Category: Other Opensource

Vizag Trip Summary

16 Dec
Raju Alluri Java, Other Opensource, Solaris/Unix, Sun Management Center, Technical

On Monday and Tuesday I spent my time in Vizag, visiting Andhra University. We had a decent time given with Vice Chancellor, Principals of the colleges and Heads of some key departments. The entire discussion is centered around the benefits of using Open Source products and Sun’s key role in the opensource community. We talked about OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, OpenSparc, OpenJDK, NetBeans, etc. The preso is well received. However, we had only about 30-45 minutes to talk about the technologies. After that, we opened it up for Q&A and it is a very interesting and inquisitive discussion to some details.

After the meeting, Vardhini and myself spent some time with Prof. Apparao, Principal of College or Engineering. We took forward the previous discussion and talked about some key requirements of the college.

Then we went on to meet Prof. KVSVN Raju and Vallikumari of CS & E. We also met Ramprasad from SRKR engg. college. The discussion is centered around the recently introduced M.Tech. courses and how we can use opensource technologies in them.

Overall, it is a very good trip. Since the place is not well connected by flights, we spent an extra day during travel. Otherwise, it would have been a short and sweet one.

All-In-One USB Card Reader with OpenSolaris

20 Nov
Raju Alluri 0 Comment Other Opensource, Solaris/Unix, Technical

I was pretty much using my Nikon Digital Camera’s Compact Flash card with the built-in USB cable of the camera in the past. Recenty, I got a Canon Digital Camera with a SD card. Got tired with having need to carry the camera and its cables. So I bought a All-In-One USB Card Reader yesterday, which supports CF, CF-II, SD, MiniSD, xD and several other formats of MemoryStick. Tried the reader with OpenSolaris and it worked like a charm! The automount worked fine and data transfer from/to the card is fast enough.

Slashdotters on Java Opensourcing

13 Nov
Raju Alluri 0 Comment Java, Other Opensource, Technical

Here is the thread on Slashdot regarding Sun’s Opensourcing of Java that makes a very interesting read. Some interesting quotes:

Wow.

This is a historical day.

That is all.

and

Wow! Despite all the rumours, I never really believed Sun would release Java under GPL instead of CDDL. Hats off to Sun.

and

This will remove, at a stroke, one of the largest issues of licence trouble in the *nix world.

and

Well, on a more practical note, this means that within a few months, I should be seeing a real, complete, working JRE sitting in the main repositories for Debian and Ubuntu. Sweet. We no longer have to go and fetch it ourselves or experiment with incomplete toolkits.

For the ideologues, knowing that there’s one less piece of non-free software on your system is a real comfort. For me, personally, all that apparently remains are ATI drivers and Flash Player.

Well, by the time I post it, there will be lot more interesting posts. Read the story on Slashdot!