Re: [osol-discuss] Static Ip Issue

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Walker
Anon Y Mous wrote: If I may suggest, use # sys-unconfig, you will need to reboot (it'll take you), but this process will ensure you change every part correctly. I thought sys-unconfig doesn't work properly on OpenSolaris Indiana. Can anyone confirm or deny this? correct. sys-unconfig isn't th

Re: [osol-discuss] How to view network statistics? My "iftop" doesn't work ...

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Walker
Why don't you try the SUNWiftop IPS pkg from the /dev repo? http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/search.shtml?token=SUNWiftop&action=Search BTW. Xiang Zhou is the maintainer for SUNWiftop. Cheers, Jim Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I used opencsw to pkg-get to install iftop, but when I run it, it alway

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris LDOMs Available

2009-10-20 Thread Jim Walker
Today Simon Sun in Beijing is making an OpenSolaris Sparc Logical Domain (LDOM) server available in the test farm where OpenSolaris LDOMs can be reserved for development and testing. The LDOMs start with the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release pre-installed, but may be image-updated to more recent develop

[osol-discuss] COMSTAR Test Suite Released

2009-09-21 Thread Jim Walker
John Gu and Charles He with help from Bobbie Long, from the Solaris Quality Engineering group, have released the COMSTAR test suite. More information on the COMSTAR test suite can be found at: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/stcnv/usr/src/suites/storage/comstar/README http://src.opens

Re: [osol-discuss] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-21 Thread Jim Walker
ahead and generate a page there. Great. Here's where the final proposal lives. http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/use_case_project_proposal Cheers, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colorado

Re: [osol-discuss] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-21 Thread Jim Walker
masafumi) Ken Mays (kmays) Mike Gerdts (mgerdts) Thanks, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colorado ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] creating zones in open solaris on x86

2009-08-20 Thread Jim Walker
best way to resolve this issue and also steps involved in creating local zones in open solaris Thanks for your help Regard Sai -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colorado ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

[osol-discuss] DRAFT2: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-20 Thread Jim Walker
Thanks for the great response. It looks like there is a need for this project :) I added the Systems Administration area. Just a few more details before we begin the project ratification process: - need someone to volunteer to be project point of contact - I would like one more Community to sp

[osol-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Walker
This concept was discussed a few months ago on indiana-discuss as a beta test project, after looking at this more closely I refocused it on Use Cases since that is what we really are needing. There were several people interested in being part of a project like this. All input welcome. Specifical

[osol-discuss] 100 OpenSolaris Development Zones using Crossbow Available

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Walker
Today we added two new OpenSolaris Sparc and X64 development zone servers that use Crossbow and port mapping to preserve the Internet IP space. Each server currently supports 50 zones. These zones may be used for general OpenSolaris development and testing. In addition, the zones include the Sourc

Re: [osol-discuss] SPARC Rock is dead,

2009-08-02 Thread Jim Walker
Dave Koelmeyer wrote: I've love to get my hands on a CMT box but they are just too expensive. I'm not a cheapskate, but even used T1000s are pricey as. I love the cost barrier to entry for Solaris/OpenSolaris ($0), so it would have been nice to be able to get my hands on a reasonably priced CMT m

Re: [osol-discuss] can we change hostname without resintalling when network is on NWAM?

2009-07-28 Thread Jim Walker
Change /etc/nodename and reboot. I do it all the time. Cheers, Jim karun gahlawat wrote: network is on nwam. can i change the hostname without breaking anything or reinstalling? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] 100% CPU usage on an idle system

2009-07-22 Thread Jim Walker
Gavin Maltby wrote: dtrace -s /use/demo/dtrace/whoexec.d This may work better :) dtrace -s /usr/demo/dtrace/whoexec.d Cheers, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colorado ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC 1.0.0 is out, but it doesn't compile under osol 2009.06

2009-07-09 Thread Jim Walker
Alex Viskovatoff wrote: Shouldn't the ideal be that any application that complies under GNU/Linux will compile under OpenSolaris? And isn't realizing that ideal simply a matter of putting enough work into the porting of GNU tools and libraries to Solaris? Or am I missing something? Alex, I sug

[osol-discuss] Netbeans Test Farm Remote Development Hosts

2009-07-07 Thread Jim Walker
Introducing remote development host support using Netbeans 6.7 in the OpenSolaris Test Farm. This allows OpenSolaris developers to use the Netbeans IDE on their desktop to develop their software, then compile and execute it on a remote test farm servers and virtual machines. This normally reduces

