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Solaris on x86 adventures.

… So having got myself an Acer Ferrari 4000 (which doesn’t have a floppy disk drive) I now intend to run the latest release of Solaris Nevada on…

26. Januar 2007

Diving into Solaris…

As readers of this page already might have observed, I have sort of been getting into dealing a little more with the Solaris operating system once again, lately,…

24. Januar 2007

OpenSolaris to be GPL(v3)’d …

Just a short note on things to be read here: Having rumors of Sun Microsystems to eventually use the GPLv3 license as an other option besides their own…

17. Januar 2007

e-17 ubuntu repositories… :)

Just stumbled across a site providing builds of the infamous enlightenment DR 17 (aka e-17) window manager for various releases of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution. Look here, modify…

4. Januar 2007

JDK 6 RC, licensing discussion in motion?

Seems things are getting closer: Java SE 6, the basic Java development and runtime environment, by now is available as a ‘Release Candidate’, the stable version being expected…

13. November 2006

Eclipse 3.2 vs. NetBeans 5.5

Very well I remember the days I used to do my very first experiments using the Java programming language, utilizing a plain installation vim text editor (which still…

9. November 2006

JAX-WS: Web Services reinvented?

Along with Java SE 6 slowly getting finished, SDN provides a series of articles on how to use JDK 6 and JAX-WS 2.0 to build SOAP-based web services:…

9. November 2006

heading for Callisto.

The years after being released as Open-Source by IBM, the Eclipse environment has made its way from a good Java IDE to being an all-integrating developer tool, with…

30. Juni 2006