Re: [osol-discuss] [i18n-discuss] iconv GB18030 problems?

2012-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
y to get a fix and doesn't rely on making vague threats or trying to involve bureaucrats in other governments. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What happened to genunix.org?

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- any of whom may have decided that it was no longer fulfilling it's original mission of supporting an active open source OS project, but until they speak up, all we can do is guess at why it's gone now. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle S

Re: [osol-discuss] How to Configure a Support Repository for Solaris 11

2011-11-16 Thread Alan Steinberg
On 11/16/11 12:01, Willi Burmeister wrote: Hi Alan, It is a typo. It should work with the origin set to http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support . Do you have any proxy settings that are needed in your environment? no proxies settings neccessary here. I started complety new and now this gives

Re: [osol-discuss] How to Configure a Support Repository for Solaris 11

2011-11-16 Thread Alan Steinberg
It is a typo. It should work with the origin set to http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support . Do you have any proxy settings that are needed in your environment? -- Alan On 11/16/11 10:40, Willi Burmeister wrote: Hi, I'm trying to add the support repository without luck. Follwin

Re: [osol-discuss] Change host name on ora-Sol 11

2011-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/15/11 18:43, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there some different way to change host name in oracle-solaris 11? http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E24456/glilb.html#scrolltoc -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/11/11 09:37, Andrew Watkins wrote: Now on Solaris 11 it does not: == grep andrew /etc/user_attr andrewprofiles=Primary Administrator;roles=root Solaris 11 no longer includes the Primary Administrator profile. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] [osug-leaders] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Steinberg
On 11/10/11 09:39, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 11/10/11 09:08, Gary wrote: On 2011/11/10 Andrew Stormont wrote: The original plan was to provide a code drop after the release of Solaris 11. Is this still the case? Has anyone looked in the Solaris 11 Express ZIP files here? http

Re: [osol-discuss] [osug-leaders] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
they'll be posting similar files for the recent release ASAP. Yes, we're working on that, but that only contains the third party sources for which the licenses require we provide them, such as all the GPL'ed GNOME & GNU utilities we include in the OS. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] x86 repository - Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
d Part A SPARC, x86 (2.7 GB) Download Download Part B SPARC, x86 (2.6 GB) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-09 Thread Alan Steinberg
Do you have any packages still installed from the old opensolaris.org repositories, such as the "extra" repository? That could lead to dependency problems in that they may be looking for OS packages that are not present in Oracle Solaris 11. -- Alan On 11/09/11 12:39, Ian Collins w

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Configuration

2011-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
/wiki/CIDR -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) in snv173

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/17/11 13:30, Ian Collins wrote: Is there still a public list of heads up and flag day messages? No. [Fixed your typo for you - even the heaviest smoking Brits I know don't take off a whole day for it.] -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com O

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) in snv173

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Oh, then you probably want to try disabling the new bitmapped console by changing the console flag in the grub boot options for the kernel to "console=force-text". -alan- On 10/17/11 09:44 AM, Bruno Damour wrote: Hello, Thank you for your answer. If I remember cor

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel Kernel Mode-setting (KMS) in snv173

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
there an option to disable it ? Did you try the workaround listed under "Screen Corruption on Intel Graphics Devices" in the S11EA release notes? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/documentation/solaris11-relnotes-ea-495320.rtf -- -Alan C

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the EA release, you need to download and set up your own local copy of the repo to be able to install any packages that weren't part of the base install - there is no public repo for it. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineer

Re: [osol-discuss] New update of Solaris 11, how is it?

2011-10-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n using that to update to a release using these new pkg features, and that wasn't done in the EA release timeframe. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 release date

2011-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f pre-announcing exact release details well in advance. > We're playing with Solaris 11 Express and it looks absolutely amazing, so we > need to know when Solaris 11 will be released. We're glad you like it. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] libopts required on 2009.06

2011-04-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
,5.11-0.111 defined by: pkg:/entire You specified a build 134 version, but 2009.06 is build 111, so it can't install it. Either upgrade the entire system to build 134 or stick to installing build 111 packages (which still mostly had the SUNW* style names.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Linking to Source Browser OK?

