Month: March 2007

>Spring is Arriving

>Today was just a wonderful morning. The sky in the east was getting brighter, and when I was driving into Gothenburg the sun started to raise above the horizon. I just had to take a quick photo of beautiful colour of the sky and the houses of Lunden lit by the early morning sun. The photo was shot at 6.40 a.m. – but soon the sun will start rising even earlier. I’m longing for the days when it has risen, almost in the north, long before 6.00 a.m. – and the summer nights – bright almost around the clock. That is when it is lovely to live in the north.

>Solaris

>Alvaro just tipped the world that the OpenSolaris project gives away a starter kit for free. Having browsed around their site a few minutes I saw that the licensing was OSI approved – so right now I’m waiting for the kit to arrive in the mail.

This connects back to the days when I discovered Linux. I was looking at all conceivable alternate operating systems – I even ran OS/2 instead of DOS. Right now the most interesting projects seems to be the desktop versions of BSD: PC-BSD and DesktopBSD. An interesting Linux project is the GoboLinux, an alternate approach to Linux. Then there is the Swedish OS: Contiki. Just the concept of being able to surf the web from a C64… wicked! :-)