Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I'm more interested in paring things down to a minimal kernel that can >>be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target. >> >> > >My minimized install miniroot is a 64MB; so it should be possible to make >that work (it's a full kernel running the installer) > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>I'm more interested in paring things down to a minimal kernel that can >be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target. My minimized install miniroot is a 64MB; so it should be possible to make that work (it's a full kernel running the installer) Casper _

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Weekly News #47

2007-02-06 Thread Glynn Foster
"Hier ist die offizielle Dokumentation, echte Systemhelden jedoch kommen mit nur zwei man-Pages aus: zpool und zfs." - Constantin Gonzalez (loosely translated as 'Here is the official documentation; real system heroes need only the two manpages:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: smpatch

2007-02-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Bob Palowoda wrote: > >>> Hi, I was wondering if the /etc/release file should >>> be updated after all >>> patched have been applied to a system? I have >>> solaris 10 06/06 and I did >>> an smpatch update and successfuly applied all >>> patches. How do I know this >>> take

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Buckingham
Ian Collins wrote: > Interesting, do you have anything published? Not yet. I'm working on putting something together as part of the Honeycomb project. We've had interest both internally and externally about what we are doing. Our system looks more like a server than a traditional embedded applian

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: smpatch

2007-02-06 Thread Justin Zygmont
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Bob Palowoda wrote: Hi, I was wondering if the /etc/release file should be updated after all patched have been applied to a system? I have solaris 10 06/06 and I did an smpatch update and successfuly applied all patches. How do I know this takes me up to 11/06 now? If y

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-06 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > I think the lists on opensolaris.org (177 of them currently) represent > pretty well the community in the U.S. That's where the vast majority of > traffic and posts come from and it's not even close. However, there are > many people outside the U.S. who are just now get

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-06 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2007, at 14:46, Peter Tribble wrote: >> I'm fairly sure that a flamefest on a mailing list isn't the right way. >> Perhaps it's a necessary step, but I don't think it's conducive to >> substantive discussions. >> > > I would be pleased if it didn't happen l

[osol-discuss] project emancipation now open!

2007-02-06 Thread John Sonnenschein
Just a quick announcement that the closed binary emancipation project is now open at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/emancipation/ . I've put some skeleton .c files up corresponding with the functions of libc_i18n that need to be reimplemented on our hg repo: hg.opensolaris.org/hg/ema

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
Peter Buckingham wrote: >Ian Collins wrote: > > >>I'm more interested in paring things down to a minimal kernel that can >>be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target. >> >> > >That may well be possible with some more extreme measures. What I started >with is the reduced network core

[osol-discuss] Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you?

2007-02-06 Thread Shawn Walker
> Otherwise, stick with the CDDL. GPLv3 cannot be > evaluated seriously > until it is actually approved by the FSF and > published in final form. > Even then, dual-licensing wouldn't make any sense, > but at least we'd > have an idea of the actual impact of a switch from > CDDL to GPLv3. > >

[osol-discuss] Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd:

2007-02-06 Thread Shawn Walker
> Embracing more > people, making more friends, gets more people > talking about you, > participating, and developing with you. Growing the > population. > There's other ways to achieve this though - a simple > license change may not > necessarily be the best approach [1]. A very obvious > exam

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Buckingham
Ian Collins wrote: > I'm more interested in paring things down to a minimal kernel that can > be loaded from FLASH. 64-128MB would be my target. That may well be possible with some more extreme measures. What I started with is the reduced network core install which is ~200MB. This doesn't include

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Collins
Peter Buckingham wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: > >> Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open Solaris that can >> boot from FLASH on a single board PC? >> >> I was think initially of the windows CE space, rather than the embedded >> Linux one. > > > For Honeycomb we use ramdisk images th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you?

2007-02-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
> The first day that the CAB met, almost two years ago, we talked about > all of the things that OpenSolaris needed to do to become successful. > Central to that discussion were three principles: > >1) everyone needs to work on a common version control system >2) everyone needs to use a co

[osol-discuss] Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you?