Re: [osol-discuss] DHCP to Static IP

2009-07-05 Thread Jim Walker
Neil Dewkinandan wrote: I've installed OSOL-0906 and I'm having problems setting a static IP address. I tried searching on Google also but non of it helped. Can someone list the steps necessary to go from DHCP to a static IP? I recommend you keep nwam running and edit the llp file to add the s

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris didn't boot with GUI on SunFire x4150

2009-06-30 Thread Jim Walker
user0 wrote: Hi. I'm not new in Solaris, but to tell the truth, I'm a little bit tired from Solaris bugs. The problem is that I could not boot latest version of OpenSolaris system with GUI on my Sun Fire x4150. I already installed all drivers and updated firmware from the latest tools & drivers c

[osol-discuss] cifs client, wifi, fwflash, nfsgen and nfs loadstress test suites released

2009-06-17 Thread Jim Walker
Vilas Deshpande from the Solaris NAS Quality Engineering group has released the cifs client test suite. More information can be found at: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/stcnv/usr/src/suites/fs/cifs-client/README Chris Mi and Robin Luo from the Solaris Quality Engineering group have

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible ZFS corruption?

2009-06-11 Thread Jim Walker
Forwarded to zfs-discuss... Cheers, Jim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] OGB Suggestion Box

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Walker
The OGB has created the following suggestion box wiki where OpenSolaris users can post suggestions, concerns, ideas and solutions that they would like the OGB to consider. http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Suggestion_Box If you have something you would like us to consider please post your s

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] downloading SPARC packages

2009-05-13 Thread Jim Walker
t farm soon. Let me know if you want to kick the tires to gain insight on this bug. Cheers, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Broomfield, Colorado ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] downloading SPARC packages

2009-05-13 Thread Jim Walker
Lee Bieber wrote: Hi Shawn, After running the pkg install command from below, I discovered that the sunstudioexpress (compilers and their tools) components were x86 binaries not SPARC. % file /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/cc:ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1 [FPU], dynamically linked, str

[osol-discuss] Reminder: Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Walker
!!! ONLY 1 MORE DAY !!! The deadline for package submissions is May 8th at 12:00pm midnight PDT. Since it will take sometime for the final set of packages to be posted to the contrib repo, we will send out a list of all the packages approved at the above time. Any packages that have been entered

[osol-discuss] Reminder: Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Walker
!!! ONLY 5 MORE DAYS !!! Remember the deadline for package submissions is May 8th. The Software Porters Community can help if you have questions: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/ Make sure to register your pkgs as soon as possible, you can always add more later. BTW. You can upd

[osol-discuss] Reminder: Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-28 Thread Jim Walker
Remember the deadline for package submissions to be on the contrib repo is May 8th (only 10 days left!) The Toshiba laptops are very nice! The Software Porters Community can help if you have questions: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/ Cheers, Jim +++ From: Terri Wischmann Date

[osol-discuss] Reminder: Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-21 Thread Jim Walker
Remember the deadline for package submissions to be on the contrib repo is May 8th. The Toshiba laptops are very nice! The Software Porters Community can help if you have questions: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/ Cheers, Jim +++ From: Terri Wischmann Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 1

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [advocacy-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!]

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Walker
--- Begin Message --- Hi All - We are very excited to announce the Apps of Steel Challenge - If you're a student, developer, system administrator, or someone who just likes to develop packages, use your talents and participate for a chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop! Submit the bes

Re: [osol-discuss] Duplicative "Documents" Entries in Nautilus

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Walker
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: I have the same problem in my instalation, my locale is pt_br, Brazilian portuguese, I remember to have the same problem in my first instalation 2008.05 and i could solve it , but i cant remember how to solve it, now i use SNV_111. Any help!! Actually, this problem affects

[osol-discuss] NDMPCOPY Test Tool and NDMP Protocol Test Suite Released

2009-02-08 Thread Jim Walker
Vilas Deshpande, from the Solaris NAS Quality Engineering group, has released an updated version of the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) ndmpcopy test tool for use with OpenSolaris. In addition, he and his team are also releasing the NDMP protocol test suite. More information can be found a

[osol-discuss] lofi and cpu-caps test suites released

2009-02-02 Thread Jim Walker
Andre Molyneux, from the Solaris Quality Engineering group, has released the Lofi loopback file driver test suite. More information can be found at: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/stcnv/usr/src/suites/os/lofi/README http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/stcnv/usr/src/suites/os/lo

Re: [osol-discuss] [sfwnv-discuss] [proposal] opensolaris OS/Net+SFWNV hacking summit...