2011-04-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Solaris is built is very different. For instance, ON is a single source tree that builds over 800 packages. Having something like "pkg get-source ping" download the entire kernel source would be quite surprising to most users. Think more like BSD's "make World" than a Lin

Re: [osol-discuss] Linking to Source Browser OK?

2011-04-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n suggested that's better than a tarball of a snapshot of the source. How you satisfy requirements for people without good internet depends on the terms of the licenses in question. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Or

Re: [osol-discuss] Graphic cards for SPARC

2011-03-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
RC OBP supporting cards. There used to be a few small companies doing that. http://techsource.com/ seems to still have a few. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
lags, which Solaris sort document as obsolete, are the only incompatibilities I know off hand for GNU sort. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] lpr dumps core when called from firefox in snv_160

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/11/11 01:51 PM, Bill Shannon wrote: > When printing from firefox using lpr in snv_160, lpr dumps core: > > Is this a known bug? Yes. 7010842 lp segfaults when asked to print stdin -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Dual boot, now upgrading WinXP to Win7. GRUB problems?

2011-03-11 Thread alan pae
stall Windows Boot the Live CD and run installgrub to overwrite the MBR. Hope things work. If not then consult the printed out GRUB Docs and then modify menu.lst as needed. Knowing how to mount a disk-based ZFS volume to a booted Live CD may help with this one. It's not that hard. ala

Re: [osol-discuss] Dual boot, now upgrading WinXP to Win7. GRUB problems?

2011-03-10 Thread alan pae
You would upgrade Windows XP or do a clean install and let it do its thing. Then you would boot from the Solaris 11 Express Live CD and run installgrub. Then you adjust menu.lst as needed. Which you probably won't need to do. alan -- This message posted from opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 : The new "pkg" command does not take http_proxy shell variable

2011-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x27;d try setting https_proxy as well. You are using "setenv" or "export" right, not just "set" as your original e-mail described? It must be an environment variable, not a shell variable. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ailable to end-users (and since it won't be until a future release, probably couldn't say even if I did know, since I am not authorized to be announcing future OS release dates to the public). -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle S

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
come in future releases, since development builds are not generally available. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/22/11 08:46 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 2/22/2011 8:28 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On 02/22/11 07:47 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: >>> If you care about 3D, don't use the Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer on-die GPUs. >>> Get >>> a add-in graphics card. T

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
add-in card > product line nowdays. No, mostly just nvidia. For AMD/ATI we currently only just pass through the open source 2D driver, without the support provided by the DRI driver in other OS'es for Kernel Modesetting (KMS) or hardware acceleration. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express Documentation Bundle

2011-02-11 Thread alan mcclellan
Chavdar, apologies for this inconvenience. We are aware of the problem with the zip contents and are working to fix it. Thanks. -alan Subject: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express Documentation Bundle Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:50:57 PST From: Chavdar Ivanov To: opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2011-02-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
et security fixes without paying. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] mount cdrom

2011-01-11 Thread alan pae
rmformat should give you the name of the device. alan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
er as well as the Mesa 7.10.x Intel DRI driver updates. Sorry, as I said on xwin-discuss yesterday, I don't think the kernel driver binaries needed to test that will be available to the public until the next full release on the Solaris 11/Express train. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
been focusing our effort on getting the combined Xorg 1.9 + KMS solution working well instead with the newer drivers. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ open

Re: [osol-discuss] binding ntp to specific inteface

2011-01-01 Thread alan pae
This might help. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-07/msg00506.html alan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracles support SUCKS

2010-12-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o the upstream than before. There's plenty of actual things to complain about Oracle doing without making up new false ones. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express repository.

2010-12-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mike DeMarco wrote: > Are there any documents on how to add our own packages to the local > repository? "man pkgsend" and related man pages. There's also some docs in http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/doc/ and of course the pkg-discuss mailing list archive

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express repository.

