Re: [osol-mktg] RE: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 31/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/03/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, one has to > > look at this; I went down the road today, wind

[osol-discuss] Re: How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to

2007-03-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> SMF has some goals > and capabilities in common with launchd, but does not > approach daemon > management with identical assumptions. > If you're interested in porting launchd for use by > an OpenSolaris > distro, then you might share your portability issues > on > opensolaris-code@opensol

Re: [osol-mktg] RE: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-30 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Just as others have talked about during the "GPL driver debate", if Solaris were suddenly under the GPLv2, it wouldn't magically make thousands of drivers available for instant use. Porting drivers is hard work, and many times its easier to write a new one with well documented specs than to try

Re: [osol-mktg] RE: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-30 Thread Shawn Walker
On 30/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, one has to look at this; I went down the road today, window shopping, every laptop I had a look at down at the computer retailers had the Intel 3945 A/B/G wireless chipset - it

[osol-discuss] Is ath(7d) in build 41 OK?

2007-03-30 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, After seeing Casper's posting about the bcmndis driver being a bit iffy after build 40-something, and a desire to try to stick to stuff that's supported out of the box as much as possible, I recently replaced my Ferrari 3400's mini-PCI wifi card with an Atheros-based one, specifically the

Re: [osol-mktg] RE: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-30 Thread Stephen Lau
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:24:30PM +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: >Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, one >has to look at this; I went down the road today, window shopping, >every laptop I had a look at down at the computer retailers had the >Intel 3945

Re: [osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10

2007-03-30 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Srikanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-30 05:36]: > I am very new to solaris. Please see my question below. > > How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10? > > I am currently working with MAC OS X server, there we have > /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, can solaris also supports Launch

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: joining Sun

2007-03-30 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Alan, > its very nice, to see u here, I am also new to solaris, now I am assured to > get a stable version of solaris, under your supervision. This has not been our experience with Solaris. And we run Gentoo and OpenSolaris side-by-side to run our service. Out of curiousity, what gives y

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-30 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Alan, A packaging system like apt is exactly what I'd like. Frankly, a packaging system that blends the binary delivery benefits of apt plus the source delivery benefits of "emerge" would be fantastic. The network install is primarily what we're missing...that and the pkg utilities just feel a

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2007-03-30 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi, +1 This project could provide more choices to customers, and attract more developers, especially in Asian areas. Thus help the adoption of OpenSolaris in Asia. Very good idea! This project will be endorsed by Internalization Community, the leaders initially would be Fuyuki Hasegawa, Naoyu

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: Input Method Project

2007-03-30 Thread Lu Yun-Song
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Re[2]: [osol-discuss] Re: Heads-up: ZFS Boot support for the x86 platform bld 62

2007-03-30 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Lori, Thursday, March 29, 2007, 7:35:16 PM, you wrote: LA> Jürgen Keil wrote: >>> Excelent news!! I can now use ZFS to install Solaris? >>> >>> According to the announcement: no >>> >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007032801/ >>> >>> »The ability

Re: [osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to So laris10

2007-03-30 Thread Amit . Sharma
Thanks a lot for the pointer Calum. Regards, Amit. -- original message -- Subject:Re: [osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10 From: "Calum Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 30th March 2007 2:51:06 pm On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 18:27 +0530, Amit Sharma

Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-03-30 Thread James Carlson
Scott Rotondo writes: > Steven Xie wrote: > > echo EFG|/usr/xpg4/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]' > > Segmentation Fault (core dumped) > > > > echo EFG|/usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]' > > Segmentation Fault (core dumped) [...] > This is crazy. Has anybody filed a bug yet? Done -- it's CR 6540973. -- Jam

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2007-03-30 Thread Brian Nitz
Good idea, I was wondering whether there was any interest in bringing back an IM switcher. I hope you'll work closely with the X and desktop projects. Noah yan wrote: +1 On 3/30/07, Yong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to propose a project about Input Method for OpenSolaris. The sc

Re: [osol-discuss] execve and dynamically allocated memory and handles

2007-03-30 Thread James Carlson
Durga Deep Tirunagari writes: >if (scds_initialize(&scds_handle, argc, argv) != 0) { [...] > But for example we get a handle to the underlying database, what happens to > the handle example scds_handle in the above case. None of the memory related to it exists anymore. It's immaterial.

[osol-discuss] rs, jot, lam

2007-03-30 Thread Rob McMahon
I was just doing a bit of scripting when it occurred to me: why does no-one include jot, rs, and lam in their distros ? Okay, lam is mostly replaced by paste, jot can be done with a perl one-liner, though with a lot more typing, but how do people live without rs ? I personally use jot and rs

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2007-03-30 Thread Noah yan
+1 On 3/30/07, Yong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to propose a project about Input Method for OpenSolaris. The scope of this project would be: 1. To support IIIMF (which is currently the defualt IM framework on Solaris) on OpenSolaris, including building/packaging, bug fixing, and a

Re: [osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10

2007-03-30 Thread Calum Benson
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 18:27 +0530, Amit Sharma - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore wrote: > Hello Srikanth, > I don't know much about Mac OSX More info on launch daemons here, for anyone interested: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer

Re: [osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10

2007-03-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Amit Sharma - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Srikanth, > I don't know much about Mac OSX but if I am understanding your > requirements then the following should be sufficient for you: > $nohup 1>/dev/null 2>&1 0>&1 This is not really a deamon, as it still have a

Re: [osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10

2007-03-30 Thread Amit Sharma - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore
$nohup 1>/dev/null 2>&1 0>&1 & I forgot the "&" at the end of the line. Hello Srikanth, I don't know much about Mac OSX but if I am understanding your requirements then the following should be sufficient for you: $nohup 1>/dev/null 2>&1 0>&1 Solaris does have daemons and for creating daem

Re: [osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10

2007-03-30 Thread Amit Sharma - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore
Hello Srikanth, I don't know much about Mac OSX but if I am understanding your requirements then the following should be sufficient for you: $nohup 1>/dev/null 2>&1 0>&1 Solaris does have daemons and for creating daemons on solaris or for that matter any Unix based operating system you may ta

[osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10

2007-03-30 Thread Srikanth
Hi All, I am very new to solaris. Please see my question below. How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10? I am currently working with MAC OS X server, there we have /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, can solaris also supports LaunchDaemons ? Do solaris have deamons, if so where exact

Re: [osol-discuss] cpu error in Sunfire 15K

2007-03-30 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/30/07 07:15, Rob Johnston wrote: According to the AFSR (asynchronous fault status register) a single-bit error was discovered in the Ecache on one of your processors. The Ecache has ECC, so the system is able to automatically detect and correct single-bit errors. If this is the only i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-03-30 Thread Casper . Dik
>> True. >> Slightly OT for this thread, But a good graphical installer increases >> the "coolness" factor :) and I believe is quite possible to implement >> in 256MB RAM. > >Of course it is possible. It can be done in a few KB. It's just that people >have gotten to be brainwashed with a