2009-01-29 Thread Jim Walker
Roland Mainz wrote: > > Would be there some interest to run a small experiment and create a > "hacking festival" (short: "hackfest") for OpenSolaris ? > I think it's a great idea and I know the OpenSolaris test farm could play a big role. Also, the new contrib process may work better for this,

[osol-discuss] Free Zone Servers In Beijing

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Walker
Sparc and X64 development zone servers have been added to the OpenSolaris Test Farm site in Beijing, China. You can reserve your own whole root zone using the Virtual Machine test farm interface. This interface allows any OpenSolaris user to build and test software prior to contributing to the Open

[osol-discuss] building and testing OpenSolaris from an iphone

2009-01-12 Thread Jim Walker
http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker/entry/test_farm_and_ssh_on Cheers, Jim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Test Farm Development Zones and Open Access

2009-01-08 Thread Jim Walker
Jason King wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jim Walker wrote: >> Development Zones >> >> The OpenSolaris Test Farm virtual machine interface is ready for >> use by OpenSolaris contributors. This interface allows users to >> reserve whole root developme

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Test Farm Development Zones and Open Access

2009-01-07 Thread Jim Walker
Development Zones The OpenSolaris Test Farm virtual machine interface is ready for use by OpenSolaris contributors. This interface allows users to reserve whole root development zones where they can build and test software prior to contributing to the OpenSolaris code base. Damian Wojsław and Mich

[osol-discuss] /contrib repo live

2008-12-10 Thread Jim Walker
The contrib ips package repository is live at: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib It contains the first set of 154 packages that are initially being supported by the PkgFactory project team: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkgfactory The packages were built using technology provided by the Sour

[osol-discuss] /contrib repo live

2008-12-10 Thread Jim Walker
The contrib ips package repository is live at: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib It contains the first set of 154 packages that are initially being supported by the PkgFactory project team: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkgfactory The packages were built using technology provided by the Sour

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-09 Thread Jim Walker
C. Bergström wrote: ... > I hope in the very near future to be able to > offer custom developer zones, blogging platform and overall something > more than just an easy place to drop a patch, but something people can > watch grow and be a part of. > You just wrote the charter for this: http://w

[osol-discuss] Megacli, NetCat, and Virt-Install Test Suites Released

2008-11-20 Thread Jim Walker
Triple Release Day! James Wan, from the Solaris Quality Engineering group, has released the Megacli test suite. More information on Megacli test suite can be found at: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/tests/ http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/ontest-stc2/src/suites/storage/mega

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris release aliases

2008-10-31 Thread Jim Walker
opps... please disregard. Cheers, Jim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] opensolaris release aliases

2008-10-31 Thread Jim Walker
1st email [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org 2nd email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Software, Solaris QE x77744, 500 Eldorado Blvd, Broomfield CO 80021

Re: [osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Walker
his? > > My CA id is # CA 0335 Yes. Go for it. Cheers, Jim -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Software, Solaris QE x77744, 500 Eldorado Blvd, Broomfield CO 80021 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] test farm server interface released

2008-10-20 Thread Jim Walker
Simon Sun and Jim Walker are the site leaders. The OpenSolaris Test Farm software is developed by the Solaris Quality Engineering organization and the hardware is managed by the Solaris Labs organization. The interface has been tested on firefox and safari and also works on the iPhone :) Cheers

Re: [osol-discuss] system wont shutdown with shutdown cmd

2008-10-04 Thread Jim Walker
This is probably related to the lib bug you found. Jim Cj wrote: > Has anyone see this? My system use to shutdown fine but now i get : > > bash-3.2# shutdown now > > Shutdown started.Sat Oct 4 08:51:33 EDT 2008 > > Broadcast Message from root (pts/2) on opensolaris Sat Oct 4 08:51:33..

Re: [osol-discuss] unix file encryption

2008-10-04 Thread Jim Walker
Cj, This is most likely this bug... http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3519 ...which is a dup of this bug being fixed: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2792 Can you do a $ pkg version? Cheers, Jim Cj wrote: > I ran into a problem of not having the gcc on my system.

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada on a Macbook pro/air?

