HPC but no OpenSolaris ??

One could question why are these not delivered with OpenSolaris..

http://www.cray.com/Products/CX1/Product/Software.aspx

http://www.cray.com/Assets/Demos/cx1/index.html

We need to pick up the demand for OpenSolaris on things such as this market !

~

VirtualBox 2.0.2 is out !!!

I highly recommend people upgrade to this release, in particular Solaris hosts.
As this rev. seems to have solved a kernel panic I had from vbox :/

Downloads here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
and
Release Notes here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

~
Edward.

Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100/5300 Driver in ON 99.

yay for the integration of the Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100/5300 Driver in ON/Net 99.
Looking forward to snv_99 updated LiveCD ISO.

Regards,
Edward.

Google's Chrome Browser.

I had a email from a dear friend of mine today about where we should be skeptical about Google's new Browser.

So I though I would share my reply and analysis of it:

"
2008/9/3 Neil :
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008154594_googlebrowser030.html
>
> What gives????
>
> This undermines FF!
>
> --
> All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for
> electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts,
> presentations and word processing documents from this email address.
> The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to
> read international standards and who use proprietary products such as
> MS Office.
> See: http://www.openoffice.org/
>
> Neil

I'm fine with it; Its built on Webkit which is open source. It promotes competition which intern promotes innovation !

98% of FF users will not change over as FF is clearly technically a better browser.
However, we need all the *strength* we can get, Google inc. to bring Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a 'responsible' market share. No one browser is going to be able to do it on its own.

Hense we have:
*Opera
*FF
*Chrome - http://webkit.org/
*Konquer - http://webkit.org/
*Safari <-- Retard Browser (For Mac and PC). - http://webkit.org/

About the only problem I have with it, is that its a Windows only application. However I can see Google's logic, and that is, to target a very particular market segment, that is, to take away IE's market share from the Windows OS platform.

Regards,
"

Please *do* comment with your views,
Edward.

VirtualBox 1.6.6 is out !!

VirtualBox 1.6.6 (released 2008-08-26)
A *must* for any snv_95+ user due to the fix for strange linker issue that was seen.
yay!
Change Logs here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
and
Download here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Regards,
Edward.

Broadcom 5722 NIC support under Solaris.

<6726056>
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6726056
http://cia.vc/stats/project/opensolaris/.message/33f940

snv_97>.

Installing Sun Studio 12 on Ubuntu 8.04.1

This is really just a quick HOWTO on installing Sun Studio 12 on Ubuntu 8.04.1 or Xubuntu for that matter.

Here is a quick Overview of the Sun Studio tool chain and IDE.
===============================================

"Sun[tm] Studio 12 software, available for free on Solaris and Linux
platforms, includes the following:

Parallelizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers
Code-level debugger
Memory debugger
Performance profiling
OpenMP support
IDE
Optimized libraries
Thread analysis"

===============================================
Anyway;

Download yourself the tarfile version of the installer from (Hint:Click "Free Download"):
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/index.jsp

Then update your box so its current and run this;
$ sudo apt-get install netbeans gawk scons

Make sure you in the current dir of the downloaded tar file (Hint:Make a new dir and stick the tar inside as we are going to expand it);

$ bunzip2 -cd SunStudio12ml-linux-x86-200709-ii.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -

$ mv SunStudio12ml-linux-x86-200709-ii.tar.bz2 ../
$ sudo mv sunstudio12 /opt/
$ sudo mv lib /opt/
$ sudo mv netbeans-5.5.1 /opt/

And that should be all !

To run;

$ /opt/sunstudio12/bin/sunstudio &

If you like, you can,

* Add the following to your PATH environment variable:
/opt/sunstudio12/bin

* Add the following to your MANPATH environment variable:
/opt/sunstudio12/man


If anyone has a better way please *do* comment.
Thanks,
Edward.