2010-12-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ager in /usr/bin. Is there a text based > install tool? How do you install from the repository to sparc based platforms? You use the text installer to install the system, then "pkg install" to install additional packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.co

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express: xterm very slow

2010-12-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
>> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled >> (EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed >> (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled >> DRI, and thus much hardware acceleration, is simply not available for ATI graphics on OpenSolaris or Solaris at this time.

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with Logitech G9 mouse

2010-12-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
just includes a standard USB HID mouse driver for all mice following the USB standards - there are no specific drivers for specific mice, and some mice do have extra features beyond the standard that simply aren't supported. The mouse being reported as going online and offline several t

Re: [osol-discuss] songbird bug

2010-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Unix platforms: http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2010/04/02/songbird-singing-a-new-tune/ http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/jds-review/2010-December/004042.html (Of course, the sources & spec files are available for those who build from spec-files-extra or if anyone wanted to maintain prebuilt p

Re: [osol-discuss] Is Solaris 11 dead on new desktops. Core i5

2010-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of Solaris will not get any fixes either. So, the question "Solaris 11 > is dead on desktops" is becoming true Nope. There's always been and will always be issues with certain systems, given the wide range of components and fast pace of change in the PC hardware space. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't bring windows back to or from to solaris 11

2010-12-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ts. svccfg -s svc:/application/x11/x11-server setprop options/tcp_listen = true Restart the Xserver by either logging out and logging back in, or manually if the Xserver was started from the command line. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.cooper

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris licenses for small one-man companies?

2010-11-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e under some conditions... But you would be > ineligible for system updates, unless you pay. If you don't already have Solaris deployed, the license terms for new Solaris installs are the same for Solaris 10 & 11/Express. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] How to compile libc or pthread ?

2010-11-25 Thread Alan Hargreaves
Surely DTrace would be a far better profiling option. Regards, Alan Hargreaves On 11/26/10 05:43, Afantee Lee wrote: Hi, Ian The reason I want to compile pthread model under libc is: I am doing a project, which requires profiling the timing information of

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ges, life is simpler - but Solaris users who want binary compatibility to be measured in decades, a choice of Studio or GNU C++ compilers, and support for the various versions of ISO/ANSI C++ standards, really have a hard time. -- -Alan

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Debabrata Debroy wrote: > Hi >We cant use QT or GNOME here as we are using Xorgs ... That makes no sense. Qt & GNOME are both written to work with a variety of X servers, but generally work best on/target Xorg. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@

Re: [osol-discuss] Black magic

2010-11-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
it so that those pkg fixes only needed to be published for 134b, not every previous build that someone may be running. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] X11 XtAppAddTimeOut is not working properly.

2010-11-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
p; a quick glance at the bug database - if you want someone to actually investigate, you should open a support call, not rely on a post to a free discussion forum. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express download

2010-11-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
john kroll wrote: > but no one : Genunix offers it mirrored or something ? Unlike OpenSolaris, Solaris 11 Express is not offered under a license that allows free redistribution & mirroring. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris P

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade from a dev build?

2010-11-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ta wrote: > On 18/11/10 05:37, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I am running build 146 (from internal/SWAN rep). Please let me know the >>> steps for upgrading to Solaris 11 Express. Thanks >> Foll

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade from a dev build?

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ReleaseNotes/snv_151a.txt -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] python 3 not want to compile on solaris 11 express, returns an error

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gt; In file included from Include/Python.h:50, > from ./Modules/python.c:3: > Include/pyport.h:282:76: math.h: No such file or directory If you're missing math.h, then you failed to install some of the system header packages. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@or

Re: [osol-discuss] xwin and services

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
27;re on one of the last builds - 133 or later - the package names were different on the older builds). > 4/ ls it easy to upgrade kernel as linux? eg: using yum pkg image-update, though there are no more updates being published for the OpenSolaris distro, so it really doesn'

Re: [osol-discuss] Where do I post a problem/bug report on Solaris 11 express?

