Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

2011-01-04 Thread Ken Gunderson
and would subjectively rate LXDE as significantly lighter - lightweight enough that my kids have a couple 700 MHz PII boxes running it. LXDE also uses my favorite window manager, OpenBox. I don't think I've ever heard mention of an OpenSolaris/Indiana or Solaris port though. -- Ken Gunde

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

2011-01-25 Thread Ken Gunderson
ive, FreeBSD is on the cusp of 8.2 release and Debian is close to 6.0 going stable. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I think we can expect various publications to be doing reviews. Having OI included in the discussion could be a blessing, or a curse. My $0.02, for whatever it may be wo

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

2011-01-25 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 21:52 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Hi Ken, > > On 25 Jan 2011, at 18:50, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:36 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I believe now would be a reall

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

2011-01-25 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:58 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 01/25/11 10:50 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > As for the MTA discussion, Postfix is pretty much a drop in replacement > > for Sendmail, and my vote would be to replace Sendmail entirely. > > I still don't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana

2011-01-26 Thread Ken Gunderson
ut mayhaps some major x server changes? Graphics card is Radeon RV370, wh/uses radeon driver on the os box, but Gnome being so slow makes me wonder if maybe OI was defaulting to vga? -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-d

[OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-09 Thread Ken Gunderson
44 driver's support many, many cards, yet only 4 models are listed. I'm curios why this might be? Shouldn't pretty much any of the cards supported by those drivers work? Or is this list just a sample of stuff that's actually been tested by the OI community? I'm not very

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 05:55 -0800, ken mays wrote: > To Ken Gunderson, > > The Quadro 600 works fine. Thanks, Ken. How's the noise on that unit in a quiet room/office environment? In my experience larger diameter fans running at lower rpm's are preferable to smaller

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 09:00 -0800, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On 02/09/11 21:52, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > I need a new graphics card for an older system (PCIE-1.0). I don't game, > > do graphics, rendering, etc. so don't need high end - just a good > > workstation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-10 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 05:55 -0800, ken mays wrote: > To Ken Gunderson, > > The Quadro 600 works fine. > > If you want a basic low-cost graphics card, you can use the GeForce GT 430 or > NVIDIA 9600 GT which is available in most stores today for about $50-$80 USD. > I su

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Second Look at OI "Stable" Proposal (was Re: Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch)

2011-02-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
I was just taking a second (well, actually third) look at this and the more important baby (IMAP) was thrown out with the bath water (MTA debate). On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:50 -0700, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:36 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > > Hi All, &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Second Look at OI "Stable" Proposal (was Re: Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch)

2011-02-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
cot is less feature complete and under more active development. Cyrus would therefore likely involve less effort on the pkg maintenance side. My $0.02. I'm just trying to help. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-14 Thread Ken Gunderson
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Perhaps you may have something amiss with the Screen line in your ServerLayout section. Don't you need quotes, e.g. shouldn't it read something more like: Screen "Screen 1" Or in your case "Screen0"?? What happens when you g

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

2011-02-15 Thread Ken Gunderson
x27;t get anywhere. > > Thanks > > Guy > > ___ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Ken Gunderson __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana mailing list

2011-02-15 Thread Ken Gunderson
nice if you would start a new message rather than replying to existing and merely changing subject, as the latter practice messes up threading. Thank you. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2011-02-17 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:13 -0800, ken mays wrote: > Guy, > > Check out the Brother MFC-9560CDW. Not familiar with this particular model but can attest that Brother in general provides excellent bang for the buck. Just stay away from refurbished. Ken

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RFC: OI website brain storm page

2011-02-18 Thread Ken Gunderson
this, i.e. don't more knowledge and info based than recreational. I suggest you include it in your evaluations. Also, there are many excellent CMS's out there which would ease the burden of keeping things up to date greatly. I would recommend taking a good look at Drupal. That way web dev's can focus on backend development and documentation oriented folks can focus on creating documents. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2011-02-19 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 07:06 -0700, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:24 +, Guy Woolley wrote: > > Hello all, > > Does anyone have positive experience of a currently > > available (not legacy) Multifunction colour laser printer (duplex > &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] why is OI- illumos based 148a 805mb

