Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread Ian Collins
Dennis Clarke wrote: >>It's a Java Web Start application. Sounds like the right MIME types aren't >>set >>up on your system/browser, since it should start the 'javaws' application >>with >>that jnlp file. >> >> > >help about reports : > >Welcome to Mozilla 1.7 for Sun Java™ Desktop System

Re: [osol-discuss] hardware detection tool

2007-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
Dennis Clarke wrote: ... http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html I looked at the XML file that I downloaded and then used wget to fetch the jar file and unzipped it : Did you read the faq for that tool? http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html#jnlp answers yo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread Dick Davies
Can't recommend docs.sun.com highly enough - very good quality documentation (choose the 'solaris 10' collection - everything under there still applies to SXCR). And make use of the man pages too - in my experience Linux manpages vary greatly in quality. The solaris ones are excellent. On 19/02/

Re: [osol-discuss] hardware detection tool

2007-02-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > --- Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OKay .. so I see all the class files there and will now figure out >> how to >> run this bloody thing. Looks like some sort of Java "run once >> debug >> everywhere" sort of scenario thus far. >> >> Dennis > > Thanks for taking the time and ma

Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > > Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html >>> >> >> looks interesting .. what I got was a file that had this in it : >> >> > >> http://java.sun.com/";> >> >> >> >> >> I'm not really sure what to do with that ... > > It's a Java Web Start applicat

Re: [osol-discuss] hardware detection tool

2007-02-18 Thread Christopher Mahan
--- Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OKay .. so I see all the class files there and will now figure out > how to > run this bloody thing. Looks like some sort of Java "run once > debug > everywhere" sort of scenario thus far. > > Dennis Thanks for taking the time and making the effor

[osol-discuss] hardware detection tool

2007-02-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie From:"Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Mon, February 19, 2007 01:25 To: "Glynn Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hi, > > James C. McPherson wrote: >> Welcome to the community! >> >> Seconding Eric's suggestion, I'd add that you should go >> and look at the hardware compatibility list at >> >> http://sun.com/bigadmin >> >> Note that if your hardware is listed as working with >> Solaris 10 then it's pretty c

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

2007-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
I think we can close this thread off with the following carton - seen today at http://xkcd.com/c225.html http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/open_source.png";> James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems ___ opensolaris-discuss ma

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread David Lloyd
Brad, thank you so much for the detailed response..actually since I was using fedora I don't know apt I know rpm/yum (well kinda) NexentaOS' package system behaves almost exactly like Debian's and Ubuntu's: "Create, Remove, Update Delete": apt-get install [the package] apt-get remove [

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
brad kelley wrote: thank you so much for the detailed response..actually since I was using fedora I don't know apt I know rpm/yum (well kinda) so I wonder if I should just go to the developer version first..I know the basics of starting stopping services tcpip and some simple networking services

[osol-discuss] Re: which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread brad kelley
thank you so much for the detailed response..actually since I was using fedora I don't know apt I know rpm/yum (well kinda) so I wonder if I should just go to the developer version first..I know the basics of starting stopping services tcpip and some simple networking services (samba dns apache)

Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, James C. McPherson wrote: > Welcome to the community! > > Seconding Eric's suggestion, I'd add that you should go > and look at the hardware compatibility list at > > http://sun.com/bigadmin > > Note that if your hardware is listed as working with > Solaris 10 then it's pretty certain to wo

[osol-discuss] Re: which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread brad kelley
what rock have I been under...since when is solaris free? thanks for the info, I think I will try the developer version... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread James C. McPherson
Eric Enright wrote: On 2/18/07, brad kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok I have some linux experience (not much) and wanted to learn solaris on my own time without dishing out to sun to do so. I can across this page... http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/#use and see all these choices.

Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread David Lloyd
Brad, Ok I have some linux experience (not much) and wanted to learn solaris on my own time without dishing out to sun to do so. I can across this page... http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/#use and see all these choices. I'd love some opinions on which one you think is the closest to

[osol-discuss] Re: which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread Shawn Walker
I have good news then! Solaris 10 is not a "pay for" OS. So you can go to: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp Download it, install it, and use it for free*! (*you just need to register to obtain a free license entitlement, you will also only receive security, driver, and a few other u

Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread Eric Enright
On 2/18/07, brad kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok I have some linux experience (not much) and wanted to learn solaris on my own time without dishing out to sun to do so. I can across this page... http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/#use and see all these choices. I'd love some opinions

[osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread brad kelley
Ok I have some linux experience (not much) and wanted to learn solaris on my own time without dishing out to sun to do so. I can across this page... http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/#use and see all these choices. I'd love some opinions on which one you think is the closest to the pay fo

Re: [osol-discuss] SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN) ... / was: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] For sale:Nokia n95:$300, Nokia n93:$230]

2007-02-18 Thread Ian Collins
Roland Mainz wrote: >Hi! > > > >Is there a way to prevent things like the posting below ? For example is >it possibe to reconfigure Jive to allow postings only for people who are >subscribed to that list or make sure that such postings are queued for >moderation by the list admins automaticall

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

2007-02-18 Thread Shawn Walker
> Few examples: > Linux+Gnome is much faster than Solaris+JDS on the > same AMD hardware. > JDS+Solaris needs more memory than Linux+Gnome (same > hardware). 512MB > are enough for Linux, Solaris starts swapping after a > few hours of > usage and doesn't stop until swap is full. JDS > doesn't grok

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server

2007-02-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, UNIX admin wrote: > >>> It's a hardware problem. Your IT department didn't >>> by Ultrasparc laptops. >> >> Hehe! >> You mean, those underpowered, *expensive* laptops that you can only get >> from two or three manufacturers, and which are so expensive, they don't >> even d

[osol-discuss] SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN) ... / was: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] For sale:Nokia n95:$300, Nokia n93:$230]

2007-02-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is there a way to prevent things like the posting below ? For example is it possibe to reconfigure Jive to allow postings only for people who are subscribed to that list or make sure that such postings are queued for moderation by the list admins automatically ? Original Messa

[osol-discuss] Using DTrace infos with JBoss

2007-02-18 Thread metan
Hye all. I have to get Dtrace Logs (on Solaris 10) to import them into MOM database (operations manager on Win Server 2003) For that I suppose it is necessary to use a Web Service (via JBoss) to get Dtrace informations and export them. But I don't see any logs concerning Dtrace on Solaris. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server

2007-02-18 Thread Justin Zygmont
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, UNIX admin wrote: It's a hardware problem. Your IT department didn't by Ultrasparc laptops. Hehe! You mean, those underpowered, *expensive* laptops that you can only get from two or three manufacturers, and which are so expensive, they don't even dare list the price on

[osol-discuss] Problem booting Solaris on 160GB hard disk

2007-02-18 Thread Andrew Pattison
I'm got an annoying problem trying to install Solaris onto a 160GB hard disk. For some reason Solaris appears to be limited to seeing the first 8GB of the disk during the early stages of booting. After that it seems that it can access the whole disk OK. The BIOS is an Award BIOS, and the disk i

Re: So-called mindless rules (was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community participation (was GPLv3 ravings))

2007-02-18 Thread Peter Tribble
On 2/5/07, Laszlo (Laca) Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another library from the GNOME community is libxml2, which is now used all over Solaris. I'm currently working on updating it in Solaris 10 to a version that is 2 years newer. The diff is 10+ lines (not counting the Makefile changes

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server

2007-02-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> > It's a hardware problem. Your IT department >> didn't >> > by Ultrasparc laptops. >> >> Hehe! >> You mean, those underpowered, *expensive* laptops >> that you can only get from two or three >> manufacturers, and which are so expensive, they don't >> even dare list the price on their web sit

