Quick Tip: Using the ‘parsec’ Haskell library

You will have to do a sudo apt-get install libghc6-parsec-dev and sudo apt-get install libghc6-parsec-doc on Ubuntu/Debian systems if you are going to use the parsec library with ghc installed via apt-get

Once you have installed both, you should be able to use the library in your Haskell code and also view the library documentation.

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OpenJDK 6, NetBeans 6.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04

You can now use pre-built OpenJDK 6 for your Java development on Ubuntu 8.04.

See the links for more information:

• http://openjdk.java.net/install/#ubuntu
• Java- Community Ubuntu Documentation

Also, NetBeans 6.0.1 is now available in the repos (http://java.dzone.com/news/ubuntu-hardy-heron-804-reposit)

So, now you know what to do? Start using NetBeans 6.0.1 with OpenJDK 6!

Getting Started with Indiana on Ubuntu 7.04 and Virtual Box

UPDATE: Updated with OpenSolaris 2008.11 here at http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/entry/open_solaris_2008_11_on

The Open Solaris project Indiana is now available as a developer preview

A great feature is that you can start a Live CD session either:

1. By burning the ISO to a CD, or
2. Directly boot from the ISO using Virtual Box or QEMU

Lets get started with Virtual Box:

• Install Virtual Box on Ubuntu 7.04
• Create and Configure a new Virtual Machine

Choose OS Name and Type

Choose the memory (>512 MB)

Configuring the Virtual HDD

Choose the CD/DVD-ROM Device

• Now, insert the Indiana CD into your ROM and start the Virtual Machine
• You should see the GRUB menu:

• Let us start a Text Console session

Booting…
Login with username “jack” and password “jack”

So, you are now ready to start exploring the Open Solaris command-line even without installing it!

Java Development on Ubuntu

I just set up a complete Java development environment on Ubuntu 6.06 with JDK 1.5 and Netbeans 5.0

Steps

1. Obtain the JDK 1.5 binary from here and install it
2. Create a new environment variable JAVA_HOME which contains the directory where JDK 1.5 is installed
3. Install Netbeans

Netbeans 5.0 in full glory on Ubuntu