2011-02-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
e LiveCD down a bit. Presumably if we built 151a > consolidations, and used distro-const from 151a, we'd end up with a CD rather > than a DVD. > > I guess we'll find out soon enough :-) Care to elaborate? -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_148a >= 2/23/2011

2011-02-25 Thread Ken Gunderson
he release now be illumos based? -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] quadro 600 on oi-dev-148a - no joy :(

2011-02-26 Thread Ken Gunderson
B ECC, fwiw. Ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Ken Gunderson Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Scre

[OpenIndiana-discuss] quadro 600 on oi-dev-148a - no joy :(

2011-02-26 Thread Ken Gunderson
cessor or later The system is Tyan S2865 based, sporting any Opteron 180, & 4GB ECC, fwiw. Ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] quadro 600 on oi-dev-148a - no joy - Xoeg.log output

2011-02-26 Thread Ken Gunderson
EE) Feb 26 18:02:42 NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. (EE) Feb 26 18:02:45 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device! (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (II) UnloadModule: "wfb" (II) UnloadModule: "fb" (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable con

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

2011-02-26 Thread Ken Gunderson
#x27;re getting closer. Hence the discussion. Recently a developer spun an IllumsOS based OpenIndiana Live Cd, dubbed oi-dev-148a. Sans the "as" it's still Sun ON based . Clear as mud? -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Updated

2011-02-26 Thread Ken Gunderson
Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is (II) Feb 27 06:31:57 NVIDIA(0): enabled. (EE) Feb 27 06:32:01 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device! (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (II) UnloadModule: "wfb" (II) UnloadModule: "fb"

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

2011-02-27 Thread Ken Gunderson
this was obvious to Solaris guru's but I'm not and offer the above in the hope it saves someone else some time running down similar issue in the future. Regards-- Ken On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 23:45 -0700, Ken Gunderson wrote: > Greetings All: > > I explored this a bit more. Got

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

2011-02-28 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 07:33 +, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 28 Feb 2011, at 04:20, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > > But one of my cores is pegged whilst just idling. Boo Hiss!! :( > > > > Hmmm... just booted with the vesa drivers and core is still pegged. > > Maybe not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

2011-02-28 Thread Ken Gunderson
ars with other things, but am curious if anyone has checked Illumos bug tracker? Best regards-- Ken -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris Express server name broadcast

2011-03-05 Thread Ken Gunderson
hannels don't meet their needs, then they should take that under consideration when choosing an OS platform. To reiterate, lest some misinterpret, this does not equate to, nor advocate, hostility. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris Express server name broadcast

2011-03-06 Thread Ken Gunderson
ded a bit caustically or grumpily. Politely pointing - my actual verbiage - people thusly is being both helpful and friendly. And, it may well be argued, more effective, especially when the quick answer was not to be had here. Peace-- ken -- Ken Gunderson ___

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi0148 illumos integration status??

2011-03-14 Thread Ken Gunderson
me confused and some clarification would be appreciated. Thank you. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Next build of OI

2011-03-14 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 15:26 +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Will there be a next build of OI, or must we wait for Illumos? See this thread from oi-dev: <http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2011-March/000257.html> -- Ken

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi0148 illumos integration status??

2011-03-15 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 11:52 +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > * Ken Gunderson [2011-03-15 01:53]: > > I'm confused about whether what's being served up at: > > > > <http://openindiana.org/download/> > > > > is now Illumos based or still on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-29 Thread Ken Gunderson
h their own. Gnome works on Solaris. And pretty much works on OI. Better places to invest limited developer engergies and talent than incorporating KDE, imho. You got a really, really bad itch?? -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-29 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 09:03 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > 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: > >&

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-30 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 11:42 +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote: > 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 >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris

2011-03-30 Thread Ken Gunderson
> > The Desktop on UNIX/Linux is just a mess. Period. I hope OSS4 gives > something better than the sun audio interface it is replacing (or did I > read that wrong?) and some strides are made elsewhere for the desktop. Audio interface needs help. Just after a big revamp, still d

