The following are some conditions to term a software as open source (all of the conditions are not mentioned here)
1. Source code for every software should be provided for it's further development.
2. Free Redistribution i.e, no charge should be applied on the further redistribution of the software.
3. Derived works i.e, further development of the software should be allowed.
4. The original code i.e, the author's source code be always be available with the derived code.
5. License must not restrict other softwares.
ZFS and Time Slider
ZFS stands for Zita File System supporting extremely large data storage devices quite far from human's imagination is the new feature provided in opensolaris 2009.06.
An unimaginably beautiful thing introduced by Sun. This 128 bit system holds snapshots of your drive at different instant of time and save them (consuming a very little memory) you can navigate through the states of your machine and can save the important data which has been deleted or you can restore the previous state or state at a particular time of your machine thus providing a wonderful experience for you to login.
It is having several breathetaking features like snapshot and increased storage capacity
Now you don't need to have more and more space and worry about the lost data as the next generation time machine is here.
An unimaginably beautiful thing introduced by Sun. This 128 bit system holds snapshots of your drive at different instant of time and save them (consuming a very little memory) you can navigate through the states of your machine and can save the important data which has been deleted or you can restore the previous state or state at a particular time of your machine thus providing a wonderful experience for you to login.
It is having several breathetaking features like snapshot and increased storage capacity
Now you don't need to have more and more space and worry about the lost data as the next generation time machine is here.
open source
Open source doesn't mean just free source code of softwares but an initiative to create a flourishing environment for software development, so that they can be optimized and can be provided/distributed at the lowest cost possible.
There are hundreds of open source softwares available over net to be unleashed by you with thier source code too for developers. Most of us don't even know that in our day to day life we are using a numerous open source softwares like Video Lan VLC, Mozilla Firefox, Open Office and many more for each and every of our need.
The developers all across the world are working over these softwares every day to make these softwares more powerful.
Many non profit organizations are working in this field too known as open source organizations.
The Linux foundation
Open source Initiative
The Apache software foundation
Jabber software foundation
There are many more in this field
So what are you waiting for join the league and get open sourced
There are hundreds of open source softwares available over net to be unleashed by you with thier source code too for developers. Most of us don't even know that in our day to day life we are using a numerous open source softwares like Video Lan VLC, Mozilla Firefox, Open Office and many more for each and every of our need.
The developers all across the world are working over these softwares every day to make these softwares more powerful.
Many non profit organizations are working in this field too known as open source organizations.
The Linux foundation
Open source Initiative
The Apache software foundation
Jabber software foundation
There are many more in this field
So what are you waiting for join the league and get open sourced
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Friday, July 17, 2009
DTRACE
DTRACE
Dynamic Tracing Framework (DTRACE) intoduced by Sun lets developer study the behavior of the operating system. It provides the overview of the system in terms of memory management, scheduling of tasks, applications running and being used. Using DTrace we can have more appropriate knowledge of our system and so we can optimize our OS.
DTrace is called so because using it users can check and manage their systems dynamically.
Dynamic Tracing Framework (DTRACE) intoduced by Sun lets developer study the behavior of the operating system. It provides the overview of the system in terms of memory management, scheduling of tasks, applications running and being used. Using DTrace we can have more appropriate knowledge of our system and so we can optimize our OS.
DTrace is called so because using it users can check and manage their systems dynamically.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
OpenSolaris
Let me 1st introduce you to OpenSolaris.
OpenSolaris is an operating system based on Sun Microsystem's solaris and is derived from Unix System V codebase. The most important thing is that it is open source OS.
Suppose you are a software or a web developer and you are using an OS whose each and every part you know then howeasy and clear your job becomes.
Suppose you want to have some new features in your OS which suites your workstyle better and you can introduce it.
You can have your own OS according to your requirements. This is all because of open source. SUN provides you the
source code of OpenSolaris which you can study and can add more features to it if you get permission from Sun's OpenSolaris developers. This is open for every human being over this earth.
Now the question arises that why one should use OpenSolaris ?
OpenSolaris is not just an Operating System but also an online community consisting of developers who are backed-up up by paid engineers of SUN Microsystem who are there to create for creating a more robust experience in the computer world. SUN is also releasing OpenSolaris versions(incremented) in every 6 months. So there are no limitations for this operating system.
Moreover this community also designs Open Source applications for this OS which are not present in any other OS like ZFS file system. So making the world's work easier.
Anyone over this earth can join this community may be he/she is a software designer, web developer or a painter and even innovators who play the most important part.
Sun has also brought OSUM (Open Source University Meetups) at grassroot levels so that every one can easily participate in this league.
In India too many active Open Source University Groups are running. The most active of them is Banglore OSUG
(www.opensolaris.org/os/project/bosug).
So what are you waiting for? Join the league and start contributing at www.osum.sun.com
OpenSolaris is an operating system based on Sun Microsystem's solaris and is derived from Unix System V codebase. The most important thing is that it is open source OS.
Suppose you are a software or a web developer and you are using an OS whose each and every part you know then howeasy and clear your job becomes.
Suppose you want to have some new features in your OS which suites your workstyle better and you can introduce it.
You can have your own OS according to your requirements. This is all because of open source. SUN provides you the
source code of OpenSolaris which you can study and can add more features to it if you get permission from Sun's OpenSolaris developers. This is open for every human being over this earth.
Now the question arises that why one should use OpenSolaris ?
OpenSolaris is not just an Operating System but also an online community consisting of developers who are backed-up up by paid engineers of SUN Microsystem who are there to create for creating a more robust experience in the computer world. SUN is also releasing OpenSolaris versions(incremented) in every 6 months. So there are no limitations for this operating system.
Moreover this community also designs Open Source applications for this OS which are not present in any other OS like ZFS file system. So making the world's work easier.
Anyone over this earth can join this community may be he/she is a software designer, web developer or a painter and even innovators who play the most important part.
Sun has also brought OSUM (Open Source University Meetups) at grassroot levels so that every one can easily participate in this league.
In India too many active Open Source University Groups are running. The most active of them is Banglore OSUG
(www.opensolaris.org/os/project/bosug).
So what are you waiting for? Join the league and start contributing at www.osum.sun.com
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