Entries tagged with 'opensource'

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009:

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway.
Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ - … and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance [...]

Links of interest for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008:

Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom - Oooo. When this becomes a reality without any hoop jumping, I may just have to get myself a small Atom based netbook.
It’s recession time and Sun has the best recession kool aid. - Who needs Oracle and BEA when [...]

Links of interest for 18 Sep 2008 - 24 Sep 2008:

Larry Augustin’s Weblog: Commercial Open Source in Europe Verses the US - Great analysis and I think Larry's pretty much hit the nail on the head based on my experience with open source projects I've been involved in.
Flagday: PowerTOP for OpenSolaris at OpenSolaris.org - Oooo, [...]

Links of interest for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008:

easySMF at OpenSolaris.org - Cool. A web based tool for easy SMF manifest creation. Simply enter the various bits of information, generate the XML file and import it into SMF. Much quicker and easier than writing it all out by hand.
Sun: Trying [...]

Links of interest for 5 Mar 2008 - 12 Mar 2008:

iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns - I just knew the iPhone SDK sounded too good to be true. It seems the license allows you to do "this", but not "that", nor "that", oh and "the other thing" isn't allowed either. Why release [...]

Links of interest for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008:

Transactional ZFS Upgrades on Nexenta - This is pretty impressive usage of ZFS. Once Solaris officially supports ZFS boot, this is a fantastic feature that could be added to patching and live upgrade.
Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive - Pity no one seems [...]

Links of interest for 28 Sep 2007 - 13 Oct 2007:

‘Hybrid’ HDD Technology To Allow Data Access Without Booting - Nice to see the PC market is finally catching up with Apple. Apple computers have been able to do this for years.
Firefox Is Going Mobile - I can’t help but feel this is a [...]

Links of interest for 11 September 2007 - 27 September 2007:

The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes · plaintxt.org - Some of the best minimalist themes I’ve seen.
5 tools every PHP programmer should know about - Some very interesting tools here. Can’t say I’d have a use for all of them, but certainly a few.
It’s time [...]

Links of interest for 9 August 2007 - 6 September 2007:

BIND 8 Has been EOLd - ISC have announced BIND 8 is End of Life as of 27 August 2007 and is encouraging everyone move to BIND 9. I wonder if Sun will be backporting BIND 9 to Solaris 8 and 9, or opting [...]

Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007:

OS X is Now Officially UNIX - Now you can legitimately call OS X “UNIX with a pretty face”. OS X has been certified to UNIX03 standards, like Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.
Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Dvorak believes we’re in for another pop. Maybe, maybe [...]