Hi all,

For those of you that haven't already heard, OpenSolaris is
available to everyone, today.  Now.

Open source code, free compilers and tools, documentation, and
much more is available from www.opensolaris.org.  Oh, and the
first 1,000 visitors to opensolaris.org will get a free T shirt!

Methinks a lot of people (the most vociferous of naysayers) will
be eating their (Red) Hats...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your downloads!

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:57:51 +0000, Rich Teer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> For those of you that haven't already heard, OpenSolaris is
> available to everyone, today.  Now.
> 
> Open source code, free compilers and tools, documentation, and
> much more is available from www.opensolaris.org.  Oh, and the
> first 1,000 visitors to opensolaris.org will get a free T shirt!
> 
> Methinks a lot of people (the most vociferous of naysayers) will
> be eating their (Red) Hats...
> 
> Ladies and gentlemen, start your downloads!

didn't take long for the webserver to buckle...

ok spoke to soon was only outta action for 5 minutes... and i got a free
shirt :-) this is gonna be a fun week..

In comp.unix.solaris Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For those of you that haven't already heard, OpenSolaris is
> available to everyone, today.  Now.

It's about time! Those dirty proprietary pseudo-open-source liars at
Sun promised us that it would be out by the end of Q2, and that's only
a month away from now! I wanted it before they announced it!
(Note: Sarcasm)

> Open source code, free compilers and tools, documentation, and
> much more is available from www.opensolaris.org.  Oh, and the
> first 1,000 visitors to opensolaris.org will get a free T shirt!

Woo! Got my shirt coming.

> Methinks a lot of people (the most vociferous of naysayers) will
> be eating their (Red) Hats...

Heh. Good one Rich.

Colin

> For those of you that haven't already heard, OpenSolaris is
> available to everyone, today.  Now.
> 
> Open source code, free compilers and tools, documentation, and
> much more is available from www.opensolaris.org.  Oh, and the
> first 1,000 visitors to opensolaris.org will get a free T shirt!
> 
> Methinks a lot of people (the most vociferous of naysayers) will
> be eating their (Red) Hats...
> 
> Ladies and gentlemen, start your downloads!

Rich, perhaps you should have cross-posted this one to 
comp.os.linux.advocacy?!   ;-)

No worries, i'm sure they'll find **something** that isn't right.

Ade

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Ade Fewings wrote:

> Rich, perhaps you should have cross-posted this one to
> comp.os.linux.advocacy?!   ;-)

I did think about it, but I figured Mike Cox would do that for me.  :-)

> No worries, i'm sure they'll find **something** that isn't right.

Doubtless.  I'll even give 'em a freebie: it's not licensed by the GPL.

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Rich Teer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For those of you that haven't already heard, OpenSolaris is
> available to everyone, today.  Now.
> 
> Open source code, free compilers and tools, documentation, and
> much more is available from www.opensolaris.org.  Oh, and the
> first 1,000 visitors to opensolaris.org will get a free T shirt!

.... but where are the shirts? 8-)
PM

Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Ade Fewings wrote:
>
>> Rich, perhaps you should have cross-posted this one to
>> comp.os.linux.advocacy?!   ;-)
>
> I did think about it, but I figured Mike Cox would do that for me.  :-)


You were right. He already did.

>> No worries, i'm sure they'll find **something** that isn't right.
>
> Doubtless.  I'll even give 'em a freebie: it's not licensed by the GPL.
>

Well, they will probably at least complain about free T-shirts that are no
more: all gone!

Bye, Dragan

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!!! Sender/From address is bogus. Use reply-to one !!!

"Rich Teer" <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
> > No worries, i'm sure they'll find **something** that isn't right.
> 
> Doubtless.  I'll even give 'em a freebie: it's not licensed by the GPL.

Are the 1000 free T-Shirts licensed by the GPL?

SCNR.


Thomas

"Thomas Dehn" wrote:

>>> No worries, i'm sure they'll find **something** that isn't right.
>> Doubtless.  I'll even give 'em a freebie: it's not licensed by the GPL.
> Are the 1000 free T-Shirts licensed by the GPL?

Well at least some people won't have noticed that at the same time 1000
switched to 5000, the T-shirts were replaced by cool gifts...

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, PM wrote:

> ... but where are the shirts? 8-)

All gone--including the extra 4000 that were added later.

