BeleniX 0.7

BeleniX 0.7 has been released just a few seconds ago.

http://www.belenix.org/

This is the most kick-ass version of BeleniX ever. Among the most important features is the ability to install it to the hard disk and use it as a regular desktop OS. Release Notes details the other changes:

http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=ReleaseNotes_0.7

I am just waiting for one more feature – An IPS repository of BeleniX packages and then I will make BeleniX my primary Desktop Operating System

Filed under: General, Open Source, Operating Systems, Solaris , BeleniX

Netbeans with GTK Widgets

Netbeans users on Solaris and Linux, who hate, detest and despise the horrible looking default Java UI, ought to add this line to ~/.bash_profile

alias netbeans=’/opt/netbeans/bin/netbeans -laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel’

Update: Netbeans 6.0 users should type “–laf” instead “-laf” (Two hyphens before ‘laf’ instead of one)

Filed under: Programming, Solaris

Visual Call Graph using DTrace

Here is an example of how incredibly powerful DTrace can be. I had to solve a problem where a nice high-level overview of the code flow in a single threaded userland application would save me some pain the backside. Lo and Behold, Dtrace – The Universal Hammer for every nail.

Here is a simple visual call graph generator using 5 lines of DTrace combined with the outstanding Graphviz graphics library.

Filed under: Open Source, Operating Systems, Programming, Solaris

BeleniX Crazy !

The world is going BeleniX crazy ! I setup links to the isoHunt torrents on the BeleniX download page a few weeks back and the isoHunt folks responded most kindly by setting up a special box for seeding (Have you ever heard of that ?) and ran a front page article on BeleniX as a model project to use BitTorrent constructively.

As of today, the BeleniX DVD has more than 18000 (Yes Eighteen Thousand) seeds ! How many other torrents can claim as many seeds ? aXXo’s latest torrents have no more than 5000 seeds.

Is that frigging cool or what

P.S: For those who don’t know, isoHunt is the world’s most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine !

Filed under: General, Operating Systems, Rants, Solaris, Sun

LFY August 2007

I had my DTrace article published in this month’s edition of Linux for You. It is a gentle introduction to the curious Unix programmer. I can’t reprint the article on the blog. But if you aren’t convinced about looking into DTrace yet, read on….

Filed under: Open Source, Operating Systems, Programming, Solaris