

2010-10-19 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, October 20, 2010 07:45 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: On 17 Oct 2010, at 01:00, Christopher Chan wrote: hi all, Anybody using OI with Nvidia 6150E based boards? I got this in the logs. Oct 14 16:23:01 ns1 nge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0: Using FIXED interrupt type Oct 14

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Stable 134+ downlaod?

2010-10-19 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, October 20, 2010 08:58 AM, BM wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Eventually we will be doing a stable branch built from this kernel, in the not too distant future - aiming for Q1.2010 ideally. I have a little suspicion that Q1.2010 won't be reached

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nge driver

2010-10-20 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, October 21, 2010 05:57 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi Chris, Does it work with a different network card in the box? The /etc/hostname.nge0 file can simply have an IP in it - I generally use the format "1.2.3.4/24 up" in the file (skipping the requirement for an /etc/netmasks) ent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] where..iso of Osol build 133 update to latest OI

2010-10-21 Thread Christopher Chan
Thorsten Heit wrote: I hoped to get an installable image of 133 so as to make the practice as close as I can to the real McCOy. Sorry, but I don't understand exactly what you're trying to do You have OSOL b133 running, and you think about upgrading to OpenIndiana, right? So why do you l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing VBox

2010-10-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, October 22, 2010 12:53 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Hello, I have tried to install VirtualBox on a machine that runs OpenIndiana, and here is what I get: $ VirtualBox-3.2.10-SunOS-r66523.pkg . ## Executing postinstall scr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package repositories?

2010-10-25 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 07:52 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: On 25 Oct 2010, at 06:46, Joachim Pihl wrote: Morning, all! I installed OpenIndiana a few weeks ago on my home file server, as a replacement for an old version of Solaris Community Edition after a bad case of on-disk corruption.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package repositories?

2010-10-25 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 08:36 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi Christopher, On 26 Oct 2010, at 01:20, Christopher Chan wrote: With regards to postfix and dovecot, I enable dove sasl support for postfix (besides other stuff like milters,cdb, etc), vpopmail support for dovecot and I also

[OpenIndiana-discuss] samba keeps dumping core on oi_147

2010-10-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Hi all, I have a samba installation that is part of a AD domain and uses opends for its ldap backend both for winbind and samba. I keep getting problems with smbd. No problems with winbindd however. On a separate note, why is nmbd not started? Anyway, back to smbd. The logs have entries suc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enhancement to IPS (pkg)??

2010-10-25 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 07:47 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: On 25 Oct 2010, at 06:20, Sunay Tripathi wrote: I missed looking at this before hand. Let me check this out before we go further. But I would point out that SMF service is fine. Its the tarball/rsync process to get the bits that w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] samba keeps dumping core on oi_147

2010-10-25 Thread Christopher Chan
LKW64, 0x08047800) = 0 fcntl(18, F_SETLKW64, 0x08047840) = 0 kill(0, SIGTERM) = 0 Received signal #15, SIGTERM [default] siginfo: SIGTERM pid=21338 uid=0 On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:02 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: Hi all,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] samba keeps dumping core on oi_147

2010-10-26 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:15 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Albert Lee wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: So I ran truss on the master smbd process... It appears that something fired a SIGTERM arrow at it and then tried to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] samba keeps dumping core on oi_147

2010-10-26 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:37 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Ah, so that's where I can tell SMF to leave things alone. I concur. Running smbd unmanaged has resulted in zero samba downtime. As for the core dumps... In the logs:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bordeaux running on OpenIndiana

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, October 29, 2010 01:22 PM, Charles Seeger wrote: However, the last two "fixme:wtsapi:" messages no long appear. Some web searches suggest that "{cc7bfb41-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959}" refers to "C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\wmm2res.dll". IIRC, i think you can turn off video suppor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Spare bandwidth for mirroring

2010-11-01 Thread Christopher Chan
Got a 50Mbit fibre connection over here...can it be done with b134? On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 05:59 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: I have some friends in Chattanooga, TN that have *extremely* high speed fiber Internet access. I'll ask if somebody would be willing to mirror. :) On Mon, Nov 1,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-03 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 08:03 PM, BM wrote: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Nathan Evans wrote: true, but we have that too. BTW, we also have a thing that causes a serious trouble to Snorcle: a PostgreSQL. :-) When PostgreSQL will give PHBs a warm fuzzy feeling because there is so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, November 04, 2010 04:19 PM, BM wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: When PostgreSQL will give PHBs a warm fuzzy feeling because there is somebody to sue/take responsibility if something goes wrong. Meaning, support papers? I think http

