Alan Hargreaves posted a list of highlights in Solaris Express 6/04, and the What's New in Solaris 10 Beta 4 docs are posted on docs.sun.com now (S10 Beta 4 and...
Alan Hargreaves posted a list of highlights in Solaris Express 6/04, and the What's New in Solaris 10 Beta 4 docs are posted on docs.sun.com now (S10 Beta 4 and Solaris Express 6/04 are both the same s10_58 build of Solaris 10, just different release mechanisms), but I often find the changes I most like are the little ones not listed in the highlights and major new fixes list. For this release, my favorite changes since the previous (s10_55) are (in no particular order):...
Alan Hargreaves posted a list of highlights in Solaris Express 6/04, and the What's New in Solaris 10 Beta 4 docs are posted on docs.sun.com now (S10 Beta 4 and Solaris Express 6/04 are both the same...
We've been talking for a bit now on the Xorg release-wranglers calls and mailing lists (and at the recent X Developer's Conference) about what should be in the...
We've been talking for a bit now on the Xorg release-wranglers calls and mailing lists (and at the recent X Developer's Conference) about what should be in the future releases of the Xorg distribution. We've tossed around the idea having another release sometime this summer, but nothing has been decided for sure yet. Some of these are already in either branches off the Xorg CVS tree on freedestkop.org or in the experimental Xserver CVS tree on freedesktop.org. Features that...
We've been talking for a bit now on the Xorg release-wranglers calls and mailing lists (and at the recent X Developer's Conference) about what should be in the future releases of the...
I suppose I should finally get around to explaining who I am for those who don't already know me. Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and...
I suppose I should finally get around to explaining who I am for those who don't already know me. Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste... wait, scratch that. I've got neither of those. Let me try again. Born on a mountaintop in, erm, well, Nevada. (Not literally on a mountaintop - in a nice little hospital in a valley between two mountain ranges about 6500 feet above sea level.) I grew up in various places in Nevada, Utah, and California, ranging...
I suppose I should finally get around to explaining who I am for those who don't already know me. Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste... wait, scratch that. I've got...
I've had to answer this question a bit lately, so I figure I might as well post the answer I wrote up for the solarisx86 yahoogroups list here as well...it's a...
I've had to answer this question a bit lately, so I figure I might as well post the answer I wrote up for the solarisx86 yahoogroups list here as well...it's a bit disjointed being the merger of two posts to two lists, but hopefully it answers the questions most people have. What are the differences between Xorg and XFree86? From a technical standpoint, right now, not much - X.Org's X11R6.7.0 release and XFree86's 4.4 release are very very close to the same code. The biggest...
I've had to answer this question a bit lately, so I figure I might as well post the answer I wrote up for the solarisx86 yahoogroups list here as well...it's a bit disjointed being the merger of...
The Sun home page has an interview with Hideya Kawahara highlighting his recent selection by Infoworld as one of their "Innovators to Watch in 2005." I got a...
The Sun home page has an interview with Hideya Kawahara highlighting his recent selection by Infoworld as one of their "Innovators to Watch in 2005." I got a chance to talk with Hideya quite a bit at the recent X Developer's Conference and he's actually a really nice guy, and seems almost embarrassed by all this attention over what started out as a spare time hobby-type project. I know a lot of people, including me, have wondered how 3-D will enhance the desktop, and even put...
The Sun home page has an interview with Hideya Kawahara highlighting his recent selection by Infoworld as one of their "Innovators to Watch in 2005." I got a chance to talk with Hideya quite a bit at...
At least that's what I'm going to claim the photo at the top of my blog is, since I chose this new theme simply because I liked the photo and the look of the...
At least that's what I'm going to claim the photo at the top of my blog is, since I chose this new theme simply because I liked the photo and the look of the blog skin, not because of any symbolism. (Though I suppose I could try to claim something like before every sunrise there is a sunset, so it's just part of the cycle, like the ebbs and tides of the economic cycles, but thats putting way too much thought into it.) After playing with the themes, I've now realized it's been...
At least that's what I'm going to claim the photo at the top of my blog is, since I chose this new theme simply because I liked the photo and the look of the blog skin, not because of any...
A recent blog by Alec Muffet on his Usenet history inspired me (well, gave me an excuse to procrastinate, but close enough) to see what I could find of my own...
A recent blog by Alec Muffet on his Usenet history inspired me (well, gave me an excuse to procrastinate, but close enough) to see what I could find of my own history - the oldest archived post Google Groups seems to be able to find for me is this post to comp.sys.mac.system on Nov. 7, 1990, which would have been my first semester at Berkeley. (Amazingly enough, one of the two e-mail addresses in my .sig will still reach me, though I don't check it very often, since it's...
A recent blog by Alec Muffet on his Usenet history inspired me (well, gave me an excuse to procrastinate, but close enough) to see what I could find of my own history - the oldest archived post Google...
Hey, it's Alan! No, not me, Alan DuBoff, Solaris x86 Evangelist and Community Liason, who is now featured in an interview on the Sun.COM website. (It's always...
Hey, it's Alan! No, not me, Alan DuBoff, Solaris x86 Evangelist and Community Liason, who is now featured in an interview on the Sun.COM website. (It's always so confusing when I go to one of the installfests he runs to help get Sun users laptops & PC's converted to Solaris x86 and people start calling out "Alan help me!" It probably doesn't help when people tell those needing help to "go find Alan - the big guy with dark hair, glasses, and a beard" - since that describes...
Hey, it's Alan! No, not me, Alan DuBoff, Solaris x86 Evangelist and Community Liason, who is now featured in an interview on the Sun.COM website. (It's always so confusing when I go to one of...
Back from the conference now and trying to finish putting together all my thoughts while fighting jetlag and a nasty hay fever/allergies attack. The final day...
Back from the conference now and trying to finish putting together all my thoughts while fighting jetlag and a nasty hay fever/allergies attack. The final day went through toolkit and other client-sides issues in the morning, including talks on Cairo, Motif (yes, it is still alive!), and GTK. Cairo is a new graphics rendering library, based on a PostScript-like model but designed to support SVG easily and well. It's not reached widespread adoption yet, but looks like it may...
Back from the conference now and trying to finish putting together all my thoughts while fighting jetlag and a nasty hay fever/allergies attack. The final day went through toolkit and other...