2008-09-01 Thread Jim Walker
Attila Nagy wrote: > Hi all, > > just wanted to ask, what is the current state of support? I don't > use, nor have a Mac myself, but I have a friend, who's considering to > try the latest Solaris bits. He is a developer, and used Solaris > sometime in the past. It's just that I could not help him

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-code] Public accessible OpenSolaris based build servers

2008-07-21 Thread Jim Walker
aris.org/os/community/testing/testfarm/ >> >> -- >> Shawn Walker >> > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Jim Walker, http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker Sun Microsystems, Software, Solaris QE x77744, 500 Eldorado Blvd, Broomfield CO 80021 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NICDRV Test Suite Released

2008-04-24 Thread Jim Walker
The Solaris Quality Engineering nicdrv test team has released the nicdrv test suite today on opensolaris.org. The test source tarballs and packages can be downloaded at: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/test/downloads/current Source code is also available from the STC2 Mercurial repository at: http://www.

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris emulator for windows?

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Walker
With VirtualBox you can install Solaris on a virtual machine. http://virtualbox.org/ Jim Vladimir Nikolchev wrote: > Hello, > I'm learning Solaris at the university and I need a testing environment. > I don't feel confident about replacing my Windows or installing > additional OS with a boot ma

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_86 on a MacBook?

2008-04-10 Thread Jim Walker
Stephen Lau wrote: > Has anyone had success installing snv_86 on a MacBook or MacBook Pro at > all? I was successful. Here are the steps I used. I turned this into a wiki so we can keep it updated: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Dual_Boot Cheers, Jim _

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-25 Thread Jim Walker
Horvath wrote: > I'm not sure if I tried right but it did not work. > > for d in /usr/share/icons/*; do > [ -d $d ] && > gtk-update-icon-cache --force $d; > I tried it, and it had no effect. I suggest you subscribe to the desktop-discuss list. This thread has more info: http://www.opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-19 Thread Jim Walker
Thanks Brian, Was there a flag day for this? If not, I would think about making one. Finding the bugs is a good thing, but impacting users that don't have time to be beta testers at the moment isn't. I'm focused on testing myself, so understand both view points. My system is still crashing after

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Plea: Can anyone please help me/ lend me a box for KDE4/Solaris builds?

2008-03-17 Thread Jim Walker
s it accessible also for people that port software to >> opensolaris and would like a testrun ? If yes I'd like to add a doc for >> that to the software porters community. > > Hi Michal, > Jim Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the OpenSolaris Test lead > engineer, I've f

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get an old build?

2008-03-17 Thread Jim Walker
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Nick Briggs wrote: >> Can't help on getting the older release, but it's not just under vmware that >> gnome is crashing -- happens 5-20 times a day to me running on b84 on >> a SunBlade 1000 (w/ dual ffb, xinerama mode) > > Strange - I can't remember the last time GNOME c

Re: [osol-discuss] One opinion for charting forward (long)

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Walker
Mark Martin wrote: > -Ask the Testing CG to devise a strategy for quality assurance, > focusing on some determined levels of compatibility and stability as > they might devise. Again, make the output of such work intended as > guidance and as high level as necessary (but no higher). It might be >

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE Build 80 Coming Next week

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Walker
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > Based what I have heard, I am going to skip builds 79 & 80 altogether, and > wait and go directly to 81. Why wait? The SXCE Build 81 release has just been announced. Cheers, Jim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-di

[osol-discuss] libusb Test Suite Released

2008-01-27 Thread Jim Walker
Yuan Fan, from the Solaris Quality Engineering group has released the libusb test suite in support of the OpenUSB project. The OpenUSB project provides an enhanced platform-neutral, MT-safe application library for raw access to USB devices which is used by OpenSolaris. The OpenUSB project is locat

[osol-discuss] Happy Holidays

2007-12-21 Thread Jim Walker
Many of us at Sun will be taking off next week... It's been a great year for OpenSolaris and next year will be even brighter. I really enjoy working with this group. It makes me smile :) Happy Holidays! Cheers, Jim This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Looking for access to development systems temporarily

2007-12-19 Thread Jim Walker
down the onnv gate and build with the appropriate > tools. > > I am aware of the OS test farm, and may follow up with that > project/group although I don't believe this is the intended purpose of > those resources. > > Thanks, > Mark > _________

