OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18998/Solaris_Express_Community_Build_78_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:43:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Great news! http://osnews.com/thread?288216 http://osnews.com/thread?288216 The last few releases have been really exciting with new things like XVM(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/) and CIFS Server(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/cifs-server/)

I look forward to trying these new features! Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chekr) Comments stupid registration http://osnews.com/thread?288221 http://osnews.com/thread?288221 And you still have to register to get the iso. I thought they had learned that that sucks. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fergy) Comments RE: stupid registration http://osnews.com/thread?288224 http://osnews.com/thread?288224 Hardly the grandest of tasks

People happily give away their life history on facebook yet not a username and password to sun for a free os.. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments RE: stupid registration http://osnews.com/thread?288226 http://osnews.com/thread?288226 Yeah, it does blow. But if you follow the Project Indiana link, you can get a developer preview without registration. Its also got a better integrated Gnome desktop which IMO makes all the difference for a test system. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments ...still not fixed http://osnews.com/thread?288292 http://osnews.com/thread?288292 Every time I read something about OpenSolaris I go and check the bug that prevents me from booting it on my non-sse machine.

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6332924

I don't know how many states there are but it finally changed states to "8-Fix Available".
Looks like I'll have to wait for snv_80 though. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments RE: stupid registration http://osnews.com/thread?288293 http://osnews.com/thread?288293 http://www.10minutemail.comEdited 2007-12-04 14:58 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FunkyELF) Comments Irrelevant http://osnews.com/thread?288303 http://osnews.com/thread?288303 OpenSolaris is a great community and they are doing a very amazing job, but I do not see the relevance of build 78 comparing to build 77 or build 79 so I do not see the need for a news entry for that. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE: stupid registration http://osnews.com/thread?288320 http://osnews.com/thread?288320 There is a reason for that; SXCE still has third party code in there which needs you to accept a licence before you can download the code.

This issue has been explained many times - its getting to the point of as being as stupid as those who go on about SkyOS and whether it should be opensourced. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments RE[2]: stupid registration http://osnews.com/thread?288322 http://osnews.com/thread?288322 Eh, the site you linked to gives me a proxy error.

www.mailinator.com is a good site for throwaway email addresses. No registration or anything required. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BBlalock) Comments It's not available http://osnews.com/thread?288330 http://osnews.com/thread?288330 I checked now and they don't have it, they just have v 77. and by the way v 76 and 77 are not bootable! even after I checked md5sum of the resulting file Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hraq) Comments RE: It's not available http://osnews.com/thread?288352 http://osnews.com/thread?288352
I checked now and they don't have it, they just have v 77. and by the way v 76 and 77 are not bootable! even after I checked md5sum of the resulting file


I hope you haven't downloaded the 3 individual files, unzipped them and wrote the three files to three individual cds - because if you have, you're the prime example of a person who did not read the instructions. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments What is the future of SXCE/SXDE? http://osnews.com/thread?288358 http://osnews.com/thread?288358 What place would SXCE have in the scheme of things, from Sun's perspective? Would SXCE give way to Indiana once it is stable enough? Would it not be a headache for Sun to maintain/release/support SXCE/SXDE and Indiana?

Wonder what Ian Murdock has to say about this? Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ManishChaks) Comments RE[2]: stupid registration http://osnews.com/thread?288367 http://osnews.com/thread?288367 Yet that has nothing to do with this guys beef does it? If he's not on facebook your point doesn't apply. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DittoBox) Comments RE[2]: It's not available http://osnews.com/thread?288474 http://osnews.com/thread?288474 No Mr
I am a system administrator and I know that I have to use cat file1 file2 file3 > final_file.iso from console session Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hraq) Comments RE[3]: It's not available http://osnews.com/thread?288530 http://osnews.com/thread?288530 "I am a system administrator and I know that I have to use cat file1 file2 file3 > final_file.iso from console session"

That's simplest UNIX basics, as well as reading documentation, which he should not be afraid of or too lazy for. By the way, how would a "Windows" user do something similar to the "cat trick"? :-) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments RE[4]: It's not available http://osnews.com/thread?288546 http://osnews.com/thread?288546 use xcopy command

or more precisely

copy /b file1 + file2 + file3 + file4 + file5 file.isoEdited 2007-12-04 23:33 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hraq) Comments RE[5]: It's not available http://osnews.com/thread?288564 http://osnews.com/thread?288564 Thanks for this completition, I just had to obey to an inner affect of humor, so my previous post was to be read for entertainment purposes only. :-)

I still know this command from times when I had to transfer files between a DOS and a UNIX machine where the file size exceeded the floppy disk capacity, so I used split and cat on the UNIX side, and on DOS, as you mentioned, copy /b and ... hmmm, I think DOS didn't have a split command, so I wrote one on my own... ah yes, and TAR.EXE. :-)

Now you just would have to tell a "Windows" user how to access the command line and how to use it. :-) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments RE: What is the future of SXCE/SXDE? http://osnews.com/thread?288655 http://osnews.com/thread?288655 This is the hottest topics on the discussion lists (you can check them through jive: http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/)

I've read them, but still confused as to what is really going to happen.

So my conclusions were:
1- I need to learn how to really read.
2- Others need to learn how to write
3- On time communication is a must, and that wasn't the case with this topic (if this isn't the case '1' should be root cause of all confusions :-P) Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sergiusens) Comments I want to try opensolaris http://osnews.com/thread?288677 http://osnews.com/thread?288677 I want to test it for the purposes of a real colocated server.

Which should I try? Community, devloper etc? Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tweek) Comments RE: What is the future of SXCE/SXDE? http://osnews.com/thread?288705 http://osnews.com/thread?288705 As I understand it, Project Indiana is set to become "the" OpenSolaris distro, along the lines of OpenSUSE and Fedora, I guess. SXCE/SXDE will only be for those people who need the extra Sun stuff (whereby as far as I can tell the only things you can't download and install on Indiana yourself are CDE and StarOffice, correct me if I'm wrong). So who knows? Maybe the Community Edition will pretty much disappear while the Developer Edition lives on? They'll probably just gauge demand and take any decision-making from there.

P.S. I know that Indiana is more comfortable to the majority of Gnome users, but am I the only one that actually *likes* the layout/feel of Java Desktop System? Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments Honk! Honk! http://osnews.com/thread?288826 http://osnews.com/thread?288826 Until some time ago, Indiana was supposed to be the community distro whereas SXCE/SXDE was supposed to be a running beta of Solaris 11.

There's talk that Sun's management is being dicks again and shuffling everything because of marketing reasons or whatever.

My another theory of mine is that someone picked up something the wrong way when he learned that SXCE will share the same installer stuff, and as such probably ipkg, as Indiana.Edited 2007-12-05 19:36 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Weeman) Comments