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Rich Teer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For those of you that haven't already heard, OpenSolaris is
> available to everyone, today.  Now.
> 
> Open source code, free compilers and tools, documentation, and
> much more is available from www.opensolaris.org.  Oh, and the
> first 1,000 visitors to opensolaris.org will get a free T shirt!
> 
> Methinks a lot of people (the most vociferous of naysayers) will
> be eating their (Red) Hats...
> 
> Ladies and gentlemen, start your downloads!
> 
Great !, looking forward to see something like Open TerrifiX ;-)
/j�rgen

In article <lmpsuo94t9.fsf@privacy.net>,
	Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> writes:
> Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Ade Fewings wrote:
>>
>>> Rich, perhaps you should have cross-posted this one to
>>> comp.os.linux.advocacy?!   ;-)
>>
>> I did think about it, but I figured Mike Cox would do that for me.  :-)
> 
> 
> You were right. He already did.
> 
>>> No worries, i'm sure they'll find **something** that isn't right.
>>
>> Doubtless.  I'll even give 'em a freebie: it's not licensed by the GPL.
>>
> 
> Well, they will probably at least complain about free T-shirts that are no
> more: all gone!

Wonder when they ran out?  The timestamp for the acknowledgement page for
mine was 12:26:50 EDT (16:26:50 GMT)
-- 
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

> Wonder when they ran out?  The timestamp for the acknowledgement page for
> mine was 12:26:50 EDT (16:26:50 GMT)

According to the press call I just listened to, they ran out after about
50 minutes.  I can't remember if that was the initial 1000 or all 500.

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Jorgen Moquist wrote:
> Rich Teer wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For those of you that haven't already heard, OpenSolaris is
>> available to everyone, today.  Now.
>>
>> Open source code, free compilers and tools, documentation, and
>> much more is available from www.opensolaris.org.  Oh, and the
>> first 1,000 visitors to opensolaris.org will get a free T shirt!
>>
>> Methinks a lot of people (the most vociferous of naysayers) will
>> be eating their (Red) Hats...
>>
>> Ladies and gentlemen, start your downloads!
>>
> Great !, looking forward to see something like Open TerrifiX ;-)
> /j�rgen
Oh, no fingers faster than then brain, Open TeerifiX !
/j�rgen

Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> writes:

>Well, they will probably at least complain about free T-shirts that are no
>more: all gone!


Yep, most T-shirts/hour ever in Sun giveaway; so quickly that they didn't
switch it off quickly enough and missed the target by about a 1000.

(SO we;re giving out 6000 and not 5000 Tshirts)

Casper
-- 
Expressed in this posting are my opinions.  They are in no way related
to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

>On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

>> Wonder when they ran out?  The timestamp for the acknowledgement page for
>> mine was 12:26:50 EDT (16:26:50 GMT)

>According to the press call I just listened to, they ran out after about
>50 minutes.  I can't remember if that was the initial 1000 or all 500.


50 min for the first 1000; and then we added 4000 more.

Casper
-- 
Expressed in this posting are my opinions.  They are in no way related
to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Jorgen Moquist wrote:

> Oh, no fingers faster than then brain, Open TeerifiX !

:-)

If I get enough time to make a worthwhile contribution, I moight help
with the PPC port (although I have another target closer to heart).
But complete distros I'll leave in the more than capable hands of
Herr Schilling et al.

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Jorgen Moquist wrote:
> 
> > Oh, no fingers faster than then brain, Open TeerifiX !
> 
> :-)
> 
> If I get enough time to make a worthwhile contribution, I moight help
> with the PPC port (although I have another target closer to heart).
> But complete distros I'll leave in the more than capable hands of
> Herr Schilling et al.

I'd love to see the PPC port running on the Dreambox satellite
receiver :-)

It is currently running linux, and AFAIK most of the sources to the
software is available. Don't know if it would be possible/legal to
port the receiver specific parts to Opensolaris though.

> 
> -- 
> Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member
> 

Thomas

Rich Teer wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, PM wrote:
> 
>> ... but where are the shirts? 8-)
> 
> All gone--including the extra 4000 that were added later.
> 
So I couldn't download a t-shirt?  What is the world coming to? ;)
-- 
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lookintelligent woman of Ming home.  I trust you with a tender silence."  I
get a word into my hands, a different and unbelike, probably - 'she
fortunate fat woman', wrong word.  I think to me, I justupid.
Let not emacs meta-X dissociate-press write your romantic dialogs...!!!

Thomas Tornblom wrote:

> Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Jorgen Moquist wrote:
>> 
>> > Oh, no fingers faster than then brain, Open TeerifiX !
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> If I get enough time to make a worthwhile contribution, I moight help
>> with the PPC port (although I have another target closer to heart).
>> But complete distros I'll leave in the more than capable hands of
>> Herr Schilling et al.
> 
> I'd love to see the PPC port running on the Dreambox satellite
> receiver :-)
> 
> It is currently running linux, and AFAIK most of the sources to the
> software is available. Don't know if it would be possible/legal to
> port the receiver specific parts to Opensolaris though.

