Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Maurizio Lombardi
> Now, as an exercise, try to install FreeBSD Root on ZFS: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > > I hear it doesn't work. It works, I used FreeBSD 8.0 with ZFS as root filesystem on a Sony Vaio some months ago, before switching to OpenSolaris. -- Maurizio Lo

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 02:06 AM, bsd wrote: OpenSolaris has some nice technologies, but with FreeBSD you can run zfs. With the 8.0 release you can run vimage which is essentially Solaris Zones, while FreeBSD has had jails for years and recently upgraded jails to v2. Crossbow is really the only feature

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread bsd
OpenSolaris has some nice technologies, but with FreeBSD you can run zfs. With the 8.0 release you can run vimage which is essentially Solaris Zones, while FreeBSD has had jails for years and recently upgraded jails to v2. Crossbow is really the only feature not in FreeBSD that I'd like to hav

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> These forums aren't censored for content, just for fowl language, we try >> to keep it civil here. I agree with Dennis Clarks warning. > > Yes, they are censored for foul language. This is how the post that is > provoking the outrage appears if you view it in the Forums: I have had quite enou

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/29/10 01:07 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: These forums aren't censored for content, just for fowl language, we try to keep it civil here. I agree with Dennis Clarks warning. Yes, they are censored for foul language. This is how the post that is provoking the outrage appears if you v

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> These forums aren't censored for content, just for fowl language, we try to > keep it civil here. I agree with Dennis Clarks warning. Yes, they are censored for foul language. This is how the post that is provoking the outrage appears if you view it in the Forums: > let's not dis Open/Solari

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gress
On 03/28/10 10:51 PM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: I will make an effort to have this sort of language and tone blocked and your email removed permanently. This is unacceptable. speaking as a businessman I certianly [sic] do. Quite franky [sic], on these public mail

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Matt Lewandowsky
In my copious free time, I've been looking at the problem of the terminal databases. Unfortunately, the real solution is not as easy as it sounds, so I don't yet have something I can try to get sponsored to correctly fix the situation. :P However, at http://www.greenviolet.net/articles/opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> I will make an effort to have this sort of language and tone blocked and your email removed permanently. > This is unacceptable. > speaking as a businessman I certianly [sic] do. > Quite franky [sic], on these public mail lists, you will use correct english > [sic] or at least acceptable lang

Re: [osol-discuss] study for Solaris admin certifications

2010-03-28 Thread Darran Kartaschew
> On what Solaris 10 installation disk can you find the SUNWvts package? Disk 1 (assuming DVD media). I do agree, a LOT has changed between S10 and OS, and would only recommend you run a S10 system if you want to pursue certification... Just be aware S10 is no longer free, so get ready to offer

Re: [osol-discuss] study for Solaris admin certifications

2010-03-28 Thread Ben
When I took the certification last year it was mainly Solaris related. Personally, I wouldn't give a certification any credit...One of the questions was: On what Solaris 10 installation disk can you find the SUNWvts package? But as I said, if you do want to pursue it, it's probably only Solari

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > -- > Ken Gunderson I will make an effort to have this sort of language and tone blocked and your email removed permanently. This is unacceptable. As someone that recently bought and installed Microsoft Windows Ultimate 7 64-bit edition I would rather look at the cost of a vastly superior p

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 16:37 -0700, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > Good for you. > > Now, as an exercise, try to install FreeBSD Root on ZFS: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > > I hear it doesn't work. Maybe, maybe not. Supposedly works for 8-STABLE, 7.2-STABLE, 9.0-CURRENT, and mo

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:52 -0700, bsd wrote: > I almost built my infrastructure on OpenSolaris and Solaris but am glad I > decided to opt for FreeBSD and OpenBSD instead. > > There are way too many problems with OpenSolaris anymore that it wasn't > reliable. Now throw in the 90 day evaluation