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

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:11 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: not that my $0.02 is worth much, but Illumos and OpenIndiana, although connected are separate entities. If you compare this to Linux, Illumos is the kernel and OpenIndiana is a distribution. If we were planning on having a stable,

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

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, November 05, 2010 12:04 AM, Rthoreau wrote: You could probably make a list of features that were only in OpenSolaris and now in OpenIndiana that people must have. On any list at one time it would of been ZFS and for some it still has a big place in the community. I see your task is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dashes messed up in man pages on OpenIndiana oi_147

2010-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
Use of groff instead of Solaris nroff for man page formatting. Try putting /usr/bin ahead of /usr/gnu/bin in $PATH. This is a known issue and will be fixed in the next release: https://www.illumos.org/issues/261 What about NOT naming GNU ls and chmod the same as OpenSolaris ls and chmod? A

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [b 147] Consensus on how to set up static IP

2010-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 07:16 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone point me to, or supply a brief step thru describing a known to work method for setting up a static IP address. One with complete steps that are current, as it appears from googling around that there are several ways described

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

2010-11-17 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, November 18, 2010 01:11 AM, Nemo wrote: On 17 November 2010 09:24, Nikola M wrote: [...] Yes. True. We all wait for a moment once in the future, when all-free code of ON will be compiled with gcc or clang.. just to be sure ;) Or better, when SunStudio is open-source. #6-) +1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [illumos-Developer] OpenIndiana and illumos, part 2

2010-11-19 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, November 20, 2010 07:56 AM, Gary wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz on the OI dev list wrote: The hard point is that the number of current solaris users is far below the number of linux users. I'm replying to this thread here instead of on the developer lest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [illumos-Developer] OpenIndiana and illumos, part 2

2010-11-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, November 20, 2010 05:40 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: On Saturday, November 20, 2010 07:56 AM, Gary wrote: I'm replying to this thread here instead of on the developer lest someone issue me a netiquette citation for being off topic. How d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [illumos-Developer] OpenIndiana and illumos, part 2

2010-11-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, November 22, 2010 04:11 AM, Gary wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: There are two kind of innovations : some which is the rewrite of something which where already exists elsewhere (e.g. zfs under FreeBSD), and, I actually tried looking at tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [illumos-Developer] OpenIndiana and illumos, part 2

2010-11-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Sunday, November 21, 2010 10:09 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: On Saturday, November 20, 2010 05:40 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: On Saturday, November 20, 2010 07:56 AM, Gary wrote: In what way did I flame Gary? If

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [illumos-Developer] OpenIndiana and illumos, part 2

2010-11-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Sunday, November 21, 2010 10:19 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: Dear Mr Christopher Chan Different points of view, remarks, or complains of any short from person to person shouldn't be understood as serious faults to the honor of anyone, as long as we do not involve insults. In my opinio

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Packaging guidelines/how-to's

2010-12-05 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, December 06, 2010 05:56 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Alex Kuster wrote: Hi people, I'm pretty new to the mailing lists ... I'm interested in packaging, and, naturally I have a few questions about it, here they are : 1) Which format/packaging system w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Suggestions for SATA HBAs

2010-12-13 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, December 13, 2010 01:50 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: I'm looking for PCI-E x1 SATA HBAs - any suggestions on ones that would work out of the box with OpenIndiana and related distros? I've been tracking chipsets as they come out for other things, but not storage. I hope to repurpose m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Suggestions for SATA HBAs

2010-12-13 Thread Christopher Chan
ages ago...I last used it on a box with an ON version before 2008.05 though. -Chris On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Christopher Chan< christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: On Monday, December 13, 2010 01:50 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: I'm looking for PCI-E x1 SATA HBAs - an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana state

