Sunny Affairs

I have finally created my blog at blogs.sun.com so from now on most of my posts will feature in this new blog.

http://blogs.sun.com/souvik

But surely, every now and then I'll continue to show up on this blog.

Solaris or Linux??

After interacting with some of my fellow students at college, I realize that Solaris vs Linux is one of the hot topics. People who want to try out other operating systems and some of them who want to work on UNIX end up picking up one of the linux distros esp Fedora or Ubuntu. And unfortunately every new batch of students just stick on to this choice without much consideration, mostly because they are unaware of the other OS options and also because their peers/seniors have a copy of these linux distros. In this post I am not asking them to undo their decision but instead just refering to a healthy (factual) comparison between Solaris and RedHat.

Have a look at this blog entry by Bill Vass.

Also here is a comparison chart that you should have a look at. Feel free to comment on his blog/maybe mine too if you find any correction.

Everything FOSS.IN

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FOSS.IN Website

And haan dont miss the Sun's Official FOSS.IN Blog

Netbeans 6.0

Hey Netbeans 6.0 is all ready for download.

I dont know about the other platforms, but the Mac OS X version seems to be more "responsive" than the beta 2 which is a good thing. The launch time is also a bit less.. about 11.48 secs!! Go get a copy.

Download it here

Firefox 2.0.0.11

Mozilla two updates in a very short interval of time.

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.11/contrib/

docs.sun.com

docs.sun.com has a new blog

http://blogs.sun.com/dsc

So stay upto-date with the latest developments made in docs.sun.com

Solaris packages

Three links that would be immensely useful forsolaris beginners (like me).

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html and its host website http://www.bolthole.com/

http://www.blastwave.org/

http://sunfreeware.com/