2007-02-06 Thread Roy T. Fielding
The first day that the CAB met, almost two years ago, we talked about all of the things that OpenSolaris needed to do to become successful. Central to that discussion were three principles: 1) everyone needs to work on a common version control system 2) everyone needs to use a common issue re

Re: [osol-discuss] Community participation

2007-02-06 Thread John Sonnenschein
On 6-Feb-07, at 6:03 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, Jim Grisanzio wrote: Some have been considering a "bug bounty" program, so yes, I think we ought to consider specific programs to engage more people in more ways and then call attention to their contributions. We really need to get our su

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fluendo announces multimedia for Linux and

2007-02-06 Thread Brian Cameron
Richard: I think gaim 2.0beta_whatever (maybe from blastwave) uses GStreamer, but I never got it to work (although ISTR some email archives in which that was a known problem not fully resolved). I ended up using NAS (can't remember where I got that) and the associated auplay command, since that

[osol-discuss] Re: Chroot users to their home directory

2007-02-06 Thread David Comay
Ryan, You might try asking directly on security-discuss as that's where the SSH minded folks hang out. dsc This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Chroot users to their home directory

2007-02-06 Thread Matty
I haven't heard back from anyone, and was curious if the folks at Sun could comment (or forward the original message to someone who could) on the bugs listed in the original message? Thanks for any insight, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net This message posted from opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Community participation

2007-02-06 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > Some have been considering a "bug bounty" program, so yes, I think we > ought to consider specific programs to engage more people in more ways > and then call attention to their contributions. We really need to get our submission for the Summer of Code rocking this yea

Re: [osol-discuss] Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Buckingham
Ian Collins wrote: Has anyone done any work on a minimal embeddable Open Solaris that can boot from FLASH on a single board PC? I was think initially of the windows CE space, rather than the embedded Linux one. For Honeycomb we use ramdisk images that we load from disk. The images are ~700MB,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:58, James Carlson wrote: > At least at this point, I'd be disinclined to reject a project > unless it either looks like the output from /dev/urandom or like > this: > > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-math-quant-ternar >y-logic-of-binary-sys-04.t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Richard Lowe wrote: >> The initial project proposal process was written to generally allow >> projects that had more than one interested individual, and was >> appropriate when we didn't know what a project should be; I think Ben >> and Steve's idea to refine it, now that we're furthe

Xorg memory allocation / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3ravings)

2007-02-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Doug Scott wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. This explains what is happening to > > firefox. Is Xorg > > looking into the problem, as it can be a real pain having to restart X > > every so often. > > I don't know of anyone at X.Org looking into the problem since i

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and

2007-02-06 Thread Michelle Olson
> So in my opinion, this project proposal, and getting > more like it, is > desirable. > > Eric I agree completely. I have experienced first-hand the proposal of a good and useful, non-code project that, when it was socialized and proposed to the associated community, was not blessed. And a yea

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Walker
> >>> Stephen Lau wrote: > Except that you have projects like devname[1] which > have done absolutely *nothing* with their project space. ... > > [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/devname/ > Yep. We need a project removal strategy too. Maybe project requesters need to include what the initi

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Peter. Your proposal has been seconded. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Peter Buckingham wrote: Hi All, Honeycomb is a unique archival storage product developed within Sun. It is built upon a clustered system and provides strong reliability guarant

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal for Xfce Desktop

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Doug. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Doug Scott wrote: For you who don't know, Xfce is a lightweight desktop built using the gtk+ libraries. Currently there is a very old verion of Xfce as part of the companion CD with no owner. I am

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-06 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 2/6/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry - I've never used Opera and don't know what it does. One thing it *doesn't* do is to bloat Xorg to 684MB in 24 hours. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman KDE e.V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] The new "The Love you Take is equal to the Love you Make" Open(2) License

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Richard Nekus wrote: Nevertheless, as one of "many" examples, how much has Apple, ..., or anyone, including Sun Microsystems given to OpenBSD's OpenSSH, ..., for their contributions, just to mention one. Well, apparently not a red cent! and we all know that. No? then just ask Theo. ;) -good

