22 Nov, 2006 2258hrs IST Times News Network
BANGALORE: His first tryst with programming was in a computer class at St Paul's English School, Bangalore. That very moment he knew he was made for the world of programming.
From then on, Anil Gulecha has been on an aggressive learning mode. The internet and books have been his tutors. He is still learning.
But he has already accomplished a unique feat — that of putting a whole operating system on a thumb/pen drive and enabling it to run live on any computer without having to install it on the computer's hard disk.
In other words, you can now carry your hard disk or your entire operating system in your pocket. This effort takes computing to a whole new level.
Moinak Ghosh, an engineer at Sun Microsystems, Bangalore, recently took the lead on Solaris 10, the flagship operating system of Sun Microsystems, and came up with the version called BeleniX.
As TOI reported in July, Moinak took the whole OS and put it together as an abridged LiveCD version. Thanks to the 20-year-old Anil Gulecha, BeleniX can now "boot from a USB thumb drive."
The challenge for Anil was to take the existing LiveCD programme and modify it in a way that it identifies USB drives when these are inserted.
"You can now buy a thumb drive, visit the BeleniX website and mount the whole OS on to it. You can then carry this with you and use it. We'll now work on enhancements for future versions,"he said.
Anil is a third year computer science student at JSS Academy, Bangalore. He worked on BeleniX during his spare time and happened to cross paths with the BeleniX team at a college tech fest, where Sun was organising a contest for hackers.
Moinak helped Anil identify the need for BeleniX to be mounted on a thumb drive and then helped him through the project.
"This is my first open source project and my first experience with Unix. I'm happy with the outcome and encouraged by Moinak's support,"he said.
Anil looks forward to the days when new variants of the OS would make computing more simple and effective. Meanwhile, plenty of accolades have piled up.
"Anil has received huge appreciation from the top management at Sun. He has been nominated as one of our technology ambassadors — to talk about Sun technologies in colleges. "We equip these ambassadors with tools and information to work on new technologies and applications,"K P Unnikrishnan, director in Sun Microsystems India, said.
BANGALORE: His first tryst with programming was in a computer class at St Paul's English School, Bangalore. That very moment he knew he was made for the world of programming.From then on, Anil Gulecha has been on an aggressive learning mode. The internet and books have been his tutors. He is still learning.
But he has already accomplished a unique feat — that of putting a whole operating system on a thumb/pen drive and enabling it to run live on any computer without having to install it on the computer's hard disk.
In other words, you can now carry your hard disk or your entire operating system in your pocket. This effort takes computing to a whole new level.
Moinak Ghosh, an engineer at Sun Microsystems, Bangalore, recently took the lead on Solaris 10, the flagship operating system of Sun Microsystems, and came up with the version called BeleniX.
As TOI reported in July, Moinak took the whole OS and put it together as an abridged LiveCD version. Thanks to the 20-year-old Anil Gulecha, BeleniX can now "boot from a USB thumb drive."
The challenge for Anil was to take the existing LiveCD programme and modify it in a way that it identifies USB drives when these are inserted.
"You can now buy a thumb drive, visit the BeleniX website and mount the whole OS on to it. You can then carry this with you and use it. We'll now work on enhancements for future versions,"he said.
Anil is a third year computer science student at JSS Academy, Bangalore. He worked on BeleniX during his spare time and happened to cross paths with the BeleniX team at a college tech fest, where Sun was organising a contest for hackers.
Moinak helped Anil identify the need for BeleniX to be mounted on a thumb drive and then helped him through the project.
"This is my first open source project and my first experience with Unix. I'm happy with the outcome and encouraged by Moinak's support,"he said.
Anil looks forward to the days when new variants of the OS would make computing more simple and effective. Meanwhile, plenty of accolades have piled up.
"Anil has received huge appreciation from the top management at Sun. He has been nominated as one of our technology ambassadors — to talk about Sun technologies in colleges. "We equip these ambassadors with tools and information to work on new technologies and applications,"K P Unnikrishnan, director in Sun Microsystems India, said.
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