Re: [osol-discuss] Dual booting an Ultra 10

2007-02-18 Thread Ian Collins
Andrew Pattison wrote: >Is it possible to dual boot an Ultra 10 between Solaris 9 and the latest >version of SXCE (whatever that might be at the time)? I reckon I can manually >dual boot by setting up nvaliases for my 2 hard disks and typing either "boot >disk1" or "boot disk2" at startup, but

[osol-discuss] For sale:Nokia n95:$300, Nokia n93:$230

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[osol-discuss] IPv6_V6ONLY option with UDP sockets

2007-02-18 Thread manish
Hi, I am working on solaris 10 and my first question is that when I open a udp socket in family AF_INET6, I can see two entries for that port in "netstat -an" one in UDP IPv4 section and another on UDP IPv6 section while on AIX I see only one entry. Is it that solaris opens two sockets ???

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server

2007-02-18 Thread Bob Palowoda
> > It's a hardware problem. Your IT department > didn't > > by Ultrasparc laptops. > > Hehe! > You mean, those underpowered, *expensive* laptops > that you can only get from two or three > manufacturers, and which are so expensive, they don't > even dare list the price on their web sites openl

[osol-discuss] Dual booting an Ultra 10

2007-02-18 Thread Andrew Pattison
Is it possible to dual boot an Ultra 10 between Solaris 9 and the latest version of SXCE (whatever that might be at the time)? I reckon I can manually dual boot by setting up nvaliases for my 2 hard disks and typing either "boot disk1" or "boot disk2" at startup, but if it were possible to use s

[osol-discuss] Re: SX:DE (b55) and SXCR(b57)...What's the difference in Develop* Editions?

2007-02-18 Thread Andrew Pattison
The wording on the last question on that FAQ is misleading. It implies that VMWare will now run on a Solaris host OS, when what it actually means is that a Solaris VM image is available that will let you run it on Windows, Linux or MacOS inside a VMWare VM. Cheers Andrew. This message post

[osol-discuss] Re: SX:DE (b55) and SXCR(b57)...What's the difference in Develop* Editions?

2007-02-18 Thread Mike Kuhnkey
Looks like the answer is here: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solexpdev/product_faq.html This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] SX:DE (b55) and SXCR(b57)...What's the difference in Develop* Editions?

2007-02-18 Thread Mike Kuhnkey
Must have missed a memo/announcement somewhere...just noticed this: Is this just a transition period between SX:DE (02/07...b55) and SXCR (b57)? Is SX:DE (02/07) intended to be a stable version with fewer releases, while SXCR is updated/released more frequently to test emerging features? This

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server

2007-02-18 Thread UNIX admin
> It's a hardware problem. Your IT department didn't > by Ultrasparc laptops. Hehe! You mean, those underpowered, *expensive* laptops that you can only get from two or three manufacturers, and which are so expensive, they don't even dare list the price on their web sites openly, and one has t

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

2007-02-18 Thread UNIX admin
> On a personal workstation, you would expect > pkgadd > stall things in (say) /usr/bin where you can use them > directly in your PATH. This will work for Sun and Sun packages, but will actually break for any third party packages, for example when trying to install them in a sparse zone

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An Enterprise-Quality Small Server

2007-02-18 Thread Bob Palowoda
> Bill Moffitt wrote: > > > > >So, there's only one question left: what's going to > make those five people sitting around in somebody's > garage look around and, instead of coming to the > conclusion that they need a Windows server, come to > the obvious and irrefutable conclusion that they need

[osol-discuss] Re: Installing packages on the wrong arch (i386 v

2007-02-18 Thread UNIX admin
> 2. Both packages install to exactly the same location > and deliver the same files, only one contains i386, > one has SPARC. That's not a problem, nor is it an error. > OK, so are package writers meant to put files for > different architectures into separate directories? You could, but you sho

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris on an Ultra 10

2007-02-18 Thread UNIX admin
> I respectfully disagree (IRD). I am building a > cluster to support high-performance computing, > specifically meteorological models. The current > version of the code runs on UltraSparc-III non-copper > based system. The Sun sales rep loaned us an x4200 > and I borrowed times on a SunFire V490