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Informationand dev

2007-02-06 Thread Scott Tracy
They get my +1 for sure. And I would say the storage/HC is the right place. /scott On Feb 4, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Jim Grisanzio wrote: Stephen Lau wrote On 02/03/07 04:19,: Scott Tracy wrote: On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:25 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote: * Scott Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread James Carlson
Mike Kupfer writes: > > "stevel" == Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > stevel> Approval must be obtained from the core contributors of the > stevel> community. (i.e.: core contributors give the +1 or -1 votes). > stevel> Votes are tallied and recorded by the project proposer, and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Stephen Lau
Eric Boutilier wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Stephen Lau wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and therefore

[osol-discuss] Re: smpatch

2007-02-06 Thread Brett Albertson
Upgrading to Solaris 10 11/06 isn't the same as loading patches. Often new features are not in patches, but are in updates. So, your /etc/release will stay at Solaris 10 06/06 unless/until you do a Solaris upgrade. Brett Albertson This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>This involves the OGB too much in the day-to-day running of OpenSolaris. >I can imagine a project appealing to the OGB, but they shouldn't be >involved normally. +1; the OGB should be a background task with few interrupts until there is a serious conflict. Casper ___

[osol-discuss] Re: smpatch

2007-02-06 Thread Bob Palowoda
> Hi, I was wondering if the /etc/release file should > be updated after all > patched have been applied to a system? I have > solaris 10 06/06 and I did > an smpatch update and successfuly applied all > patches. How do I know this > takes me up to 11/06 now? > If you bought a Sun service

Re: [osol-discuss] The new "The Love you Take is equal to the Love you Make" Open(2) License

2007-02-06 Thread James Carlson
Richard Nekus writes: > 1./ So, can you, as developers, ... of "opensolaris" simply not > make your own Open License ? instead of just GeePLvx, and/or CDDL, > ... why not? The instructions for developers are here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/sun_contributor_agreement/ My understandi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Kupfer
> "RL" == Richard Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RL> It's important that projects are fairly easy to acquire, but it's RL> also important that they don't just appear, do nothing in public RL> related to the project, and sit dormant (I say, while looking firmly RL> at devname again). One of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Kupfer
> "stevel" == Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: stevel> Approval must be obtained from the core contributors of the stevel> community. (i.e.: core contributors give the +1 or -1 votes). stevel> Votes are tallied and recorded by the project proposer, and the stevel> outcome recorded on th

[osol-discuss] Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-06 Thread Richard Nekus
-ok there you are, i was lookin' for this post, Hi All, I have a few (3) Questions at the bottom, for you opensolaris developers, et all. But, first of all, thanks for OpenSolaris ! it works great (now, to get Mplayer, and DVD:Rip goin' :) yup, its now workin'... betiful. mmm, The 4-channel

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Stephen Lau wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and therefore the proposal passes per

[osol-discuss] smpatch

2007-02-06 Thread Justin Zygmont
Hi, I was wondering if the /etc/release file should be updated after all patched have been applied to a system? I have solaris 10 06/06 and I did an smpatch update and successfuly applied all patches. How do I know this takes me up to 11/06 now? _

[osol-discuss] The new "The Love you Take is equal to the Love you Make" Open(2) License

2007-02-06 Thread Richard Nekus
Hi All, I have a few (3) Questions at the bottom, for you opensolaris developers, et all. But, first of all, thanks for OpenSolaris ! it works great (now, to get Mplayer, and DVD:Rip goin' :) yup, its now workin'... betiful. mmm, The 4-channel sound is well -not so good? -no decent drive

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Richard Lowe
Stephen Hahn wrote: * Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-06 09:40]: Stephen Lau wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and therefore the pro

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Communtiy Newsletter Dec06/Jan07

2007-02-06 Thread Linda Bernal
The Dec06/Jan07 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/content/newsletter/dec06-jan07/ Please send your contributions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Linda ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Stephen Lau
Darren J Moffat wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and therefore the proposal passes per current policy. I agree and think we

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-06 09:40]: > Stephen Lau wrote: > >Darren J Moffat wrote: > >>Eric Boutilier wrote: > >>>Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this > >>>proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and > >>>therefore the propo

[osol-discuss] Have we any doubts?