2010-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
evelopers what is wrong? http://bugs.opensolaris.org/ (One of the FAQs points there.) Note that the way to set the keyboard mappings changed a bit: http://static.opensolaris.org/on/flagdays/pages/20100720182505.html -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 11 express and xvm

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
in general.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Bayard Bell wrote: > Alan, come on. What does access to basic patches have to do with production > deployment? Because that's the business model Oracle's business people have chosen. > Why aren't there reasonably priced subscriptions available for development, > edu

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Versions

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ris Nevada", the code name for the OS product line based on the 5.11 kernel. Solaris 10 is the product line based on the 5.10 kernel. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Versions

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o ever see any new OS/distro releases under that name.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get Solaris 11 GPL/LGPL Source Code from Oracle

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
b in other consolidations, but most). -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Old Versions

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tly two major versions of Solaris available, Solaris 10, and the new Solaris 11 Express which is based on what used to be OpenSolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express is out

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mike Brancato wrote: > Really? That seems to disregard the license. Does buying support then > modify your license to include non-development or prototyping-related > activities? Yes. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Andrew Watkins wrote: > On 11/16/10 04:45 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Dave Koelmeyer wrote: >>>> Sean M. Brannon wrote: >>>>> What is the update/patch policy for Express? i.e. >>>> is an Oracle support contract required to gain access >

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
emo software. Free trial/evaluation software. Like Solaris 10, production use requires support contracts. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Sean M. Brannon wrote: > What is the update/patch policy for Express? i.e. is an Oracle support > contract required to gain access to Solaris 11 Express software/security > updates? Yes. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Map snv_ versions into release versions

2010-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ins snv_134b, which would have been the OpenSolaris 2010.0x release, but it was never released as a separate version. snv_151a was just published today, but under the new name, license, & release model of "Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11". -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing Username Default Length from 8 to 32 or more

2010-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4109819 and the details of the proposal to fix them at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/library/long_usernames/ -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering:

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
he LISA at which the Solaris event is happening is the Usenix System Adminstration conference: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10/ -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick question about the future

2010-10-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
leases. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC and Firefox 3.6.10

2010-10-12 Thread alan pae
Use the DVD player from fluendo.com -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to soon hike MySQL pricing!

2010-10-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Octave Orgeron wrote: > Yeah it was my hope back in those days that Sun would buy out PostgreSQL > instead > of MySQL. There is/was no PostgreSQL, Inc. to buy out that owned the code rights, so there's no comparison to buying MySQL. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Copyright and License Terms (was Re: Solaris 11 Express)

2010-10-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martti Hamunen wrote: > Only question, > ...and is it, Solaris 11 Express already possible download? No, it is not yet released. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window

Re: [osol-discuss] C programming, invalid argc value

2010-10-04 Thread Alan Burlison
On 04/10/2010 18:45, George Vasick wrote: I can reproduce the problem on my system running bash so I don't think it is related the the shell: OK, was just wondering if it might be related to http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6974936 -- Alan Bur

Re: [osol-discuss] C programming, invalid argc value

2010-10-01 Thread Alan Burlison
On 01/10/2010 03:17, Saadia Fatima wrote: Invalid argc value is passed to main, when I run the program with no cmmand line arguments main(argc = 134551360, argv=0x8047b2a) // from gdb How to fix this?? Which shell are you using? -- Alan Burlison

Re: [osol-discuss] dtcalc grabs mouse and won't let go

2010-09-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
t your needs? That and xcalc are the two I know of available in opensolaris. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.2 is out and makes OpenSolaris self hosting

2010-09-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Ken Mays wrote: >>> Recently patched versions of Sun Studio 12.1.x (Fall 2010) won't compile >>> ON_147 and higher?!? Nor Sun Studio 12.2? >>> >>> Guess updating tho

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.2 is out and makes OpenSolaris self hosting

2010-09-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tudio 12 with the September 2009 patch set exactly is required. Nothing later has been found to work yet - Studio 12 update 1 is being tested, but again, a certain set of patches will be needed, not the original release version. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] now seems official- OpenSolaris name retired

2010-09-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
er of projects were in development before Solaris 10 FCS shipped, but integrated after. It also doesn't say all those people were working at Sun/Oracle when they spent those hours. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering:

Re: [osol-discuss] now seems official- OpenSolaris name retired

2010-09-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
which are still actively in use. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Who should we report bugs to?