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Pancakes vs. Waffles

2011-04-01 Thread Ken Gunderson
t. Warm regards-- Ken -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Become an OI Bug-Team Member

2011-04-03 Thread Ken Gunderson
sian for a free Jira license and then get Jira and Confluence integrated? -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI meeting April 4th 2011 write up

2011-04-05 Thread Ken Gunderson
while not getting into too much minute administrivia detail, political correctness, spin doctoring, etc. Many thanks. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia GT430

2011-04-12 Thread Ken Gunderson
solved subject. Sorry, I don't have more time at present to get into the details, but hopefully the thread proves productive. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rsync & snapshot backups?

2011-04-30 Thread Ken Gunderson
ar but last time I evaluated open source enterprise backup solutions Baccula was the clear winner for my needs. Amanda has since seen some developer love so would be worth taking a fresh look. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sound juicer doesn't propose mp3 as output?

2011-05-09 Thread Ken Gunderson
Solaris days and I'm not sure if they're presently extant, and 4) switch to different platform, e.g. Slackware/Salix that is less concerned about being sued and bold enough to provides prebuilt packages. -- Ken Gunderson ___ Op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sound juicer doesn't propose mp3 as output?

2011-05-09 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 11:53 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 9 May 2011, at 09:43, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > > Yes, the lame encoder package, wh/is not available in openindiana > > repositories due to license and patent issues. Options include 1) > > switching to less paten

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
it would be most excellent if your mua would wrap lines at an appropriate length. Thanks bunches :) -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
, > > Alasdair Ah! Thanks bunches. I was just installing 148b on a test box and if it was matter of couple days I'd just waited. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 21:38 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Hi Ken, > > This month, unless some major showstopper crops up. P.S. - any info w.r.t. repository package updates, e.g. LibreOffice, PostgreSQL, etc. Will such coincide with release or come later? -- Ken

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
elease shipped with Gnome 3, because, sadly, bleeding edge package availability is the yardstick w/wh/many judge. Thanks for the update. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 148b Gnome Workplace Switcher Glitch

2011-05-17 Thread Ken Gunderson
wheel scrolling. This is repeatable. Thanks. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-17 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 16:40 -0700, ken mays wrote: > Hi Ken, > > Ref: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151 > > OI Release Engineering stated that construction of the consolidation images > were underway so expectation is within the upcoming week (or two). Mainly > said, TBA - but it was recent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-18 Thread Ken Gunderson
or openindiana.org; not oi-dev-il: > > http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il/ > > This is either because one of the repository origins is not valid for this > publisher, or because the list of known publishers retrieved from the > repository origin does not match

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-18 Thread Ken Gunderson
referred would make a difference though since this was a fresh oi 148b install rather than OpenSolaris upgrade. In any event, thanks for your assistance. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org htt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 148b Gnome Workplace Switcher Glitch

2011-05-18 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 12:56 +0200, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > * Ken Gunderson [2011-05-17 21:30]: > > I'm not subscribed to oi-dev and short on time so will post here. > > Testing 148b I note that mouse wheeling over gnome switcher does not > > change desktops. Unti

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

2011-05-19 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:25 +, Ben Taylor wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos > wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have read the following > > > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw > > > > > > Are they serious? I think we should seriously co

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

2011-05-19 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:26 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 05/19/11 04:23 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have read the following > > > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw > > > > > > Are they serious? I think we should seriously consi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
ble to sudo. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 23:29 +0200, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > 2011/5/23 Ken Gunderson : > > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 15:39 -0400, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > >> Another related question - why have we stopped using pfexec and > >> started using sudo? I preferred RBAC...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 17:03 -0700, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On 05/23/11 16:54, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 23:29 +0200, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > >> The change was made upstream. See this bug report which discusses the > >> change: > >&g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 09:10 +0800, 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 Ken Gunderson
on't think it's unreasonable > that might upset people, although this case is not a great example of one > worth picking a fight over, IMO. > > OTOH, either finding a better way to use RBAC for this particular purpose, or > using sudo instead, is probably an improvement on ho