2007-02-06 Thread De Togni Giacomo
The return of Solaris.Read this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/06/hp_solaris_support/ Giacomo This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] portal for this mailing list?

2007-02-06 Thread Thomas Haynes
Max Russell wrote: Hi All- this may be first and last post to this list... Is there a portal site for this mailing list? (I'm one of those types who baulks at 500+ emails since Friday.) http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=13 ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Doug Scott wrote: Thanks for the explanation. This explains what is happening to firefox. Is Xorg looking into the problem, as it can be a real pain having to restart X every so often. I don't know of anyone at X.Org looking into the problem since it's pretty universally believed to be a Fi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
Stephen Lau wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and therefore the proposal passes per current policy. I agree and think we should move it along, w

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Stephen Lau
Darren J Moffat wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and therefore the proposal passes per current policy. I agree and think we should move it along, which means that the

Re: [osol-discuss] portal for this mailing list?

2007-02-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
Max Russell wrote: Hi All- this may be first and last post to this list... Is there a portal site for this mailing list? Yes. On the main opensolaris.org site click the "discussions" button. That takes you to a list of all the @opensolaris.org mail aliases that are bridged to a Jive forum

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings)

2007-02-06 Thread Doug Scott
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Doug Scott wrote: Xorg, keeps on going and going. You exit firefox, and Xorg does not return the memory. Xorg uses standard UNIX malloc, so memory won't be returned to the OS upon free, just to the free space list in the Xorg heap, unless it was a shared memory pixm

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread John Plocher
I believe the consensus was that it be a /project/ in the appliance or storage communities. It didn't find traction to be a project under the ON/Nevada community, and it didn't get consensus's to be a community on its own at this time. -John Eric Boutilier wrote: Some people have asserted o

[osol-discuss] portal for this mailing list?

2007-02-06 Thread Max Russell
Hi All- this may be first and last post to this list... Is there a portal site for this mailing list? (I'm one of those types who baulks at 500+ emails since Friday.) I've just got into the OpenSolaris thing, trying to get it installed on a VirtualBox, so I do want to get tips & advice, but don

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 56 available

2007-02-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>I don't mean to spoil the party, certainly OpenSolaris has improved >immensely, but my laptop HP/Co mpaq NC6220 with Broadcom wireless, iwi, >used to work with earlier builds B52 I think. With B54, B55, B56, >wireless disappears. scanpci sees the hardware, pc8086,4220, but I >can't get wirele

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 56 available

2007-02-06 Thread Charles Meeks
I don't mean to spoil the party, certainly OpenSolaris has improved immensely, but my laptop HP/Compaq NC6220 with Broadcom wireless, iwi, used to work with earlier builds B52 I think. With B54, B55, B56, wireless disappears. scanpci sees the hardware, pc8086,4220, but I can't get wireless w

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-02-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >contribution too but with CDDL alone it is just not possible in > > >foreseeable future. People afraid to contribute to CDDL projects for > > >variety of reasons, look how cdrecord has been forked t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
Eric Boutilier wrote: Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and therefore the proposal passes per current policy. I agree and think we should move it along, which means that the next step is a post (by me

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, John. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, John Sonnenschein wrote: Currently, there is no possible way to build an opensolaris distribution without including the closed-source libc_i18n.a. What this means is that a traditional distrib

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Boutilier
Some people have asserted or implied that although support for this proposal is not easily discernable, nevertheless it is there, and therefore the proposal passes per current policy. I agree and think we should move it along, which means that the next step is a post (by me, as usual) acknowledgi

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-06 Thread Chris Ricker
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Stephen Harpster wrote: > An increase in developers developing applications for OpenSolaris and an > increase in people using an OpenSolaris distribution. It's reaching out to an > audience that has been ignoring OpenSolaris. Embracing more people, making > more friends, gets

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-06 Thread Casper . Dik
>On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Stephen Harpster wrote: > >> We can't ditch CDDL for all the reasons we put it there in the first place -- >> and we don't want to alienate the community we have. There are still folks >> who will want to embed OpenSolaris in appliances and create proprietary >> solutions. C

