Every Computer Science graduate will recognize whats cool in this number plate. This is my new obsession. Collect number plates pic that seem quite geekish. :)
So did u recognize ??
Pretty geekish
Every Computer Science graduate will recognize whats cool in this number plate. This is my new obsession. Collect number plates pic that seem quite geekish. :)
So did u recognize ??
Open Source is Everywhere
I went for a two day trip to guest house in pollachi away from city pollution, work and tension. It is a decent town and climate was amazing. I some how managed to stay away from my x86 for more than 48 hours. Near our guest house was a good restaurant named "Hotel Samson". I used to go there often to get some eatables now and then. The restaurant owner Mr. George Varghese who is in his late 50's became quite friendly to me and served us very well everytime we went there.
Mr. Varghese has a hobby of collecting photos and put it in his hotel. Out of 20 odd framed pics I happened to see a frame of a familiar looking long bearded guy wearing an odd cap , strange robes and posing like blessing someone. I instantly recognized him as Richar Stallman. I went to ask Mr. Varghese as though I did not recognize the person in pic. He patiently explained me entire story of how the pic came there and also gave me gyan on Open Source, FOSS related stuffs [though I knew those stuffs, but felt good hearing from a fellow supporter :) ].
It is surprising that Open Source has spread to such an extent and its supporters are everywhere around the world. Before leaving the place I did meet Mr. Varghese again. He is really cool old chap.
Hail Open Source !!!
Mr. Varghese has a hobby of collecting photos and put it in his hotel. Out of 20 odd framed pics I happened to see a frame of a familiar looking long bearded guy wearing an odd cap , strange robes and posing like blessing someone. I instantly recognized him as Richar Stallman. I went to ask Mr. Varghese as though I did not recognize the person in pic. He patiently explained me entire story of how the pic came there and also gave me gyan on Open Source, FOSS related stuffs [though I knew those stuffs, but felt good hearing from a fellow supporter :) ].
It is surprising that Open Source has spread to such an extent and its supporters are everywhere around the world. Before leaving the place I did meet Mr. Varghese again. He is really cool old chap.
Hail Open Source !!!
Linux vs FreeBSD vs OpenSolaris
I found this excerpt from this blog I was going through "One of the more interesting aspects of the three OSes is the amount of similarities between them. Once you get past the different naming conventions, each OS takes fairly similar paths toward implementing the different concepts."
I decided to try all these UNIX variants too. I have already been using Kubuntu, Linux Distribution. It was time to try Solaris and freeBSD. I got freeBSD7 DVD with an IT Magazine. I ordered for OpenSolaris DVD via their home site. I also download Mandriva 2008 Spring Linux Distribution.
With all these 3 DVD's in hand I felt like a real tester who going to test the distributions in and out. ;) I first tried installing freeBSD7 from the DVD. Being familiar with Linux installation, I assumed freeBSD installation will be similar to it. But to my dismay, I was struggling in the installation process. Keyboard, mouse, and other hardware detection was quite ok. When it came to Hard Disk partition, freeBSD did not present me with any Graphical partitioner. I did not want to risk destroying my data, so I withdrew the installation process itself. Now I felt freeBSD is not that easy to play with or I am not upto the level to try this distribution.
Next comes OpenSolaris. After failing freeBSD test, I took out the OpenSolaris DVD. The DVD consisted of Belenix live CD, Nexenta Install, Schillix Live CD. Inserting the DVD during boot presented me with lotssss of options like, Nexenta Install (32 bit), Nexenta Install (No milestone), Belenix 32 -bit, Belenix Live CD, Schillix 32-bit, etc. There were around 12-15 options to choose from. I chose Nexenta Install 32-bit and loading began. Like freeBSD, same kind of install menu came up. Keyboard, mouse, and other hardware detection was quite ok here also. I faced the same problem of Hard-disk partitioning here also. OpenSolaris does have GUI partitioner but that some how failed to load saying "you do not have any 'solaris2' partition." Here too I did not want to risk my data so I withdrew the installation.
Next comes Mandriva Linux Distribution. 2008 Spring had lot to offer and I have DVD which has both Gnome & KDE. I inserted the DVD. The grub loader took control and showed a neat graphical menu with just few required options. I chose 'Install ... ' and same procedure like other two previous installations followed, but it was much better. I had no problem in partitioning my hard-disk and creating swap partition too. Jus few clicks and options Mandriva took control and started its job. The installation was done in 30mins. Everything was smooth and cool.
But here also the biggest problem I faced was that Mandriva by default enables IPv6 and this makes your broadband much slower than dial-up. This took me time to sort out.
I as an END-USER concluded,
But one thing is common to all. They have given M$ run for money. :)
I decided to try all these UNIX variants too. I have already been using Kubuntu, Linux Distribution. It was time to try Solaris and freeBSD. I got freeBSD7 DVD with an IT Magazine. I ordered for OpenSolaris DVD via their home site. I also download Mandriva 2008 Spring Linux Distribution.
With all these 3 DVD's in hand I felt like a real tester who going to test the distributions in and out. ;) I first tried installing freeBSD7 from the DVD. Being familiar with Linux installation, I assumed freeBSD installation will be similar to it. But to my dismay, I was struggling in the installation process. Keyboard, mouse, and other hardware detection was quite ok. When it came to Hard Disk partition, freeBSD did not present me with any Graphical partitioner. I did not want to risk destroying my data, so I withdrew the installation process itself. Now I felt freeBSD is not that easy to play with or I am not upto the level to try this distribution.
Next comes OpenSolaris. After failing freeBSD test, I took out the OpenSolaris DVD. The DVD consisted of Belenix live CD, Nexenta Install, Schillix Live CD. Inserting the DVD during boot presented me with lotssss of options like, Nexenta Install (32 bit), Nexenta Install (No milestone), Belenix 32 -bit, Belenix Live CD, Schillix 32-bit, etc. There were around 12-15 options to choose from. I chose Nexenta Install 32-bit and loading began. Like freeBSD, same kind of install menu came up. Keyboard, mouse, and other hardware detection was quite ok here also. I faced the same problem of Hard-disk partitioning here also. OpenSolaris does have GUI partitioner but that some how failed to load saying "you do not have any 'solaris2' partition." Here too I did not want to risk my data so I withdrew the installation.
Next comes Mandriva Linux Distribution. 2008 Spring had lot to offer and I have DVD which has both Gnome & KDE. I inserted the DVD. The grub loader took control and showed a neat graphical menu with just few required options. I chose 'Install ... ' and same procedure like other two previous installations followed, but it was much better. I had no problem in partitioning my hard-disk and creating swap partition too. Jus few clicks and options Mandriva took control and started its job. The installation was done in 30mins. Everything was smooth and cool.
But here also the biggest problem I faced was that Mandriva by default enables IPv6 and this makes your broadband much slower than dial-up. This took me time to sort out.
I as an END-USER concluded,
- freeBSD, OpenSolaris are little difficult to install
- I need less option to choose from, as am not a 'real-geek' to know how many cylinders, tracks are present on my hard-disk.
- Linux can be rightly given status of 'Desktop-OS'
But one thing is common to all. They have given M$ run for money. :)
