[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9

> Hi, > Would you please tell me how you did it? I've been > trying to copy the file manually, but there is no > firefox/plugins directory on my system, at least I > can't find it. I'm using Solaris Express Community > Edition. I'm used to Linux, but seem that Solaris is > very different. > On wha

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris version of Flash Player 9

Hi, Would you please tell me how you did it? I've been trying to copy the file manually, but there is no firefox/plugins directory on my system, at least I can't find it. I'm using Solaris Express Community Edition. I'm used to Linux, but seem that Solaris is very different. On what directory i

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a process document describing a project lifecycle from proposal to final completion?

Brian Gupta wrote: I hope this is the right forum for this question. There is, but you will quickly run into a difference of opinion about the definition of the word "project" - it tends to be severely overloaded. In the OpenSolaris.org constitution Community/Project sense, a project stretche

[osol-discuss] Is there a process document describing a project lifecycle from proposal to final completion?

I hope this is the right forum for this question. Thanks, Brian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

Moderator, Can we please kill this thread. :) -Brian On 5/1/07, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > Lithium also helps for oder people ;-) ^ should be "older" Jörg Hi Jörg, Lithium may be goo

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > Lithium also helps for oder people ;-) ^ should be "older" Jörg Hi Jörg, Lithium may be good for older people, but I don't think it's good for kidneys. :- ) This message posted from opensolaris.or

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > "W. Wayne Liauh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Grow up, > > > > I am probably old enough to be your grandpa. :-( > > > > > > > and take your medication already. > > > > Not just mediations, but I also do dialysis. > > Lithium also helps for oder p

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

"W. Wayne Liauh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Grow up, > > I am probably old enough to be your grandpa. :-( > > > > and take your medication already. > > Not just mediations, but I also do dialysis. Lithium also helps for oder people ;-) Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schillin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

Andrew Pattison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What the OpenSolaris project needs > > the most is users. A bunch of them. > > OpenSolaris was created to get developers interested in Solaris, not users. > Certainly Solaris could do with a few of those too. I thought that OpenSolaris has nearly 1

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

W. Wayne Liauh wrote: We would be more than happy to recommend Sun's hardware to our clients and/or acquaintances if Sun's sales can take a little be more responsibility and be a little bit less condescending. Also as I mentioned in a separate thread, we have taken steps to contribute to Open

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

--- Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > >> Where did you see Sun sales being condescending? > >> > >> -steve > >> > > > > Bad experience, like the one I had with you, sticks. > > I can't help that you're an paranoid git who reads too much into > what > people say,

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

> Grow up, I am probably old enough to be your grandpa. :-( > and take your medication already. Not just mediations, but I also do dialysis. > > cheers, Thanks. > steve > -- > stephen lau // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650.786.0845 | > http://whacked.net > opensolaris // solaris kernel developmen

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Where did you see Sun sales being condescending? -steve Bad experience, like the one I had with you, sticks. I can't help that you're an paranoid git who reads too much into what people say, spouts outrageous claims without evidence, and then tosses out unfounded bas

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

> > Where did you see Sun sales being condescending? > > -steve > Bad experience, like the one I had with you, sticks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Because it's not true. The emphasis on developers is because users won't come without apps to run, so we need the developers first to make it more attractive to the users, but more users is definitely the end goal. -Alan Coopersmith- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Micro

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

> Because it's not true. The emphasis on developers > is because users > won't come without apps to run, so we need the > developers first to > make it more attractive to the users, but more users > is definitely > the end goal. > -Alan Coopersmith- > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sun Microsyst

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

[...] > > I noticed on their site some of the still skeletal > developer docs > > seemed to imply an interest in eventually opening > the code. > > Assuming license compatibility with all existing > open-source > > (and other too, I suppose) platforms for which the > drivers > > currently are avail