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-06 Thread Chris Ricker
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Stephen Harpster wrote: > We can't ditch CDDL for all the reasons we put it there in the first place -- > and we don't want to alienate the community we have. There are still folks > who will want to embed OpenSolaris in appliances and create proprietary > solutions. CDDL all

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 56 available

2007-02-06 Thread Chris Ricker
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Since your commenting on good things in B56 I'll add the following server > observations (on X4100): On the down side, it still won't install on a Latitude D620 -- install just hangs forever (problem appears same as in previous sxcr releases that I've

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?]

2007-02-06 Thread Chris Ricker
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >contribution too but with CDDL alone it is just not possible in > >foreseeable future. People afraid to contribute to CDDL projects for > >variety of reasons, look how cdrecord has been forked to be pure GPL > >project just because of that. > > >

[osol-discuss] Re: About CDE source code

2007-02-06 Thread Girts Zeltins
Thank You all for answers. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] about changing IP address.

2007-02-06 Thread James Carlson
jason seok writes: > Hey. > planning to change IP addresses of some servers. > is there any way not to reboot after changing > /etc/hosts,/ets/netmasks,/etc/defaultrouter files? Yes; see the ifconfig(1M) and route(1M) commands for details. Note that some applications you're using may not be prep

[osol-discuss] Re: About CDE source code

2007-02-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
The source there is just their X server and OpenMotif; no CDE. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is the latest version of 'C Sty le and Coding Standards for SunOS™'?

2007-02-06 Thread James Carlson
MichaelLi writes: > Recently, I'm reading 'C Style and Coding Standards for SunOS'. But I > find it's writen in 1996 and it also refers to the future version of the this > document. I just find the 1996 version of this document on OpenSolaris Quick > Start site. Now I'm wondering where I can

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About CDE source code

2007-02-06 Thread ken mays
Girts, We discussed CDE support over in the desktop-discuss community. Jon Trulson and Bryan Chambers were the key contacts of the DeXtop CDE 3.0 product under XiG. There was still a license attached to that product as well, yet I don't know if XiG still maintains the product. Check it out. ~ K

[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: Re: Fluendo announces multimedia for Linux and Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread Brian Cameron
W. Wayne: That said, Fluendo plugins are based on the GStreamer free media streaming engine, and Sun employees are involved with making GStreamer work on Solaris. I have a very negative experience with GStreamer in Linux > (SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu). This experience was, unfortunately,

[osol-discuss] Re: About CDE source code

2007-02-06 Thread Girts Zeltins
Some times ago XiG was providing product called DeXtop (XiG variant of CDE) If I am sure this link don't contains full DeXtop (XiG variant of CDE) source code? Am I sure? ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/src/ Thanks. regards, Girts This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] Re: About CDE source code

2007-02-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
No, that's controlled by The Open Group, although the members (of which Sun is only one) that contributed may have something to say about it too. See http://www.opengroup.org/cde/ http://www.opengroup.org/desktop/ordering/ http://www.opengroup.org/desktop/ordering/motif.price.list.htm http://www.

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fluendo announces multimedia for Linux and

2007-02-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I think gaim 2.0beta_whatever (maybe from blastwave) uses GStreamer, but I never got it to work (although ISTR some email archives in which that was a known problem not fully resolved). I ended up using NAS (can't remember where I got that) and the associated auplay command, since that had less la

[osol-discuss] Re: Embeddable Open Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread UNIX admin
> That community appears to have gone to sleep for a > while and it hasn't > considered small FLASH based boards. > > I was looking for an alternative to CE on this class > of system. If you want to start there a good start would be getting OpenSolaris to run on the Soekris appliance. It's an AM

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fluendo announces multimedia for Linux and Solaris

2007-02-06 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> That said, Fluendo plugins are based on the GStreamer > free media > streaming engine, and Sun employees are involved with > making GStreamer > work on Solaris. > > Brian > I have a very negative experience with GStreamer in Linux (SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu). This experience was, unfortun