Is there OpenGL support in openSolaris...?

What do i have to install...?

I found nothing related in the package manager in my VM...

BRGDS

Alex

Look up "installing Freeglut on OpenSolaris".

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Hi...

thx for your answer...

I checked the link...

http://blogs.sun.com/slowhog/entry/b...on_opensolaris

after make, the thing is built, one can proceed to make install to install it... right...?

Or does one should build an SVR4 package, and install it instead...?

I am asking this because i am a newbie in Unix... i know nothing about the filesystem organization of Solaris ( open solaris ) ...

In Linux, this would land in /usr/local{lib bin include share} and would be in path, is this the same way in Unix...?

BRGDS

Alex

Yes, you generally do make install after make, to install the package.

But generally, if your distro offers a package, you should use that (unless you specifically need to build a different/custom version from source).

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Thks jrtayloriv

...I thought oracle had driven a spike through the heart of Opensolaris. What is the status now?

Oracle bought Sun and Froze the OpenSolaris development, but there are forks of the OpenSolaris code... :

OpenIndiana
Illumos
Nexenta
Schillix

among the four i reported, Schillix claims to be a self hosting project... i spun the LiveCD in a VBox VM... no avail...

I tried all of them in VMs OpenIndiana, OpenSolaris 0906, Solaris 11 Express.

I was really interested in those features, like DTrace, Zones, and ZFS/snapshots... but i cannot use a laptop without conectivity... and the breadth of available packages is much less than Debian's ( so is the task force of developers and packagers... ) so i tried to build several of my work apps in any of the three VM's , the only two i managed to build are these... http://www.dhondt.de/ ... well i need more stuff to be productive... the only commercial CAD available is proEngineer 4.0 on SPARC, not x86... several OSS equivalent apps to matlab, FemaP, Fluent, Pro Engineer failed to build... not even with the full set of GNU tools, and massive hackery, i simply cannot hack into 100s megs of source code like opencascade's...
... i give up...

It's a pitty... i think OpenSolaris forks have killer features that are unique for High availability/reliability systems ...

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Beta versions of Solaris 11 has always been released by Sun:
1) Solaris Express Developer Edition
2) Solaris Express Community Edition
3) OpenSolaris
1) and 2) was killed in favour of OpenSolaris. Now OpenSolaris has been killed and Solaris Express has been resurrected under the name "Oracle Solaris 11 Express". OpenSolaris was built on Solaris 11 source code build 134. Solaris 11 Express is built on the same source code, but version 151a. Oracle closed the Solaris 11 source code at build 148. Oracle has said it will release newer builds of the source code when Solaris 11 is finally done.

We see there have been several official Solaris 11 distros. The latest official distro is "Oracle Solaris 11 Express" - which is based on the same source code as OpenSolaris.



Now the community has forked of the Solaris 11 source code from build 148. Illumos is maintaining the Solaris kernel, it is based on build 148, Illumos is not a distro, it is just the Solaris kernel.

OpenIndiana is a distro (soon to be) using the Illumos kernel, and OpenIndiana is also using build 148. The latest offical Solaris 11 Express version is build 151a. OpenIndiana is using build 148. I am saying that OpenIndiana has took over where OpenSolaris was killed, and OpenIndiana is the community version of OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris still lives, but under another name: Solaris 11 Express.



Several of Solaris kernel/ZFS/DTrace/etc engineers quit Oracle, and joined Illumos and OpenIndiana. Recently, Illumos kernel has now new ZFS functionality that Oracle has not. Illumos founder writes:
http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2011/03/...csi-unmap.html
But Oracle is free to grab that new ZFS source code and incorporate that into Solaris 11 if Oracle wishes, under CDDL license.

If you want to run the closest thing to "Oracle Solaris 11" then you run OpenIndiana.

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Not really! OpenIndiana. Nexenta and Schillix are OpenSolaris distros. In fact, one can say that OpenIndiana
is the last release of OpenSolaris. Now Illumos is an effort to build an new kernel that will be 100% free.
The OpenSolaris kernel was not 100% free since it used some closed-source components. Illumos is already
here as on can get it and build it. In the very near future, Illumos will be the kernel
in OpenIndiana. Currently, one can get development releases of OpenIndiana/Illumos for testing purposes.
BTW, Oracle did not froze development; it closed-sourced the OS. One can easily download
the closed source version of OpenSolaris called Solaris 11 Express from Oracle's web site. Roughly speaking,
it is free only for non-commercial use.

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I have a VM with it... still buggy... alacarte is broken, installed ndis and ndisapi in its default folders in a Solaris 11 Express in a USB HDD, now this refuses to boot...

When is next release of Open Indiana scheduled to happen...?

Well I have stopped using Solaris 11 Express. I have installed in one machine (real one!) and
that is all. On the other hand, I have installed OpenIndiana on a number of machines (again real
ones) and they work like a charm! All machines have the "standard" tools (MPlayer, Xine, wine,
Firefox with mplayer-plugins etc., pidgin, mono, etc.). As far it regards the release date of
the next release, I can only speculate that it will happen before summer.

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And may i ask where you got wine package....?

Did you build this from source...?

I built this, http://www.dhondt.de/ from source, and Grace, http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/

I am currently trying to build gmsh, http://geuz.org/gmsh/ netgen, http://sourceforge.net/projects/netgen-mesher/, BRLCAD, http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/, Code saturne, http://research.edf.com/research-and...rne-80058.html, Syrthes, http://research.edf.com/research-and...hes-44340.html

Scilab is a bit buggy, but is workable, so is Octave...

If i do not have these packages, i cannot work...

Plus... Under Linux, i build most of my CPU Hogs with intel compilers... how would you rate the performance of SunStudio against Intel Compilers...?

Is it worth the effort of porting the software...?

ZFS and Snapshots are killer features...

Sorry if this isn't all that relevant anymore, but...

It's funny; I've tried both OSOL and OI in VirtualBox, and Compiz (which for all intents and purposes is basically a fullscreen OpenGL program) is included and works OOB after installing VB Guest Additions.



EDIT: I've also tried the OI LiveDVD on my physical desktop machine, and Compiz works OOB w/ the NVIDIA driver there, too.

Yes and some of these packages I have built are available from

http://www.sunfreepacks.com



Well these are not exactly "standard" applications. Of course this does not mean that
they are not useful applications.


I have used Linux many years ago but sun studio produces very fast code comprared to gcc:

http://blogs.sun.com/BestPerf/entry/...s_nehalem_race

Yes I think so.

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Well if your machine has an Intel Core i3/i5 and a motherboard enabling the HD thing, then Compiz work out of the box.