2010-12-13 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 02:29 AM, Guido Berhoerster wrote: We have planned an extra consolidation where such packages could be maintained later, it is just not ready yet. In the meantime you could contribute packages to SFE which could later be imported into the OI project, see my other ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enable samba

2011-01-19 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 01:40 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: And I'm assuming that you've created an smb.conf file in /etc/sfw ... Did that change again? I thought it was in /etc/samba? On 19 January 2011 17:10, Steve Gonczi wrote: Just a Wild guess you may have The kernel cifs occupying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enable samba

2011-01-20 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 06:07 PM, Paul Johnston wrote: On 01/19/11 10:09 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, January 20, 2011 01:40 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: And I'm assuming that you've created an smb.conf file in /etc/sfw ... Did that change again? I thought it was in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] netstat

2011-01-20 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:52 PM, adrian kok wrote: Hello I am new in open solaris. I run the command netstat -r and don't know meaning of Ref and USE columns 25, 32381, 38 Why the interface is solaris2? Because it resolved the ip address to a hostname. netstat -rn will display ip

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HCL wiki format

2011-01-23 Thread Christopher Chan
Thanks Matt for creating the structure for the HCL on the wiki. I am starting to add stuff to the pages...and then I noticed that there is no 'format' for the HCL. Will a table with the following columns do? Hardware, Status, OI release, Driver ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-26 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 03:32 PM, Mark wrote: Postfix is probably the easiest drop-in replacement. But IMO a packaging of it should get lots of testing before going into a stable distro, and regardless of which is eventually the default or preferred choice, both should remain available.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-26 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 06:16 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: We have infrastructure based on and supported by sendmail. I know that postfix does "everything" sendmail does ... but we have a lot of experience and history related to the Solaris version of Sendmail (and yes it is different from t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multifunction colour laser printer for OSOL, OI ?

2011-02-15 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, February 15, 2011 05:24 PM, Guy Woolley wrote: Hello all, Does anyone have positive experience of a currently available (not legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex printing,copy, scan, fax) running under recent OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana ? I suppose you are not interest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about AD integration

2011-02-28 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 04:25 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: # pkg install pkg:/system/security/kerberos-5 # kclient It's a wizard that supports setting up joining to an AD domain. That will get you started. I have a cheat sheet that I can send from home later if you need it. I wrote down wh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI148, LDAP, samba and SSL?

2011-02-28 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:07 PM, Henner Gratz wrote: Without encryption everything works fine. It's also possible to use ldapsearch with an SSL connection. Ldapsearch is linked with /usr/lib/libldap.so.5, while the samba server and utilities are linked with /usr/lib/libldap60.so. Is it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, March 17, 2011 06:54 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Apostolos Syropoulos writes: Yes I am very very serious! A serious person would had first read the wikepedia article You might want to ease up a bit, on that very very part you do know there are health risks right? What ri

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana hosting advocating?

2011-03-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, March 25, 2011 01:06 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I check around for hosting services (I do it a lot, part of my job) I always check availability of Solaris like OSs. I must say that the result is sad. Not withstanding available hosters, i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 04:15 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The Solaris OS was carefully designed as a product, Linux is a combination of technollogies carefully developed to interact with eachother but created in independent projects. Both of them a very well made, but the way how all the p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 08:00 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 07:51 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 04:15 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The Solaris OS was carefully designed as a product, Linux is a combination of technollogies carefully

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 07:59 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2011-03-30 01:51, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 04:15 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The Solaris OS was carefully designed as a product, Linux is a combination of technollogies carefully developed to interact

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Yes, Kubuntu is a complete disaster. Not the KDE team's fault though I don't think. The Kubuntu devs botched it real bad. On another note, I have heard that users of KDE on OpenSolaris are happy with it? Who ever said anything about K/Ubuntu, mon? Imho, Ubuntu is for lamers who're not quite b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris (Oh please...)

