Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Simon Phipps
My fear in tragetting Linux explicitly for migration like this is the name is an enduring hostile act just towards Linux. I prefer "immigrants" - nothing to stop it focussing just on the Penguinistas under that banner for now. S. On Nov 3, 2005, at 09:28, Patrick Finch wrote: In my opinio

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Adam Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-03 09:36]: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:06:34AM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-03 08:46]: > > > > > > >On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: > > > > > > > >> There seems to be at least a loose concen

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Patrick Finch
Just to clarify: I'm don't mean the value of OpenSolaris as a whole (!), but the value of a specific discussion group within OpenSolaris.org. When I talk about a wider audience, I mean that there are a lot of people who have little or no consciousness of OpenSolaris or any of its distributio

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Casper . Dik
>In my opinion, a big part of the value of this community will be that it >helps to explain the relevance of OpenSolaris to the wider Linux >community. Extending the scope beyond Linux immigrants could threaten >that. "wider Linux comminity"? I think the value of OpenSolaris does not derive

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:06:34AM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-03 08:46]: > > > > >On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: > > > > > >> There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful > > >> community. Any +1 votes from t

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Patrick Finch
In my opinion, a big part of the value of this community will be that it helps to explain the relevance of OpenSolaris to the wider Linux community. Extending the scope beyond Linux immigrants could threaten that. Patrick Stephen Hahn wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Stephen Hahn
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-03 08:46]: > > >On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: > > > >> There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful > >> community. Any +1 votes from the CAB? > > > >+1 > > +1 Absolutely agree. > > I think we should also be

[osol-discuss] Re: trying to port hercules: equivalents for missing feature and Linux-isms

2005-11-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Hints as to what the best equivalent to BLKGETSIZE might be would definitely > be appreciated. The return value from lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) should work. But it does not work with character "disk" devices on old Solaris (<10) releases. % cat devsz.c #include #include #include #include int m

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Casper . Dik
>On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: > >> There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful >> community. Any +1 votes from the CAB? > >+1 +1 Absolutely agree. I think we should also be open for those in exile such as South Koreans who may seen be exiled from Windows

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: > There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful > community. Any +1 votes from the CAB? +1 Great initiative Adam! > Adam > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:16:01AM -0700, Adam Leventhal wrote: > > One barrier when adopting a new o

[osol-discuss] trying to port hercules: equivalents for missing feature and Linux-isms?

2005-11-03 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I'm trying to port hercules (IBM mainframe emulator) to Solaris; hit the following snags so far: * FP_INFINITE FP_NAN FP_NORMAL FP_SUBNORMAL FP_ZERO don't seem to be defined anywhere in /usr/include. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/math.h.html seems to indicate th

[osol-discuss] application porting forum?

2005-11-03 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Since I'm going to ask a question about some problems porting a particular app to [Open]Solaris (in another thread), it occurred to me: why not have a forum for that topic in general? The more apps run on [Open]Solaris, the better it is for everyone. Further, in some cases it might be a matter

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 11:50 pm, Joerg Schilling wrote: > James Lick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think what most people are frustrated with is that there is a > > disconnect between announcing the project far and wide, but then saying > > the site needs to be locked down because it's no

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Ross
On 11/1/2005 at 6:24PM, Alex Ross wrote: > Contact > = > > If interested, please send e-mail to , and tell > us a few words about yourself. We'll respond with a user/password. Guys, just send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], tell us a few words about yourself, that's all. There is no secrecy, no