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Good for you. Now, as an exercise, try to install FreeBSD Root on ZFS: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot I hear it doesn't work. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
bsd wrote: > I almost built my infrastructure on OpenSolaris and Solaris but am glad I > decided to opt for FreeBSD and OpenBSD instead. Solaris 10 is not "open" and never was. Solaris 10 is from January 2005 and closed source. OpenSolaris is from Jnue 14th 2005. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-28 Thread bsd
I almost built my infrastructure on OpenSolaris and Solaris but am glad I decided to opt for FreeBSD and OpenBSD instead. There are way too many problems with OpenSolaris anymore that it wasn't reliable. Now throw in the 90 day evaluation and then buy costly support is icing on the cake. It

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread bsd
I'm glad I dropped OpenSolaris quite some time ago. I almost built my infrastructure on OpenSolaris but ultimately decided to use OpenBSD and FreeBSD and am glad I didn't waste any more time on OpenSolaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] study for Solaris admin certifications

2010-03-28 Thread Edward Martinez
Hi, I want to pursue the Sun Certified Solaris Associate, but I was wondering, if i could use opensolaris in place of solaris 10 OS to study for the certification? regards edward -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jürgen Keil wrote: > > use mrxvt application. So, the problem is not with terminal application > > on OpenSolaris, it doesn't run X at all (yet), but with OpenSolaris' > > man, vi and other curses/termcap/you_know_better applications. To me it > > looks like problem with curses/termcap capabiliti

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Jürgen Keil
> OpenSolaris does not have an rxvt terminfo entry > > % ls -l /usr/share/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt > /usr/share/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt: No such file or directory Seem this is bug 6839489: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6839489 An ncurses rxvt terminfo entry exists in /us

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/28/10 04:20 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: use mrxvt application. So, the problem is not with terminal application on OpenSolaris, it doesn't run X at all (yet), but with OpenSolaris' man, vi and other curses/termcap/you_know_better applications. To me it looks like problem with curses/termcap capa

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Jürgen Keil
> use mrxvt application. So, the problem is not with terminal application > on OpenSolaris, it doesn't run X at all (yet), but with OpenSolaris' > man, vi and other curses/termcap/you_know_better applications. To me it > looks like problem with curses/termcap capabilities. It works fine with > TERM

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
>>I've installed latest OpenSolaris development snapshot and found that >>man, vi and other termcap/curses-based commands don't work with >>TERM=rxvt. >>Any clue? > I haven't tried rxvt under Solaris, but Sakura works fine. > http://www.pleyades.net/david/sakura.php I'm accessing OpenSolaris fro

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
I haven't tried rxvt under Solaris, but Sakura works fine. http://www.pleyades.net/david/sakura.php Building it requires the cmake package. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/29/10 08:48 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: There were some critical problems with 134, such as not being able to boot if one disk in a mirrored boot disk dies. That's not good... I didn't know that. I have a mirrored boot disk. I guess I've been living under a false sense of security.

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
> There were some critical problems with 134, such as not being able to boot if > one disk in a mirrored boot disk dies. That's not good... I didn't know that. I have a mirrored boot disk. I guess I've been living under a false sense of security... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Is rxvt terminal type supported?

2010-03-28 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
I've installed latest OpenSolaris development snapshot and found that man, vi and other termcap/curses-based commands don't work with TERM=rxvt. Any clue? P.S. The same for Solaris-10 I have access to. -- Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov. ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Gary Gendel
It's been mentioned a number of times that 2010.3 was expected near the end of March, but it was precipitated on getting a stable release out, so it may be released late. There were some critical problems with 134, such as not being able to boot if one disk in a mirrored boot disk dies. I'm pr

[osol-discuss] Unable to boot after unclean shut down

2010-03-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
For future reference: If solaris is uncleanly shutdown, it is unable to boot again. At least, I know mine is. I don't know if the same is true of opensolaris. Yesterday, one of my servers (solaris 10 10/09 10u8) would not shutdown. (I mistakenly shutdown the NIS server first, and then th

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-03-28 Thread Don Quichotte
Yeah, it should've been released already. I hope this isn't Oracle's first sign of abandoning the project. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] newbie : b136 debug build errors

2010-03-28 Thread alexandnpu
i have done some configurations according to http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/README.opensolaris before my compilation of b136's code. but in order to compile the debug version, i also modify NIGHTLY_OPTION to "-DnaCFlmpr", that is -t is deleted for the purpose of using the tools