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:42 AM, Gordon Ross wrote: Oh please, Have some sense, and don't bother with this debate on this list. [ Solaris vs. Linux blah blah blah, gnome vs kde, blah blah blah! ] I'd just like to see a real operating system become more mainstream. I wish I had the sk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-31 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, March 31, 2011 07:03 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 13:17 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Yes, Kubuntu is a complete disaster. Not the KDE team's fault though I don't think. The Kubuntu devs botched it real bad. On another note, I have heard that users

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Grub2 and OI

2011-03-31 Thread Christopher Chan
ZFS support was added to grub2? I thought that the grub team did not take the patches and so only sun grub had zfs support? On Friday, April 01, 2011 09:24 AM, Darko Hojnik wrote: Hi I have cloned my Rootfs and copied it with rsync over ssh to an FreeBSD Laptop. I want dualbooting FreeBSD an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] JMB363 Chipset support in OI_148

2011-05-10 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 02:37 AM, Chris Ridd wrote: On 9 May 2011, at 18:10, Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2011-05-09 14:52, Chris Ridd wrote: On 9 May 2011, at 12:57, Robin Axelsson wrote: connected to it and diagnostics software (such as Samsung ESTOOL) ESTOOL sounds like a particularly bad

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

2011-05-19 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, May 19, 2011 07:23 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Hello, I have read the following http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw Not read it yet but is it really a big problem? Ain't Sun/Oracle a member of the GNOME foundation or something? Are they serious?

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

2011-05-19 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, May 20, 2011 01:14 PM, Allan E. Registos wrote: 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 v

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Yeah, I read the thread, and that aspect I do agree with. The part that irked me was the this makes things more familiar for Ubuntu Linux users (ir)rationale. I must have missed that part of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 09:21 AM, Ben Taylor wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Yeah, I read the thread, and that aspect I do agree with. The part that irked

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 09:51 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: On May 23, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote: I must have missed that part of the thread but sudo predates Linux by at least ten years; http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:26 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Perchance did you read the thread referenced?? I have. I am just saying that Ubuntu is NOT representative of Linux admins and that going sudo is because of Dave Miner's affectio

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:21 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: To be clear, I never implied that sudo was a Linux thing but rather expressed my irritation over the "Ubuntu does it that way so we should too" mentality of justification for the change. (Not that there aren't some good Linux distros out t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:10 AM, McBofh wrote: On 24/05/11 12:58 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:26 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Perchance did you read the thread referenced?? <https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4885> I have. I am just sayin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:15 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 05/23/11 07:58 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:26 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Perchance did you read the thread referenced?? <https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4885> I have. I a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 04:11 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: On May 24, 2011, at 12:36 AM, "LinuxBSDos.com" wrote: List as many as you can and I'll still be able to prove that "most of the distros using sudo are derived from Ubuntu" is a statement of fact. OpenBSD ships with sudo and a root account

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 03:41 AM, LinuxBSDos.com wrote: One of the thought forms floating in the ethers is UNIX/Linux is difficult to use. Even people who have never used it, believe it. Months ago, I went to fix my car and decided to bring a book to kill time with while I waited. It just happ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 08:20 AM, Allan E. Registos wrote: +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. I came from Linux ove

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:54 AM, Allan Echavia Registos wrote: Kumusta Christopher: Mabuti, ikaw? On 5/25/2011 8:28 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 08:20 AM, Allan E. Registos wrote: +1. Be friendly to Linux users(me a Linux user), as these are the people that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS issues and the choice of platform

2011-05-26 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, May 26, 2011 05:54 AM, Pete Ashdown wrote: This gives me some pause as I'm in the process of replacing Nexenta boxes that also had flakey reliability. Is anyone using 148 in an enterprise situation with Supermicro? I have oi_147 running on a Supermicro board and case. I have not h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI

2011-05-31 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 05:00 AM, Chris Mosetick wrote: Sorry, somehow that got sent too early there, I'm running VirtualBox 4.0.6 on OI b148. I'm using sparse zvols for storage, rather than .vdi's. I'm very happy with the performance. (dedicated ZIL and L2ARC devices help a lot) I'm taking

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI

2011-05-31 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I hava better performance with files instead of zvols. Now that is interesting... ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI

2011-05-31 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 09:15 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On 05/31/11 17:35, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I hava better performance with files instead of zvols. Now that is interesting... there are two factors that you may want

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-15 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 03:54 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox 3.x, then I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth Windows Server guests. With a lot of sadness I had to rely on VMWare

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-16 Thread Christopher Chan
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 03:54 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hello, > a couple of years ago I was building my VMs with OpenSolaris + VirtualBox 3.x, then > I had to abandon my project because of instabilities of VB expecially whth Windows Server guests. > With a lot of sadness I had to rely

