Thursday May 15, 2008
Wednesday May 14, 2008
I agree. And this is a big deal for regular people like me (non-engineering types, I mean). When I started on the OpenSolaris project four years ago, I could not install the pre-Solaris 10 builds, and I struggled with subsequent versions of Solaris Express. I always had to get help. Solaris was always for pretty high end people, but that's all changed now. Actually, the install has been pretty easy for about a year now, but with OpenSolaris 2008.05 so many other things just work. Beautiful.
Tuesday May 13, 2008
Monday May 12, 2008
Sunday May 11, 2008
Take one step at a time. And small steps are best. The tiny, continuous improvements add up, though, and this is actually a very efficient way to just get things done and better in the process. Kaizen.
But Fortune seems defensive. We are supposed to "worry" about this, and we are told that American individuals "can avoid competition with Chinese workers by doing place-based work, which ranges in value from highly skilled (emergency-room surgery) to menial (pouring concrete). But the many people who do information-based work, which is most subject to competition, will have to get dramatically better to be worth what they cost. For government leaders: Improve U.S. education above all."
The first part of that paragraph is ridiculous. You can't "avoid competition" in a global economy, and I´m not "worrying" at all. Why not embrace the change as an opportunity? In fact, wouldn't be cool to live in China for a bit to check all this out first hand? Wouldn´t it be cool to learn some Chinese and interact with Chinese from their perspective for a while? I don´t see very many people in the US thinking this way about the rise of China (and India, for that matter, and some other emerging markets around the world, too). In fact, Sin-Yaw Wang has it right when he comments about the Fortune piece: "The new generation of business leaders, now in their 20s or 40s, must learn to do business in China and with Chinese. 7 years is not that long to master a language, especially when one is not even trying." I agree. And I´m reading this view (the not trying bit) over and over again. It´s defensive. Oh, well. I suppose that´s an opportunity for those who see it differently, right?
Stephen Hahn, Bart Smaalders, and Danek Duvall talk about the new OpenSolaris Image Packaging System
that enables users and developers to get the software they need when
they need it. IPS is also a new tool for community growth as
developers around the world build and maintain packages and contribute
the software to the network repository. To contribute, go to the IPS project. Saturday May 10, 2008
Can't waste even a second, eh? Humm. I wasted a lot of seconds when I was in school. Mostly on sports, but a lot in school, too. Oh, well. I'm working hard now. Next life I'll start a bit earlier.
20,000.
Thursday May 08, 2008
FOSS at Sun. It's a lot.
Wednesday May 07, 2008
Monday May 05, 2008
Here are a few more images from the 2008 OpenSolaris Summit this weekend in Santa Cruz. The summit was an excellent event. Many good sessions, but even more importantly, it was fantastic meeting all the people around the world I've been dealing with for four years now. Check in on the summit wiki in the next couple of weeks because the presos will be posted there.
Sunday May 04, 2008
Friday May 02, 2008
Thursday May 01, 2008
Wednesday Apr 30, 2008
Jesse sent around a new graphic for the OpenSolaris Developer Summit ... very nice.
Tuesday Apr 29, 2008
Well, it seems it's more than just a panel, eh? Barton has all the details -- GNU/Linux Distro Smack Down! Only at CommunityOne. Should be a lot of fun.
Update: Here are the guys from the panel last week:
Karsten Wade, Fedora; Barton George, Sun (moderator); Glynn Foster, OpenSolaris; Jono Bacon, Ubuntu; Zonker Brockmeier, OpenSUSE.
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