Re: [osol-discuss] Academic Course in Operating System Virtualization

2007-11-12 Thread Jim Walker
> Assistant Director for Information Technology, IIT Rice Campus > Lecturer in Information Technology & Management > Illinois Institute of Technology > www.rice.iit.edu/adit/ > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org >

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-06 Thread Jim Walker
In the FROSUG we have 6 or 7 active "leaders" that organize the user group meetings and share the administration responsibilities (like a mini OBG). In addition, we have one person who volunteers to be the main organizer and Point of Contact. They become the main conduit to the outside world. This

[osol-discuss] Self-Service Testing Released

2007-10-18 Thread Jim Walker
The OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing application is now available and ready for use by OpenSolaris contributors. Self-Service Testing allows developers to run functional and performance tests on their code in a fully automated fashion prior to integration into the OpenSolaris code base. Bi

[osol-discuss] Sharemnt Test Suite and Kerberos Test Tools Released

2007-09-21 Thread Jim Walker
The Sharemnt Test Suite and Kerberos Test Tools (krb5tools) were released today on opensolaris.org. The test source tarballs, packages and baseline can be downloaded at: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/test/downloads/current/ The test source can be browsed at: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/test/

Re: [osol-discuss] [sfwnv-discuss] Virtual server farm (Free VMs) for use in OpenSolaris

2007-09-12 Thread Jim Walker
Brian, As Dennis indicates Blastwave.org has been providing systems of various forms to developers for a long time, and as Shawn points out, Sun, via the testing community is getting close to finishing the development of a test farm and self-service testing. Both these projects are currently seeki

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-07-30 Thread Jim Walker
> On 30/07/07, Korey Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It is true that users alone will not make Open >> Solaris into a great product, but they are the final >> judge of its success. The Open Solaris community >> must remember who will use their software when the >> development is done: the

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: FROSUG July Meeting Announcement (7/26/2007)

2007-07-24 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, July 26, 2007. Nick Solter will give a presentation on Open High Availability Cluster, which was recently released on opensolaris.org. In addition, we will be giving an OpenSolaris Update. !! FREE OpenSolaris Starter

[osol-discuss] CTI for TET and iSCSI test suite Released

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Walker
Today we open sourced the Common Test Infrastructure (CTI) for Test Environment Toolkit (TET), which is the primary test framework for test development in the Solaris and Solaris Cluster organizations at Sun. In addition, we open sourced the iSCSI test suite, which uses CTI for TET, and updated

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: FROSUG June Meeting Announcement (6/28/2007)

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, June 28, 2007. Bonnie Corwin will give an OpenSolaris Engineering Update. In addition, we will be celebrating the 2-year OpenSolaris anniversary! We will have cake :) !! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Expre

[osol-discuss] ZFS test suite released on OpenSolaris.org

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Walker
The ZFS test suite is being released today on OpenSolaris.org along with the Solaris Test Framework (STF), Checkenv and Runwattr test tools. The source tarball, binary package and baseline can be downloaded from the test consolidation download center at http://dlc.sun.com/osol/test/downloads/curre

[osol-discuss] FROSUG June Meeting Announcement (6/28/2007)

2007-06-12 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, June 28, 2007. Bonnie Corwin will give an OpenSolaris Engineering Update. In addition, we will be celebrating the 2-year OpenSolaris anniversary! !! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Express Developer Edition

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Changes to "Contributor" status

2007-06-04 Thread Jim Walker
> >I'm glad you brought this up. I'm working on establishing test > >resources on opensolaris.org (ie. self-service testing and test farm), > >and need a way to limit who gets access, since I won't be able to > >support everyone with an OpenSolaris user name. > > > >I'm targeting non-Sun code contr

[osol-discuss] Re: Changes to "Contributor" status

2007-06-04 Thread Jim Walker
> Within the OpenSolaris community, we have some arbitrary > designations we give to people - contributor and community > leader are amongst these. > > I'd like to propose that how "contributor" status is designated > such that it is granted to anyone and everyone that is in a > position to do a p

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: FROSUG May Meeting Announcement (5/31/2007)

2007-05-29 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, May 31, 2007. Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson will give a presentation on Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools. In addition, we will be giving an OpenSolaris Update, and will be having an InstallFest. So, if you want help ins

[osol-discuss] FROSUG May Meeting Announcement (5/31/2007)

2007-05-03 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, May 31, 2007. Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson will give a presentation on Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools. In addition, we will be giving an OpenSolaris Update, and will be having an InstallFest. So, if you want help in

