WTF are applets doing? Part 2.

December 7, 2005 General Comments Off

Day 3 of the performance summit, and Alan gave an excellent presentation on the state of X, and what his team were up to. During the presentation, he mentioned a nice little utility called xrestop, which is a ‘top’ like utility that is able to trace what is happening in terms of resource usage in the X server that I had no idea about. Consequently, I created a package for Solaris [you'll need the JDS build environment to build it though]. Thanks Alan for pointing it out, and thanks to Matthew for writing it.

Which brings me on to the title of this blog – which the screenshot below seems to highlight.

HP Get’s It!

December 7, 2005 General Comments Off

Alan did a nice reply to HP’s real story about Niagara.

But one line caught my attention – “Be careful — there is a waterfall of change lurking around the bend”. HP get’s it! Sun is changing….and it’s just wonderful! I can only attempt to describe the change that’s happening inside Sun. There’s a whole heap of people wandering around with smiles on their faces – and if that isn’t reflected in all our recent announcements and communities we’ve built up, then you probably need to take off the blinkers.