... I like that firewall/NAT's that "behave properly. I'm not sure if it can be done with SunScreen and your right it will not be a candidate for update. Now...
I have my own very informal step by step notes on how to do compile the code. I will send them to you direct. I knew nothing about building ecplipse when I...
There's an interesting article on infoworld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/30/HNsolarisgpl_1.html I wonder if Sun's serious about this?. The blokes on...
... you didn't use blastwave? :) You sure this wasn't broken by not having LZW inserted right? ... uuencode on solaris is as it always was. Sun doesn't do as...
... I've heard from a number of sources (including people within Sun) that there is an internal argument going on between factions supporting and opposing ...
Geoff Lane
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May 1, 2004 6:57 pm
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... would ... wrong on both counts! What would sun lose by it? ANY kind of future ability to make money selling solaris as a product by itself. It would...
... Solaris isn't a product. If you buy Sun hardware it's bundled. If you use Intel Solaris, it's already free. -- Geoff Lane The difference between science...
Geoff Lane
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May 1, 2004 7:48 pm
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... "Quality hardware"? If you have a need for more than 16 processors, probably. But they don't really shine on 1 to 4, do they? IBM used to say that, also....
... Yes, it's a product, and yes, it's free, but only for non-commercial use: "You can use the software for non-commercial usage on single processor system" ...
... I agree, but people such as Donald Becker rightly refuse to allow their driver codes to be used as a basis for Solaris drivers. If Solaris were GPL'ed...
Geoff Lane
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May 1, 2004 8:11 pm
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... And as I said, it's deal with by means of a honour system. The same honour system as used by Oracle. The income to Sun from commercial/multi CPU Intel...
Geoff Lane
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May 1, 2004 8:15 pm
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I tried Linux on Sparc a few years ago, and after a few weeks i made an informed decision and went back to Solaris. I never quite understood, and maybe someone...
... Or Microsoft, since there are plenty of illegal copies of Windows around. Doesn't stop them from making money on it. ... Do you have numbers on that? I've...
... They would just find another excuse, that's it. That kind of people is just the zealots I was talking about, that won't trust Sun, whatever they do. ... ...
Stefan Teleman wrote: [snip] ... Honestly, I think sometimes, the answer *is* ideology. I remember reading, some time ago, a post by someone who bought a ...
The SPARC specificiation is already open - it has been ever since it was created. http://www.sparc.org/ So what are they gonna complain about next? I don't see...
... I know, but there *was* a big fuss about that, maybe one year ago, the OpenBSD guys complaining that Sun was hiding some specs of the UltraSPARC III from...
Title: "The SPARC Architecture Manual" Publisher: Prentice Hall David L. Weaver and Tom Germond, Editors ISBN: 0130992275 I've owned a copy since 1996. Covers...
... I think companies like LynnSoft PCMCIA are making much better quality drivers than Linux PCMCIA drivers. Linux USB is a mess right now. Linux drivers are...
... didn't want ... Before you make such claims, have some backing prepared for it. About the only backing that would be credible, would be if you yourself...
... Sun tried this with Linux network drivers a while back and got slapped by none other than Donald Becker for their trouble. He had the effrontery to...
Hello, I downloaded the xfig distribution from blastwave. It works fine but some of the "companion programs" used to export to various formats are missing, in ...
... of ... slapped ... load ... with ... Oh yes I do remember that fracas pretty well. So maybe it's a bad idea allowing GPL'ed drivers into Solaris. Point...
... I don't believe that the GPL is the problem. It's the zealots who write the drivers and wield their idea of GPL like a club after a suitable pause for...
Someone else reported the issue while building/compiling Hylafax 4.1.8...I'm just the messenger here.... ~K ... Sun uncompress will barf of ... gmake, or ... ...
[...] ... [...] It's not more difficult than switching from HP-UX to Solaris or vice versa. Every OS has its glitches - it just depends on how much time you'd...
... Not true. SunOS and HP/UX adhere to the SVR4 spec and ABI. The same cannot be said about Linux. Porting between HP/UX and SunOS is not very difficult,...
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