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

The OpenSolaris project is similar to the Fedora project. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ The primary reason for the existence of the opensolaris project is to coordinate the distributed development of Solaris. (The open source version of solaris is called opensolaris). User input is a value

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

Hi, On 05/01/07 11:52, Gavin Maltby wrote ... ... total nonsense! For example, Studio 11 with -xarch=sparcv8plus can generate two separate 32-bit ld instructions to load a single 64-bit value. An atomic_load_64(3C) function would be useful to ensure that a single ldx instruction is used. Y

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

W. Wayne Liauh wrote: First time I have learned that OpenSolaris is not interested in recruiting users. Because it's not true. The emphasis on developers is because users won't come without apps to run, so we need the developers first to make it more attractive to the users, but more users is

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

> > What the OpenSolaris project needs > > the most is users. A bunch of them. > > OpenSolaris was created to get developers interested > in Solaris, not users. Certainly Solaris could do > with a few of those too. > > Andrew. First time I have learned that OpenSolaris is not interested in rec

[osol-discuss] 2nd Anniversary time

It's that time of year. June 14th marks the 2nd anniversary of the Opening Day of OpenSolaris. And it's time for us to start celebrating, or planning our celebrating. Last year for the 1st anniversary, we did the following: - Contributed artwork for the site home page - Contributed copy for a b

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS porting (Was: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article)

Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BTW: The biggest problem Linux has with ZFS is it's > > VFS interface and > > not the license. > > Nah, it is the hard liners who insist on VFS. Look at > reiser4. It was completely stripped off a lot of stuff > and it is still not in th

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

> What the OpenSolaris project needs > the most is users. A bunch of them. OpenSolaris was created to get developers interested in Solaris, not users. Certainly Solaris could do with a few of those too. Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

> GPL won't help Solaris too much imho nor will it make > Linux gain instant access to dtrace or zfs. Linux is > getting zfs...it is on the way already. But it won't > be the same...porting zfs over to Linux will not give > it the same quality. Look at the XFS fiasco. > In the article: In Sun's vi

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

You just need a couple of files out of that whole SDK. I can't tell which ones, since I'm not at my workstation at home to check, but I think it's all that matches libswt*-gtk.so. Easiest is to drop them in the same directory as azureus.jar. This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] Re: SunCluster 3.1 moving DAVA from D1000 to SAN-AMS_500

I succeed to DO it :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

This one works well on Solaris nevada-b63 i386 mode too! Thanks a lot, Michael xiaoming zhu wrote: I had used it on Solaris 10 X86, the following link is what you need. http://learningsolaris.com/archives/2006/03/22/azureus-solaris-x86/ On 5/1/07, * Li Qin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: how to allow user Console Login access?

You can redirect the display back to a system that you can log into on XWindows and do that install from there. Thats the way that its done where I work. No one has console access except the admins. On 5/1/07, Jazz Geek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ouch. that hurts. It's my newly created ORACLE u

[osol-discuss] Re: how to allow user Console Login access?

ouch. that hurts. It's my newly created ORACLE user too. I can't install Oracle without getting it to logon via the GUI. Thanks for the help though. I'll go and weep now... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing li

Re: [osol-discuss] how to allow user Console Login access?

Jazz Geek wrote: Hi All I'm on solaris 10 sparc, and none of my users are able to login to the Console (Xwindows). Only ROOT is allowed. How can I make it so every one of my regular users can logon to the console (using Xwindows client). You'll have to debug why they're unable to login, sin

[osol-discuss] how to allow user Console Login access?

Hi All I'm on solaris 10 sparc, and none of my users are able to login to the Console (Xwindows). Only ROOT is allowed. How can I make it so every one of my regular users can logon to the console (using Xwindows client). Thank you for your help. SB This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

I am sure I don't run the sparc version of Solaris on my AMD pc :) Azureus seems to work fine. Yes the source code for swt does not compile th last time I checked. What do you expect from IBM! Though if you dig deep enough on the eclipse website you can find some binaries. With a bit of stuffing

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

I use azureus on Solaris 10/x86 without a problem, haven't tried one on nevada yet. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

Darren J Moffat wrote: Li Qin wrote: Hi, Alan and all, Is there a pkg that can be installed quickly on solaris nevada buildX? http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ It is written in Java. For a direct download link of the jar file: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/azureus/Azureus3.0.1.2.jar?dow

[osol-discuss] Re: xenix?