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
is something that I don't > really like. It's an Ubuntu thing. sudo is for scripts and for giving > limited access to certain stuff to certain accounts. If I had to become > root, I prefer doing 'su -'. > > So please, drop the 'sudo is a Linux thing'.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 01:21 +, 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,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
lter on topic and delete. Thank you. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
of fact. > > OpenBSD ships with sudo and a root account accessible by anyone in the wheel > group. Where does that fit? As do the other *BSD's. Ironically enough, Fedora 15 beta has now added the wheel group requirement and calling it an "innovation". -- Ken Gunde

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
ave a clue or two due to continued track record of bugs that result in very unreliable platform choice for the server room. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
d place a higher premium on values such as reliability, robustness, security, performant, etc. rather than the number of downloads by relatively low tech users. Unless your hidden FOSS agenda is to create a revenue stream by providing support contracts to said lower tech users. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
olaris declined to fringe status. Had Sun open sourced it 5 years sooner and actually gotten the job done in a timely manner their employees may well still be sporting @sun.com email addresses... -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 13:33 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > On 24 May 2011, at 13:10, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > Especially when that distro is loosing respect from those who actually > > have a clue or two due to continued track record of bugs that result in > > very unreliabl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 11:06 -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > On 05/24/11 08:54 AM, Gary Mills wrote: > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:26:33AM -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > >> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 09:21 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >&

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Failure while upgrading OpenIndiana

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
kBps, interspersed with dips down into the 30's and 40's. In any event, I have confirmation from Andrzej that Gnome's update gui is broke and I'll let you know how things go from command line mode. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Failure while upgrading OpenIndiana

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
/file/1/30587f092830594caedb71f6cf028119d705da45'. > > (happened 3 times) Fwiw, my update using essentially same command line completed successfully. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
ecisely this, to the point of going against sound technical analysis, so mayhaps I'm a bit sensitive when I read comments which may be even remotely construed as such. Peace-- ken -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list Op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
knowledged as the father of modern management science wrote some verbiage about this very problem decades ago. Many of his predictions of dire consequences for such behavior came home to roost in 2008. But yet those who do not learn from history are still doomed to repeat it.... sigh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI meeting 24th May 2011 write up

2011-05-24 Thread Ken Gunderson
> > Hope that is interesting and if anybody in the meeting notices any mistakes, > let me know and I'll get them fixed Thanks, Deano. Could someone please repost link to actual irc logs? I seem to have lost it...:-[ -- Ken Gunderson __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 15:51 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > > > > http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/06/oracle-gives-openoffice-to-apa.html > > > > Of course the article is terrible and myopic since it assumes that the > > center of > > the universe is Lin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA driver update

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
> $ pfexec beadm activate oi-nvidia > > $ pfexec reboot -p > > Thank you, I'll try this. > > Anyway, "pkg image-update" is much more right way :-) I brought this up on oi-dev recently and was informed that nvidia drivers will be updated for 151 release. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
basically what I was getting at w/o going into details. At this juncture, I'm of the opinion that LibreOffice would be taking a step backwards if it took on the Openoffice name. Folks know that LibreOffice is the path for future. The LibreOffice name is also, imo, more entic

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Ken Gunderson
ain subscribed to these lists and waste OI.org bandwidth. Thanks for helping me work that out cuz I'm surely too challenged mentally to have worked that out on my own. Have a nice day. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs only to version 5 after upgrading to oi-151?

2011-06-08 Thread Ken Gunderson
out the names. This was touched upon during #oi-meeting yesterday, the specifics of which were left for further discussion. In any case, similar to FreeBSD with RELEASE, TESTING/DEV, and EXPERIMENTAL branches. -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

2011-06-14 Thread Ken Gunderson
Much better to actually have a # in your prompt and adhere to the old sysadmin adage of sitting on your hands for 5 seconds before hitting enter... The point being here, that while sudo does have it's place, it's not the magic

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

2011-06-20 Thread Ken Gunderson
like OpenIndiana, particularly when contracted to "oi", as compared to Illumos in that at least it conveys that this is supposed to be an "Open" project (although "Open" has been so misused by marketroids trying to cash in on the Open Source phenom that in more recent tim

