OpenSolaris is out….
Lot of improvement is done and the latest release is out for download
To download the OpenSolaris, click on the image below:
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OpenSolaris 2008.05
Posted on May 16, 2008 by Avinash Joshi
We Win the Code For Freedom Contest.
Posted on February 21, 2008 by Avinash Joshi
As I had mentioned in my previous posts that I participated in the Code For Freedom Contest (a technical debugging contest) Conducted by Sun Microsystems over the past few months. This an India wide Contest conducted by Sun.
My dear friend Rishi M Nair and I backed the Grand Prize in this contest. Sun Microsystems invited [...]
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Report of a bug in solaris – splash image missing
Posted on December 28, 2007 by Avinash Joshi
I recently installed the Solaris build 79 and found a small bug in it.
During the installation part of solaris, a few splash images as slides come up.
The images are given below :
Just check the last picture.
The slide image is not shown at all!!!!!!
Please do check this out.
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Contributing to OpenSolaris Source code – Mini How to
Posted on December 26, 2007 by Avinash Joshi
Contributing to OpenSolaris Source code – Mini How to
Updating the files…..
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Easy install bundle for compiz fusion 0.6 + emerald 0.5.2
Posted on December 17, 2007 by Avinash Joshi
Easy install bundle for compiz fusion 0.6 + emerald 0.5.2
Thanks to Albert’s port, updated version of compiz and compiz-fusion are available in the spec-file-extra repository
You’ll find below a new easy install bundle of compiz 0.6.2, compiz-fusion 0.6.2 and emerald 0.5.2 for Solaris build 75a (and later) based distro.
You can check if [...]
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3D desktop : Compiz fusion 0.5.2 easy install for Solaris
Posted on December 17, 2007 by Avinash Joshi
3D desktop : Compiz fusion 0.5.2 easy install for Solaris
Information from: http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/
Compiz 0.5.2 and compiz fusion 0.5.2 are now available as a one step install script for solaris x86.
Compiz fusion is the result of the compiz-beryl merge. It includes all the extra plugins available for 0.5.0 plus many many more !
Compiz fusion also delivered a [...]
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What is Compiz?
Posted on December 17, 2007 by Avinash Joshi
What is Compiz?
Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE.
Window management has never looked so enticing: Through OpenGL accelerated compositing, Compiz provides tons of new visual effects. It’s also flexible [...]
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Bug ID: 6613845 —- My first bug fix accepted
Posted on October 28, 2007 by Avinash Joshi
Hi all of you..
I am really happy..My first bug was accepted!!!!!
I will just brief you all about the bug. I hope you understand what i post here..
Synopsis of this bug is ( link to the bug ): setlog(), daemonize_start() should use STD{ERR,OUT}_FILENO constantsBug description:
In a couple [...]
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Code For Freedom
Posted on October 1, 2007 by Avinash Joshi
Sun’s Code for freedom contest
I recently participated in the “Code For Freedom” contest which is basically about fixing, reporting a bug in Open Solaris (Solaris is now open which is called as Open Solaris). You can also submit/request for an enhancement in the operating system.
I recently fixed some bugs in solaris OS.
I will put up [...]
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