Its time for opensolaris:) .

After a long list of dektops and GNU/Linux variants now i just moved over to Opensolaris and i must tell you it looks impressive .I had with me the starter-kit i got from Foss.in and the installation was smooth on my HP NX500 laptop .

On login ,the desktops offered were GNOME and CDE ,being a gnome lover i immediateky chose GNOME desktop and i loved the look and feel of it .It was really nice to see GNOME2.14 in it ,i remember i had downloaded solaris10 sometime ago and saw gnome1.xx in it :( .

One difference here is that GNU tools are not added to your path by default so ,dont be shocked if you type gcc and it screams “gcc command not found ” ;) .

just add export PATH=$PATH:/sfw and you can access all the GNU tools and i then wanted to build ldtp on it and once i did with ./configure i realised make wasnt found :( .i tried looking for it in many places and still didnt find .

Only to later realise when i pinged bala that its actually gmake :).

Opensolaris certainly is feel good experience but i would love to do more than just use become a opensolaris hacker soon :) and i would want to work on accessibility tools,since thats something i do understand a lot better thanks to ldtp

but i was disappointed was i could not find any package updater or package maintainer installed i loved the apt-gets and yums so much :( and i dont know how to do updates . wish there was repository ! :(

update: Bala just gave me a link to package maintainer in opensolaris ,it doesnt come with the distro but can be seperately downloaded from http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html

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Go to any URL and type the below line in the address bar and there you go ! edit the contents of the page :)

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Really cool trick . :)

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The last date for registering for the mega event is just 24 hrs from now ;)

If you want to register go here .

Not to be missed :)

Iam right there on all 3 days ;)

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$ :(){ :|:& };:

The most beautiful piece of code you can find except for the fact ,it runs your computer oout of memory and makes you to reboot. I have tried this over and here is it how it works ..

:() --> Declaring a  function (myfunc() {  process } )

:|:& –> instantiate the fucntion “:” and pipe the output to another call of that function and make the process run in background by using “&” .

;: -->terminate the function  and the first call to function ":" is made :) .

Looks nice doesnt it

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