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 Sun CEO: "Sun Continues to Lead the Open Source Innovation Revolution": Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Inside the Sun dept.:
'The world is moving to open source innovation, and Sun continues to lead that revolution,' said Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, as Sun reported its Q3 fiscal 2008 results. 'We continue to invest in the future created by open alternatives to proprietary technologies, best exemplified by the acquisition of MySQL,' Schwartz added.
"The U.S. economy presented Sun with significant challenges in the third quarter, masking our progress in developing nations and economies across the world," Schwartz continued. "With double digit year-over-year growth in India and Brazil, and triple digit billings year-over-year growth in our energy efficient, Solaris-based Chip Multi-Threading (CMT) systems, Sun made considerable progress during the quarter."
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What's New in OpenBSD 4.3: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Other White Meat dept.:
The OpenBSD project is ready to announce the new release, OpenBSD 4.3, that will be officially available on May 1st...
...Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a large group of developers to talk about the new networking tools (snmpd and snmpctl), the new features and scope of relayd (previously known as hoststated), how the configuration of carp was simplified, improvements in wireless drivers, storage limits and speed-ups, SMP support in sparc64, bug fixes and audits for some tricky coding practices, and much more!
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Hot Patch Your Kernel: Linux Posted by: comforteagle
From the Damn Cool dept.:
Ksplice is an interesting open source project out of MIT that automates the process of applying security patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting, and it’s getting notice by the Linux Foundation.
Top kernel developer and Linux Foundation fellow Ted Ts’o said the Ksplice software is much needed by telecommunications providers and anyone who hates downtime. “It allows you to hot patch the Linux kernel with a security update without rebooting the computer. It’s a binary patch capability that is highly automated,” said Ts’o. “Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a while. If you are a carrier in telephony and don’t want downtime, this stuff is pure gold.”
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Sun looks to free up the rest of Java (again): Java Posted by: comforteagle
From the Buffering.... dept.:
Sun Microsystems is stepping up efforts to boost Java usage in Linux shops by working to remove some final encumbrances in the open-source Java platform.
..."We're hoping to see some movement [with the] Linux distributions in the very near future, hopefully by JavaOne," said Rich Sands, group manager for developer marketing at Sun, in an interview on Tuesday. The JavaOne conference is to be held in San Francisco in two weeks.
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Nokia Calls for Openness: Standards Posted by: comforteagle
From the Taking a Stand(ards) dept.:
...Speaking as the lunch keynote at The Mobile Future, a day-long conference sponsored by Carnegie Mellon and the University of California at Berkeley , Iannucci laid out his thoughts on how his industry has to change in order to spur the next generation of mobile demand.
Openness, of course, refers to having standard platforms that applications developers can work on; the Android platform from Google would be one example.
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Microsoft-Novell take open-source software alliance to China: Microsoft Posted by: comforteagle
From the Getting Paid for Something at Least dept.:
Microsoft and Novell have announced they were expanding their alliance in making patent-protected and open-source programs interoperable into the hot China market.
The firms said on Sunday they are putting "particular emphasis" on China because increasingly sophisticated businesses rely on combinations of software based on Microsoft's Windows operating systems and non-proprietary Linux systems.
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New Debian leader aims for better communication: Linux Posted by: comforteagle
From the Lack thereof dept.:
...A few days back, the project concluded its elections for the year and Steve McIntyre emerged as the victor in a three-cornered contest. McIntyre may well be the most watched elected official of a non-profit group - the direction the project takes is of vital concern to a great many businesses.
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Ian Murdock Talks About OpenSolaris' Upcoming First Release: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Anticipate dept.:
Sun's Ian Murdock gave a presentation about OpenSolaris at LugRadio Live this past weekend. He explained how OpenSolaris reflects Sun's changing platform strategy and also discussed some of the technical attributes that differentiate OpenSolaris from Linux.
Murdock explained that Sun's traditional strengths in the enterprise are being overshadowed by significant changes in the market and in software adoption processes. He pointed out that much of the success that Linux has enjoyed in the server room is a result of its increasing popularity on the desktop among system administrators and other IT specialists. This is because people tend to deploy the technologies that are most accessible to them, he argues.
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Novell's Linux contributions up 250 percent: Linux Posted by: comforteagle
From the Huh dept.:
...Red Hat continues to contribute/sponsor 11.2 percent of the Linux kernel's development, down from 14.4 percent in 2007, while Novell has jumped from an anemic 3.6 percent in 2007 to a robust 8.9 percent in 2008. Perhaps not surprisingly, Novell's share of the Linux market has grown considerably in that same time, with Novell reporting a 200 percent increase in its Linux business over the past year.
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Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser: Mozilla Posted by: comforteagle
From the Don't screw it up! dept.:
...The browser needs to evolve. Beard believes the browser concept hasn't fundamentally changed in 10 years. It's still an isolated piece of software, he says. Mozilla Lab's push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it's running on, and also more hooked into Web services. So extended, the browser becomes an even more powerful and pervasive platform for all kinds of applications.
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