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-17 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, June 17, 2011 03:29 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Yes, you're right, sorry. That specific customer was running Solaris 10 10/09 or something. I had no chance to check it on OpenSolaris host. Do you think this would make a lot of difference? Oh yes, Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris were diffe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Removal of my e-mail address

2011-06-17 Thread Christopher Chan
Dear Søren, You can unsubscribe using the link below. http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss We shall be all here waiting for you to come back. cheers, Christopher ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 04:27 AM, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: Helios would be nice, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeliOS . OpenIndiana name already got some recognition, I see no point of changing it. What *is* necessary for branding IMO: a good logo and GNOME theme. The Linux world is afla

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 05:11 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: The only quirks I've read into so far is the device driver for Intel AMT (which I don't use anyway), and the occasion freeze of the Gnome desktop. As for the latter - how should I recover from it? My gut feeling is that it is triggered b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow zfs list on oi_148 compared to snv_111b

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, June 17, 2011 04:05 AM, Shawn Moore wrote: I have several(5) ZFS machines that have been built to serve out over NFS. Most are OpenSolaris snv_111b, but we have two that are oi_148. Between these we have ~ 200 volumes and 221000 snapshots (as of this writing). On all of the oi_148's i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

2011-06-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, June 25, 2011 01:21 AM, Mark Humphreys wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Kent Watsen wrote: "Open Indiana" is a goofy name, even considering its history, but the acronym is OK. How about just shortening it to "OpenIndy"? :) +1 :-D __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SAS controller LSI 3442-E-R

2011-07-07 Thread Christopher Chan
Hi, I use the LSI 9211, which shares the same chip (LSI SAS2008/ Fusion MPT 2.0) as the LSI 9212, on OpenIndiana. That good enough for you? Christopher On Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:57 AM, Tim Shaw wrote: Rocky Many thanks for the reply - but I see there are no Solaris drivers listed on t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-09 Thread Christopher Chan
Hi all, Would flaky electricity cause the system clock to go 'haywire' and ntpd to generate logs such as: Jul 7 22:46:33 bradsuper1 ntpd[25341]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] frequency error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM Jul 7 23:02:31 bradsuper1 ntpd[25341]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] freq

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-09 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 10:30 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I see those messages too, but the time stays accurate. Okay, so maybe flaky electricity does not affect ntpd...but would it mess up the system clock? -Original Message- From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-09 Thread Christopher Chan
of a virtual machine resetting the time as well. Gary On 7/9/11 9:07 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: Hi all, Would flaky electricity cause the system clock to go 'haywire' and ntpd to generate logs such as: Jul 7 22:46:33 bradsuper1 ntpd[25341]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] frequency err

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-09 Thread Christopher Chan
On Sunday, July 10, 2011 09:00 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: Negative and also negative for vm install. This is the image on iron that I am talking about. I have not check the time on the vbox guest though... I have restarted ntpd too and set both broadcastclient and server directives. Manually

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shorter subjects for mailing lists

2011-07-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 02:00 PM, Gregory Youngblood wrote: On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: On 2011-07-09 14:20, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Most of us use GUI-based email readers that handle>80char subjects. Is this really an issue? Yes, it is really an issue. Trying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 03:51 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Sigh... ntpdate -u 192.168.9.1 10 Jul 09:01:15 ntpdate[29929]: step time server 192.168.9.1 offset 3317.946738 sec IIRC ntpd won't adjust the time if the difference is too big, measured between the system clock, inherited from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:13 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Jul 12, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: I have switched from broadcastclient to specifying 5 time servers. That seems to have got it to behave properly. That isn't a default setting in OI, is it? If so, I'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 06:52 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 03:51 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Sigh... ntpdate -u 192.168.9.1 10 Jul 09:01:15 ntpdate[29929]: step time server 192.168.9.1 offset 3317.946738 sec IIRC ntpd won't adjust the time if the diffe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:54 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 06:52 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 03:51 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Sigh... ntpdate -u 192.168.9.1 10 Jul 09:01:15 ntpdate[29929]: step time server 192.168.9.1 offset

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