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...
I'm in Boston this week for the X Developer's Conference. It's been a very interesting time - good to meet many people, some that I've talked to before on the...
I'm in Boston this week for the X Developer's Conference. It's been a very interesting time - good to meet many people, some that I've talked to before on the phone or e-mail, others that I haven't.I won't summarize the talks - Federico Mena-Quintero is doing that in his blog. The environment isn't quite what I expected, but is working well. The meetings are broadcast via audio & webcam feeds across the net - there's an IRC channel #xdevconf on the freenode network for...
I'm in Boston this week for the X Developer's Conference. It's been a very interesting time - good to meet many people, some that I've talked to before on the phone or e-mail, others that I...
Here goes...my first post to the blog outside the Sun firewall. I've been blogging a little bit inside the Sun firewall but haven't really gotten into it that...
Here goes...my first post to the blog outside the Sun firewall. I've been blogging a little bit inside the Sun firewall but haven't really gotten into it that much - it's hard to think of many things that I think many other people would find interesting (at least that I can talk about publically), but it seems from talking to others there may be a few more than I think. We'll see how this goes. After 5 years of posting to Usenet from a non-Sun address to avoid any issues with...
Here goes...my first post to the blog outside the Sun firewall. I've been blogging a little bit inside the Sun firewall but haven't really gotten into it that much - it's hard to think of many...
[Originally posted to my blog inside the Sun firewall and migrated later to blogs.sun.com]After spending way too many hours in the airport yesterday, we finally...
[Originally posted to my blog inside the Sun firewall and migrated later to blogs.sun.com]After spending way too many hours in the airport yesterday, we finally got to the hotel in Cambridge last night at 11:30 pm local time. Our flight was suppossed to leave SFO at 7:20 am - but the plane was an hour and a half late coming in from LAX since they had to change the tires down there. After loading us and taxiing out to the runway, we sat there for almost an hour before they...
[Originally posted to my blog inside the Sun firewall and migrated later to blogs.sun.com]After spending way too many hours in the airport yesterday, we finally got to the hotel in Cambridge...