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: FROSUG March Meeting Announcement (3/29/2007)

2007-03-28 Thread Jim Walker
30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris Update (Jim Walker) 6:45pm - 8:30pm Sharemgr (Doug McCallum) Where: Sun Broomfield Campus Building 1 - Conference Center 500 Eldorado Blvd. Broomfield, CO 80021 The meeting is free and open to the public. Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the

[osol-discuss] FROSUG March Meeting Announcement (3/29/2007)

2007-03-16 Thread Jim Walker
, March 29, 2007 Times: 6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza 6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris Update (Jim Walker) 6:45pm - 8:30pm Sharemgr (Doug McCallum) Where: Sun Broomfield Campus Building 1 - Conference Center 500 Eldorado Blvd. Broomfield, CO 80021 The meeting is fr

[osol-discuss] UPDATE: FROSUG February Meeting (2/22/2007)

2007-02-15 Thread Jim Walker
***Meeting Update*** We will be having this month's meeting at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield and a conference call number is being provided for those who can not make the meeting in person, see Meeting Details below for more information. In addition, we will be discussing Solaris Expre

[osol-discuss] FROSUG February Meeting Announcement (2/22/2007)

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, February 22, 2007. Our presentation is "ZFS as a Root File System" by Lori Alt. In addition, Jon Bowman will be giving an OpenSolaris Update, and we will also be doing an InstallFest. So, if you want help installing a

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Enable/Enhance Solaris support for Intel Platforms

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Walker
Ian Collins wrote: Sherry Moore wrote: I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for shipping and future Intel processors and platforms. As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platform

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal -- Honeycomb Information and dev tools

2007-02-06 Thread Jim Walker
> >>> Stephen Lau wrote: > Except that you have projects like devname[1] which > have done absolutely *nothing* with their project space. ... > > [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/devname/ > Yep. We need a project removal strategy too. Maybe project requesters need to include what the initi

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: libc_i18n.a rewrite.

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Walker
> Do we have a test suite for what we have in libc_i18n.a? If so, we > should make that available or at leat have someone who can run it > against anything the project produces. I'll see what we can do. Jim This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] FROSUG January Meeting Announcement (1/25/2007)

2007-01-19 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, January 25, 2007. Our presentations are, Solaris Training by Chris McDonald and OpenSolaris Zones by Jerry Jelinek. In addition, Jon Bowman will be giving an OpenSolaris Update - a short presentation about the latest

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris Academic Projects Proposal

2006-12-20 Thread Jim Walker
+1 Joey, Thanks for organizing this. Cheers, Jim This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NFSv4 Test Suite Released on OpenSolaris.org

2006-12-18 Thread Jim Walker
Today we released the NFSv4 Test Suite on www.opensolaris.org. This is the first of several ON consolidation test suites that will be open sourced and released for use by the OpenSolaris community. The NFSv4 test suite source may be downloaded at: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/test/downloads/current/

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes

2006-05-05 Thread Jim Walker
I agree. If you have tags (which I like) then making them as short as possible is the way to go. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: OPenSolaris compile farm machines?

2005-10-03 Thread Jim Walker
Not yet, but we are working on it. We are calling it the build farm. Currently, this is scheduled for initial release in Apr-Jun 2006. Cheers, Jim This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.1: a small proposal

2005-07-15 Thread Jim Walker
ghee teo wrote: The HP testdrive program offers machines setup with different distros, for this to work, we will need to set up machines with different favours of OpenSolaris so that the setup times are minimum. In those cases, each owners of the different favours of OpenSolaris should take own

Re: [osol-discuss] developing free software for OpenSolaris

2005-07-14 Thread Jim Walker
Joerg Schilling wrote: Jim Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The build/test farm would be available to OpenSolaris developers, and will provide access to various high-end and low-end Sparc, x64 and other hardware platforms. We plan on making it better than what's currently availabl

Re: [osol-discuss] developing free software for OpenSolaris

2005-07-13 Thread Jim Walker
Ghee Teo - Desktop System wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: Hi Diana, Our plan is to have build/test farms at some point in the future. Our roadmap is online: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ Currently the build/test farms are scheduled for 6-9 months out. Does the build/test

Re: [osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-06-29 Thread Jim Walker
Nice lead in Eric :) To signup on the opensolaris testing-discuss list you just send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then reply to the confirmation message. The testing community page outlines some of the initiatives we are working on: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/opensolaris_test_qe