Hey, its been an interesting thread and I appreciate everyones input - I've taken the cowards way out and sent them to a xenix/filepro expert I found through google who is going to recover and upgrade their stuff for a reasonable price. thanx jim This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Bittorrent client for Solaris

On 6/19/05, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi ! Which bittorrent client people are using on Solaris I wonder ? http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/bittorrent so perhaps pkg-get -i bittorrent ? Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing l

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

Hi unfortunately, azureus for x86 is not available because there's no binary for swt, and it is buggy/can't compile it, only the console UI is usable. but this is quite hard because u must edit the config file with your hand -- xml file. I'm using bitflu (http://bitflu.workaround.ch/index.html),

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

> BTW: The biggest problem Linux has with ZFS is it's > VFS interface and > not the license. Nah, it is the hard liners who insist on VFS. Look at reiser4. It was completely stripped off a lot of stuff and it is still not in the mainline last I checked. Linux could get ZFS without complications o

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

Li Qin wrote: Hi, Alan and all, Is there a pkg that can be installed quickly on solaris nevada buildX? http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ It is written in Java. For a direct download link of the jar file: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/azureus/Azureus3.0.1.2.jar?download -- Darren J Moffa

[osol-discuss] Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

Hi, Alan and all, Is there a pkg that can be installed quickly on solaris nevada buildX? Thanks, Michael This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: xenix?

On 5/1/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > "Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> If you can't find a copy of Interactive Unix or Solaris 2.x x86 from your local SUN ISV or VAR in there library of o

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: xenix?

Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > "Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> If you can't find a copy of Interactive Unix or Solaris 2.x x86 from your > >>> local SUN ISV or VAR in there library of old inventory, then Check -t > >>> vfstype in th

[osol-discuss] Re: Multimedia on Solaris?

Since OSSv4 already works with Solaris and it becoming the new audio subsystem, I tried compiling the OSS plugin for gstreamer. It's from the gst-plugins-good-0.10.4 package and works fine with the current gstreamer binaries in b62. Just drop it into /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10 and use gstreamer-pr

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: xenix?

Joerg Schilling wrote: "Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you can't find a copy of Interactive Unix or Solaris 2.x x86 from your local SUN ISV or VAR in there library of old inventory, then Check -t vfstype in the Linux mount.8 man page, you might need to go to a older kernel dist

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: xenix?

"Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you can't find a copy of Interactive Unix or Solaris 2.x x86 from your > > local SUN ISV or VAR in there library of old inventory, then Check -t > > vfstype in the Linux mount.8 man page, you might need to go to a older > > kernel distribution

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GPL won't help Solaris too much imho nor will it make > Linux gain instant access to dtrace or zfs. Linux is > getting zfs...it is on the way already. But it won't > be the same...porting zfs over to Linux will not give > it the same quality

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

On 04/30/07 22:01, Chris Elving wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If those APIs do what their names suggests, what is the point in having them? "Atomic set" can hardly be anything other than a normal store nor can "Atomic read" be much different from an ordinary read. I'd find them useful.

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

>All I know is that a lot of driver vendors favour them. I know ATi >used them for a long time with their driver... For drivers we have all the ddi* functions which access objects of the proper size "atomically". Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] Dell D620, Broadcom NIC and B62 a Losing Combination?

>[b] I have tried rebooting and plumbing the interface without >success. "ifconfig plumb bge0" yields a "bad address". It's ifconfig bge0 plumb not ifconfig plumb bge0 Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org