2010-09-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/19/10 04:23 AM, Dan Pitic wrote: Thanks Alan. Launchpad worked last night and today it says that OpenIndiana doesn't use Launchpad for bug tracking. Where has the bug tracking gone? Sounds like a question to send to the openindiana mailing lists. If you really can't co

Re: [osol-discuss] Who should we report bugs to?

2010-09-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 09/18/10 11:14 AM, Dan Pitic wrote: Who do we report OpenIndiana bugs to? http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2010-September/000122.html We really need a forum site like this one for Openindiana. Mailing lists exist for it already. -- -Alan Coopersmith

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nSolaris distro releases with the .cshrc I've been using since Solaris 2.4. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Who is testing Solaris 11?

2010-09-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
from OpenSolaris or any other OS that I'm aware of. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Who is testing Solaris 11?

2010-09-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
eams are testing Solaris 11. In the future, everyone who participates in the recently announced (but not yet released/launched) Solaris 11 preview release programs will be testing it as well. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engi

Re: [osol-discuss] Who should we report bugs to?

2010-09-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
have the existing tool/process legacy.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [perf-discuss] XVR-2500 - will it work on a sun blade 2500?

2010-09-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the XVR-600 and all other graphics boards Sun sold that can fit into a Sun Blade 2500. Other distros may support more cards - check their HCL's/documentation.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platf

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenIndiana - a new OpenSolaris Distribution!

2010-09-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s in trademark laws about using geographic names in trademarks. (Ask a trademark lawyer or Google to explain those, as they're complicated.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ncorporate -o fmri -r entire >> >> You could run a similar command on each of those listed >> incorporations to find out which packages each includes. >> > Ok. So is there a 1:1:1 relationship between an 'incorporation' and a > 'consolidation' and

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Kyle McDonald wrote: > > > On 9/2/2010 10:41 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> illumos is roughly equivalent to ON by itself. > >> An OpenIndiana distro would have to add the other 80% of the >> OpenSolaris distro that comes from outside ON/illumos - SFW, X, >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
X, JDS, etc. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.1 based on b147+ available

2010-08-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
he JDS, SFW, & X code are still published the same way as always, nothing has changed for them. The snv_148 tag for the X repo was pushed a few hours ago to ssh://a...@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/x-cons/xnv-clone for instance. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Ora

Re: [osol-discuss] [illumos-Developer] SchilliX-0.7.1 based on b147+ available

2010-08-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rsions may include encumbered binaries that were not included in the redistributable downloads - I don't recall if studio was one of the packages that had to be changed that way for the pkg repo.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platfor

Re: [osol-discuss] [illumos-Developer] SchilliX-0.7.1 based on b147+ available

2010-08-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
media & main IPS repositories, though some of that is closed source binaries released under licenses like the OSBL. All packages containing code which is not redistributable are isolated to the /extra repository. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
larix Express :). For the distros I work on, the names were chosen by the people who decided to create them or who lead them, again, not by spectators on mailing lists. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris P

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
pectators on mailing lists. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Will this forum shut down?

2010-08-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Peter Jones wrote: > Is the forum controlled by Oracle or independent? The opensolaris.org website is owned and operated by Oracle. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window Sys

Re: [osol-discuss] @Oracle employees: OpenSolaris updates up to Solaris 11

2010-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ess become a > persisting program then? I don't know what the plans are then. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] @Oracle employees: OpenSolaris updates up to Solaris 11

2010-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
out later this year - you should be able to use those until Solaris 11 comes out instead of moving back to Solaris 10. -- -Alan Coopersmith-alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System ___ op

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle sues Google over Java!

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
l now, which is widely used in Linux releases. > Today, if you go to sun.com, oracle.com, or java.com, to download JRE, JDK, > or the source code for them, you'll find that the source code is released > under SCSL, Try http://www.openjdk.org/ -- -Alan Coopersmith

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