Database giant Oracle has established an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems. Ars takes a close look at Sun’s key open source software projects and how these could be affected by the acquisition. News: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp Database giant Oracle announced Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 per share—roughly $7.4 billion. The two companies reached an agreement after an unsuccessful bid by IBM fell short at $9.40 per share. Oracle has significantly expanded its reach over the past decade through [...]
Partitioning your hard disk using GParted GParted is THE BEST Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information. Let me give you a brief insight as to why it is the best partition manager: FEATURES: It is a GNOME based partition editor It is OpenSource It is based on Debian The size is just 95MB!! Since it is OpenSource, it is free to download and use The images and files are hosted on [...]
I have been wanting to write this post for a long time. But could not find much time for the same. Anyways Once you install Ubuntu and OpenSolaris together (on the metal installation i.e., dual boot) you will face some grub issues. There are two ways in which you can install the two operating systems: 1. Install Ubuntu first and then install OpenSolaris 2. Install OpenSolairs first and then install Ubuntu I have divided this tutuoral into two parts – [...]
Overview Sun just launched the OpenSolaris Apps of Steel Challenge. This is a great opportunity to learn about developing and porting packages. Then use your talents and participate for a chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop! The winning packages will also be showcased at the OpenSolaris Install Lounge at CommunityOne West, in San Francisco on June 1-3rd, 2009. Apart from the prizes and recognition, contributing OpenSolaris packages benefits the entire OpenSolaris community by building out the package eco-system. [...]
“Hello, Internet, and welcome to the Omegle blog! First of all, let me introduce myself. I’m Leif K-Brooks, the founder of Omegle. I’m 18 years old, and currently finishing my senior year of high school. I plan to go to college next year, majoring in computer science.” says http://omegler.blogspot.com/ Facts about Leif and Omegle: 1. He’s 18. (Yup, he’s one of those.) 2. The site has only been up for less than a week. 3. It’s written in Python, using [...]
One of the several advantages of having many GNU/Linux distributions is that there is always one distribution that meets specific needs for a group of users with similar interests. Whether you are a student or a scientist or someone who believes in some religion; you could use one of these special purpose distribution and share with people with similar interest instead of creating and customizing something from scratch. Let me share with you 10 such distribution (among many other distributions) [...]
Article from Netcraft.Com – http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/03/15/march_2009_web_server_survey.html In the March 2009 survey, netcraft.com received responses from 224,749,695 sites. This has brought the total up by more than 9 million sites, with QQ and Microsoft making the most significant contributions. Apache remains in the lead with a total of 104 million sites, while Microsoft-IIS’s gain of 3.3 million sites (mostly consisting of new Windows Live blogs) brings its total up to 66 million. After storming into the survey last month, this month sees [...]
Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming contest with a single compilation. Andrew Binstock: You are one of the fathers of the open-source revolution, even if you aren’t widely heralded as such. You previously have stated that you released TeX as open source because of the problem of proprietary [...]
April 6, 2009 Amritapuri Campus When NASA decided to build Mars Exploration Rovers at a cost of several hundred million dollars, it chose free and open source software to power the robots. Launched on the Martian surface in 2003, the rovers are still going strong today. When Amrita decided to build a complex ERP software solution for its 1300-bed specialty hospital AIMS, the decision was taken to use a free and open source operating system and database. Free and open [...]
Adobe has just released Reader for Solaris x86 (it has been available for Sparc for some time). How to install it: 1. Download the installer from http://get.adobe.com/reader/. 2. Open a terminal and make the installer executable: chmod +x Desktop/AdbeRdr9.1.0-1_i486solaris_enu.bin 3. Start the installer: avinash@avinashj:~$ pfexec ./Desktop/AdbeRdr9.1.0-1_i486solaris_enu.bin Extracting files, please wait. (This may take a while depending on the configuration of your machine) This installation requires 171 MB of free disk space. Enter installation directory for Adobe Reader 9.1.0 [/opt] /opt [...]
