Thursday February 28, 2008 [SVOSUG] Update on Virtualization along with OpenSolaris Governance! 02/28 Tonight!
Just a reminder that tonight is the meeting. Please feel free to join us on the web if you're not local. ( Feb 28 2008, 01:24:39 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [1]
Tuesday February 26, 2008 [SVOSUG] Update on Virtualization along with OpenSolaris Governance! 02/28
This month we have a very special meeting which brings Tim Marsland and Todd Clayton are back at SVOSUG giving an update on Virtualization.With Virtual Box on the scene, the OpenSolaris virtual solutions provide more and better ways to connect OpenSolaris to other environments. This is a very exciting space and both Tim and Todd have both been instrumental in driving virtualization in OpenSolaris.
Along with this special update on virtualization, we will also have Ben Rockwood, community member and long supporter of OpenSolaris, speaking on OpenSolaris Governance. Ben is always entertaining to listen to, and has been involved in the OGB, so I'd like to welcome Ben to give his
perspective.
We will be broadcasting over the web through ustream.tv, and hope to have things running a bit smoother this month. We hope to have 2 cameras with one providing an overview of the meeting, and the other will pan/zoom.
Please feel free to ask questions through the chat, you do not have to be registered or logged in to use it.
When: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA03 upstairs)
What: OpenSolaris Update on Virtualization
Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm
http://ustream.tv/channel/svosug
http://ustream.tv/channel/svosug-presentation
( Feb 26 2008, 12:50:00 AM PST ) Permalink
Wednesday February 06, 2008 Installing Studio Built KDE 3.4.3 w/script
Ok, KDE is getting going and KDE 4 is at least compiling on OpenSolaris, but we have a ways to go before we have a usable system.
In the meantime, I have a script that I created to help install KDE 3.4.3 from the Sunfreeware site, since it is available to anyone on the inet, to pull the Studio built KDE 3.4.3 and install on your computer. I realize this is a bit dated, but it is the most recent build we have that was done with Sun's Studio compiler. This is important if you plan to use plugins, since most plugins (including flash and java) are compiled with Sun Studio. Because of this, you can't use those plugins with a gcc built KDE, AFAIK.
It is possible that an error in the user/group for KDEkderequired-343 will warn you of the error, but you can tell it to continue. I added in an additional argument to pkgadd, passing a -n, but not sure if that will supress the warning or not, and don't have time to retest...This should help at least get the packages and get this installed, even if you need to tell the script to continue.
You can get the script at this link. Let me know if you try it and how it works for you.
*** DISCLAIMER ***
This script doesn't have much error checking, and it is possible that if you break out of the script that it will download duplicates and the matching names won't be valid files.
This script also assumes that you have installed en_US.UTF-8, so if you use a different flavor of UTF-8, change to suite.
Also, this is for x86/amd64, so if you have a sparc box, change the script to suit.
*** End of DISCLAIMER ***