Joseph George's Weblog Joe's Soap Box

Thanks to Ananth, I got to hear of this article on competition for Sun Blackbox. The article also has an interesting rumour on Sun buying Rackable. 

Hot news! If you are interested in OpenSolaris LiveCD or LiveUSB, this would be of intrest to you. Dave Miner just announced some new features to the LiveMedia toolkit.

From Dave's email to the livemedia-discuss:
The changes I've just pushed include a whole new set of support for
generating USB memory stick images in addition to the DVD ISO.  I must
admit up front that the non-ZFS build of the USB stuff hasn't been
tested lately so there may well be breakage there.  The USB build and
copy method here is slightly different than the work that Anil did for
Belenix, but has the big advantage that creating each stick is about as
fast as it can be (about 11 minutes for a stick without the developer
tools on my Tecra M5); usbcopy should also be capable of copying from
one USB stick to another, though I haven't tried it.
Thanks to Moinak for the changes supporting the nvidia driver and the
dynamic driver_aliases.



This project is my personal favorite of all OpenSolaris projects. Imagine the number of people who are exposed to all the cool new features of OpenSolaris through BeleniX and other LiveCDs. I have personally booted BeleniX in front of some skeptics and it was easier to make them look at dtrace, zfs and zones. Some of them reluctantly agreed that Solaris is much ahead of competition. 

I wish more folks would contribute to this project and win more converts to the OpenSolaris community!

Play with Solaris and Sun Studio and win $5000/-. Go to 'Temple of the Sun'. Sorry, Sun employees need not apply. But, please spread the message along to developers you know. 

I have been meaning to check out Second Life for a long time. I did finally get up to it. Here is the Sun virtual press conference in Second Life. 

Hilarious.. Very creative uses for those energy hungry servers out there.