OpenSolaris 2008.11 has just been released, it encompasses some super cool new features and I’ve been waiting patiently to try this OS– need something new to learn!
The OpenSolaris 2008.11 operating system is a point of integration for the installation, desktop, and package management system projects on OpenSolaris.org. Today, the OpenSolaris 2008.
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Microsoft has just unleased the initial release of the Singularity 2.0 Research Development Kit (RDK). Singularity is a research operating system started around 2003 by Microsoft Research to write an OSin managed code. The inner-workings of Singularity taken from Wikipedia:
The lowest-level x86 interrupt dispatch code is written in assembly language and C.
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BD+ is the DRM{.mw-redirect} system for Blu-ray discs, as Wikipedia puts it:
BD+ is a component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management{.mw-redirect} system. It was developed by Cryptography Research Inc. and is based on their Self-Protecting Digital Content concept. BD+ played an important role in the past format war of Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD.
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With the amount of coverage surely to be taken by Windows 7 we can’t forget the other side of the force, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was released a few hours ago.
Believe it or not I actually stayed up waiting for it to hit the servers, then hopped over to the iinet FTPserver (mirror’d by the Internode servers also) as the 3FL Mirror (Westnet) wasn’t up to date (it is now!
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If you like discussions about deep internals you’ll most definately have subscribed to the Going Deep series on Channel 9. Today they just released a fascinating interview with Kernel Guru, Mark Russinovich – of Sysinternals fame, who is now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. One of my favourite books would have to be Windows Internals 4th Edition, and reference it quite frequently.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock under the Apple tree you would have heard that a little company in Redmond WA has been working on a new version of Windows dubbed Windows 7 (which is what it will actually be called for once!).
At PDC today, Microsoft finally unveiled the much-anticipated release of Windows 7 and handed out pre-beta bits to atendees (tagged 6801.
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I’ll admit it, I still have a floppy-drive attached to my maturing beast, which is primarily used as my day-to-day development box. Floppies come in handy for that odd install of XP or below that require RAIDdrivers (though you can just use nLite and bundle it by default).
But what about the CD-R’s and DVD-R’s in the days of Cloud Browser based Operating Systems (funny)?
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We had a bit of a dilemma at work today, we just sent a version of a web application we’ve been working on for the past few months to staging (testing) to our client. Our client mentioned a move to .NET 3.5 is pending on the boxes there and that they need to ensure the products we ship are compatible.
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ntop is a network probe that shows how much the network is being utilised with very little overhead and impressive graphical representation via the web. Its definitely a must-have tool if you run a fileserver.
The version of ntop on the ubuntu mirrors is 3.2.x, so I set out to update to the latest release this weekend (3.
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Writing an operating system in Managed Code is not entirely a new concept but its quite an interesting one. The fact that we have AOT compilers gives us this ability to write such things. This post is a little guided tour or information dump on COSMOS as I worked through the initial bits this weekend.
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