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

2011-06-20 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:03 -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 19:58 -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote: > > What's wrong with just "illumos"? If you need to distinguish, just use > > "illumos, the kernel" or "illumos, OS/Net"

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
roject. Hence all of the above are inappropriate. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
(:-) I'm not averse to dropping OpenIndiana in favor of something better. I AM against that being any kind of play/dependency on Illumos. I don't have anything against the Illumos project. But therein lies the salient issue - Illumos and OI are two separate projects. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
e for branched distributions production - a la Ubuntu,etc) > > If we put $5-10 in a Jar or spend hour or two on some distribution's > coordinated effort, > - every time we got Eureka idea about branding, then I wouldn't mind > any great branding ideas. +1 -- Regards--

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
anyone who's been around for a while has their Oracle horror story so why would we want to associate. And by Oracle, I'm referencing the corporate entity, not contributing individuals who happen to be employed by same. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
d squat on this name if it's not going to be for the > > productive use of this project. ;) > > > > > "Moonshine". It goes along with Celestial objects (Moon), and Shine as in > Rays of Sun. Also programming at night. Not to mention bootleg liquor!! --

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
them, I feel we should look forward when evangelizing the platform. > > Blake Amen, brother!! I about hurled reading Jake's reply. Glad to see that someone else "gets it". -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:34 -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote: > On 06/21/2011 03:05 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:32 -0700, Blake wrote: > >> I agree that Sun's engineering legacy is impressive. > >> > >> Unfortunately, the words '

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:43 -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote: > On 06/21/2011 03:38 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > >> Like it or not, Jake's reply is just as legitimate as yours. Solaris has > >> caché to some, myself included. Me not knowing anything about it beyond > >>

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 07:09 +1000, Matt Connolly wrote: > On 21/06/2011, at 3:54 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:03 -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 19:58 -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote: > >>> > >>> I a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Ken Gunderson
dora 15, Debian-6, etc. (i.e. not virtualized) and the difference is quite noticeable. Solaris derivatives like OI have their attractions. But speed isn't one of them. At least this is my experience, since you asked. Let the flame fest begin... -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:13 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 19:24 +0530, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> Hi everyone: > >> > >> I've been using openindiana as my primary desktop

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About the Gnome "slowdowns"

2011-06-22 Thread Ken Gunderson
On oi-151, I could not get any of the 4 different sound cards I have on hand to work, though I seem to recall the onboard nvidia worked with 148. Too many Gnome glitches on 151 to mention. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2011-07-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
;oi" for the general discussion list and leave hyphen whatever for more specialized lists, e.g. oi-dev, oi-bugs, etc. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Ken Gunderson
a far stretch to construe criticism of Oracle corporate policies enacted by upper management to extend to rank and file employees who are so far down the food chain I doubt said policy makers even know they exist. My $0.02. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 15:31 -0700, Gary Driggs wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > The problem in this instance is that Sun DID open source many cool things > > and post Sun take over Oracle has been systematically "undoing" Sun'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

2011-10-08 Thread Ken Gunderson
irc correctly the consensus was that the mailing lists worked fine and oi's limited resources would be better utilized elsewhere?? It's been some time though so maybe I'm having a brain fart. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

2011-10-08 Thread Ken Gunderson
lume might tend to cause > mailing list traffic to grow too unwieldy, but we can cross that bridge if we > ever get to it. And, it would be a great problem to have too. :) > Oh god, please no! Not another lame forum/mlm cluster fsck -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

2011-10-09 Thread Ken Gunderson
ptions as well as your personal preferences, wh/because you can point to some others who share those preferences becomes a mandate for OI to follow. This is not necessarily so. I also curious if you may have _any_ type of affiliation with Vanilla because I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

2011-10-09 Thread Ken Gunderson
way, we > > could set up some experimental thing and see if it works. > > > > Jeff. > > I must be old-fashioned, but I find an NNTP server easier than forums (and > less junk accumulating on my mail server). Seamonkey has an adequate reader, > although I p

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