Session persistance on BeleniX LiveUSB

I've been working on BeleniX session persistence for some time, and have completed the overall initial framework.

The usbdump script to create the LiveUSB can be downloaded here.

Click read more for a semi-detailed explanation.
 

Code for freedom

India gained freedom 60 years ago. To commemorate this event, Sun has launched the "Code for Freedom" contest. This is open to all graduate/undergraduate studets in India. The contest will run for 6 months (upto Feb 08).

The prizes include

• Sun Workstations/Laptops for the grand prize.
• iPods Shuffles for significant contributors.
• USB sticks for early bird prizes.
• T-shirts for each valid submission.
• Sun hardware for university with the most worthwhile contribution.
  

You can choose to do your project in any of the following technologies depending on your interest:

Technology	Type of project	Interests
OpenSolaris	Work on solving bugs here. Solve as many as possible. Try to take on an easy one first and then try to move up the complexity.	C/C++, Operating system, Unix
Project GlassFish	Improve Project GlassFish by submitting bug reports, bug fixes, enhancement requests, code, documents and localizations. Click on the left link for more details	Java, Servlets, Client-Server model.
NetBeans	Code, Bugs and Documentation for the Netbeans IDE. This is one place where non-technical users can contribute in the form of tutorials, help pages, etc.	IDEs, Java, Netbeans.
Apache Derby	Putback code into the Apache derby codebase. Derby is a complete relational-database implementation with a very small footprint written fully in Java.	Java, Database
Open Portal	Portlets, Bugs, RFEs, Documentation. Work on the technologies (listed in link). Help with the integration with Netbeans.	Java, website, remote accesss

A suggestion to fellow students. Select your project depending upon your interest. It wont matter if you haven't contributed in the field/project before. This contest is meant to be that bridge. Once you have a topic selected, join all the appropriate mailing lists and IRC channels. Download the relevant source code and look through it. Once you have an idea of the flow of code, you can start with the actual coding. Be sure to learn how to ask questions on a mailing-list. The folks who work on your selected project will be more than happy to help you.

Go here for complete contest guidelines. You can take a look at the rules and FAQ.

Drop any queries you have below.

Welcome to free software. Happy coding!

BeleniX FanSpeak!

A video is probably worth a million words. So here goes:

 

Bosug Hackathon

The even went as planned and we had a great time. We came up with 35 spec files :)

The details are here. The pizza was good, the interaction was great. Wiht a large percentage of the participants being students (including myself), we learned a lot at his event. A 'thank you' goes to Shivakumar for organizing the event. Looking forward to more such.

I wrote the spec files for gnomad2 and its library dependencies.. and now you can easily connect and manage your creative music players on solaris :)

PS : I know Madhu took pictures, so if someone knows where they're uploaded, could you post the links here?

First ever opensolaris Hackathon (..that I know of)

 
A bunch of us at BOSUG, and few others around the world, will be participating in the first ever hackathon in OpenSolaris land. Its a 10-4 event on the upcoming Saturday.

Topic for Hackathon: Writing SFE spec files for open source software and contributing back to pkgbuild/specfiles repository. Most of these will be software already into BeleniX (..the BOSUG sweetheart!).

This event is being organized by BOSUGians Shivakumar and Ananth. Collect very good tutorials on pkgbuild and the GNU toolchain.

Around 20 members are participating in the event, with the ambitious target of 15 spec files per head. That should be close to 300 new spec files if we reach the expected results! The current repository is around 400 files big.

The discussions for the hackathon have been taking place at belenix-discuss. Join in to participate in this fun community.

Thats it for now. Will update later on how the event went.