Debian Creator Joins Sun ! March 21, 2007
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The Founder of Debian, Ian Murdock has joined Sun as the Chief Operating Platform Strategist. Here is the scoop from “The Register”. Apparently the name Debian is a conjunction of “Deb” and “Ian”. Deb being Ian’s girlfriend 
Welcome aboard captain !
Burn ‘em on the stake ! March 19, 2007
Posted by Ananth in General, Rants.3 comments
It is impossible to be dispassionate about cricket if you are an Indian. The Indian Cricket Team’s stunning (?) loss to Bangladesh in the ongoing World Cup has given everybody something to talk about.
Wanted - Dtracers ! March 8, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Computer Science, Open Source, Programming.add a comment
Are you good at Dtrace ? You might have a job in hand ! Here is something that appeared in the Times of India supplement yesterday.
Its a pleasant surprise that DTrace is now a hot job skill in the Indian Market too ! Of course it helps to know the similar family of tools like CodeAnalyst, VTune, oprofile, valgrind, SystemTap, Perftools ….
Get OpenSolaris Shipped - FREE ! March 4, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Open Source, Operating Systems, Solaris, Sun.2 comments
Ubuntu took the “free” operating system principle to an altogether different level by shipping CDs free to anyone who requested it. Now OpenSolaris is doing the same to reach out to developers who cannot download gigabytes of ones and zeros.