Rewrite it.  Or talk to the original author/s and get permission to port the
relevant bits and pieces to OpenSolaris, under the CDDL.

Who knows - they might well agree! ;)
> 
>> 
>> --
>> Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member
>> 
> 
> Thomas

-- 
"Good, late in to more rewarding well."  "Well, you tonight.  And I was
lookintelligent woman of Ming home.  I trust you with a tender silence."  I
get a word into my hands, a different and unbelike, probably - 'she
fortunate fat woman', wrong word.  I think to me, I justupid.
Let not emacs meta-X dissociate-press write your romantic dialogs...!!!

Marc wrote:

> "Thomas Dehn" wrote:
> 
>>>> No worries, i'm sure they'll find **something** that isn't right.
>>> Doubtless.  I'll even give 'em a freebie: it's not licensed by the GPL.
>> Are the 1000 free T-Shirts licensed by the GPL?
> 
> Well at least some people won't have noticed that at the same time 1000
> switched to 5000, the T-shirts were replaced by cool gifts...

Ah, but the t-shorts _weren't_ downloadable.  You'd think they would've come
up with _downloadable_ _t-shirts_ by now! :-)

Wesley Parish
-- 
"Good, late in to more rewarding well."  "Well, you tonight.  And I was
lookintelligent woman of Ming home.  I trust you with a tender silence."  I
get a word into my hands, a different and unbelike, probably - 'she
fortunate fat woman', wrong word.  I think to me, I justupid.
Let not emacs meta-X dissociate-press write your romantic dialogs...!!!

Rich Teer wrote:

> If I get enough time to make a worthwhile contribution, I moight help
> with the PPC port (although I have another target closer to heart).

Do tell, which target?

Thomas Tornblom wrote:

> I'd love to see the PPC port running on the Dreambox satellite
> receiver :-)

OpenSolaris on PlayStation3, anyone?

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:02:33 +0200, UNIX admin wrote:

> Rich Teer wrote:
> 
>> If I get enough time to make a worthwhile contribution, I moight help
>> with the PPC port (although I have another target closer to heart).
> 
> Do tell, which target?

Ultra 1.  Rich has mentioned it repeatedly.

In article <pan.2005.06.15.18.25.16.349419@yahoo.com>,
Dave Uhring  <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> If I get enough time to make a worthwhile contribution, I moight help
>>> with the PPC port (although I have another target closer to heart).
>> 
>> Do tell, which target?
>
>Ultra 1.  Rich has mentioned it repeatedly.

If you succeed to convince Sun to monitor le.c, check it for encumberences
and release it in case it is OK, you may already be ready with the hard 
part :-) 



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In article <d8pt7l$nqp$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
	js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
> In article <pan.2005.06.15.18.25.16.349419@yahoo.com>,
> Dave Uhring  <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> If I get enough time to make a worthwhile contribution, I moight help
>>>> with the PPC port (although I have another target closer to heart).
>>> 
>>> Do tell, which target?
>>
>>Ultra 1.  Rich has mentioned it repeatedly.
> 
> If you succeed to convince Sun to monitor le.c, check it for encumberences
> and release it in case it is OK, you may already be ready with the hard 
> part :-) 

Might be able to port the pcnet driver to sparc.
It's basically the same chip, although the bus
interfacing is obviously different.

-- 
Andrew Gabriel

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:49:25 +0000, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> In article <pan.2005.06.15.18.25.16.349419@yahoo.com>,
> Dave Uhring  <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>Ultra 1.  Rich has mentioned it repeatedly.
> 
> If you succeed to convince Sun to monitor le.c, check it for encumberences
> and release it in case it is OK, you may already be ready with the hard 
> part :-)

Would that be necessary if some developer wished to release the binaries
or even just a source code patch himself?

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:57:51 GMT, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com>
wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>For those of you that haven't already heard, OpenSolaris is
>available to everyone, today.  Now.
>
>Open source code, free compilers and tools, documentation, and
>much more is available from www.opensolaris.org.  Oh, and the
>first 1,000 visitors to opensolaris.org will get a free T shirt!

Hey, I was at the doctor's office when the announcement hit so
I missed the T shirt :)

Shouldn't there be some kind of medical exception for this kind
of thing?

This is going to be fun...

Bill
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"Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch